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An Annual Summer Concern in Ohio: Motorcycle Safety and Awareness

Although today marks the last day of the National Motorcycle Safety Awareness Month campaign, the Ohio Highway Patrol is urging all motorists to keep the initiative’s themes and safety reminders centrally in mind, especially with the summer months approaching. Summer brings optimal driving conditions for motorcyclists, and there is no other time of the…

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Regulators: FMCSA Rating System Reduces Commercial Truck Crashes

Concerned with reducing the number and severity of commercial truck accidents, and seeking to more closely regulate truckers generally, Congress enacted the Motor Carrier Act of 1980 to deregulate the trucking industry. Pursuant to new authority under that law, the Department of Transportation (“DOT”) began compiling safety records for carriers and individual drivers, as…

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Ohio a Top-10 State for Costs Related to Crash-Related Deaths

Everyone knows that the human costs associated with the many thousands of car accidents and other motor vehicle crashes occurring across the country each year are truly tragic. Economically, too, the numbers are staggering, as revealed by statistics released recently by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (“CDC”). In 2005, the most recent…

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Truck Accidents Focus of National Safety Meeting

A tragic truck accident that occurred in 2009 on an interstate highway in Oklahoma is serving as a strong catalyst to promote frank and wide-ranging discussions among safety advocates and regulators and the truck industry regarding industry rules and recent recommendations. That accident was truly horrific, with 10 people dying after an overly fatigued…

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OSHA’S Single-Minded Summertime Focus: Construction Safety

Every year during summer, attention turns nationally toward recurring seasonal pastimes and pursuits: vacation, sports, cook outs, gardening and other outside activities. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (“OSHA”) and other worker safety groups are a bit tunnel-visioned when it comes to what most garners their attention over the same period. Summer is the…

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OSHA Fines OH Bridge Painting Company for Fall, Scaffold Hazards

A company’s enrollment in OSHA’s Severe Violator Enforcement Program is about as far from a badge of honor as can possibly be envisioned. APBN Inc., a bridge painting company from Campbell, Ohio, is a new member of the club, with OSHA finding a number of material errors and omissions related to the company’s supervision…

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Kids, Car Accidents, Child Restraint Systems: The Yale Study

Findings from the Yale School of Medicine that will be presented at the upcoming Pediatric Academic Societies meeting in Denver might reasonably be expected to focus on the rather erudite and clinically centered information that customarily features at such peer gatherings. Instead, they will focus on infants and young children wriggling about in the…

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Widespread Focus on Ohio’s Workers’ Compensation Program

Recent maneuvering and rhetoric by Ohio Gov. John Kasich and others concerning the state’s workers’ compensation system is merely indicative of the fact that the state’s Bureau of Workers’ Compensation (“BWC”) is seldom far from the minds of politicians, business leaders, labor organizers and a host of other interested parties. Kasich recently proposed a…

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Teen DUI Conviction During Prom: A Pricey Proposition

Teens, proms, drinking and car accidents. The latter two do not, of course, automatically attach to what is the most magical night of the year for many high school students, but they certainly rank high on the list of parental concerns regarding that rite of teen passage Motor vehicle insurers also have more than…

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