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Texas Voters Tell Their Lawmakers to Vote For Real Insurance Reform - TDI Sunset Bill, SB 1007

Posted on May 21, 2009
Today, Texas Watch is sending urging voters to ask their lawmakers to support pro-consumer amendments to the TDI Sunset bill, SB 1007. That Bill requires payment of reasonable medical expenses incurred, policyholders to be made whole, prior approval of rates and standardized policy forms...

Obama undoes Bush pre-emption policies.

Posted on May 21, 2009
The AP (5/21, Yost) reports, "The Obama White House on Wednesday undid a Bush administration policy that used federal regulations to undermine a wide range of state health, safety and environmental laws" many of which "limited the ability of injured consumers to sue companies in state courts...

Bicyclist Injured On Kamehameha Highway

Posted on May 20, 2009
Another traffic injury left a bicycle rider in critical condition on Sunday near the place where a motorcyclist died earlier in the day. The bicyclist was injured on Kamehameha highway near a 7-11 Store. Details are sparse and all that was initially reported was that the bicyclist was critically injured when a passing car hit him as he was crossing the road...

Motorcyclist Dies In Crash In Kaaawa

Posted on May 20, 2009
A motorcyclist died as a result of a crash is Kaaawa on Sunday. The motorcyclist's 10-year-old daughter was a passenger when they were struck by an Hawaiian Telcom truck that was turning into the parking lot of a 7-Eleven convenience store. Paramedics arrived at the scene and transported the girl to the hospital in stable condition...

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US, states join whistleblower suits against Wyeth over Medicaid payments.

Posted on May 20, 2009
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Federal Departments and Agencies Announcing Regulations that Pre-empt State Laws Won't Do So Without a Sufficient Legal Basis

Posted on May 20, 2009
All Americans can celebrate the breaking news regarding a landmark achievement that was announced today in Washington D.C. From now on, the regulatory preemption of state common law will be strictly limited. Even regulations issued within the past 10 years will have to be reviewed and in some cases amended...

Plaintiffs' lawyers to release AstraZeneca documents in Seroquel case.

Posted on May 20, 2009
The Wall Street Journal (5/20, Rockoff) reports, "Plaintiffs' lawyers in lawsuits against AstraZeneca PLC plan to...release documents they say show executives at the drugmaker discussed promoting the antipsychotic drug Seroquel for unapproved uses in children and the elderly...

Formaldehyde shown to raise cancer risk in workers

Posted on May 18, 2009
The Journal of the National Cancer Institute reports that they have found a continuing 'possible link' between formaldehyde exposure and death from cancers of the blood and lymphatic system among workers exposed to the chemical. The story has been reported in USA Today and other news sources...

Judge rules Pfizer will not face class-action suits over off-label marketing of Neurontin.

Posted on May 18, 2009
Bloomberg News (5/16, Fisk) reported, "Pfizer Inc. the world's largest drugmaker, won't face class-action lawsuits by health-insurance companies and patients on claims it improperly marketed the epilepsy drug Neurontin for unapproved uses, a judge ruled...

Nader's Raiders Are Back: Obanma and baucus caught in the act!

Posted on May 18, 2009
I can't believe what I am watching. My president and his liberal friends have sold Americans health care hopes to corporate greed. The insurnace industry wins again. Does anyone out there care? Recently I wrote about national health care in Congress: Myths About Single Payer National Health Insurance by Wayne Parsons (www...

Obama calls for crackdown on credit card industry abuses.

Posted on May 15, 2009
At a Thursday town hall meeting in Rio Rancho, New Mexico, President Obama called for passage of a bill that seeks to curb practices from credit card companies that some deem "abusive." The story is receiving coverage -- but not top billing -- from major print media outlets this morning...

WHO INvestigates Claim From OZ That H1N1 Was Created By Human Error

Posted on May 14, 2009
Jason Gale and Simeon Bennett of Bloomberg report on 13 May 2009 that Adrian Gibbs, 75, who collaborated on research that led to the development of Roche Holding AG's Tamiflu drug, said in an interview that he intends to publish a report suggesting the new strain may have accidentally evolved in eggs scientists use to grow viruses and drugmakers use to make vaccines...

House lawmakers hear debate over medical device preemption.

Posted on May 14, 2009
CQ HealthBeat (5/14, Kim) reports that the House Energy and Commerce Committee's Health Subcommittee "heard witness testimony on a measure that would allow consumers to sue companies under state law for injuries sustained by sophisticated medical devices" on Tuesday...

H1N1 Swine Flu Question: What is Lou to do?

Posted on May 13, 2009
In response to an article I wrote on the H1N1 Swine Flu situation I got a Comment from Lou. He needs help. Can someone tell him what he should do .... about the Flu? Here is Lou's situation: I returned from Honolulu last month and I was told that I had the virus...

Myths About Single Payer National Health Insurance

Posted on May 13, 2009
According to leading consumer advocacy group Public Citizen, "[t]he U.S. spends twice as much as other industrialized nations on health care, but still has nearly 50 million people without health insurance and millions more with insurance who still cannot afford treatment?" Public Citizen is working to fix this serious problem by campaigning for the creation of single-payer national health insurance, because it is the only solution that provides universal access to care while reducing costs...

Tort Reform For Victims of Unsafe Medical Devices: Pass The Medical Device Safety Act of 2009

Posted on May 13, 2009
Hearings began on Tuesday, May 12th before the Subcommittee on Health on H.R. 1346, The Medical Device Safety Act of 2009. I explain it below but before you go any further make sure to read the excellent analysis of Cecelia Prewett: House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee Considers Ability of FDA to Regulate Medical Devices...

FDA requiring black-box warnings for two testosterone gel products.

Posted on May 13, 2009
The Wall Street Journal (5/8, Favole) reports, "The Food and Drug Administration is forcing strong warnings on two testosterone gel products after receiving reports of children who had inappropriate genitalia enlargement or became aggressive after getting exposed to the products...

Aviation attorney discusses hearings over Flight 3407.

Posted on May 13, 2009
On The Early Show on CBS News (5/12), Julie Chen spoke with attorney Mary Schiavo and the sister of one of the crash victims of Flight 3407. Schiavo said the fault lies with the airline because the FAA training is minimal. She added that there may be many other pilots in the "regional carrier industry" that have poor training...

Obama Adminstration Makes The Devil's Deal With The Insurance Industry

Posted on May 13, 2009
In her recent article: Revived Focus on Health Care, Revival of Tort 'Reform' Rhetoric Kia Franklin shines a light on the willingness of President Obama to shed his lofty campaign rhetoric about people and his mother's battles with health insurance and make a deal with the insurance industry to get any national health care plan passed...

Tort Reform Reality: A War of Attrition by Michael Bennett

Posted on May 13, 2009
Introducing Contributing Author Michael Bennett, President, The Coalition For Patients' Rights Rather than initially launching an all out assault, conducting war by using a slow, incremental wearing down of personnel and resources, military leaders throughout the ages have often used war of attrition as an effective method to defeat an enemy...

Investigators examine details of plane crash.

Posted on May 12, 2009
The Wall Street Journal (5/11, A1, Pasztor) reported on its front page, "The captain of a commuter plane that crashed Feb. 12 near Buffalo, N.Y., had flunked numerous flight tests during his career and was never adequately taught how to respond to the emergency that led to the airplane's fatal descent, according to people close to the investigation...

Tort Reform Reality: Obama May Throw Patients Under the Bus

Posted on May 12, 2009
Say it ain't so President Obama! I voted for you. Say it ain't so. The number of your constituents who die from medical malpractice are equivalent to a fully loaded 747-400 crashing with all lost every week. So please tell me that you aren't going to tell the families of these Americans that they are expendable because you have to prove that you can get national health care passed...

America needs More Tort Lawyers According To Forbes Magazine

Posted on May 11, 2009
I didn't believe it when I read it: Forbes Magazine Calling for More Tort Lawyers? by Dan Firth. Wait!? That can't be true. That's like the Red Sox holding an appreciation day at Fenway for Yankee fans. Dan Firth is a prominent tort lawyer in Roanoke, Virginia...

Joan Claybrook Of Public Citizen on What's In _ and behind _ a Phrase Really Does Matter

Posted on May 11, 2009
If you get a degree in spin at your local mind twisting institute, you'll have been taught that if you call something "reform" everyone will support it. At the first emotional reaction will be "I like Reform". The concept of reform is a positive one: reform, reshape, improve...

Tort Reform Myth: The Legal System Causes High Malpractice Insurance Premiums

Posted on May 11, 2009
What causes high premiums for doctors' malpractice insurance? The insurance industry would have you believe that the cause is the legal system. The truth is that insurance company investment practices are the cause. Americans for Insurance Reform - one of the leading consumer advocates for regular people not the privileged and powerful, has issued a series of fact sheets on these tort reform myths: INSURANCE INDUSTRY'S INVESTMENT PRACTICES – NOT THE LEGAL SYSTEM – CAUSE HIGH MALPRACTICE INSURANCE COSTS Here are the facts, not the insurance industry hype: THE INSURANCE CYCLE, NOT THE LEGAL SYSTEM, DRIVES UP RATES Typical Soft Market: Insurers make most of their money from investment income...

Vioxx suit denied class-action status in California.

Posted on May 11, 2009
The AP (5/9, Johnson) reported that Judge Victoria Chaney of Los Angeles Superior Court "has rejected a proposed class-action lawsuit brought on behalf of state residents who took the painkiller Vioxx (rofecoxib) before it was pulled from the market in 2004...

Hawaii Crosswalk Safety Chronicles: In Praise of the Honolulu Advertiser's By the numbers

Posted on May 10, 2009
The Honolulu Advertiser has a very interesting website that I use often. Its called "By the numbers". I am a numbers person which in some way probably explains the fact that I am an attorney who also has a Masters Degree in Physics. As I research facts to put in Blog article I often find interesting and useful statistics at the By he numbers site...

Hawaii Swine Flu Update - Tamiflu Stockpiles Vary Widely Throughout World

Posted on May 10, 2009
Hawaii has a few Swine Flu cases, most recently a student up at UH. Our medical community seems well organized and prepared. The entire country seems to be on top of this situation. Embedded video from CNN Video We now know that the current virus H1N1 virus probably doesn't have the teeth that will lead to a large scale pandemic like the 1918 one that killed so many people...

H1N1 Vaccine: Iowa State University Says Vaccines Can be Produced For This Virus In Two Months

Posted on May 10, 2009
Steve Lombardi from Des Moines has posted a story out of Iowa and H1N1 Vaccine. ISU research and H1N1, Are pigs luckier than are humans? by Steve Lombardi You have to read that article. Steve really gets into the underbelly _ sorry to all of the pigs in Egypt _ of this story about what to do...

Kamehameha Highway Closed Early Friday Morning Following Crash

Posted on May 09, 2009
Police shut down traffic in both directions on Kamehameha Highway after a car crash at about 5:45 a.m. on Friday May 8, 2009. The accident happened at a location a quarter-mile south of Lanikuhana Avenue in Mililani. Apparently at the scene a person was pinned in a car and was alert and talking...

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