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• Tort Reform and Unintended Consequences

  Bret Hanna | October 15, 2009 8:15 PM | 10 CommentsSalt Lake City, UT

  Medical care providers are people and people make mistakes - that's it, plain and simple, and the facts can't be disputed. An editorial which appeared this week in the Salt Lake Tribune offers the...

• Widow of Man Tasered to Death Has His Baby

  Bret Hanna | September 26, 2009 7:29 PM | 6 CommentsSalt Lake City, UT

  I've posted on this tragic case before because it seems so senseless. Brian Cardall died on June 9th, after he was tasered twice by a Hurricane police officer along the side of a highway in southern...

• Tasers Can Cause Cardiac Arrest And Sudden Death

  Bret Hanna | June 15, 2009 6:51 PM | 6 CommentsSalt Lake City, UT

  As a follow-up to my post on Taser issues last week, Tasers Can Kill And Deployment Policies Are Inconsistent Or Non-Existent, I've come across more information on one way that Tasers can kill. In...

• Tragic Accident During Utah Bicycle Event- Was it Avoidable?

  Mark Williams | August 23, 2009 6:15 PM | 5 CommentsSalt Lake City, UT

  Five cyclists were injured during a popular road cycling event this last Saturday, the 1,000 Warriors Bicycle Race. The amateur race gives non-professionals the chance to ride the same course as the...

• Trucking Safety Must be a Top Priority

  Bret Hanna | November 16, 2009 10:54 PM | 4 CommentsSalt Lake City, UT

  Deaths resulting from accidents involving tractor-trailers between 2003 and 2006 exceeded 5,000 per year which is way too high. The Truck Safety Coalition (TSC) is dedicated to reducing these...

• Tobacco, Chimney Sweeping, and Tanning Beds

  Mark Williams | July 29, 2009 4:12 PM | 4 CommentsSalt Lake City, UT

  What do these things have in common, you ask? Cancer. Scientists now have determined unequivocally that the ubiquitous tanning parlors pose a very real danger, particularly to the tanning public of...

• Should Obese Truck Drivers Undergo Mandatory Testing To Determine If They Have Sleep Apnea?

  Bret Hanna | June 08, 2009 5:51 PM | 4 CommentsSalt Lake City, UT

  Truck drivers are people and some are overweight. Some, like the general population, are downright obese. But over-the-road truck drivers make their living driving very large, heavy vehicles that...

• Logan Northern Canal Disaster - Sixth Installment

  Bret Hanna | July 27, 2009 11:53 PM | 3 CommentsSalt Lake City, UT

  Last week, Utah's soon-to-be Governor, Gary Herbert, backed off on a promised probe into the cause of the failure of the Logan Northern Canal on July 11th with spokeswoman Angela Welling calling it...

• First Response Program Offers Helping Hand to Truck Accident Victims

  Bret Hanna | November 18, 2009 10:34 PM | 2 CommentsSalt Lake City, UT

  As indicated in a prior post, more than 5,000 people a year die in accidents involving tractor-trailers. That means that many individuals and families will be devastated each year by the injuries...

• Eli Lilly Will Pay Utah 24 Million to Settle Zyprexa Suit

  Bret Hanna | November 11, 2009 6:17 PM | 2 CommentsSalt Lake City, UT

  Utah Attorney General Mark Shurtleff announced today that the state has settled a 4-year-long battle with Eli Lilly over its marketing unapproved uses, so-called off-label uses, of its...