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The Radium Girls' saga holds an important place in the history of the fields of health physics, women's rights, and the labor rights movement. The right of individual workers to sue for damages from corporations due to labor abuse was established, labor safety standards like the baseline called provable suffering were created.
Grace Fryer (14 March 1899 – 27 October 1933) [1] was an American dial painter and Radium Girl, [2] who sued U.S. Radium after suffering radium poisoning while employed painting watch faces. [3] Subsequently, joined by fellow workers Quinta McDonald, Albina Larice, Edna Hussman, and Katherine Schaub, Fryer brought a suit labelled in the media ...
This led to significant health problems and deaths among the company's workforce. The workers eventually sued Radium Dial Company and received financial compensation for their health problems, though the Radium Dial Company continuously appealed so this process took years and many workers had already died of their injuries. [3]
American gymnast Kara Welsh and Olympian Rebecca Cheptegei of Uganda were killed days apart by their intimate partners, columnist Nancy Armour writes
Legal papers found in the jewelry box led them to the home of 81-year-old Lu Thi Harris, who was found smothered to death in her bedroom. He was convicted of killing two elderly women, including ...
The family of Amber Thurman, the 28-year-old Georgia woman who died in 2022 after “preventable” delays in abortion care under the state’s restrictive law, plans to bring a medical ...
Leavell-Keaton's husband John DeBlase was also sentenced to death. She is the first woman sentenced to death in Mobile County. Christie Michelle Scott [9] In August 2008, a blaze broke out at the home of Christie Michelle Scott in Russellville, Alabama, killing her six-year-old son, Mason. Scott had purchased a $100,000 life insurance policy on ...
Lawsuits filed in L.A. Superior Court against TikTok allege two young girls died after watching videos on the app that encouraged self-strangulation. TikTok is sued over deaths of two young girls ...