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Under a negligent hiring theory, an employer's liability arises from its failure to take reasonable care in making hiring decisions, thereby placing the newly hired…

Sixteen athletes, including six former NFL players, have agreed to donate their brains to a program that will study the long-term effects of concussions. Of…

This is cool! Google Transit, a feature of the Google Maps online mapping service, provides point-to-point public transit trip planning. Google Transit will now allow…

New York Governor David A. Paterson signed into law a bill prohibiting the importation, manufacturing, distribution, or sale of dangerous yo-yo waterball toys, and providing…

Starting September 21, 2008, Suffolk County drivers caught driving while text messengingwill face a $150.00 fine under a new county law that is the first…

For many years, doctors have been discouraging the use of baby powder for infants. Though it works well as a drying agent and fights against…

The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety is a nonprofit, scientific and educational organization aimed at reducing loss on the nation's highways, including deaths, personal injuries…

What parent could not be concerned upon hearing worrisome reports that bisphenol A (BPA), a chemical used in many polycarbonate plastics and epoxy resins such…

Recently, on August 27, 2008, two cabs collided sending one of them onto a Times Square sidewalk. Shortly before that accident, on August 15, 2008,…

A recent article in The Providence Journal notes that although doctors in almost every state are required by law to report suspected elder abuse of…