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The title of this blog reflects Bob Kraft's attitude toward those government agencies and insurance companies that routinely mistreat injured or disabled people.
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Bush Administration Last-Minute Regulation to Hurt Nursing Home Residents
Posted on February 27, 2009Bush Administration Last-Minute Regulation to Hurt Nursing Home Residents
Posted on February 26, 2009I mentioned this in an earlier post. It seems like a minor matter, but could deal a severe blow to anyone pursuing a case for nursing home abuse or neglect.In a blog on the Mother Jones website David Corn writes, "That Bush-Cheney legacy is going to be a mean one for years...
FDA Says Salmonella Outbreak Could Last Two Years
Posted on February 26, 2009The Atlanta Journal-Constitution (2/26, Schneider) reports, "The national salmonella outbreak linked to more than 2,600 peanut products could last as long as two years, as contaminated foods sit like ticking time bombs on store shelves and kitchen cabinets, federal health officials said Wednesday...
Dead Peasant Insurance Policies Draw Litigation
Posted on February 25, 2009In a blog on the Wall Street Journal website (2/24) Ashby Jones wrote that "dead peasant" insurance policies are "spawning a good deal of litigation." Jones said, "The point of 'dead peasant' policies seems to be this: Companies contribute money to the policies, which then can be used to pay for a variety of company expenses...
Medtronic to Join Other Companies in Disclosing Payments to Doctors
Posted on February 25, 2009The Wall Street Journal (2/25, B2, Burton) reports that "medical-device maker Medtronic Inc. said it will begin to make public disclosure of all payments over $5,000 it makes to doctors." The company "said it will report the information annually and that the first such disclosure will take place in March 2011 for payments beginning next January...
Smith & Wesson Recalls Guns That Could Misfire
Posted on February 25, 2009A recall of Walther PPK pistols by the manufacturer Smith & Wesson has been reported by the Dallas Morning News. There is an apparent danger that the guns might fire without the trigger being pulled. This might not be a big deal elsewhere, but in Texas, where about half the population seems to be packing heat, this could be a serious problem...
New Rule Impedes Cases Against Nursing Homes
Posted on February 24, 2009In the Washington Post (2/24, D2) Regulators column, Cindy Skrzycki writes, "The Bush administration shut off a source of information last fall about abuse and neglect in long-term care facilities that people suing nursing homes consider crucial to their cases...
Study Suggests Sprint Fidelis Leads May Be Failing at Higher Rate Than Previously Known
Posted on February 24, 2009The Wall Street Journal (2/24, Burton) reports that Medtronic Inc.'s Sprint Fidelis defibrillator leads, "pulled from the market in 2007, represent an 'increasing hazard' for more than 200,000 heart patients world-wide," according to "Minneapolis Heart Institute cardiologist Robert G...
Texas Doctors Say Health Insurance Company Paperwork Hurts Medical Care
Posted on February 23, 2009A recent article in the Dallas Morning News said that a survey of doctors found that health insurers and government bureaucracy are hurting their ability to care for patients. Here are excerpts: The survey of 850 Texas doctors underscores core problems with the health care system: Doctors are struggling to get paid and insurers are wrestling to keep costs under control...
FDA Warns Of Deaths Due To Raptiva
Posted on February 23, 2009The CBS Evening News (2/20, story 8, 0:25, Couric) reported, "Tonight, the FDA reports three patients taking the psoriasis drug Raptiva have died of a rare brain infection. The FDA added its most serious warning to Raptiva four months ago, and regulators in Europe now say the drug's benefits no longer outweigh the risk...
Bunning Suggests Ginsberg Will Likely Succumb To Cancer Within Nine Months
Posted on February 23, 2009Ouch, this is a cold-hearted thing to say:The Louisville Courier-Journal (2/22, Gerth) reported that Kentucky Sen. Jim Bunning (R) "predicted over the weekend that U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg would likely be dead from pancreatic cancer within nine months...
Poll Finds People Doubt Impartiality Of Elected Judges Towards Their Donors
Posted on February 23, 2009In the category of breaking news such as "the earth is still round" comes this poll revealing that people think campaign contributions affect the impartiality of judges:The Charleston (WV) Gazette (2/23, Nyden) reports that a Harris Interactive poll funded by Justice at Stake Campaign, a nonprofit coalition that includes the American Association for Justice, between February 12 and 15 of 1,006 adults, 18 years or older found that "an overwhelming majority of people...
ERISA: License to Cheat, Lie, and Steal for the Disability Insurance Industry
Posted on February 21, 2009The headline says it all in this Utah Bar Journal article.
FDA Advises Raptiva May Be Associated With Deadly Infection
Posted on February 20, 2009The AP (2/20, Perrone) reports that, according to the Food and Drug Administration, "three patients taking a Genentech drug," Raptiva, "are believed to have died of a rare brain infection," progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy (PML), "a known risk with the skin-clearing treatment...
Congressmen Seek To Overturn Court Decision On Medical Device Lawsuits
Posted on February 20, 2009In an article on the front of its Business Day section, the New York Times (2/20, B1, Meier) reports that Reps. Henry A. Waxman (D-CA) and Frank Pallone Jr. (D-NJ) "plan to reintroduce soon legislation that would effectively nullify the Supreme Court decision" that "stands as a barrier against suing medical device companies" if the Food and Drug Administration has approved their sale...
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After 16 Years and Much Litigation, DOJ Puts Auto Fraud Database Online
Posted on February 20, 2009Law.com reports that after 16 years and litigation by three consumer safety groups, the U.S. Department of Justice has made an online database available to states and consumers to discover automobile fraud and to provide new tools for law enforcement to investigate fraud, theft and other crimes involving vehicles...
Stimulus Package To Give $250 to All Social Security Disability Recipients
Posted on February 19, 2009The Social Security Administration has announced that the one-time $250 stimulus payment to SSD and SSI recipients will be paid by late May of this year. Here is the official announcement: President Obama recently signed the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009...
Oklahoma Republicans Trying to Shaft Consumers
Posted on February 19, 2009There is only one reason for politicians to try to restrict fees plaintiff lawyers can charge, and that is to make it harder for consumers to sue businesses and insurance companies. When these frivolous bills are proposed there is never a matching provision to limit how much a corporation or insurance company can pay their lawyers...
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