The U.S. has a huge number of prisoners currently incarcerated. According to the U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics, 2,220,300 adults were in prison in 2013 — the highest rate in the world. In the past, any efforts related to criminal justice reform revolved around the amount of time a convicted felon would spend in jail, […]
During a recent visit to Columbus, Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced that the Department of Justice (DOJ) was cracking down on physicians, pharmacists, and others who were profiting by improperly and illegally prescribing opioids. However, many of the initiatives that he described the federal government would be taking have actually been going on in Ohio […]
One year after his death, Honda says that a Florida man was killed by a defective Takata airbag. What makes this tragedy different from the other deaths attributed to these airbags is that the victim was not even driving the vehicle at the time. According to a statement issued by Honda, in June 2016, the […]
More than 160 lawsuits have now been combined into a multidistrict litigation (MDL) against several manufacturers of heartburn medications, referred to as proton pump inhibitors (PPIs). The combining of the lawsuits means the litigation should move faster through the civil court process. The drug manufacturers named in the lawsuit are AstraZeneca, which produces Nexium and […]
The tragic death of eight nursing home residents in Florida after Hurricane Irma has put a spotlight on just how the state’s seniors are being cared for in nursing home facilities. The hurricane knocked out the electricity to the nursing home, which left residents with no air conditioning in the sweltering heat that followed the […]