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The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has proposed new safety recommendations for the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA). The NTSB reviewed two separate…
This is the week-end that Daylight Savings Time begins. You know, spring forward! Well, it’s also a great time to change the batteries in all of your smoke and carbon dioxide detectors. So be on…
A Pace High School teacher may have one answer to my question this week, what else can we do to get teens to wear seat belts? It may have been the intent of the integrated high school science…
A Central Florida teen lost her life after she was thrown from a vehicle driven by another teen. The teenage driver remains in serious condition after she was pulled from the burning wreckage. The…
If Rep. Doug Holder, R-Sarasota, has his way, it will be. Rep. Holder has introduced a bill to make it illegal in Florida to text while driving. Rep. Holder says the bill is not intended to…
The FDA has reported that the salmonella outbreak previously thought to involve only bulk peanut butter and peanut paste from a plant in Georgia has now been expanded to include whole peanuts. Most…
I’m sure by now that you all have heard about the peanut butter recall last week. But what everyone may not know is that the list keeps expanding. I receive FDA recall notices via email and I’m…
Based on a recent report from the Insurance Research Council (IRC), Florida ranks in the top five states for number of uninsured motorists. In 2007 13.8 percent of all motorists in the U.S. were…
The contamination of peanut butter products by Peanut Corporation of America has spread to more and more products each day. Here is a list of the FDA recalls received just today: Premier Nutrition…
A report says that most of the public pools in the United States, do not meet the standard of the new federal regulation regarding drains. About 240,000 of the 300,000 pools and hot tubs found in…
How much would you pay for a $45,000 boat? An insurance company’s answer might surprise you. When our firm recently settled a case with an insurance company on the eve of trial, it made me think…
The salmonella contamination that was reported last week by the FDA has now been found in a package of Kellogg’s brand Austin Quality Foods Toasty Crackers with Peanut Butter. Peanut paste and…
