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New Information Surfaces about Horrific Amtrak Derailment
The National Transportation Safety Board has released its preliminary findings regarding the devastating derailment of an Amtrak train heading from Washington, D.C. to New York on Tuesday. The NTSB reports found that the train was traveling at about 106 miles per hour around a curve, more than twice the legal speed limit. The train was…
Read MorePaulson & Nace Sends its Thoughts and Prayers to the Victims of the Philadelphia Amtrak Accident
As a longtime Washingtonian, I have traveled Amtrak’s Northeast Regional train on many, many occasions. So it was horrifying to read about the accident near Philadelphia last night. The pictures were extraordinarily frightening, in part, because the café car, seats, and the train cars are so familiar. Tragedies like this often hit home with those…
Read MoreBritish Airways Executive Club Members May Have Fallen Victim to a Hack and Potential Identity Theft
When most people think about being “hacked,” they assume that you are talking about their credit cards or their email accounts – but frequent flier miles? Not so much. Yet British Airways recently sent a letter to a number of Executive Cub members informing them that they have experienced some “unauthorised activity” on their accounts.…
Read MorePut Down Your Phone and Save a Life
By now most Americans have gotten the message – no pun intended – that texting behind the wheel kills. You have heard the mind-boggling statistics about how texting while driving is quickly eclipsing drunk driving as the leading cause of death in car accidents for teen drivers in the U.S. You have probably heard that…
Read MoreSecret Settlements – Confidentiality Agreements in Medical Malpractice Lawsuits
Debbie Pennington went in to surgery 20 years ago for a partial hysterectomy and a surgical sponge the size of a pack of cigarettes was left in her body after the surgery. Pennington suffered years of pain and five additional surgeries that were required to fix the mistake, but she was unable to speak of…
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