A while back I blogged about “mode of operation,” the legal doctrine used in negligence cases, primarily slip and falls, against businesses whose “method of doing business create an inherent risk of injury” to its patrons. Put another way, there are some businesses who, by the very nature of the way they are set up,
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A Danger Awaits by Suspending Regulations Concerning Hours of Service for Truck Drivers
By Jeffrey A. Krawitz on
Posted in Personal Injury
The new hours of service rules took effect in July, 2013. Recently, a Senate Committee has moved to suspend, for one year, the Federal Rule that truck drivers who work the maximum of 70 hours in a week take a 34 hour break during the week which includes two consecutive nights off. Under this scheme,…