Medical Device Manufacturer Caught Red Handed, Patients Still Lose
Bottom-line: Medtronic pays doctors to recommend defective devices. Once those defective devices hurt the patient that patient cannot sue the manufacturer. Medtronic Inc. agreed to
Bottom-line: Medtronic pays doctors to recommend defective devices. Once those defective devices hurt the patient that patient cannot sue the manufacturer. Medtronic Inc. agreed to
Dec. 6 (Bloomberg) — Pfizer Inc. must pay $72.6 million in damages to three women who said they developed breast cancer after taking the company’s
Electronic discovery is a corporate buzzword like “hardball”, “integrated” and “synergy”. Nearly every lawyer has heard the term, however very few understand it. Even fewer
Gotta love it when big business corruption is dragged into the light. State Farm Insurance bought Lloyd Karmeier a seat on the Illinois Supreme Court
Granted it is only a trial court ruling, but normally conservative Louisiana gave us some good news for a change. Judge Clayton Davis ruled that
This is the first article of a series exploring the rise and fall of consumer advocacy. Most people do not bother reading law related news.
Most people would agree that donating an organ to someone in need is a selfless act. There’s no medical upside in giving up one of
Imagine you are a young man taking an over-the-counter drug to help you lose weight. While taking the drug you suffer multiple strokes. Nobody knows why you suffered the strokes, so you accept it as just another medical burden and continue on with your life. Now fast forward four years later and new scientific research comes out showing that the weight loss drug you took probably caused your stroke. Up until this month you could not file a lawsuit against the drug company in New York when the science finally caught up to your injury.
A lawsuit filed in the U.S. Federal Court of Claims this week alleges that the HPV vaccine Gardasil caused the death of a 16 year
In my last post, I wrote about the insurance industry’s incredible profits over the few years. While this is great for the shareholders of these