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Medical MalpracticeA 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 […]
Category: Product Defect
“We are reformed and vow never to be evil, devious, conspiratorial, deceitful, designing, tricky, conniving, underhanded or murderous ever again!” So goes the paraphrased prostrations of lawyer Jeff Furr, representing one of the most diabolical industries that has ever existed in America – Big Tobacco. Mr. Furr was trying to […]
How the proposed revisions to the federal rules might impact corporate conduct? We are hearing unpleasant news about the way…
Why is GM in so much trouble? Is it just about bad switches or improperly operating air bags; recalls of millions of vehicles? Isn’t about more than that? Isn’t it really about corporate attitude, corporate responsibility and corporate citizenship? This is not the first time that corporate America has placed […]
GM is in a fix. The National Highway Transportation Safety Administration has ordered them to respond to 107 questions concerning defects in GM cars and trucks. Although GM’s CEO promised transparency in the investigation and provided over 21,000, Congressional leaders believe they are still holding back. That may well be […]
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 […]
When Big Tobacco was manufacturing cigarettes, what did they know and when did they know it? Their own documents are very revealing of an industry that dealt in high profits, fueled by deceit, distortion, misrepresentation and invention. The cigarette industry is one in which their own documents illustrate a collection […]
While the Ford Motor Company seems to be enjoying record stockholder interest the company has just announced it is recalling 33,000 of its 2013 C-Max model automobiles. According to a report in The Washington Post, the problem is that occupants may be subjected to more than an acceptable risk of traumatic head injury in a crash.
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 […]
Many attorneys approach handling electronic discovery in exactly the same way they have handled paper discovery in the past. The Rules of Civil Procedure in Florida apply the same to paper and digital as far as discoverability and other issues, the mechanics of production have changed and lawyers must pay […]
