Sometimes, the effects of winter weather can be as difficult to predict as the weather itself. For example, as they planned and prepared for one recent winter storm, officials from the Mississippi Department of Transportation said that they did not expect to see much of an impact from the storm in northern Mississippi. The storm […]
A recent fatal car crash serves as a somber reminder of how important it is that people wear their seat belts. A young woman got killed when she lost control of her vehicle and went off of the road. She was not wearing her seatbelt, and she got ejected from the vehicle during the wreck. […]
Workplace accident cases seem to have a language that is all their own. The terms that are used in workplace accident cases often define the outcomes of those cases. Anyone who has gotten hurt at work is likely to find themselves immersed in a sea of unfamiliar words that will be used to determine whether […]
The recent news coverage of the recent slip and fall injury of former Mississippi Governor William Winter is a reminder that winter weather creates injury risks that are not present during other times of the year. The ninety-one-year-old former governor was recently hospitalized with serious head injuries when he fell on the steep, icy driveway […]
The Mississippi Supreme Court recently issued a worker’s compensation decision that addresses a somewhat unusual but not completely unheard of employment scenario – the situation in which a premises owner acts as its contractor. The case involves a man who got severely burned while he was working at the Chevron refinery in Pascagoula. At the […]
Whistleblower cases occur in all kinds of workplaces. A recent case in Flowood serves as an example of how a police officer might bring a whistleblower claim against a municipality after being forced to resign. A patrolman from Flowood alleges that he was obliged to resign after he was accused of using excessive force during […]
A tragic chain of events resulted in a fatal motor vehicle wreck involving an eighteen-wheeler and three other vehicles. The pile-up happened on the southbound side of I-270 just south of Clayton. After the accident, the southbound lanes of the highway were closed for over six hours, as multiple agencies worked to remove the wreckage […]
Washington University in St. Louis conducts a lot of research, especially in the fields of medicine and medical technology. Research of that nature is critical and is also extremely expensive. Fortunately, the federal government supports research at Washington University and many other research institutions by providing them with funding for their research through federal grants […]
We often hear about what happens to whistleblowers after they attempt to address wrongdoing within their workplace with people within the workplace who could help them to do so. Whistleblowers often experience retaliation in varying degrees, including mistreatment within the workplace, termination, and continued bullying and harassment from people affiliated with their workplace even after […]
The environment and the economy of the Gulf Coast suffered greatly after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010. The health of Gulf Coast residents suffered greatly as well. The economic and environmental recovery of the Gulf Coast gets discussed much more frequently than the health of area residents. Fortunately, funds were made available to […]
