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It was ten years ago this month that the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies issued its landmark report, “To Err Is Human.” That report recommended a “four-tiered approach” for better hospital safety. Ten years later, experts say hospitals could be doing a lot better job of improving patient safety.

In January 2007, a New Century executive told California lawmakers everything was fine–and then the situation turned ugly. The SEC charged three New Century execs with fraud today.

AIG execs threaten to quit over base salaries of $500,000. Readers suggest that the execs not let the door hit them on their way out.

A Fresno meat packer is pulled tainted hamburger off the shelves again, while a young woman who became severely ill from eating hamburger files a suit against corporate parent Cargill.

Philip Mattera, one of our favorite bloggers, does Forbes magazine one better, coming up with his list of corporate malefactors and miscreants.

New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo nabs Elliott Broidy, a California heavyweight in the world of Republican politics.

Plaintiffs’ lawyer Matthew Righett told the Daily Journal he’d never seen a defendant mistakenly overlook 140 people. “It just seemed like an incredibly presumptuous overreaching to suggest that people should just be folded in on the backs of the people [in the existing class] and reduce the value,” he said.