Two Chicago mothers have filed a lawsuit against the owners of their apartment complex after a bottle of acid was dumped onto their two children by another child in the complex. The women claim in their lawsuit that the apartment owners were negligent in leaving the drain cleaner – which was 93 percent sulfuric acid – out for the children to get into. The 13-year-old boy who dumped the acid on the other kids has been charged with heinous battery and held on a delinquency petition.

A California bread company has issued a recall of 5,000 to 10,000 loaves of bread because of an undeclared allergen in the bread. Milton’s Baking Company said their 24 oz. packages of multi-grain bread contains milk and can cause “serious and life-threatening health risk to milk-allergic individuals.” No serious injuries have yet been reported involving the recalled bread.

A Brownsville, Texas, woman has reached a $3.2 million settlement in a lawsuit she filed over the death of her husband in an explosion in 2006. The woman’s husband was filling up a tanker truck at a RTW Properties L.P. terminal when the truck exploded, killing him. The wife claimed RTW Properties was negligent in providing proper safety measures at the terminal which could have prevented her husband’s death.

Officials for the F.D.A. are asking Congress for more power to enforce rules and hold companies accountable, especially regarding imported food. The statements, made by F.D.A. Margaret Hamburg in a recent interview, came on the heels of a salmonella outbreak that affected some 1,300 and resulted in a recall of 500 million eggs. Hamburg said currently the F.D.A. is limited to only reactive measures regarding food regulation and needs more power to take “preventative approaches.” No deaths have been reported related to the current salmonella outbreak

A Maryland man has filed a lawsuit against Best Buy’s Geek Squad after repairs they made to his computer allegedly caused it to shock him. According to the lawsuit, after Geek Squad fixed the man’s computer, it gave him a violent shock when he plugged in his printer. The man claims to have suffered “two injured arms, dislocated shoulders, and a need for physical therapy.” He is seeking $450,000 in damages.

Officers in the Seattle Police Department have been accused in a lawsuit of punching a disabled young man during a jaywalking stop in June 2009. According to the lawsuit, the young was stopped for jaywalking by a Seattle PD officer. The suit claims that when the young man could not produce ID, the officer began punching him. The young man suffered a broken nose and a concussions, the lawsuit claims and was released shortly after his arrest.

A lawsuit has been filed against a children’s learning center in Florida over the death of a 2-year-old girl who was left in one of the daycare center’s vans. The lawsuit claims the owners of the learning center were “negligent in the death of the toddler.” Lawyers for the plaintiffs said there were many things the center could have done to avoid the tragedy. The lawsuit is seeking unspecified damages.

A lawsuit has been filed over the death of a Dolton, Ill., teenager who was hit by a car during a police chase last August. The suit claims that Cook County officers were “recklessly” pursuing a suspect through a Dolton neighborhood at dangerously high speeds without proper authorization. KThe boy was riding his bike in the neighborhood when he was hit by the car, which was traveling at around 70 mph. The suit is seeking unspecified damages from the Cook County Sheriff’s Department and the Dolton Police Department

A former employee at the Kleen Energy power plant in New Jersey has filed a lawsuit against the plant owners over injuries he sustained during a gas blowout in February. The employee claims in his lawsuit that he and other workers should not have been required to be on site during a dangerous procedure known as a “gas blow.” The explosion killed six workers and the plaintiff suffered a serious head injury and permanent brain damage. An OSHA investigation found the conditions during the gas ventilation were “deadly” and the owners committed numerous safety violations

The F.D.A. is considering the rare move of revoking their approval of the breast cancer drug Avastin because the benefits of the drug may not outweigh the risks. Medical experts made a recommendation to the F.D.A. earlier this year condemning the drug due to its potential toxic side effects and extremely high cost. Recent studies show Avastin does not prolong a users’ life for any considerable amount of time. Experts say Avastin has drastic side effects, including “blood clots, bleeding, and heart failure.”