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• The TJX Companies' Data Breach Fallout Continues

  Staff Writer | February 13, 2007 7:07 PM | 0 CommentsPhoenix, AZ

  At least two class action lawsuits have been filed and one attorney general investigation has begun so far as a result of a data breach at TJX Companies. Customers who shopped at TJMaxx, Marshalls and other company stores throughout the United States, Canada and Puerto Rico sometime in 2003 and 2006 may have had their personal private account data exposed to computer thieves. According to the...

• Teenage Driving in Arizona

  Staff Writer | December 27, 2006 12:52 PM | 0 CommentsPhoenix, AZ

  A recent press release from the Arizona Automobile Association suggests, Arizona is far behind in being a safe state for the riskiest group of all teens. The state could do more to make it a safer state for ALL drivers by putting stricter limits on teenagers, the state's most dangerous drivers.Statistics supplied by AAA Arizona back up its conclusion that too many teenagers drive with reckless...

• British Banks Fail to Safeguard Customer Information

  Staff Writer | October 29, 2006 9:48 PM | 0 CommentsPhoenix, AZ

  After all the news footage we've reviewed recently, I was not really shocked to see a BBC news story expressing concern about several British banks which have apparently failed to secure confidential customer information. The difference in this story which caught my eye was that this time, the problems had nothing to do with computer security.This time the story related to confidential written...

• Using Technology to Reduce Medical Errors

  Staff Writer | June 14, 2006 10:06 AM | 0 CommentsPhoenix, AZ

  In the past, I have referred to a 1999 study by the Institute of Medicine which linked medical errors to the deaths of between 44,000 and 98,000 people annually. Recently, it has come to my attention that one error reduction strategy available to physicians involves the use of technology in doctors' medical practices. Unfortunately, according to an article in yesterday's Tucson Citizen, only...

• Taser Problems Continuing?

  Staff Writer | April 26, 2006 6:00 PM | 0 CommentsPhoenix, AZ

  I guess that Taser International has some continuing public relations and product marketing problems concerning training and use of the company's stun guns. This time, according to a new article on the web site News Inferno discussing possible defects in the Taser product, The death of a 56-year-old wheelchair-bound disabled woman in Florida after being shocked by a Taser stun gun has only...

• Arizona Punitive Damages Legislation

  Staff Writer | February 15, 2006 10:36 AM | 0 CommentsPhoenix, AZ

  Each year various members of the Arizona legislature introduce bills concerning all aspects of "tort reform." This year is no different. I recently learned that Arizona State Representative Jennifer Burns introduced a bill to prevent Plaintiffs from recovering punitive damges but not to outlaw puntive damages awards in their entirety. Rather than outlawing punitive damages, Representative...

• Do Speed Patrols Save Lives?

  Staff Writer | January 14, 2006 4:35 PM | 0 CommentsPhoenix, AZ

  Even more speed patrols are coming to the City of Scottsdale around Pima Road running through Scottsdale. Already I mentioned that in Frebruary, photo radar will begin on the Loop 101 Freeway running through Scottsdale. Now around Pima Road near the vicinity of the Loop 101 Freeway, Scottsdale will increase patrols in the area as part of a "special speed-enforcement" effort. Why? More and...

• Washington Swing Accident Claims 15 Y.O.

  Staff Writer | January 09, 2006 10:40 AM | 0 CommentsPhoenix, AZ

  A colleague in Seattle, Mike Myers, posts news of an unfortunate accident in which a 15 year old boy fell to his death from a rope swing at at a party where there was underage drinking.Mike notes:The landowner who allowed the 60 foot rope swing on his or her property may also be liable if the swing constituted a known, dangerous condition. It is important for land/homeonwners to be aware of...

• One Girl Dies, One Injured, After Falling into Mine Shaft

  Jenny Albano | September 02, 2007 6:25 PM | 0 CommentsPhoenix, AZ

  A 13 year-old girl and a 10 year-old girl fell into a mine shaft while riding on an All-Terrain Vehicle in Chloride, Arizona. The 13 year-old was pronounced dead and the 10 year-old had serious injuries when the girls were found on Sunday, September 2. The 10 year-old was transported to University Medical Center in Nevada and was reported to be in critical condition on Sunday afternoon.Seth...

• Senator Kyl Holding Up Modification to Freedom of Information Act

  Staff Writer | June 01, 2007 2:00 PM | 0 CommentsPhoenix, AZ

  Ironically, Arizona Senator Jon Kyl recently invoked a tool to secretly object and withhold from consideration in the United States Senate a bill modifying the Freedom of Information Act. In contrast to Senator Kyl's initially secret actions, the legislation known as the Open Government Act had been drafted to make government activity less secret and more open to public scrutiny. Senator Kyl...