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BATON ROUGE -- Louisiana Attorney General Buddy Caldwell, alleging that BP has not cooperated with state agencies investigating the ongoing Gulf oil spill, has asked a state court to order the British oil giant and several of its subsidiaries to produce the requested information.The 17-page pleading filed in East Baton Rouge Parish District Court is not a lawsuit seeking damages, but is a key

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Citing a law typically used against fishers and hunters who exceed legal limits, Plaquemines Parish District Attorney Charles Ballay has sued British Petroleum and its subsidiaries in state court for damages caused by the Deepwater Horizion oil spill to the parish's wildlife.Ballay's suit, which was filed in 25th Judicial Court on Tuesday, joins a growing number of lawsuits filed against the oil

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WASHINGTON — The latest glimpse of video footage of the oil spill deep under the Gulf of Mexico indicates that around 95,000 barrels, or 4 million gallons, a day of crude oil may be spewing from the leaking wellhead, 19 times the previous estimate, an engineering professor told Congress Wednesday.The figure of 5,000 barrels, or 210,000 gallons, a day that BP and the federal government have been

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VENICE, LA. -- A tide of sludgy oil has begun washing into the fringes of Louisiana's coastal marshes, officials said Tuesday, as BP continued to siphon some of the oil gushing from a damaged well on the gulf floor but remained days away from trying to cap the leak.Interior Secretary Ken Salazar told Senate committees Tuesday that the company would attempt a "dynamic kill" of the oil well

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HOUMA — Terrebonne Parish District Attorney Joe Waitz has filed suit against oil giant BP, seeking money for wildlife killed or hurt by the massive oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico.The lawsuit, filed Monday, is among the first in an expected series from prosecutors in coastal parishes. St. Tammany Parish’s district attorney also sued the company Monday. Lafourche Parish prosecutors are scheduled to

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A Miami-Dade jury has awarded a Sarasota man more than $14 million after deciding that the asbestos he inhaled in the 1970s caused his deadly abdominal cancer.Jurors found that chemical giant Union Carbide was negligent for selling asbestos fibers to other companies, which had used the fibers to make joint compounds used by construction companies -- such as the one William Aubin's family

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As many as 152 families from three Homestead neighborhoods will be a part of the first class-action suit in the country over tainted drywall imported from China, providing hope that American companies will also have to pay for damage from the product, installed in new homes built during the housing boom and after a parade of hurricanes in 2004 and 2005.On Thursday, Miami-Dade Circuit Judge Joseph

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SANTA ANA, Calif., May 28 (Reuters) - A U.S. federal judge on Friday gave Toyota 30 days to turn over the bulk of documents sought by class-action lawyers from previous investigations of complaints about its cars racing out of control.The order by U.S. District Judge James Selna marked a defeat for Toyota, capping the company's first courtroom skirmish with plaintiffs lawyers since scores of

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Whirlpool Corp is recalling 1.7 million dishwashers sold at its U.S. stores from February 2006 through April 2010 due to a potential fire hazard.The recall, made by the company and the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, covers Maytag, Jenn-Air, Amana, Admiral, Magic Chef, Performa by Maytag and Crosley branded dishwashers.An electrical failure in the dishwasher's heating element could pose

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Doors that could catch fire, brakes that could fail and accelerators that could stick have caused Chrysler Group LLC to recall nearly 600,000 vehicles involving five models in the United States, U.S. safety regulators said on Monday.Chrysler informed the U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration of the potential safety issues last week, the NHTSA reports show.As many as 284,831 Chrysler

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NEW ORLEANS (AP) - With a huge and unpredictable oil slick drifting in the Gulf of Mexico, state and federal authorities are preparing to deal with a variety of hazards to human health if and when the full brunt of the toxic mess washes ashore.The list of potential threats runs from temporary, minor nuisances such as runny noses and headaches to long-term risks such as cancer if contaminated

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A New Jersey appeals court on Monday upheld a $30.3 million verdict in an asbestos-exposure mesothelioma case, the largest known award in the state.The defendants lost on every issue, including the standard of causation to be applied in light of the plaintiff's short history of working with asbestos-laden materials.The suit, Buttitta v. Allied Signal, A-5263-07, was brought by Susan Buttitta

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WASHINGTON — Federal safety regulators said Monday that they intend to fine Toyota Motor $16.4 million — the largest ever penalty against an automaker — for failing to disclose problems with sticky accelerator pedals quickly enough.The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said Toyota knew in September that it had a problem with accelerator pedals that required fixing, but failed to

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A speeding tanker crashed and rolled over three cars and injured two people on Route 2 in Lincoln, Tuesday, January 12, 2010, according to the Boston Globe.Nancy James quickly turned and looked in her mirrors and made a sharp left turn when she saw the out of control tanker. The tanker continued up the road and crushed her vehicle and two others at 9 a.m. in the westbound lanes at Crosby's

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We've been following the issue of nursing home abuse for some time. As a matter-of-fact, yesterday we wrote that a Brooklyn nursing home was ordered to pay $19 million in damages to a family whose love one allegedly died as a result of abject neglect. Now, ABC World News is reporting that a California nursing home used chemical restraints - drugs - to silence residents. In some cases, this

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Chinese drywall was apparently used in more than 600 New Orleans homes built by nonprofits, such as Habitat for Humanity, following Hurricane Katrina. That tally includes about half of the 72 single-family homes and fives duplexes in the "Musician's Village," one of Habitat's most successful post-Katrina rebuilding projects.Hurricane Katrina was a major factor in the development of the Chinese

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SAN DIEGO(AP) - Alan Deweese's lights were on, he says, when a U.S. Coast Guard boat rammed his 26-foot Sea Ray, killing his 8-year-old son and injuring five others aboard.The lights are just one reason witnesses and survivors are struggling to understand why the Coast Guard boat crashed into the packed recreational boat Sunday night at the 38th annual San Diego Bay Parade of Lights, a popular

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WASHINGTON - The head of the Consumer Product Safety Commision conceded Tuesday the agency "hasn't been acting as quickly as it should" on crib safety problems.Interviewed on morning news shows in the wake of the largest-ever recall of cribs, Chairman Inez Tenenbaum pledged that the CPSC would "firmly but fairly" enforce a law Congress passed last year giving regulators greater authority to

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NEW YORK, Nov 23 (Reuters) - A Philadelphia jury on Monday ordered Pfizer Inc to pay $28 million in punitive damages to a breast cancer survivor who had used the company;s hormone replacement drugs for 11 years.That followed a $6.3 million award the jury ordered Pfizer to pay in compensatory damages on Friday after deciding that the drugs Premarin, Prempro, and Provera contributed to her cancer,

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A Buffalo jury has ordered a St. Louis-based supplier of industrial control valves and control systems to pay the estate of a Niagara Falls man $2.25 million for the former Hooker Chemical repairman’s death from cancer, court officials confirmed Wednesday.Following a six-week trial, the jury held Fisher Controls financially liable for the asbestos-caused mesothelioma that killed Ronald Drabczyk.

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Starting today, Louisiana drivers face increased penalties for refusing to submit to a breathalyzer test when suspected of driving while intoxicated.Under the new law, Act 288, a suspect who refuses to take the test loses his driver’s license for one year, up from the previous six-month penalty. If a person refuses the test more than once in a five-year period, the driver’s license will be

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WALKER, LA (WAFB) - A crash involving a motorcycle and truck claimed the lives of a young Denham Springs couple Wednesday afternoon, leaving another person hospitalized and facing numerous charges.State police say Jeremy Powell, 28, of Pine Grove was driving a small Nissan pickup east on Springfield Road around 4:00pm, when he crossed the center line and ran head-on into a brand new Harley

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MEMPHIS, TN (WMC-TV) - Two lawsuits filed in Shelby County Circuit Court reveal a secret about the sale of new tires in the Mid-South. The secret is some new tires aren't new at all.Both lawsuits center on a single-car accident that happened in August 2007 in Crittenden County, AR. According to the complaints, Teresa Taylor was driving her 1997 Mercury Mountaineer westbound on Interstate 40 just

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BATON ROUGE, LA (WAFB) - The investigation into a boating accident that claimed three lives could go to trial after a new report was released by the Department of Wildlife and Fisheries outlining the accident.A night for fun and friends took a dangerous turn on May 16th when two boats collided, killing three Baton Rouge-area men. Christopher Austin, Brian Doherty, and Sterling Forbes died after

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LAFAYETTE — The family of a man who was shot and killed by a police officer last year filed a federal lawsuit seeking damages for his alleged wrongful death.Eleven of Shane Damond’s family members have signed onto the wrongful death and deprivation of civil rights lawsuit, which was filed Friday.The lawsuit names as defendants Officer Michael Milazzo, Lafayette Police Chief Jim Craft and the city

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An environmental watchdog group said Wednesday that the public still doesn't know how much ethyl acrylate was released from Dow Chemical in Hahnville last week, and criticized St. Charles Parish officials for not evacuating homes closest to the plant.The Louisiana Bucket Brigade said residents need to know how much of the chemical, which can cause eye, nose and throat irritation, was in the air

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CHICAGO, July 14 (Reuters) - Menopausal women who took hormone replacement therapy increased their risk of ovarian cancer by 38 percent, Danish researchers reported on Tuesday.The study of more than 900,000 Danish women aged 50 to 79 found about one extra ovarian cancer for roughly 8,300 women taking hormone therapy each year.At the time they got sick, 9 percent of the women were taking hormone

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WASHINGTON, July 8 (UPI) -- The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission announced a voluntary recall of Kolcraft play yards due to a fall hazard. The play yards include a side rail that can fail to close properly. The latches on the side rails can open unexpected, causing a child to fall, the commission said in in a statement.About 1 million of the play yards made in China, Spain and Italy, were

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NEW ORLEANS — A federal program to recruit more tugboat pilots may have backfired by allowing thousands of novice captains to take the helm and contributing to a 25 percent increase in the number of accidents on the nation's rivers.An Associated Press review of Coast Guard records indicates that the U.S. tugboat fleet is increasingly piloted by captains who have spent as little as one year in the

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June 5 (Bloomberg) -- Mattel Inc. and its Fisher-Price subsidiary will pay a $2.3 million civil penalty in an agreement with the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission for selling Chinese-made toys with hazardous levels of lead.The fine, the commission’s largest for a toymaker, involves 95 toy models, from Barbie accessories to “Sarge” cars, commission spokesman Scott Wolfson said today.“This

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LOS ANGELES -- A Chinese woman who fell out of a moving Disneyland tram and suffered injuries that left her needing 24-hour medical supervision for the rest of her life has reached a settlement in a lawsuit she filed against the Walt Disney Co.Lawyers for Qi Zhao and Disney reached the agreement Tuesday, bringing a two-week trial in Los Angeles County Superior Court to an abrupt end.Details of

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New York City has agreed to pay $2 million to the family of a woman who died last year on the floor of the psychiatric emergency room at Kings County Hospital Center after waiting more than 24 hours to be treated.A video showed the woman on the floor for more than an hour while workers at the city-run hospital did nothing to help her. It prompted widespread criticism, as well as pledges of

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(05-26) 07:38 PDT WASHINGTON (AP) --The Supreme Court has rejected a request from Chrysler to overturn a $13 million punitive damages award to the parents of an 8-month-old boy who died in the crash of a Dodge Caravan.The justices without comment Tuesday left in place a ruling by the Tennessee Court upholding the damages against Chrysler LLC.The lawsuit claimed 8-month-old Joshua Flax was riding

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A growing number of hospital patients are routinely given drugs to prevent acid reflux. But a new study has found that patients who take these so-called proton pump inhibitors are at higher risk for pneumonia than those who do not.The drugs — including Nexium, Prilosec and Prevacid — are often recommended for intensive-care patients to prevent stress ulcers, and in recent years they have been

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COLUMBUS — Let’s face it: When it comes to auto insurance policies, nobody really reads all that fine print.But it’s in the hard-to-decipher clauses that Ohio’s insurance carriers are shrinking insurance protection, leaving drivers uncovered or under-covered in common accident scenarios, according to a report by the Ohio Association for Justice, a trade group of trial attorneys.“Ohioans would be

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Louisiana should get rid of its law requiring adult motorcyclists to wear helmets, a House committee voted Tuesday, after hearing that Gov. Bobby Jindal supports the repeal.The House Transportation Committee passed without objection Rep. Jim Morris' bill after hearing testimony from the governor's top lawyer, executive counsel Jimmy Faircloth, that the Jindal administration considers helmet use a

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May 18 (Bloomberg) -- Johnson & Johnson, the world’s largest maker of health-care products, and other manufacturers were sued over claims they distributed shampoos and soaps containing carcinogens.The lawsuit, filed May 15 in federal court in Newark, New Jersey, claims J&J, Procter & Gamble Co. and other companies sold personal-care products containing formaldehyde and other compounds known to

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Former Hamburg High School diving champion Thomas Smolinski, who was paralyzed in a car crash 10 years ago, was awarded $40 million Friday by a jury.A jury of three women and three men deliberated two days — following a four-week trial before State Supreme Court Justice Joseph R. Glownia— before issuing a verdict against Ford Motor Credit Co. and Smolinski’s older brother, Matthew, 37, of

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HOUMA, La. (AP) - Authorities in Terrebonne Parish are investigating a fatal boating accident.The state Department of Wildlife and Fisheries say its agents have confirmed three deaths and are investigating reports that a fourth person is unaccounted for.The accident happened Thursday morning on the Falgout canal. Thomas Gresham, a spokesman for Wildlife and Fisheries, says the type of boat

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NEW ROADS — State and parish authorities today are searching for the bodies of three Baton Rouge men in a boating accident late Saturday on False River.Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries officials said Sterling Forbes, 22, Christopher W. Austin, 20, and Brian Doherty, 21, were killed in the collision.A fourth man in the boat with the men, Brian Lummen, 21, also of Baton Rouge,

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Four members of the Beauregard Parish SWAT team were involved in an accident in Caddo parish.According to Beauregard Parish Sheriff's Officer Joe Toler, they were attending a training exercise and were on their way back to their hotel when he says an 18-wheeler pulled out in front of them causing their suburban to collide with the rig. The suburban was wedged under the big rig.The Caddo Sheriff's

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WASHINGTON (CNNMoney.com) -- So how did it come to this? How did American International Group go from insurance giant to national outcast?While the government is propping up dozens of companies left teetering from one of the worst recessions in decades, AIG has emerged as the most reviled by far.It wasn't always that way for AIG -- once revered and even feared as the world's largest insurance

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The Centers for Disease Control reports that deaths from mesothelioma are rising in the United States.This week's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report covered mesothelioma fatalities over the past several years.The CDC counted 18000 mesothelioma deaths in the US over the seven-year period from 1999 to 2005, with 2704 deaths in 2005. The number of malignant mesothelioma fatalities is rising year

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In an elder abuse case described by one investigator as the most outrageous he has ever seen, three former top managers at a Kern County nursing home have been arrested in the deaths of three residents who allegedly were given needless doses of psychotropic medications.The state attorney general's office contended in a criminal complaint that more than 20 residents at a skilled nursing center run

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April 28, 2009 -- The FDA has implemented new rules requiring stronger and more extensive label warnings about the risk of liver damage and stomach bleeding for people taking common over-the-counter pain relievers.The FDA's Matthew Ray Holman, PhD, says the new warnings are necessary "to raise consumer awareness about the potential for liver damage when using acetaminophen (such as Tylenol) and

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WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Hydroxycut products, popular dietary supplements used for weight loss, have been linked to liver damage and are being recalled, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration said Friday.The FDA has received 23 reports of serious liver injuries, including a death, linked to Hydroxycut products.The FDA said it has received 23 reports of serious liver injuries linked to Hydroxycut

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