Archive for May, 2018
May 23, 2018

In what has emerged as one of the biggest consumer fraud issues of the last decade, federal regulators now want Wells Fargo & Co. to pay up to $1 billion in civil penalties in conjunction with the customer-account scandal that emerged in 2016—likely among the largest fines in financial services history. Last year, the company […]

May 16, 2018

The day that a family welcomes a new baby into the household is usually a joyous one, unless the doctors delivering the baby make a grave mistake. Unfortunately, that’s allegedly what happened to one Florida woman, who had an epidural needle left in her spine. As a result, for more than 14 years, she suffered […]

May 9, 2018

Just in its January opening week, Florida’s new high-speed train resulted in three people being struck, with two dying. Sadly, these tragedies are far from over: On April 8th,  it hit and killed yet another pedestrian, marking the fourth person who has been struck and killed since service began between Fort Lauderdale and West Palm […]

May 2, 2018

Driverless cars appear to, once again, be in trouble: Just days after an Uber Technologies Inc. self-driving car killed a pedestrian in the state of Arizona, Tesla Inc. confirmed that its “Model X” driver died in a gruesome crash in California in late March after relying on Autopilot. The utility vehicle reportedly collided with a […]