Automakers knew earlier of Takata air bag issues: court documents
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - General Motors Co (GM.N), Volkswagen AG (VOWG_p.DE), Fiat Chrysler Automobiles NV (FCHA.MI) and Daimler AG (DAIGn.DE) knew of problems with Takata air bag inflators and should have moved faster to recall vehicles, according to company documents cited on Wednesday by owners suing the automakers.
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Ford recalls 1.4 million cars because their steering wheels might come off
Ford said Wednesday that it is recalling nearly 1.4 million cars in North America after the company discovered that steering wheels in two vehicle models could come off while driving. The Michigan-based automaker said bolts on the steering wheel may become loose, leading to a loss of control and an “increased risk of a...
Fatal Copter Tour Flew Under Looser Rules of Crop-Dusters
The open-door helicopter tour in which five people died in a crash landing in the East River off Manhattan on Sunday was operating under safety restrictions reserved for photography flights that are looser than those for commercial air-tour rides.
Federal regulations exempt certain operations, including crop-dusting and aerial firefighting, from some of the safety rules...
Data breach victims can sue Yahoo in the United States: judge
(Reuters) - Yahoo has been ordered by a federal judge to face much of a lawsuit in the United States claiming that the personal information of all 3 billion users was compromised in a series of data breaches.
In a decision on Friday night, U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh in San Jose, California rejected a...
CNN Exclusive: The more opioids doctors prescribe, the more money they make
As tens of thousands of Americans die from prescription opioid overdoses each year, an exclusive analysis by CNN and researchers at Harvard University found that opioid manufacturers are paying physicians huge sums of money -- and the more opioids a doctor prescribes, the more money he or she makes.
In 2014 and 2015, opioid manufacturers...
Thousands of frozen eggs and embryos may have been destroyed at Ohio hospital
Hundreds of families’ dreams of having a baby using frozen eggs or embryos may have been dashed due to a storage tank malfunction at an Ohio fertility center.
The temperature in one of the site’s two liquid nitrogen tanks storing specimens at University Hospitals’ UH Fertility Center in suburban Cleveland rose above acceptable limits overnight...
Florida school shooting: Lawyer says more families likely to sue
The lawyer who filed notice of a lawsuit on behalf of a student shot five times in the massacre at Florida's Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School says he expects to be filing legal papers for more families of victims soon.
Lawyer Alex Arreaza told USA TODAY that evidence increasingly reveals mistakes by the Broward County...
How to derail the ‘antibiotic apocalypse
Top public-health officials descended on Capitol Hill last Thursday to sound the alarm about a grim future without antibiotics. These life-saving drugs are losing their mojo as germs adapt to them. It’s a process scientists call antibiotic resistance.
In the US, 2 million people a year catch drug-resistant infections, 23,000 die and the toll “is...
Kobe Steel, Toyota hit with U.S. lawsuit over vehicle metal quality
NEW YORK/TOKYO (Reuters) - U.S. consumers have filed a lawsuit against Kobe Steel Ltd (5406.T) and Toyota Motor Corp (7203.T) accusing the companies of violating consumer protection laws and engaging in fraud by concealing the use of substandard metal components in vehicles.
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Emergency room data shows the opioid crisis continues to accelerate
More than 142,000 people were taken to emergency departments for opioid overdoses during a recent 15-month period, the latest sign the drug epidemic continues to worsen despite the efforts of public health authorities.
The 142,557 emergency visits in 45 states marked a nearly 30 percent increase between the third quarter of 2016 and the same...
