- Brett Emison | June 29, 2012 10:14 AM |
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Medical Malpractice
Check out these legal, safety, and other news headlines from around the Internet that caught my attention this week:
The Advocate Speaks: What's On My IPad [Martha at...
- Brett Emison | June 28, 2012 10:24 AM |
Category:
Medical Malpractice
Reports are coming in that the Supreme Court led by Chief Justice John Roberts upheld the Affordable Healthcare Act, commonly referred to as Obamacare. Reports suggest the individual mandate was...
- Brett Emison | June 26, 2012 10:19 AM |
Category:
Medical Malpractice
The Supreme Court will decide the fate of the Affordable Healthcare Act (also known as Obamacare) on Thursday. In advance of the Court's decision, there are many different predictions...
- Brett Emison | June 25, 2012 10:30 AM |
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Wrongful Death
What do trial lawyers, defense attorneys, prosecutors, AARP, the League of Women Voters, the Committee for Economic Development, and local Chambers of Commerce all agree on? We agree that we...
- Brett Emison | June 22, 2012 12:06 AM |
Category:
Medical Malpractice
Check out these headlines from around the Internet that caught my attention this week:
Sleeping with the Jury [Mary-Rose Papandrea at Concurring Opinions]
Has the Hollywood bar...
- Brett Emison | June 21, 2012 10:15 AM |
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Defective & Dangerous Products
Bo Shi, the son of one of our clients, is riding a bicycle across the country this summer to raise money for the Christopher & Dana Reeve Foundation to help find a cure for spinal cord...
- Brett Emison | June 20, 2012 11:14 AM |
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FDA & Prescription Drugs
I have written before about how the diabetes drug Actos doubles the risk of bladder cancer. Avandia has been linked to heart attack risks. Now, new reports suggest that both Actos and its...
- Brett Emison | June 19, 2012 10:17 AM |
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Defective & Dangerous Products
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has upgraded its investigation of more than 5 million Jeep SUVs with fuel tanks located behind the rear axle (aft-of-axle fuel tanks)...
- Brett Emison | June 18, 2012 10:41 AM |
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Defective & Dangerous Products
In 2009, General Motors received a $50 billion “bailout” in which the “Old” GM was liquidated and its best assets were sold to the U.S. Treasury Department as the...
- Brett Emison | June 15, 2012 10:57 AM |
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Defective & Dangerous Products
Check out these headlines from around the Internet that caught my attention this week:
The Practice: Creating Time [Brian Tannebaum at Above The Law]
WWDC 2012 - The (Near)...
- Brett Emison | June 14, 2012 10:49 AM |
Category:
Tractor-Trailer Accidents
Two different news stories this week deal with the trucking industry and commercial trucking safety.
The first story comes from USA Today and has to do with onboard data recorders - black...
- Brett Emison | June 13, 2012 10:12 AM |
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Automobile Accidents
Florida Defense Lawyers want your Facebook information. They want your Facebook information (and your friends) so bad that two defense lawyers wrote an article for the Florida Defense Lawyer...
- Brett Emison | June 12, 2012 10:31 AM |
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FDA & Prescription Drugs
Johnson & Johnson - the same company that brought you no more tears - has set aside an additional $600 million in reserves for a potential settlement over allegations the company paid...
- Brett Emison | June 11, 2012 10:11 AM |
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Head & Brain Injuries
There has been much discussion about the concussion problems in football - most recently a lawsuit by thousands of NFL football players alleging the League hid concussion dangers.
But most...
- Brett Emison | June 08, 2012 10:33 AM |
Category:
Head & Brain Injuries
Legal, safety and other headlines from around the Internet that caught my attention this week:
Size Matters: A New Way To Outsource [Valerie Katz at Above the Law]
High Fructose...
- Brett Emison | June 06, 2012 11:06 AM |
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Defective & Dangerous Products
The National Law Journal reported last week that the federal judge overseeing the first trials on Toyota's sudden acceleration problem had tentatively issued a sanction against Toyota after...
- Brett Emison | June 06, 2012 10:22 AM |
Category:
Automobile Accidents
The Honorable William Ray Price, Jr., currently the longest serving judge on the Missouri Supreme Court announced his retirement this week. In his resignation letter, Judge Price recounted his...
- Brett Emison | June 05, 2012 11:06 AM |
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FDA & Prescription Drugs
There have been nearly 12,000 cases filed for injuries from the birth control pill Yaz, and Bayer has begun settling hundreds of these cases. So far, Bayer has settled 651 cases for a total of...
- Brett Emison | June 04, 2012 8:58 AM |
Category:
FDA & Prescription Drugs
Canadian researchers examined the records of more than 115,000 patients treated with the Actos diabetes drug between 1988 and 2009 and confirmed that taking Takeda Pharmaceutical's diabetes...
- Brett Emison | June 01, 2012 11:50 AM |
Category:
FDA & Prescription Drugs
Legal, safety, and other news from around the Internet that caught my attention this week:
Big Law, Please Meet SmallLaw [Eric Turkewitz at New York Personal Injury Law Blog and Above...