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While there are international aviation food safety guidelines, as detailed in the Worldwide Food Safety Guidelines for Airline Catering guide, food can be mishandled at any time and cause dangerous, if not deadly, consequences.

On July 12, 2012, the Mesothelioma Foundation presented Dr. Sugarbaker with the Pioneer Award at the Celebration of Hope Reception in Washington, D.C., to honor his lifetime of work in mesothelioma research and treatment development.

On July 23, 2012, a jury awarded a Bakersfield, Calif., couple $5.5 million in a case against C.R. Bard Medical, the manufacturer of the Avaulta Mesh pelvic mesh implant. The plaintiffs alleged that C.R. Bard knew that the mesh was unsafe but decided to continue selling it.

It was a close call on Tuesday afternoon, July 31, 2012, when two outbound commuter jets came within seconds of a midair collision with another flight coming in for a landing at Ronald Reagan National Airport in Washington, D.C.

In a recent article in The Wall Street Journal, Motley Rice securities attorney and former Assistant U.S. Attorney Mark Labaton, discusses reasons why the CEO of the collapsed brokerage firm Peregrine Financial Group Inc. may have decided to waive a preliminary hearing in his criminal case.

Motley Rice founding member Joe Rice was a guest speaker at Opal Financial Group's annual Public Funds Summit.

Anne Kearse spoke at the Cutting Edge Issues in Asbestos Litigation Conference.

Motley Rice attorney Jonathan Orent will be speaking at a Rhode Island Bar Association seminar entitled "Environmental Health and Chemical Exposures: Law and Science."

Attorney Fidelma Fitzpatrick will be speaking on Friday, April 23, 2010 at a Symposium on "Lead Poisoning and the Law" at Rutgers University.

On March 24, 2015, Germanwings Flight 4U 9525 crashed approximately 52 minutes after takeoff near the remote towns of Barcelonnette and Digne-les-Bains in the French Alps.