When you are driving along Mississippi roads, it is not uncommon to see people putting on makeup, looking at the GPS device, bending down to scroll through the music options, or using a cell phone or other electronic device. These various forms of distracted driving lead to dangerous situations where the driver’s focus is off […]
Merrell Williams, Jr. died in Ocean Springs, Mississippi on November 18, 2013. Williams was a controversial whistleblower who was one of the main reasons many of the dangerous or fraudulent actions of the big tobacco industry were brought to light, but the manner in which this came about was the subject of great debate. Williams […]
Under the False Claims Act, those people who learn about the efforts of businesses to defraud the federal government through fraudulent practices or the submission of false documents may receive a portion of any payments that the government is able to recover from the wrongdoer. This percentage may range up to thirty percent (30%) of […]
When the Deepwater Horizon had a catastrophic incident on April 20, 2010, 11 people were killed and 4.9 million gallons of oil poured into the Gulf of Mexico, forever altering the lives of many victims. Despite the initial assertions by BP Oil to meet its financial obligations in the aftermath of the largest marine oil […]
The United States Government enacted the False Claims Act as an incentive to people that had inside information of wrongdoing to provide those details to investigative bodies. The act has led to legal action being brought against many commercial enterprises, large and small. One of the most recent cases filed under the False Claims Act […]
Workers’ Compensation insurance is intended to make certain that a person injured in a workplace accident can receive compensation for the harm that was done, but Mississippi law imposes significant restrictions on the amount of money that can be paid out, so it is important to evaluate the true causes of the workplace accident carefully. […]
On Saturday, February 8, 2014, a 23-year-old woman was driving the wrong-way, traveling south in the northbound lane of Highway 49, when she collided with two young friends who were returning to the Perkinston campus of Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College. The accident happened around 1:30 AM and the cause […]
Over three million workers each year will experience a non-fatal occupational injury or illness. Injuries vary from minor cuts, scrapes, or falls that will require little medical care, to catastrophic and debilitating harm that may leave employees disabled for a lifetime. Sadly, thousands of Americans die from workplace injuries, including 60 individuals last year in […]
Automobile accidents claim the lives of over 40,000 Americans each year, making them the number one cause of accidental deaths nationwide. Over 5,500,000 car crashes occur annually, sending millions to the hospital and costing both individuals and states across the U.S. astronomical sums. Researchers are now speculating that in the future, we may live in […]
Edward Snowden, the now notorious former National Security Agency contractor who exposed classified documents to several media outlets, has recently called for more extensive whistleblower protections to protect concerned contractors and employees. In a live chat transmitted on FreeSnowden.is, Snowden stated that legal channels for raising concerns were not available to him. Had he revealed […]
