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Month: April 2013

Who pays for injuries sustained by college athletes?

Posted on April 5, 2013 by BMJ

On Sunday, March 31st, the US college basketball world was shocked when Louisville’s Kevin Ware suffered a very serious compound fracture of his right tibia during play in the NCAA college basketball tournament.  The injury was gruesome and left many of the players standing around on the court shocked and woozy as they tried to […]

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A small first step toward meaningful gun control

Posted on April 4, 2013 by

The Governor of Connecticut has signed a  gun-control bill that includes a strengthened assault weapons ban. The pens he used to sign the bill were distributed to parents of children massacred at Newtown in December. In signing the Governor note that “When 92 percent of Americans agree that every gun sale should be subject to a […]

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