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The FDA announced that it is planning to help American’s reduce their sodium intake by regulating the salt in processed foods. The effort culminates after a long term campaign by health organizations such as the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) and the Institute of Medicine (IOM), one […]

AstraZeneca has agreed to pay fines totaling $520 million in settlement of charges made by the Food & Drug Administration (FDA) that AstraZeneca illegally marketed Seroquel; a prescription drug used for the treatment of schizophrenia. Although Seroquel had not been approved by the FDA, AstraZeneca marketed and continued to market […]

Let me start with a disclosure to be fair: I am always suspect of the insurance industry. I worked in the insurance industry for many years and, although there are very good people there, the companies often stand for something I do not like. I am in favor of every […]

A recent study on popular “health food” veggie burgers brought about an alarming conclusion: these healthy burgers contain a very unhealthy toxin, hexane. A recent study by the Cornucopia Institute found that most non-organic veggie burgers currently on the market are made with the chemical hexane, an EPA-registered air pollutant […]

Long term use of denture cream products such as Poligrip and Fixodent may be associated with paralysis, numbness, tingling, muscle weakness, and other neurological issues, according to recent reports by manufacturer GlaxoSmithKline. Thirty-four million Americans rely on dentures to replace their missing teeth and some wearers have had difficulty with […]

West Palm Beach, Fl – (April 14, 2010) – South Florida law firm Searcy Denney Scarola Barnhart & Shipley PA is pleased to announce that Christian Searcy has recently been inducted  into the  International Academy of Trial Lawyers (IATL) as president. The announcement took place at the IATL’s annual meeting in Phoenix, […]

On April 14, 2010, SDSBS attorneys Bill Norton, Brian Denney and Hardee Bass won a $21 million verdict against Big Tobacco for their clients in Escambia County Florida for the wrongful death of Janie Mae Clay.  The jury awarded $3.4 million for compensatory damages to the statutory survivors, Teddy Clay, […]

The public school system is a valuable part of our country’s foundation and it is failing. The good news is YOU can help mend the fiber that has propelled this nation to success for two hundred years. Public schools are not failing because they are a bad system or because […]

It seems clear that it is not clear… or is it the things we know do not include the unknowns…or is it the things we don’t know are known unknowns? In any event, based on comments I have seen in blogs, one thing is clear: the public does not understand […]

Multidistrict litigation proceedings against Matrixx Initiatives, Inc., the manufacturer of the over-the-counter cold product Zicam, are heating up. This is a process known as multidistrict litigation (or an MDL) and is often utilized in mass tort cases where a number of claimants have been injured in a similar fashion by […]