Most products we buy on the market usually work as advertised. Occasionally, this isn’t the case and something goes wrong.
Can consumers do anything about a product that doesn’t live up to its advertising? In a word, yes. If it doesn’t do what it is supposed to do, the person who shelled out bucks for it [...]
In a nutshell, strict product liability means liability of all the people involved in the manufacturing process from start to finish to distribution.
Not a lot of people truly realize that strict product liability is as all encompassing as it is. It actually covers the point of origin of a product right on down the chain [...]
Stewart Rabinowitz of the Dallas-based law firm Rabinowitz and Rabinowitz praises Mayor Bloomberg’s plan Immigrants: The Lifeblood of New York City.
Mayor Bloomberg understands the critical role that immigrants play in our economy and communities. In 2006, he urged a comprehensive and pragmatic policy for immigration reform, which would point the undocumented to the path of [...]
Step parent adoptions are quite common these days and not as complex as many people think.
The fact of the matter when it comes to step-parent adoptions is that they are a whole lot easier and faster than other forms of adoption. This is because many of the states tend to bypass the home-study requirements as [...]
While the many meetings being held all over the U.S. dealing with immigration reform still seem to be producing positive feedback, there has still been no movement in Washington.
In what many term as the greatest frustration of the century, immigration reform advocates are still bemoaning the fact that not much is really being done about [...]
While motorcycles capture the heart of the rebel on the open road, they are dangerous and in the event of a crash, many bikers don’t survive.
Just taking a good hard look at a motorcycle is enough to point out that they have no protection for the rider. No seatbelts, airbags, bumpers like on cars or [...]
Some days it doesn’t pay to get out of bed. In this recent car crash, the victim did nothing wrong; he was, simply in the wrong place at the wrong time, directly in the path of a speeding vehicle.
Car accidents happen far too often according to yearly statistics. “Unfortunately, no matter how carefully “we” may [...]
It’s a simple fact of life that when a big rig collides with another passenger vehicle, the passenger vehicle and the occupants do not fare well.
Most big rig accidents result in either serious injuries or death. There is no other outcome when something that large runs into another vehicle or a stationary object. “Even if [...]
Immigration lawyer Stewart Rabinowitz of the law firm Rabinowitz and Rabinowitz offers some ideas for travelers in conjunction with Canadian Thanksgiving.
Canadian Thanksgiving was celebrated simultaneously with the Columbus Day weekend in the U.S., during the second weekend of October. U.S. Customs and Border Protection issued a reminder on October 8, 2009, to travelers planning trips [...]
Each day we open the paper or turn on the computer and there is another story about an FDA approved drug that causes serious injuries or death.
The most disturbing news, aside from the risks of taking various drugs, is that most Americans put their trust in physicians and the drugs they prescribe to heal them. [...]
In early December, the CLASS, or Community Living Assistance Services and Supports Act, survived a vote aimed at removing it from the Senate health reform bill. The House and Senate bills both contain a version of the act.
Although the CLASS Act is buried deep in both bills and has garnered little media attention, its potential [...]
As the cost of health care increases, many people are turning to the internet. Using health insurance comparison services, many people and families are lowering costs.
During tough economic times, many individuals and families start looking at their monthly budget to determine where they can cut costs. Unfortunately, for families that do not have group health [...]
Wrongful death verdicts are rarely less than $1 million, no matter what the precipitating circumstances.
Wrongful deaths are the saddest events of all, so it makes sense that the ensuing verdicts arising from these invariably emotionally devastating cases are the most fruitful as to settlements and awards. No matter who dies “wrongfully” as precipitated by negligence [...]
