If this year is anything like last, baby boomers and older Americans should be on guard this holiday season. Instances of financial abuse and fraud against the elderly increased from November 2010 to January 2011, according to a recent report from MetLife, which found overall investment fraud targeted towards older Americans is on the rise. ...

By JIM DANKO A worker died Dec. 20 in an accident at a business near Gainesville, Ga., following an explosion, according to the Gainesville Times. The accident happened as a result of a malfunctioning piece of equipment used to clean filters at MyCelx Technologies Corp., the newspaper reported. A Gainesville fire official told the newspaper ...

Fatal auto accidents kill more than 92 people every day across America. The statistics are just as startling in many states. In 2009, auto accidents resulted in the deaths of 1,256 people in Pennsylvania, 1,021 in Ohio and 356 in West Virginia. Those figures are less than they were in 2005. But during the same ...

The parents of a Maryland teen who died earlier this year during wisdom tooth surgery have sued the oral surgeon and the anesthetist for medical malpractice. Jenny Olenick, a 17-year-old junior at Marriotts Ridge High School in Woodstock, Md., died in April from complications during the outpatient procedure performed on 5 million Americans each year. ...