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• Be Aware of the Ten Worst Insurance Companies

  Fred Schultz | July 23, 2008 12:14 PM | 1 CommentBloomington, IN

  A recent study released by the American Association for Justice (AAJ) ranked the ten worst insurance companies in America. According to this study, Allstate Insurance ranked as the worst insurance...

• Home Safety Very Important

  Fred Schultz | July 20, 2008 5:32 PM | 1 CommentBloomington, IN

  I recently read in the paper a tragic story about a boy who died when garage door that was propped up by a board fell and pinned the boy's neck undereath. Apparently, the boy suffocated before he...

• Automobile Accidents can have Devestating Effects

  Fred Schultz | July 11, 2008 8:00 AM | 0 CommentsBloomington, IN

  We all take for granted that when we get behind the wheel of a car, we are going to get wherever we are going safely. Unfortunately, that is not always the case. Recently, two teenage boys were...

• Wet Roads Can Cause Auto Accidents

  Fred Schultz | July 10, 2008 8:00 AM | 1 CommentBloomington, IN

  With all the rain that we have been experiencing, it is very important to remember that wet roads can lead to serious, and sometimes fatal, automobile accidents. A recent example of this occurred on...

• Fireworks are fun, but also cause injury

  Fred Schultz | July 09, 2008 10:44 AM | 0 CommentsBloomington, IN

• Man Tasered by Police Dies Five Days Later

  Jenny Albano | April 25, 2008 5:06 PM | 0 CommentsBloomington, IN

  A man in Chicago died five days after being tased by police outside a bar near Miami University. Kevin Piskura died just after 5 p.m. on Thursday, April 24 at the University Hospital in...

• Topps Beef Burgers Recalled for E. Coli Contamination

  Chrissie Cole | September 27, 2007 10:53 PM | 0 CommentsBloomington, IN

  Topps Meat Company announced a voluntary recall of more than 300,000 pounds of ground beef tainted with E. Coli O157:H7, after receiving over 22 reports of illness.The recall was announced this week after the CDC said 21 people across eight states had become ill after eating burgers that may have been contaminated with E. coli.According to the CDC, two cases in New York and one in Florida have...

• Barbie Accessories Recalled for Lead Hazard

  Chrissie Cole | September 10, 2007 7:56 PM | 0 CommentsBloomington, IN

  Mattel announced a voluntary toy recall of 675,000 Barbie accessory toys, made in China, due to the surface paints on the toys containing excessive levels of lead. This toy recall involves several Barbie accessory toys that were manufactured between September 30, 2006 and August 20, 2007. A full list of recalled Barbie toys can be found on Mattel's website. The date and product codes are printed...

• Coal City Man Killed in Car Accident

  Chrissie Cole | August 29, 2007 2:44 AM | 0 CommentsBloomington, IN

  A Clay County man, 52, died from injuries he suffered in a two-vehicle accident, on Tuesday that also sent a 17-year-old girl to the hospital.The girl was transported to the hospital for non-life threatening injuries and released.The man was driving his Ford F250 north on Indiana 159 when the girl trying to pull out of the driveway on the east side of the road, according to Clay County Sheriff's...

• CPSC Investigating Fisher-Price Toy Recall

  Chrissie Cole | August 13, 2007 2:20 AM | 0 CommentsBloomington, IN

  The Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) is investigating whether Fisher-Price alerted them as quickly as it should, about lead paint found in over 1.5 million toys manufactured in China, that were part of the worldwide recall announced last week.Scott Wolfson, a spokesman for the commission, told The Associated Press on Monday that it was conducting "an active and open" investigation into...