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Yesterday, we brought you word of a distracted driving crackdown taking place all across California during the month of April.  Now, we’re getting some clue as to how local police plan to approach the endeavor.  The California Highway Patrol is one of the many entities taking part in the operation, and the Redwood City branch… read more

Latex allergies are far more prevalent than many people might realize.  In fact, the Occupational Health and Safety Administration figures that as much as 6% of the population is allergic to latex.  This number actually increases when looking at the healthcare industry, where up to 12% of people could have a sensitivity to the substance…. read more

Many states have confronted a dilemma after they’ve passed texting and driving bans:  how can you actually tell that a person is texting and not just dialing a phone number or looking down at their laps for some other reason?  In California, we have no such problem, as both texting and talking on a cellphone… read more

The past weeks have seen police officers in the Sacramento area cracking down on those persons who insist on using their cellphones at the wheel.  But distracted drivers mustn’t think that that operation’s close means they can suddenly pick up their phones and start being distracted anew.  The month of April will see not just… read more

Hopefully, most adults would have enough common sense that they wouldn’t purposely attempt to open the door of a moving vehicle.  However, sometimes accidents do happen, and children especially might not understand that the door handle shouldn’t be grabbed while in transit.  That’s why this next recall is so important. C-Max, Escape, and Focus vehicles… read more

The Santa Fe Springs, California-based Nishimoto Trading Company has announced the recall of Kotsubukko Rice Cracker under the Kameda Brand because the products might contain milk without the label stating as much.  The recall affects 4.37 ounce versions of the item that were available in California and a small handful of other states between November… read more

A new study from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows that drivers in the United States are more likely to text or talk on their cellphones than are those in much of Western Europe.  Vehicle operators were asked their driving habits over the month prior as part of the research, and in the… read more

Great Dane Trailers has announced the recall of Dry-Freight Semi Trailers of the 2011 model year because the I-Beam bogie frame’s bottom welds may not have been installed the right way.  698 trailers could be affected by the defect, which can lead the welds to crack and fail.  This may cause the axle and hanger… read more

With St. Patrick’s Day just a couple days away, today is as good of a time as any to review the steps one can take to protect themselves from the threats that become apparent on this upcoming day of celebration.  When hordes of people gather to indulge in drinking and partying, a lot can go… read more

The Justice Department has indicted four peanut company executives who they claim knew about the potential for Salmonella contamination within products yet continued to produce and ships those items to the general public.  As a result, 700 people were forced to deal with a Salmonella-based illness in 2009 that led to one of the largest… read more

The Food and Drug Administration has grown concerned that patients aren’t taken warnings about a certain Hepatitis C treatment seriously enough.  Because of that, they have issued a more severe warning about the issue which has already led some patients to experience fatal side effects. The drug in question is known as Incivek, a Hepatitis… read more

Last week, one of Panish | Shea | Ravipudi LLP’s own clients gained a landmark victory when a jury decided that DePuy owed the man $8.3 million in compensatory damages.  The jury concluded that the subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson failed to disclose the risks inherent with the DePuy ASR metal on metal hip implant,… read more