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Popular Birth Control Pill Draw Fire from Critics

Posted on September 28, 2009
Two of the nation?s top-selling birth control pills may increase the risk of blood clots, strokes and other health problems, some critics charge. According to lawsuits brought against pharmaceutical giant Bayer, the company failed to properly disclose risks associated with the oral contraceptives Yaz and Yasmin...

Report: FDA Approved Device Under Political Pressure

Posted on September 28, 2009
The Food and Drug Administration approved a controversial knee-surgery device after receiving pressure from lawmakers and lobbyists, the Washington Post reports. According to a report released last week by the FDA, regulators seem to have buckled under political pressure from four New Jersey lawmakers with financial ties to ReGen Biologics...

Near-Record Damages Awarded in Texas Med-Mal Case

Posted on September 28, 2009
A Texas jury has awarded more than $4 million to a man who suffered severe complications following a botched bowel surgery. According to attorneys for the plaintiff, Dr. Guillermo Ponce de Leon failed to properly diagnose a leaking bowel caused by the 2003 procedure...

Private School Settles Suit by HIV-Positive Teacher

Posted on September 28, 2009
A private school in Maryland has agreed to pay about $80,000 to a teacher who claimed that he was fired because he has HIV. According to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission lawsuit, the Chesapeake Academy in Arnold violated the Americans with Disabilities Act when it failed to renew the teacher?s contract...

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Settlement Approved in Chrysler Wrongful Death Case

Posted on September 27, 2009
The family of a California longshoreman will receive $24 million from DaimlerChrysler under a settlement approved this week by a bankruptcy judge. In 2007, a jury found that the automaker was negligent in the design of a Dodge Dakota pickup that crushed Richard Mraz...

Merck to Pay Out 3,000 Additional Vioxx Claims

Posted on September 27, 2009
Families of Vioxx users who died of heart attacks or strokes will receive between $5,000 and $1.5 million under a Merck-sponsored payout announced this week. The fund will cover more than 3,100 Vioxx claims that did not meet criteria for payments related to the drug?s use, according to the law firm appointed to administer the [...

Significant Damages Awarded in Auto Case

Posted on September 24, 2009
A former college student who was left permanently brain damaged in a 2007 auto accident should received $49 million in damages, a California jury has ruled. Following a five-week trial, jurors found that two truck drivers were negligent for reckless driving and that the California Department of Transportation was negligent for failing to correct safety [...

Appeals Court Reinstates Award in Medical Malpractice Case

Posted on September 24, 2009
A Florida appeals court has reinstated a $10.3 million jury verdict awarded to the family of a man who died following a 2003 medical procedure at Palms West Medical Center. In ruling for the plaintiffs, the 4th District Court of Appeal held that the trial judge had erred in retroactively applying a state cap on [...

Study: Financial, Family Problems Contribute to Doctor Errors

Posted on September 23, 2009
Financial and family problems can play a major role in causing medical error among medical residents, a new study has found. In the study, researchers from the Mayo Clinic found that multiple stressors, not only fatigue, can significantly contribute to medical mistakes...

Study Finds Smoking Bans Reduce Health Risks

Posted on September 23, 2009
A new study published in the journal Circulation reveals an up to 36 percent reduction in heart attacks after smoking bans were enacted. Researchers studied the rate of heart attacks in US, Canadian and European cities immediately after smoking bans became effective and noted a 17 percent reduction the first year of the ban, followed [...

FDA Imposes Ban on Flavored Cigarettes

Posted on September 23, 2009
Federal health officials have banned tobacco makers from selling cigarettes with fruit, candy or clove flavors, the Los Angeles Times reports. According to the Food and Drug Administration, flavored cigarettes serve a gateway to tobacco addiction for youth smokers...

Texas Investigating Company Behind Fallen Light Poles

Posted on September 23, 2009
The recent rash of fallen athletic light poles has sparked an inquiry by the Texas attorney general?s office. At least 15 poles sold by Texas-based Whitco Co. have fallen in the last four years, with the majority of those failures reported in Texas. The Consumer Product Safety Commission is also conducting an investigation, and issued [...

Quiet Cars Pose a Risk of Accidents

Posted on September 23, 2009
Motorcyclists frequently note: “Loud Pipes Save Lives” and now car makers are responding to concerns voiced in Japan and the U.S that electric-powered vehicles are dangerous to pedestrians because they are quieter than gasoline-powered automobiles...

Study Links Hormone Therapy to Lung Cancer

Posted on September 22, 2009
Women who took a combination hormone replacement therapy may be more likely to develop fatal lung cancer, according to a new study. Researchers from the Women?s Health Initiative concluded that women taking a combination of estrogen and progestin were 28 percent more likely to develop the disease...

Pfizer Accuses Expert of Witness Tampering

Posted on September 22, 2009
Pfizer has accused a doctor-consultant involved in multidistrict litigation over the drug maker?s anti-seizure medication Neurontin of witness tampering, American Lawyer reports. Pfizer contends that the expert attempted to influence a doctor who treated the alleged victim in the case by providing her with internal company documents...

Lawsuit: Hospital Negligent in Heart Attack Death

Posted on September 22, 2009
The family of a man who died after reporting to Maimonides Medical Center complaining of chest pains has filed a lawsuit accusing the hospital of negligence. According the lawsuit, Jacob Goldbrenner suffered a heart attack while hospital staff fumbled to locate the key to the facility?s cardiac lab, and even the lab itself, over a [...

Government Settles Suit Over Death of Vacationers

Posted on September 22, 2009
The federal government has agreed to pay $5 million to the family of two vacationers who were swept over a waterfall at a Hawaii national park in 2003. According to the lawsuit, rangers at the Haleakala National Park near Maui failed to warn the family that flash flooding could create dangerous conditions...

Yogurt Maker Settles False Claims Lawsuit

Posted on September 22, 2009
Dannon Co. has agreed to pay $35 million to settle a class-action lawsuit that accused the company of making false health claims about Activia and DanActive yogurts. Under the settlement, consumers who purchased the yogurts will be eligible to receive up to $100 in refunds...

Exec: Glaxo Knew of Paxil Birth Defect Link in 2001

Posted on September 22, 2009
A former GlaxoSmithKline executive testified that the drug maker knew as early as 2001 that the antidepressant Paxil could likely cause birth defects in the fetuses of pregnant women. In a videotaped deposition, former Glaxo drug-safety executive Jane Nieman said that the company was ?almost certain? that Paxil was to blame for a heart defect [...

Lawsuit Filed Over Electrocution Death

Posted on September 22, 2009
A Wisconsin utility company was negligent in the death of a man electrocuted by downed power lines in 2007, a lawsuit filed by family members alleges. According to the lawsuit, Madison Gas and Electric was negligent in the design, installation, operation and maintenance of a power line that killed 22-year-old Demetrius Dobbs...

Appeals Court Revives Global Warming Lawsuit

Posted on September 22, 2009
A federal appeals court has revived a group of lawsuits that seeks to hold major utilities liable for carbon dioxide emissions that contribute to global warming. In reversing the dismissal, the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals held that New York state and others need not defer to a definitive policy statement before bringing their suits [...

Facebook Settles Privacy Suit Over Ad System

Posted on September 22, 2009
Facebook has agreed to pay at least $9.5 million to settle a class-action lawsuit over the social networking site?s Beacon advertising system. Facebook users alleged that the site violated privacy laws by publishing video rental histories on the Web. Beacon was launched in 2007 and tracked user activities on non-Facebook sites and then reported them [...

Race Track Ordered to Pay for Brain Injury

Posted on September 22, 2009
Texas Motor Speedway was significantly negligent in an accident that left a boy with traumatic brain injuries that limit his mobility and mental capacity, a Texas jury has ruled. Jurors awarded the parents of Ryan Davies more than $11 million in damages for his injuries...

Aide Pleads Guilty to Neglect in Nursing Death

Posted on September 03, 2009
An Illinois woman involved in a lawsuit over the alleged wrongful death of an 89-year-old Alzheimer?s patient has pleaded guilty to criminal neglect, according to the Chicago Tribune. Sarah Wentworth died of hypothermia earlier this year after wandering out of the Arbor of Itasca nursing home in freezing temperatures...

Record Settlement Reached Over Bextra Marketing

Posted on September 03, 2009
Pfizer Inc. has agreed to pay $2.3 billion to settle a government investigation into the marketing of the withdrawn Bextra pain medicine and 13 other drugs. The size of the settlement stems from the government?s determination that Pfizer was a repeat offender, according to Reuters...

Medi-Spa Lawsuits on the Rise

Posted on September 03, 2009
Patients are filing an increasing number of malpractice lawsuits against so-called medical spas over beauty treatments gone wrong. Attorneys familiar with such cases say claims related to laser hair removal are particularly common and that more regulation is needed...

Colorado Springs Motorcyclist Injured in Crash

Posted on September 03, 2009
A motorcyclist riding west on Fillmore Street in Colorado Springs, Colorado was in serious condition at Penrose Hospital Wednesday following a collision about 5:30 p.m. when an eastbound car turned left onto Hancock Avenue in front of him. The motorcyclist was not wearing a helmet...

Doctor Failed to Prevent Assault, Jury Finds

Posted on August 31, 2009
A jury has ordered a prominent New York pediatrician to pay $11 million to two sisters for failing to prevent their half-brother from sexually assaulting them. In the lawsuit, plaintiffs claimed that Dr. Patricia Monroe and her workplace failed to take proper steps that could have prevented the abuse...

Odometer Class Action Can Proceed, Judge Rules

Posted on August 28, 2009
A class action alleging that Subaru sold or leased cars with defective odometers can proceed, a federal judge has ruled. In the ruling, Southern District of New York Judge George Daniels rejected Subaru’s argument that the Federal Odometer Act does not apply to original factory-installed odometers...

Appeals Court Upholds Award for Wrongful Convictions

Posted on August 28, 2009
The government must pay nearly $102 million to the families of four men wrongly convicted and imprisoned for a 1965 murder, a federal appeals court has ruled. The decision upholds a 2007 verdict that found the FBI had withheld key evidence that would have proved the men to be innocent...

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