This past summer, an early morning head-on collision between a box truck and a van turned into a catastrophic wreck that claimed the lives of eight people. The eight people who lost their lives in the crash were in the van, riding to work. The van is owned by a Mississippi forestry company, and the […]
Over eight hundred cases of lung illnesses related to vaping and e-cigarettes are reported from across forty-six states. Twelve deaths across ten states have been attributed to e-cigarette or vaping-related lung illnesses. At least one of those deaths is said to have occurred in Mississippi. Officials from the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) […]
Road construction is dangerous work. Work zone injuries and fatalities have many causes, including distracted drivers, weather, and the machinery and tools that workers use every day. A recent workplace fatality in New Bern, NC is an example of a fatal workplace accident involving road construction machinery. A man died when a construction roller tipped […]
The Deepwater Horizon oil spill devastated the environment and economy in the Gulf Coast area and beyond. People whose lives were affected by the spill are moving forward, many of them with help from settlement claims they filed after the disaster struck. Everyone hopes that a catastrophe of that magnitude will never happen again. Unfortunately, […]
A man died, and eight children were hurt in a school bus accident that happened on Tuesday, September 10, on Highway 72. The school bus driver had a heart attack and lost control of the bus, which went off of the road and flipped over several times before coming to rest in a ditch. The […]
Whistleblowers come from all kinds of positions and professions. From the corporate world to government headquarters, individuals come forth to expose misdeeds. Sometimes, whistleblowers are caught in a position where they have information about wrong actions happening within their workplace or organization, but because of the nature of the wrongdoing, blowing the whistle publicly could […]
Every job has a unique set of pressures and stresses that comes along with it. When people get together and talk about work, workplace stress, and the demands of their jobs are often topics of conversation which everyone can weigh in on. While some workplace stresses are unique to particular jobs, many people can relate […]
The courageous actions of whistleblowers at all levels of influence bring things to light that would otherwise remain hidden. Each wrong that a whistleblower exposes can provide an opportunity for businesses or governments to mitigate some of the consequences that could be caused by the wrongdoing, outcomes that have the potential to be widespread and […]
When whistleblowers file complaints like the one that was recently filed regarding President Trump, individuals and organizations are called upon to account for their actions. Accountability for one’s actions or the actions of a company, group, or agency is critical to the healthy functioning of companies, organizations, and governments. In a previous article, we investigated […]
The BP Compensation Fund is the financial trust created to compensate those affected by the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill. The BP Compensation Fund provides money to those who participated in the cleanup, those who were affected by the spill, those whose businesses were adversely affected by the spill and cleanup, and communities whose […]