One of North America’s most prominent farm corporations has ties to the old fertilizer factory suspected of poisoning yards in a working-class neighborhood of south Columbia. Whether Canada’s Agrium Inc. would be liable for cleanup costs in Edisto Court off Rosewood Drive isn’t yet known. But federal regulators are looking for a person or company
An attorney, an official from a sensible growth advocacy group and a few community residents who gathered at Broome High School on Tuesday evening for a public meeting on a proposed medical waste treatment facility voiced concerns that the safety of the technology that would be used there is unproven. Spartanburg attorney Gary Poliakoff, citing
A quadriplegic who suffered severe heatstroke when his caregiver left him in her car on a hot day was entitled to workers’ compensation benefits for the stroke as a compensable consequence of the workplace injury that paralyzed him in the first place, the South Carolina Court of Appeals has ruled. In disputing the claim, the
Johns Hopkins has recently released a study that indicates that patients that resided in long term care facilities within the last six months are more likely to be infected with drug resistant superbugs. There was no definitive explanation for the increased risk, but researchers believe that underlying illnesses and weakened immune systems in nursing home
SHARON OSTROFF, Individually and as Power of Attorney for Lillian Restine, Plaintiff, v. ALTERRA HEALTHCARE CORPORATION, Defendant. CIVIL ACTION NO. 05-6187 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF PENNSYLVANIA 2006 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 50730 July 25, 2006, Decided Sharon Ostroff, individually and as power of attorney for Lillian Restine, her mother, filed suit
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