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• Pay Day Loan Rates Should Not Be Capped in Virginia

  Ben Glass | January 14, 2008 8:46 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Miscellaneous

  The Virginia General Assembly has started its 2008 session and one are of controversy is whether so-called "Pay-Day" loan rates should be capped.House Bill 12 proposes limiting the annual rate of these loans to 36%. This is a bad idea.A "pay-day" loan is a short term unsecured loan, usually of only a few hundred dollars, that generally carries a rather high rate of interest, especially when...

• Police Dog Bites Wrong Man

  Ben Glass | January 08, 2008 11:30 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Miscellaneous

  A man in St. Paul, Minnesota received a personal injury as a result of a case of mistaken identity.After a police officer went to a downtown bus stop in response to a call about a gun-toting suspect, he went to his squad car to get his police dog for assistance. The dog did his duty, chasing down a 19-year-old man and biting down on his lower left leg. However, there was one serious problem. The...

• Contract Security Firm May be Liable for Injury

  Ben Glass | January 07, 2008 11:28 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Property Owner's Liability (Slip & Fall)

  According to a ruling by the Arizona Court of Appeals, retailers who hire security firms in to patrol their premises can be held liable if a customer receives a personal injury. The judges acknowledged that firms who hire independent contractors for such jobs generally cannot be sued for the activities of the employees of that contractor. However, according to Judge Garve Vásquez, that changes...

• Texas Man Loses Arm in Work Place Accident

  Ben Glass | January 06, 2008 11:25 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Miscellaneous

  A concrete worker from Texas is recovering from in the hospital after receiving personal injuries in an accident at his workplace on Wednesday, January 2. The accident resulted in the amputation of the man's arm.According to his son, 52-year-old Robert Kerstetter was greasing a machine at 4:30 a.m. the morning of the accident when his right arm was caught in the machine.He said that he had been...