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The article discusses a court case wherein the defendant, the United States Postal Service (USPS), has filed a motion for summary judgment against the complaint of the plaintiff for negligence coming out of alleged hearing injuries resulting from an alarm on USPS vending machine. The court determined that the motion must apply the state law of Oregon where the alleged civil wrong occurred. The motion for summary judgment was granted, holding that the USPS acted reasonably in using the alarm.

The article focuses on the negligent homicide trial of James Lomma regarding the deaths of two construction workers due to the collapse of a Kodiak tower crane owned by Lomma's construction equipment rental firm at a building site in Manhattan, New York, in 2008. Lomma's attorneys are scheduled to present several forensic engineers in April 2012 to testify that the structural failure of the crane was not a result of negligence.

The article looks at two criminal trials of construction industry executives. The former chief executive officer of the construction firm Louis Berger Group Derish Wolff was granted a continuance at his November 2011 arraignment on federal fraud charges regarding alleged overinflation of costs of federal construction contracts. The negligent homicide and manslaughter trial of New York Crane company executive James F. Lomma regarding a 2008 crane collapse was adjourned until February 2012.

The article reports on the civil lawsuit filed by Massachusetts Attorney General Thomas F. Reilly against 15 firms for negligence in management, design, construction and oversight Central Artery/Tunnel project in Boston in 2006. The suit was triggered by tunnel plenum collapse that killed a motorist on July 10, 2006. The lawsuit is under a six-year-statute of limitations for defective construction.

Cites a lawsuit filed by an employee in Texas who was sexually assaulted and robbed during regular business hours claiming negligence on the part of her employer. Contention of the complainant; Argument of the defendant; Opinion of the court.

Revolving doors throughout Japan have stopped turning since a six-year-old boy was crushed on March 26. Building owners have shut automated and manual doors, waiting for a new government panel to produce safety recommendations. Tokyo's police department is mulling charges of criminal negligence against the building owner and the door manufacturer. The incident occurred when the boy and his mother were entering the 54-story Mori Tower, the centerpiece of the Roppongi Hills redevelopment project.