Criminal Law

New York City
$1.5 million settlement after a family of four was killed by an off duty drunken police officer.

City Streets and Jake Aaron Strickland
$1.2 million wrongful death settlement awarded after a husband and father was killed by a convicted drunk driver.

Allstate Insurance Co.
$100,000 insurance settlement after a teenager was killed in a drunk driving accident.

Cipro
The FDA is seeking to add black box warnings of the risk of tendon rupture associated with Cipro and Levaquin. The ruptures can involve Achilles tendon, shoulder, hand, bicep or thumb tendons, and is especially increased in patients older than 60, or people who have received kidney, heart or lung transplants, as well as people on steroid therapy...