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- May
2012
Motor carriers, such as bus or trucking companies, will often close up shop after fines for safety violations and trucking accidents and reopen under a new name in order to avoid enforcement. These companies are referred to as "reincarnated carriers," and they pose a significant danger to motorists.
For example, in 2008, a bus chartered by Vietnamese pilgrims crashed in Sherman, Texas, killing seventeen passengers. The bus company did not have authority, but instead had a pending application with the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, and had reincarnated after being shut down for safety violations.










98,000 patients are killed every year as the result of medical errors. That number is even higher in a 2009
Branch Mine.
and blogs. We hear it in political debates. Unfortunately, it captures a very real phenomenon in many parts of the business world. Corporations are far too willing to break the law and hurt people for the sake of making a profit.
won by Bordas & Bordas' clients voiding arbitration agreements embedded in home purchase contracts. Over 11 families in the Eastern Panhandle were victimized when homebuilder Richmond American Homes and MDC, Inc. installed faulty or phony radon removal systems in their home. After the Skinner Firm of Charles Town, W.Va., engaged Bordas & Bordas to assist in the case, the families sued Richmond/MDC for
efforts to collect on an over $5,000,000.00 judgment against Ohio Power Company arising out of a hydrogen gas explosion at the Muskingum River Power Plant. The article, here [

