Imagine you are in an automobile accident that was not your fault. Tragically, you are severely injured. Imagine you will require at least 6 to 8 months of surgeries and intensive rehabilitation before you have any hope of returning to work. Imagine that your injuries are permanent; the doctors can […]
Category: Mass Torts
The Food & Drug Administration issued a Notice and Recommended Action letter to all denture adhesive manufacturers on February 23, 2011. A simple product like denture cream. Easy to use. Nothing complicated about denture cream, right? Wrong and it should not have been of any surprise to denture cream manufacturers […]
What if you were prescribed a medicine that actually made your already difficult illness worse? That is precisely what has happened to hundreds of patients suffering from osteoporosis, osteopenia, and other bone loss conditions. Patients who took a class of drug known as “bisphosphonates” have suffered severe bone fractures, such […]
Fosamax is the oldest, most prescribed and most studied of the bisphosphonate drugs (BPs) used to treatment “porous bone” or osteoporosis. The other bisphosphonate drugs used to treat osteoporosis include Fosamax Plus D, Actonel, Actonel with Calcium, Atelvia, Boniva and Reclast. Osteoporosis is a bone weakening condition that affects almost […]
Hot coffee, McDonalds and tort reform have become strange bed-fellows since a verdict was delivered against the McDonalds Corporation by a jury; for severe injuries to 79 year old Stella Liebeck, caused by spilled coffee. To people who believe Corporate America needs protecting, the McDonalds coffee case became a poster […]
Yesterday, the administrator of the 20 Billion dollar Gulf Oil Spill Claims Fund, Ken Feinberg, was attending town hall meetings in Fort Walton Beach, Florida and will be addressing certain affected industries in Tampa, Florida. He noted that over 70,000 people have filed for “quick claims” with the fund, an […]
When my 47-year old friend from my college days had to have her hip replaced last year, because of wear and tear on the joint, I doubt very much that anyone said to her, “I’ve got some good news and some bad news. The good news is the state-of-the-art in […]
The “BP Fund Czar”, Kenneth Feinberg, says his staff has been interviewing officials at “government regulatory agencies” to determine how severe the impact of the largest oil spill in the history of the United States will actually be from a long term perspective. There are at least a couple of […]
Big Tobacco receives two pieces of news that, well, is going to really not make for a merry Christmas this year. Clearly a classic of “beware what you wish for my friend, for surely you shall receive it!” Every time a jury finds against Big Tobacco, their talking heads come […]
High levels of mercury continue to be found in canned tuna and pose health threats to pregnant women and children. Consumer Reports reported that new tests of 42 samples of tuna from cans and pouches confirmed that white albacore tuna contained much more mercury than light tuna. “If a woman […]
