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• Synthetic Vest Fails to Protect Law Enforcement Officers

  Patrick DeBlase | September 08, 2006 10:34 AM | 0 CommentsLos Angeles, CA

  Protective vest manufacturer Second Chance Armor is found liable for defective vests using Zylon synthetic fibers which it knew would degrade over time.Yesterday, a San Diego jury found the manufacturer and fiber supplier of protective vests liable for the death of a police officer who had been fatally shot in the chest by an ex-con. Second Chance Armor, Inc. manufactures these protective vests...

• One of the Largest Food Recalls Ever Just Got Bigger: Peanut Corp. Texas Closed

  Paul Kiesel | February 12, 2009 8:31 PM | 0 CommentsLos Angeles, CA

  From The New York Times: WASHINGTON — The Peanut Corporation of America closed its processing plant in Plainview, Tex., on Monday night after a laboratory test indicated possible salmonella...

• Freddie Mac: It's Impossible for Anyone to Know How Much Worse Housing Market Will Get

  Paul Kiesel | August 06, 2008 9:32 PM | 0 CommentsLos Angeles, CA

  CEO Richard Syron, who ignored advanced warnings of the current housing crisis, said today that with housing prices falling faster than the company expected, and credit quality accordingly...

• Proposed Mortgage Bailout Plan Won’t Work

  Paul Kiesel | April 23, 2008 7:51 PM | 0 CommentsLos Angeles, CA

  Representative Barney Frank and Senator Chris Dodd have called for a housing relief plan that includes up to $300 billion in loan guarantees from the Federal Housing Administration. The money would...

• Risky Mortgages: No Longer Part of Bank of America’s Lending Lexicon

  Paul Kiesel | April 22, 2008 4:46 PM | 0 CommentsLos Angeles, CA

  Bank of America is making plans to overhaul its mortgage product menu, after they complete their acquisition of Countrywide Financial. According to CNNMoney, Bank of America will offer traditional...

• “Risky Mortgages” Will No Longer Be Part of Bank of America’s Lending Lexicon

  Paul Kiesel | April 22, 2008 2:52 PM | 0 CommentsLos Angeles, CA

  Bank of America is making plans to overhaul its mortgage product menu, after they complete their acquisition of Countrywide Financial. According to CNNMoney, Bank of America will offer traditional...

• Kaiser Permanente Criminally Charged with Patient Dumping

  Patrick DeBlase | November 16, 2006 12:00 AM | 0 CommentsLos Angeles, CA

  City files charges against Kaiser for dumping patients on skid row.As previously discussed in here, Los Angeles health care providers have been having a hard time caring for the poor and have even taken to dumping patients on skid row while they are dazed and confused. These patients require treatment, not transportation to a strange and dangerous place. Kaiser along with about ten other area...

• Health Care "Providers" Dump Patients at Skid Row

  Patrick DeBlase | October 26, 2006 12:18 AM | 0 CommentsLos Angeles, CA

  Ambulances and hospitals caught in the act of dumping patients on skid row.In the "Man's Inhumanity to Man" file: It's no secret that state and national health care and insurance programs are in shambles and people's ability to afford such insurance or care is on a downward spiral. The end result is an utter lack of preventative maintenance and people without health insurance getting sicker...

• Workers' Compensation Carriers Reaping Windfall Profits at the Expense of Workers, Employers

  Patrick DeBlase | October 19, 2006 9:42 PM | 0 CommentsLos Angeles, CA

  Despite huge windfall profits at the expense of injured workers, Callifornia's workers' compensation carriers are still shortchanging applicants on accepted injury claims. A class action lawsuit by Kiesel, Boucher & Larson, LLP seeks to restore injured workers their appropriate benefits under the law.In 2004, Governor Schwarzenegger pushed sweeping changes to the workers' compensation laws...