With roots dating to the medieval era, hazing is well-established initiation practice that is popular today in social groups like college fraternities and sororities, sports teams, and street gangs. While it does not usually end in tragedy, a growing number of fatalities in recent years…
Three types of Clif bars were announced for recall earlier this month due to potential Listeria contamination, as certain varieties of the nutrition bars were found to contain sunflower seeds linked to manufacturers subject to a shutdown and recall from an outbreak of the bacteria. As…
An outbreak of E. coli that caused at least 38 people across 20 states to become sick has been traced back to flour produced at a General Mills plant in Kansas City Missouri, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. As a San Francisco…
San Jose Officials are reporting 11 people hospitalized, some in intensive care, after contracting Shigella at a San Jose restaurant. Each of the 11 hospitalized from Shigella ate at the Mariscos San Juan restaurant in downtown San Jose on either Friday or Saturday. The restaurant…
Football season is in full swing, but football means more than jerseys, tailgates, and cheering for the winning team. For some, football, and the injuries from football can mean a lifetime of pain or disability, or even death. That’s why I think it’s important to continue…
This Holiday Season, stay away from the caramel apples! No, not just because they’re made of sugar and chock full of calories (because what would the Holiday Season be without a bit of indulgence?), but because it turns out that some prepackaged caramel apples have been linked to a Listeriosis…
First of all, I don’t handle medical malpractice cases. I make no money from medical malpractice. While I have friends who are excellent medical malpractice attorneys, I don’t enjoy prosecuting these cases as much as I do other types of cases. One of the primary…
As an attorney who has handled many food safety cases here in the San Francisco Bay Area, I am always interested to learn about food safety news. As a parent, I would want to know the latest information coming out about the food I would…
As a San Francisco personal injury attorney, over the years, I have seen many brain injuries and spinal injuries, fractures, burns, internal injuries and wrongful deaths. In any community, we attorneys will be exposed to these serious personal injuries over time; however, catastrophic injuries are…
Alzheimer’s disease is the most common form of dementia today. And new studies are now linking traumatic brain injury to greatly increased risk of Alzheimer’s. Dementia, an...
