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The fragility of life is never more apparent than when one is struck by a tractor trailer.  One moment, you’re sitting in a car, stuck in traffic on your daily commute.  You play around with the radio, shuffling between classic rock, commercials, and commentators talking about the daily news.  The next moment, you look in …

Videos like this of crash safety tests really drive home the point of how important it is to have a safe car, and can also show  how far car safety has come in the last 40 years.  With that in mind, the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety has released their list of Top Safety Picks among 2012 …

The FDA is issuing new warnings for the diabetes drug Actos, warning potential users of a higher risk of developing bladder cancer associated with prolonged use of this drug.  Bloomberg News is reporting that the manufacturer of the drug may face as many as 10,000 lawsuits in the United States over the increased cancer risk.  …

A Lebanon, Missouri infant is dead after contracting a deadly bacterial infection, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports.  While it is not known how the baby contracted the infection, a major national retailer has pulled the powdered infant formula the baby consumed from the shelves in “an abundance of caution” as the source of the bacteria …

As our free ebook, Car Crash: Steps to Maximizing Your Settlement, mentions, if you’ve filed a car insurance claim, one of the first calls you’ll be getting is from the claims adjuster. Claims adjusters are the people charged with investigating claims and attempting to figure how much liability they will be exposed to.  The claims regarding property …

The Chicago Tribune recently ran an op-ed regarding “nuisance lawsuits,” the lawsuits that insurance companies and corporations simply settle instead of fighting.  They choose to settle the “frivolous” claims because the cost of litigation is so expensive.  The author contends, however, that settling these lawsuits actually winds up costing corporations more because it invites lawyers …

A high school student has been struck in Urbana, Illinois, while crossing the street in a crosswalk, the Champaign-Urbana News-Gazette reports.  The student was crossing the street on her way to basketball practice, before going out to dinner with friends to celebrate her birthday.  As she was crossing the street in the crosswalk, a Mazda Protégé driven by …

Three people were injured in Montgomery County, Illinois on Oct. 24 when their car was struck by a tractor trailer, reports The Springfield State Journal-Register.  The collision occurred in Hillsboro, Illinois, just south of the Graham Correction Facility.  The victims were driving westbound on N. 9 th Street in a 2008 Dodge Avenger, when the semi, heading southbound …

The Health Department is continuing to search for the source of an E. Coli outbreak in St. Louis that has sickened 28 people already, with more cases expected.   The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that many people who have reported falling ill have reported that they have eaten food from a local grocer’s salad bar in the recent …

A social worker from Joplin, Missouri, severely injured while trying to assist disable adults during the Joplin tornado, has been denied worker’s comp insurance for his injuries.  He was injured attempting to assist three developmentally disabled adults.  He did not have medical insurance because he could not afford the premiums.  He now has medical bills exceeding $2.5 …