Before its civil war began in 2011, Syria had a population of 23 million people. In the ensuing four years, 11 million Syrians have died or fled their homes, and nearly four million of Syria’s citizens fled the country altogether, many now seeking refuge in Europe. 11 million people. But […]
Category: Mass Torts
I have never been to Hawaii. But as I understand it, “aloha” is used to say hello and goodbye. And starting soon, aloha will mean goodbye to cigarettes if you are under the age of 21, as last week Hawaii became the first state in the nation to ban smoking […]
One of our own, Brenda S. Fulmer has contributed a substantial chapter titled “Mass Torts: The Bird’s-Eye View” to the recently released book “Anatomy of a Personal Injury Lawsuit, 4th Edition” which is a comprehensive and up-to-date resource for practicing plaintiffs’ attorneys and their staffs. The book is full of […]
Concerns are growing faster than the grass that used to cover school athletic fields across the country. That’s because more than 10,000 fields now comprise artificial turf mixed with “crumb rubber” – vulcanized tires spread across swaths of land on which baseball, football, lacrosse, soccer, softball and other sports are […]
Takata airbags have been a ticking time bomb and we are only now finding out they have been that way for longer than first suspected. What we know for certain is, there have been four deaths and more than 30 injuries linked to the defective airbags manufactured by the Japanese […]
Earlier this week, a Missouri appeals court issued an opinion that will hopefully have a significant impact on ongoing litigation against the manufacturers of metoclopramide, the generic version of Reglan. In this latest case, the appeals court found that plaintiffs Franzman and Niceley, both of whom suffered tardive dyskinesia after […]
A lot can be misconstrued in the silent world of the Internet. While online technology has changed the communications paradigm, it also has resulted in bad information, embarrassing typos, factual errors and malfeasance. Fake Web sites, botched emails, rambling blogs and photo abuse appear in cyberspace every day. Most of […]
The Food and Drug Administration is considering some very important changes to its internal rules that would help to eliminate a loophole in accountability for defective drugs. Under current law, only the brand name manufacturer is permitted to change the warning label for a particular drug. After a drug is […]
How do you obtain information in a lawsuit in 2014? The practice of EDiscovery involves “electronically stored information” (ESI). Ultimately, whether the data comes in an image of the document or raw data, it will be reduced to a coalescent image such as a PDF, a TIFF, or as a […]
Medical devices are big business in America. They are not quite as big a business in Europe and other countries, but manufacturers can still sell a $400 hip implant for several thousands of dollars. Joint replacements have increased significantly between 1997 and 2011. As we baby boomers continue to age […]
