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- Oversight Review Reveals VA’s Camp Lejeune Claims Processing Needs Improvement
Sep 6, 2022
U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs regional staff incorrectly processed 37 percent of disability compensation for Camp Lejeune-related claims. These errors resulted in denied claims and underpayment to veterans affected by exposure to contaminated water at Camp Lejeune. The VA Office of Inspector General (OIG) conducted a review in 2022 to determine whether Veterans Benefits Administration (VBA) staff followed regulations and procedures in processing and deciding Camp Lejeune-related claims. In January 2017, the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease...Read More - Truck Accidents Due to Distracted Driving
Feb 22, 2022
PA Truck Accidents Due to Distracted Driving Commercial truck accidents are increasingly common in Pennsylvania. It may come as a shock to learn that according to the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA), seventy-one percent of truck accidents are caused by distracted driving. If you or someone you love was involved in a PA truck accident due to distracted driving, you may be entitled to financial compensation. A respected PA distracted driving truck accident lawyer at Anapol Weiss...Read More - Seat Belts, Buses and Trains: Perfect Together or Not?
Jan 24, 2022
When bus and train manufacturers market their vehicles without providing the purchaser with the option to use a safe restraint system, why shouldn’t they do so at their financial peril? After all, isn’t that what it has done to the students and train passengers who get on board every day? Recently, a Washington to New York Amtrak commuter train derailed and at least six people died and over a hundred were rushed to nearby hospitals. This...Read More - Attorneys for the plaintiffs deliver closing arguments in Pa. ‘Kids for Cash’ scandal following more than 300 survivors testify in a civil hearing
Nov 18, 2021
The civil hearing to assess damages in Pennsylvania’s ‘Kids for Cash’ scandal concluded with closing arguments on October 25th in the federal courthouse in Wilkes-Barre against two judges at the center of the scandal that goes back to 2003. More than 300 survivors shared their stories. The three weeks-long hearing finished with Sol H. Weiss, a named partner with Anapol Weiss and the lead attorney for the plaintiffs, delivering his closing arguments. The ruling is...Read More - Test Your Knowledge About Distracted Driving – What You Know Can Keep You Safe and Those You Care About
Oct 20, 2021
“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” Nelson Mandela In 2015 we lost more than 35,000 in traffic crashes. The percentage increase over 2014 was the largest percentage increase in 50 years. Traffic deaths had been trending downward since 2007 and the early estimates for 2016 indicate that even more of us will be killed than in 2015. The largest percentage increase in 2015 fatalities was for distracted driving,...Read More - Helmets: Protecting The Brain
Aug 4, 2021
Can More Be Done in the Design of Helmets to Reduce the Risk of Head Injury? The Answer to the Question is Frustratingly Simple: Yes. To understand how helmet safety can be improved, we first need to understand how the brain is concussed or more seriously injured. Brain injury, which runs the gamut from a low-level injury (e.g., sub-concussive) to the gravest of injuries (e.g., major bleeding throughout the brain and/or diffuse injury to the axons),...Read More - Autonomous Vehicles—Collision Avoidance Technology
Aug 4, 2021
Making It Easier and Safer: How Should The Civil Justice System Respond? In 1968, Herbie was the star of a movie called The Love Bug. Herbie was a fictionalized version of what the auto industry and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration now call “autonomous” or “driverless vehicles.” Over the years, movie goers and TV audiences have laughed, cheered and marveled at similar cars in the Batman series, I Robot, the Minority Report and the Knight Rider...Read More - Corporations Are Subject to Product Liability Suit in States Where They Market Their Products
Aug 4, 2021
Holding Multi-National and Interstate Corporations Subject To Suit In The States Where They Market Their Products Is Appropriate. When the defendant’s product—designed and sold outside the Commonwealth—is used in the forum state while in a defective condition (that existed when it was first released into the stream of commerce) and the injury occurs in the forum, the tort has “arisen out of or relates to” the defendant’s activities, and jurisdiction lies in the Commonwealth. The location...Read More - Pennsylvania Products Liability Law and The Consumer Expectation Test of Defect
Aug 4, 2021
Protecting Consumers From Defective Products Every day, millions of Pennsylvanians purchase or use products designed, manufactured and distributed by companies yearning for a profit and distributing their goods across this country. Whether the product is as simple as a ladder or a helmet, or as complex as a motor vehicle filled with electronic gadgetry, we all depend upon these consumer goods to meet our expectations, providing the benefit for which they are marketed. And, when a...Read More - Distracted Driving: Teens, You Don’t Have to Drive Like Your Parents
Jul 14, 2021
It’s sad that I need to implore teens not to drive like their moms and dads, but it is necessary. Parents are texting, Snapchatting, accessing Facebook, eating, applying makeup, and putting in contact lenses while driving with their most precious cargo: their children. Over the past month, I have spoken with more than 2,000 teens across the country about distraction-free driving, including Connecticut, Florida, Colorado and Washington D.C. More than 80 percent of those students confirmed...Read More