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The latest on Chevy Volt and Toyota issues
Wednesday, January 25, 2012
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration says it did not find a safety defect that caused fires in Chevy’s Volt hybrid, but the agency has come under additional scrutiny for its investigation into sudden unintended acceleration issues in Toyotas.
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Latest round of California hospital errors include patient deaths
Friday, December 9, 2011
The California Department of Public Health handed penalties to 14 hospitals for “noncompliance with licensing requirements [that] caused, or was likely to cause, serious injury or death to patients.”
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Chevy Volt fires raise question: are electric cars good for the environment AND safe?
Friday, December 2, 2011
A fire caused by the battery of a Volt that was involved in a crash test has raised fears that “green,” petroleum-free transportation options might come with safety concerns.
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Fewer nurses at for-profit nursing homes leads to poorer care
Wednesday, November 30, 2011
“The top 10 chains have a strategy of keeping labor costs low to increase profits,” said the lead researcher in a University of California, San Francisco, study. “They are not making quality a priority.”
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The truth about “tort reform” and corporate immunity in Texas
Wednesday, September 28, 2011
A report from the non-profit watchdog group Texas Watch says “tort reform” there has changed the state’s legal system so that it “perverts the rule of law into an instrument for the moneyed and powerful, as well as divorces it from any concept of justice.”
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CA Supreme Court comes down in favor of big insurance, against consumers
Friday, August 19, 2011
In Howell v. Hamilton Meats & Provisions, the California Supreme Court ruled those who cause injuries, not those who were injured, will benefit from the reduced prices for medical care and services negotiated by the insurance company of the person who was injured.
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