Background

Harry was in the ready-mix concrete business. With lots of construction and developments underway, concrete was a good business. Like his competitors, Harry ran a busy yard lined with trucks loading sand, gravel and cement for construction sites. (more…)

The manufacturer of Digitek, Actavis Totowa LLC, issued a nationwide Class 1 recall of all strengths of Digitek tablets on April 25, 2008. The Class 1 recall was issued on the basis that the product poses a substantial risk of serious injury or death.The Digitek tablets were distributed by UDL Laboratories, under a UDL label and by Mylan Pharmaceuticals, with a “Bertek” label. For information with regard to the Digitek litigation The following is a summary of the basis for liability against Activis for the manufacturing defect which is believed to result in patient injury and death. For complete information with regard to the Digitek litigation you may refer to our Digitek pharmaceutical product liability lawyers discussion of the respective merits of class action lawsuits and individual lawsuits against the manufacturer. (more…)

By Don Morrison

Background

Charlie ran an engineering and construction company that specialized in road and tunnel work. They worked over a broad geographic area with most of their contracts coming from state and county governments. Because road building requires good weather, most of their work was designed and bid during the winter, with actual construction taking place in late spring, summer and early fall. (more…)

By Ray Henke, a motorcycle accident lawyer and member of Bikers of Lesser Tolerance, California

Freedom fighters joined to form BOLT of North Carolina and are currently bringing nonviolent civil disobedience and constitutional court challenge to the streets and courts of the state in response to the enactment of North Carolina’s new helmet law. (more…)

By Ray Henke, a Motorcycle Accident Lawyer, Biker Rights Advocate and founder of Motorcyclists Against Dumb Drivers

The objective of our motorcycling community should be first and foremost to attempt to increase our safety on our American roads and highways. The solution is first to identify the principle causes of motorcycle accidents, and then to arrive at means to reduce the incidence of motorcycle accidents resulting from those causes. What the largest study of motorcycle accidents demonstrates is that two-thirds of all motorcycle accidents result from the inattention and negligence of auto drivers, two-thirds of that number, or fifty percent of the total resulting when the auto driver pulls out from a side street into an intersection or turns left at an intersection into the motorcyclist’s right of way. (more…)

Quigley vs. CHP, the Constitutional Case Poised to Bring Down the California Motorcycle Helmet Law

By Ray Henke, Esq., Motorcycle Lawyer, Member, Bikers of Lesser Tolerance, California

As Don Blancet, Executive Director of ABATE of California, observed in a press release disseminated by the Motorcycle Riders Foundation, he expects that the Quigley v. California Highway Patrol case will pound the final nail in the coffin of the California helmet law. (more…)