Archive for December, 2011

We Asked Are Background Checking Companies Subject to Lawsuits? SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A clerical error landed Kathleen Casey on the streets. Out of work two years, her unemployment benefits exhausted, in danger of losing her apartment, Casey applied for a job in the pharmacy of a Boston drugstore. She was offered $11 an hour. […]

The parents of a Maryland teen who died earlier this year during wisdom tooth surgery have sued the oral surgeon and the anesthetist for medical malpractice. Jenny Olenick, a 17-year-old junior at Marriotts Ridge High School in Woodstock, Md., died in April from complications during the outpatient procedure performed on 5 million Americans each year. […]

Nearly anyone who heads out for a walk on a regular basis likely keeps an eye out for drivers who may be distracted or operating recklessly. If you’re on foot in November, your risk of getting killed is far greater than at other times of the year, according to a study released by two Carnegie […]

PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) – A new accuser against former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky said Sandusky sexually abused him “over 100 times” as a child. The handwritten statement by a man, now 29, identified only as “John Doe A” accompanied a lawsuit filed on Wednesday in Philadelphia Common Pleas Court against Sandusky, Penn State […]