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The Florida Supreme Court has issued its mandate in the Engle v Liggett case. This case involved a class action by Florida smokers against Big Tobacco. Florida smokers who qualify as "Engle class members" must now take some action against Big Tobacco in less than one year. The Supreme Court made certain findings of fact and law that may place Big Tobacco at a distinct disadvantage and Florida...

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Reports of several train cars crashing in Kentucky have apparently closed highways and forced mass evacuations of schools, businesses and homes in Bullitt County, Kentucky.It appears that several of the derailing train cars were carrying flammable liquids, which resulted in explosions and flaming liquid flowing along ditches at the train crash site. CBS reports that the wreck involved (4)...

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Florida doctors have been successful in passing sweeping tort reform measures twice in this state. Each time they made claims that verdicts handed down by "uninformed" jurors were outrageously high and they were having trouble paying high premiums for malpractice insurance. They threatened the citizens of Florida that they were all going to leave the state and they would leave us with no one to...

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Americans who are trading in their gas hogs for smaller, more fuel-efficient vehicles may well be trading in the safety provided by many of those larger vehicles as well. According to a recently-released study by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, "[o]nly the Versa earned the top rating of "Good" for front- and side-impact protection as well as for whiplash protection in rear impacts."...

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The "law of large numbers" is the theory upon which all insurance exists. Essentially, it says that if you can put enough "risks" together, then the majority can pay the claims of the minority. It relies on the idea that, in any large group, it will be the minority who suffer some sort of loss and submit an insurance claim. The larger the group, the more likely that premiums paid by the...

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Three years ago, insurance companies and rabid tort reformer physicians convinced the unsuspecting public that tort reform was needed to reduce malpractice insurance rates being paid by physicians. They told the public that victims of medical negligence were simply litigious and that trial lawyers were greedy. They told the public that if tort reform was not passed, they were all leaving Florida...

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The British Medical Journal reporst that babies left in car seats to sleep may be at risk for suffocation. Apparently, because babies' heads tend to loll forward, pressing the jaw against the chest and this can cause the already relaxed throat muscles to permit severe airway constriction. The study group stressed that the findings should in no way cause people to fail to use car seats for...

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A study by the World Health Organization has concluded that tobacco smoking will kill 50 percent more people than AIDS by the year 2015 and will be responsible for 10 percent of all deaths globally. The report is a chilling prediction of a disease process created and manipulated by Big TobaccoTobacco, currently blamed for some 5.4 million deaths a year, is set to kill 6.5 million in 2015 and 8.3...

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Victims of stroke and autistic children are being helped by a robot and a video game. A robot guides the limbs of stroke patients repeatedly through a video game. The constant manipulation helps to rehabilitate damaged limbs of stroke patients. The robot takes over the movement of the joystick if the patient is not capable of moving it appropriately. Autistic children are also being assisted...

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If you are in the US senate or house, Big Drug Companies want you! So, if you want a luxury vacation, a free executive jet ride, or a contribution, just speak up as the pharmaceutical lobbyist comes to call. The New York Times reported that: "Drug Industry Is on Defensive as Power Shifts". Apparently, Big Drug Companies do not think that Democrats will be quite as generous with them as...

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