Ongoing litigation between Coverall North America Inc., a company in the commercial cleaning business, and its franchisees could change the landscape of the franchise business throughout the country.

There are two bills before the Tennessee legislature this term that could impose unfair limits on the rights of injured patients to bring medical malpractice claims against those responsible for harming them.

Nursing home abuse and neglect is a fact of life that many communities are only beginning to realize and investigate fully. Recently, in Murfreesboro, Tenn., Dorothy Butler, a 100-year-old nursing home resident, was rushed to a hospital emergency room suffering from hemorrhaging, pressure sores, bruising and four broken ribs. Adult Protective Services, part of the Tennessee Department of Human Services, investigated the incident.

One of the many headaches associated with Medicare may soon be coming to an end. This past March, a bill was proposed in the House of Representatives that would make the process of reimbursing Medicare for health care expenses paid by a secondary source more efficient.

In an effort to curb drunk driver accidents, the federal government recently took 109 big rig and bus drivers off the roads and initiated enforcement actions against 175 carriers.