Nearly 37 million Americans visit hospital emergency rooms each year for treatment of injuries attributed to accidents. Of these, 147,000 persons die from their injuries, making accidents the fifth leading cause of death in the United States. For...

Biblical laws of liability for accidents can be found in *Exodus 21:28–36 and 22:4–8. The *rabbis classified four types of injury: i) that caused in the course of normal activity, ii) that caused by a stationary thing, iii) that caused on...

A ridiculous accident has often been the making of many. (Roman) Accidents will happen. (American) Accidents will happen even in the best regulated families....

An accident is a specific, identifiable, unexpected, unusual and unintended external event which occurs in a particular time and place, without apparent cause but with marked effects. It implies a generally negative probabilistic outcome which may have...

ACCIDENTS More testing needed for older drivers Saturday, July 19, 2003 Like many, I am deeply troubled by the news out of Santa Monica, Calif., regarding an 86-year-old man who apparently lost control of his car and mowed down dozens of...

They tell the son, who tells his friends at school, that the father's death was an accident, that the rifle went off while he was cleaning it. I'm not sure why he couldn't wait. We understand the ones who...

A list of some accidents at Japanese nuclear reactors:_ July 16, 2007: A powerful earthquake rips into Japan's northwest coast, killing at least eight people and causing a series of malfunctions at the Kashiwazaki Kariwa nuclear power plant, including radioactive water spills, burst pipes and...

A Pahrump teen who survived a fiery dirt bike crash six years ago recently was granted the state's largest individual personal injury verdict. Joseph Provenza , now 19, received third-degree burns over 90 percent of his body after he crashed his dirt bike in the...