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Major consulting firm McKinsey & Co. has announced that it will pay $230 million to settle lawsuits by local governments and school districts against it…

According to statistics released by the National Highway Traffic Safety Authority (NHTSA), the rate of people killed in auto accidents in the first quarter of…

The 3M Company has agreed to a $6 billion settlement to resolve approximately 300,000 lawsuits against the company as a result of…

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has launched its annual “Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over” campaign against drunk driving, in anticipation of an…

Train accidents have taken the lives of many, whether by a train derailing or at a railroad crossing. In 2015, there were 11,762 train accidents…

The New York County Supreme Court awarded $29.3 million to a New York University student who fell from a faulty East Village fire escape in…

As the warm weather is approaching, many people are beginning to dust off their motorcycles. While riding a motorcycle can be exhilarating, it also exposes…

In 1992 the first workplace fatalities census was conducted by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) to provide insight into insight into the safety…

In April 2015, 22-year-old Carlos Moncayo was killed when a 14-foot deep, unshored trench collapsed. Mr. Moncayo was an undocumented laborer from Ecuador who worked…

On April 10, 2016 a small Piper 28 plane crashed in a residential neighborhood on Long Island, injuring both the pilot and passenger. The plane…