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Ensuring a safe work environment is, and always has been, everyone’s business. That’s why each year during the last week of April, advocacy groups across the country unite to recognize Workers’ Memorial Week – a time to remember those killed or injured on the job and reflect on the pivotal events that have shaped work…

There are steps that you can take and questions that you can ask to help ease your fears and provide insight on your loved one’s care and needs during this troubling time.

Recalls involving the name-brand heartburn drug Zantac (ranitidine) and similar generic versions culminated April 1 in the FDA asking drug manufacturers to immediately withdraw all prescription and over-the-counter ranitidine products, including generic ones, from the U.S. market due to concerns that they may contain…

1 in 4 girls and 1 in 6 boys will suffer sexual abuse by an adult before they turn 18, according to the National Sexual Violence Resource Center. For many, their abuse is a secret that weighs heavily, well into adulthood, even as abusers walk free and the institutions that enabled the abuse are not held accountable.…

Motley Rice, as co-lead and trial counsel for end-payor plaintiffs, helped reach a $62.5 million class action settlement to resolve claims alleging pharmaceutical drug manufacturers engaged in anticompetitive conduct to delay market entry of generic Loestrin 24 FE.

South Carolina Lawyers Weekly awarded attorney Anne McGinness Kearse its Leadership in Law award for 2020 during a ceremony March 13.

Recognizing the success of the SEC and CFTC whistleblower programs, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau recently proposed that Congress amend the Dodd-Frank Act to add a whistleblower program that rewards whistleblowers who provide information regarding possible consumer protection law violations.

Airbag manufacturer Takata Corp., announced yet another major recall of 10 million potentially defective airbag inflators, the latest in a series that amounted to the largest automotive recall in U.S. history.

Two brothers filed suit today against Z&D Tour, Inc., seeking compensatory and punitive damages related to a Jan. 5, 2020 bus crash on the Pennsylvania Turnpike that severely injured them, along with dozens of other passengers, and claimed five lives.

Each year during the first full week of March, the Federal Trade Commission pauses to recognize National Consumer Protection Week, an occasion that it describes as “a time to help people understand their consumer rights and make well-informed decisions about money.”