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• Pet Injured in Head on Crash

  Michael Myers | January 28, 2008 11:35 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Automobile Accidents

  More and more people are driving with pets in their cars. That means more and more pets are being injured in motor vehicle accidents. A poodle riding in a pickup truck was seriously injured when a driver traveling the opposite direction on State Route 515 crossed the center line and hit the pickup head on. The pickup driver, a 48-year old woman from Kent, and her passenger, a 49-year old man...

• Birth Control Patch Gets Updated Label

  Jenny Albano | January 20, 2008 5:29 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Defective & Dangerous Products

  The FDA approved new changes to Ortho Evra Contraceptive Transdermal Patch's label on Friday, January 18. The label will include the results of a study that found that users who use the birth control patch are at a higher risk of developing blood clots, or known as venous thromboembolism (VTE), than for women who use birth control pills.The study was conducted on women from 15-44 and...

• I Got Doored!

  Ryan Nute | January 02, 2008 9:37 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Automobile Accidents

  It's one of the commuting cyclist's perils. You're riding on the shoulder past parked cars when all of a sudden someone opens their car door, leaving you the choice of (a) crashing into said door or (b) veering left into traffic. Quite the "Hobson's Choice" (that is, no choice at all).Did you ever wonder whether drivers have a legal duty to look before opening their doors? Well, they do. And...