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• Heelys Cause Injuries to Kids

  April Armani | June 04, 2007 1:09 PM | 1 CommentDenver, CO

  Heelys - a popular sneaker marketed to kids may lead to injures.Heelys are trendy wheeled sneakers -- a new breed of roller skates, if you will. However fun these sneakers may be, their rise in popularity has also seen a rise in injuries. Even some retail stores have banned them.For example, over a ten week period last summer, 67 children were treated for injuries due to falls while using...

• Employer's Discriminatory Intent

  Staff Writer | August 31, 2006 1:54 PM | 0 CommentsDenver, CO

  If an employer is accused of discriminating in violation of Title VII, a powerful source of adverse testimony can come from ex-employees. The 10th Circuit Court of Appeals has long held that "the testimony of other employees about their treatment by the defendant is relevant to the issue of the employer's discriminatory intent." Spulak v. K Mart Corp., 894 F.2d 1150, 1156 (10th Cir. 1990); see...

• Denver Airport Traffic Snarled Following Accident

  Chrissie Cole | October 29, 2009 10:56 PM | 0 CommentsDenver, CO

  Traffic was snarled Thursday afternoon following a car accident which involved a Denver Police car. The accident happened early afternoon, near the toll plaza and wait area approaching Denver...

• The Fair Act - Is this Colorado's Version of the Sarbanes Oxley Act for Health and Auto Insurers?

  Kyle Bachus | June 10, 2008 5:35 PM | 0 CommentsDenver, CO

  A new Colorado regulation is hanging over the heads of Health and Automobile Insurers-and we call it the "Fair Accountable Insurance Rates Act," also known as the FAIR Act. This new Act claims...

• 50 Year-Old Man Killed After Three Car Collision Near Fairplay

  Margaret Embry | August 02, 2009 2:04 PM | 0 CommentsDenver, CO

  On July 27th, a three car collision on U.S. 285 south of Fairplay, CO killed a 50 year-old man and injured two others, according to The Flume. The crash caused U.S. 285 to be closed for almost...

• Truck Driver Charged With Careless Driving

  Chrissie Cole | February 15, 2009 6:25 PM | 0 CommentsDenver, CO

  A Nebraska man, 34, lost his life on Friday night when his car struck an overturned tractor-trailer in Yuma County. According to Trooper Gilbert Mares of the Colorado State Patrol, a...

• Pharmaceutical Companies Spend Twice as Much on Marketing than on Research and Development

  Linda Snyder | March 11, 2008 7:42 PM | 0 CommentsDenver, CO

  PLOS Medicine, an online medical journal conducted a study using numbers from 2004 and concluded that pharmaceutical companies spent almost twice as much on marketing than on their research and development for their United States markets.As a marketing person, on the one hand I am in awe of these marketing budgets, in excess of $57.5 billion dollars. But as a consumer, I'm a bit dismayed that...

• Gas worker dies in construction accident

  Staff Writer | December 11, 2006 2:32 PM | 0 CommentsDenver, CO

  A contract gas worker was blown out of a fijve-foot-deep hole and killed by head injuries from the accident, says a report on ABC 7 News TheDenverChannel.com. The victim was a man working with Schneider Energy Services, contracted by EnCana Oil and Gas. Apparently the gas line he was working on ruptured and blew him out of the hole, instantly killing him. The federal government's OSHA group is...

• Equal Pay Act Violation

  Staff Writer | August 31, 2006 9:51 AM | 0 CommentsDenver, CO

  An employer accused of an Equal Pay Act violation may be held liable, without a showing of intent. If an employer pays persons of different sex differently and is alleged to have done so on the basis of sex, the employer must prove one of the following: 1) a seniority system; (2) a merit system; (3) a pay system based on quantity or quality of output; (4) a disparity based on any factor other...

• Where have all the dogs gone?

  Staff Writer | February 14, 2006 2:36 PM | 1 CommentDenver, CO

  Aurora began enforcing its restricted-breed ban on Wednesday, February 1. While pit-bull-like dogs were the focus of this action, the ban includes other large, potentially aggressive breeds such as Staffordshire terriers and American bulldogs.With this ban, Aurora joined other cities in Colorado, including Denver and Castle Rock. Other communites are considering either a ban or more...