A report released by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police determined that the death of a Polish man in a Vancouver airport was due to unnecessary police response.

The man arrived from Poland in October of 2007. On arrival, he was parted from his mother, who is was traveling with at the time, and found himself in a Vancouver terminal without the ability to speak English or find anyone who could help him translate his worries. After 10 hours working through customs officials, the man realized that he was without any help in the international terminal. He began to throw furniture after not getting any assistance.

Police arrived expecting a routine call of a drunken man causing trouble. Before sufficiently trying to dissuade the man from further destructive actions, one of the officers fired his taser. Video footage reveals that the current in the device was fired through the man five times, several being after he had collapsed to the ground.

Although acquitted from criminal charges, the police involved were not free of blame in the incident.

After meeting with Gulf of Mexico oil rig explosion victims, President Obama was pressured from legislators to campaign harder against caps that protect BP from paying full compensatory funds for injuries and damages.

One major piece of legislation that President Obama was pressed to reconsider was the 1920 Death on the High Seas Act. That particular law was passed to protect off-shore vessels from liability. According to the law, compensatory liability for wrongful death suits is markedly lighter for ships found at least three miles from the shoreline.

The families of the victims expressed their desire to see justice meted out while, more importantly, seeing that an accident of this proportion and tragic consequence would not happen again. Both relatives and legislators noted that they were worried about fair treatment due to the circumstances of long-dated laws that were passed prior to the rise of off-shore drilling practices.

The Obama administration has repeatedly claimed that they will do their best to ensure that the proper consequences were taken against the parties at blame.

The largest contractor for the U.S. military in Iraq, KBR Inc., has lost a $24.1 million bonus removed from their paycheck following court proceedings that charges the company with negligence leading to a wrongful death.

The company was acquitted of criminal charges filed against them by the deceased’s family, but the case was appealed to the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia.

According to the plaintiff, the electric pump in a shower that was used by the Special Forces member was not properly grounded. When the current came into the open, the soldier was electrocuted and killed. This happened on January 2, 2008. The Pentagon’s inspector general released a report on July 27, 2009, that firmly stated death was the culmination of multiple failures.

The Army has ordered more services from the company, adding an order to the amount of roughly $568 million to the $35.7 billion already spent on the company.