Few things are as disturbing as having your mental health status called into question, especially if it is done publicly. Unfortunately, businesses and organizations often go after whistleblowers with precisely this type of attack, attempting to discredit what the whistleblower has said about the organization by alleging that the whistleblower is mentally ill. These allegations […]
An injured, seventy-one-year-old woman recently got medevacked off of a cruise ship on the Mississippi River. The woman, who had suffered a shoulder injury, and her husband were transported to Venice by a Coast Guard response boat, where they were met by local emergency medical personnel who transported them to the hospital. A couple of […]
A man recently died in a motorcycle accident on Highway 98. The accident occurred at night, like sixty percent of all motorcycle accidents do. This tragic accident is a sobering reminder that riding a motorcycle is more difficult at night than it is during the day, and extra caution is required to keep motorcycle riders […]
The Social Security Administration (SSA) requires its employees to engage in periodic training exercises regarding their rights as employees and the protections against retaliation that are available to whistleblowers. Unfortunately, it does not appear as though the training is effective in actually protecting whistleblowers because the SSA continues to terminate people who expose wrongdoing within […]
A decision about how to spend seven hundred and fifty million dollars in BP oil spill damage payments may not be reached this year. Mississippi lawmakers let Senate Bill 2634, a proposed plan for spending the oil spill settlement money, die at a recent deadline for action after the House Appropriations Committee did not bring […]
A Florida man blacked out while he was driving and he crashed his car into the side of a weigh station near the Mississippi-Louisiana state line. The man has diabetes, and, at the time of the accident, he had not eaten anything yet that day. When a person has diabetes, there’s a risk that they […]
A recent deadly crash in Hinds County claimed the life of one person. The accident happened as the driver of one vehicle was turning left and the vehicles collided at the intersection. This tragic wreck is a somber reminder that many accidents occur at intersections, especially when one vehicle is turning left. When the driver […]
Many whistleblower cases are political in nature, and some are high dollar value situations involving big-city governments. There is an ongoing investigation into bribery within the city of Jackson which may be connected to similar problems that have surfaced over in Atlanta. One woman who used to work for the city of Jackson was responsible […]
Last summer, the United States Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) changed some of its workplace safety rules and increased its citation structure to encourage employers to be diligent in keeping workers safe and fulfilling their regulatory obligations. Some information about the rule changes may have been passed along to some employees in some workplaces, […]
Some of the damage that resulted from the BP oil spill was caused by the dispersant that was applied to the oil spill, and not by the oil itself. One dispersant, in particular, Corexit, has been banned from use in Europe since 1998 because it is highly toxic. Over two million gallons of various types […]
