The government is more than quadrupling monthly payments to some veterans suffering brain injuries, as the number of such war wounds mounts in Iraq and Afghanistan.

The new compensation is based on the assessment that even some troops who have the mildest form of traumatic brain injury could end up with chronic headaches, memory loss, anxiety or other symptoms that will hurt their chances of getting a job or job advancement -- thus reducing their lifetime earnings by 40 percent.

In a regulation announced Tuesday by the Department of Veterans Affairs, officials changed how they ...

In the first runway incursion incident, a commuter jet narrowly missed a general aviation aircraft during a nighttime landing at Fresno Yosemite International Airport in California.

In the second runway-incursion incident, a pilot of a general aviation aircraft landed on a closed runway at Reading Regional Airport/Carl A. Spaatz Field in Reading, Pennsylvania.

In the aircraft separation incident, two commercial jets came within 1 minute of lateral separation over the Atlantic Ocean in a non-radar environment where 15 minutes of lateral separation is required.

Romanucci & ...

Kudos to the Public Justice Foundation’s “Access to Justice Campaign,” which has just won a major victory against AT&T in the Washington State Supreme Court – defeating federal preemption, mandatory arbitration, a class action ban, and a secrecy provision for consumers being denied their day in court. Founding Partner Antonio M. Romanucci is a Board member of Public Justice.

In McKee v. AT&T, the state's high court rejected AT&T's effort to nullify state consumer protection laws through a contract that banned class-action litigation and required individual mandatory ...