The enduring legal legacy of the Westray Mine disaster is the Bill C-45 amendment to the Criminal Code that established the new crime of Occupational Health and Safety (“OHS”) criminal negligence for individuals and...more
Michael Henderson, a young worker employed by Springhill Construction Ltd. died while working at a wastewater treatment and pumping plant in Fredericton, New Brunswick, in 2018. The City of Fredericton contracted with...more
The case has rocked the medical profession. On March 25, 2022, a Tennessee jury found a former Vanderbilt University Medical Center nurse guilty of criminally negligent homicide and negligent abuse of an impaired adult....more
Bayer bid to end Roundup suits draws U.S. Supreme Court inquiry - Bloomberg – December 13 - The U.S. Supreme Court signaled interest in Bayer AG’s bid to stop thousands of lawsuits claiming that its top-selling...more
The Clean Water Act (CWA) provides various means of enforcement against violators of its permitting programs, including sanctions for those guilty of criminal negligence. The chief programs in this regard are the National...more
The United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) is proposing in a December 14th Federal Register Notice a regulation to “clarify” certain requirements for state or tribal programs approved pursuant to Clean Water...more
The Situation: Following the deaths of eight miners at Queensland coal mines in the past two years, the Queensland Labor government has been under mounting pressure from the Construction, Forestry, Maritime, Mining and Energy...more
On May 12, Attorney General (AG) Josh Shapiro announced that the office’s Care-Dependent Neglect Team, which is part of the Medicaid Fraud Control unit, has launched investigations on potential cases of criminal neglect in...more
Releasing an image of a pickup truck closely resembling I.M. Steelin’s, Texas Parks and Wildlife investigators believe a red stag deer was shot by I.M. Steelin over the Thanksgiving weekend. The exotic, tame, breeding, red...more
In a first for the province of Ontario, on January 11, 2016, a construction project manager charged and convicted under the Bill C-45 amendments to the Criminal Code was sentenced to serve time in prison for criminal...more
Recently we’ve discussed how the foreseeability of the potential harm caused by a person’s actions can make them liable for negligence. Recent horrific events in Garland and Waco, Texas bring up a related question: can a...more