Author: Fair Warning
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ATV deaths top 15,000 threshold in latest government report
By Eli Wolfe and Myron Levin
FloridaBulldog.org
Since the early 1980s, the Consumer Product Safety Commission has conducted a grim census, tracking reports of deaths from crashes of all-terrain vehicles, or ATVs. Now the body count has risen above 15,250, according to the agency’s latest annual report, with more than one in five of the deaths suffered by children under 16. -
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Violence against emergency room staffers seen as increasing
By Eli Wolfe
FairWarning
Slaps, kicks, bites and curses are daily hazards faced by staff in hundreds of emergency rooms. And the threat of workplace violence seems to be getting worse. -
Florida still a dismal swamp for cigarette makers fighting death and injury claims
By Noreen Marcus
FairWarning
During the 1990s, legal assaults on the tobacco industry spawned the largest and most expensive civil litigation in U.S. history. Explosive revelations from secret internal documents and tobacco whistleblowers became front page news, and inspired the feature film ”The Insider.” After decades of deception, cigarette makers were forced to admit the dangers and addictiveness of smoking. -
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Amid dramatic growth of U.S. drone fleet, federal safety oversight lags
By Paul Feldman
FairWarning
As the nation’s fleet of small recreational and commercial drones keeps soaring — the government projects nearly 3 million will be in the skies by 2022 — safety concerns are rising even as federal enforcement stalls. -
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Amid rush to deploy driverless cars, federal regulators urged to keep hands on the wheel
By Paul Feldman
FairWarning
The era of driverless vehicles appears to be rapidly approaching, raising a bevy of urgent questions about how to prevent the emergence of new hazards on the nation’s roads. -
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First Amendment claims seen as Rx for drug makers, headache for consumers
By Paul Raeburn
FairWarning
Off-label promotion has long been considered a serious white-collar crime. The FDA has fined drug companies billions of dollars for off-label violations. The aim: to prevent them from overstating the benefits and understating the risks of their products, a practice known as misbranding – and one that sometimes leads to patients getting drugs that prove harmful or even deadly.
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