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Boycott SmartBuy!

Posted on May 20, 2010
New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo sued national electronics retailer, SmartBuy, on Tuesday alleging it intentionally ripped off military personnel. The suit alleges that SmartBuy would buy products such as laptops, televisions, gaming systems from retailers such as Wal-Mart Stores Inc, Sam's Club and Costco Wholesale Corp, and then mark then up 225 percent to 325 percent for resale to military personnel...

University of Virginia May Fight Virginia AG's Demand for Climatology Files

Posted on May 17, 2010
The University of Virginia may have finally grown a set of coconuts and decided to fight back against Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli's demand that UVA turn over documents and correspondence related to a former professor of environmental science, Michael Mann, who is widely known for his research into global climate change...

Advice for Parents About Recall of Children's Liquid Medicine

Posted on May 11, 2010
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) warned consumers to stop using liquid infant's and children's products that are part of a voluntary recall announced on April 30, 2010. The pharmaceutical company, McNeil Consumer Healthcare, recalled certain infant's and children's liquid products due to manufacturing deficiencies which may affect quality, purity, or potency...

Recall of Over-the Counter Children's Medicine Due to Contaminants

Posted on May 05, 2010
Johnson & Johson's McNeil Consumer Health division announced recently the recall of many popular over-the- counter children's liquid medicines. McNeil's press release lists 43 recalled pediatric medicines affecting 70 percent of the market for OTC children's medicine...

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SEC Accuses Goldman Sachs of Securities Fraud

Posted on April 19, 2010
Actual fraud is commonly defined as a misrepresentation of a material fact, knowingly and intentionally made, with the intent to mislead another person, which that other person relied upon with the result that he or she was damaged by the misrepresentation...

Persistent Problems After Childhood Head Trauma

Posted on April 13, 2010
A researcher at Southern Cross University is presenting his research and clinical findings regarding mild traumatic brain injury in children and adolescents. Long after a child or adolescent has recovered from the initial impact of a head trauma, he or she may continue to have persistent problems with attention, emotions and thinking...

Inattentive Tractor Trailer Truck Driver Kills Woman on Virginia Beltway

Posted on April 12, 2010
The duty while driving to maintain a proper look out is an important safety requirement for all drivers, but is even more important for tractor trailer truck drivers. Tractor trailer truck crashes are too often caused by inattentive truck drivers whose employer has forced them to drive long hours just to earn a decent living...

NHTSA Seeking Record Fine Against Toyota

Posted on April 06, 2010
Signaling that the federal government is getting tougher on auto safety enforcement, the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration (NHTSA) said it would seek the maximum civil fine of $16.4 million against Toyota Motor Corp. for delays in notifying authorities about defects in its gas pedals...

Advances in Brain Scanning May Help Treat TBI

Posted on April 05, 2010
Neurologists at Washington University School of Medicine adapted a brain scanning technique for studying the organization of the brain. Their novel approach may give doctors a tool for predicting the extent of traumatic brain injury and potentially avert some of the brain damage...

Law School Clinics Need Our Support

Posted on April 04, 2010
Law school students nationwide are facing growing attacks in the courts and legislatures as legal clinics at the schools increasingly take on powerful interests that few other nonprofit groups have the resources to challenge. The latest law school clinic to face Goliath's wrath is the University of Maryland, which had the nerve to file a lawsuit against Maryland's largest employer, poultry company, Perdue...

Mr. Toyoda, Why is Toyota Hiding its Black Box Data?

Posted on March 06, 2010
Automobile product liability lawyers already knew that Toyota's litigation strategy includes blocking access to data stored in its vehicles' on-board black box, also known as Event Data Recorders (EDRs). Toyota's duplicity has included: - refusing to produce key information stored on the EDR - prohibiting everyone in the country from downloading EDR data except the one Toyota expert whose laptop contains the proprietary software needed to read the data following a crash - when ordered by a court to provide the data, either settling to avoid production or producing only a paper printout with key columns left blank...

The Long-Term Danger of Concussion

Posted on March 05, 2010
Each year hundreds of thousands of teenagers engaged in sports sustain concussions, which can be caused by a violent shaking of the brain with our without a direct blow to the head. The number of reported concussions in football alone is 140,000 per year...

Protect Your Child After a Concussion

Posted on January 30, 2010
Kudos to Florida Governor Charlie Crist and dozens of state lawmakers across the country who are pushing for legislation in their states to improve awareness and treatment of concussions in youth sports. Last year Washington and Oregon passed the first concussion-specific laws covering scholastic sports...

U.S. Bans Texting While Driving Trucks and Buses

Posted on January 26, 2010
In an effort to reduce the number of truck and bus crashes caused by distracted drivers, the federal government formally barred truckers and bus drivers from sending text messages while behind the wheel, putting its imprimatur on a prohibition embraced by many large trucking and transportation companies...

"Homes For Our Troops" Prove Altruism is Alive and Well in America

Posted on January 16, 2010
Army Staff Sgt. Dwayne Cole was shot in the neck at close range while serving our country in Iraq. The bullet lodged in his spinal column, leaving him a quadraplegic. A fellow patient at Walter Reed Army Medical Center told Sgt. Cole about Homes for Our Troops and the Build Brigade program...

Doctor Accused of Faking Medical Research for Pfizer and Other Pharmas

Posted on January 15, 2010
Federal prosecutors filed a healthcare fraud charge against Scott Reuben, M.D., a Massachusetts doctor accused of faking research for a dozen years in published studies that suggested after-surgery benefits from painkillers. In a complaint against the former chief of acute pain at Baystate Medical Center in Massachusetts, the U...

China Shamelessly Poisons Our Children

Posted on January 11, 2010
On the same day that the Associated Press reported that China passed Germany as the world's top exporter of goods, I read that U.S. safety authorities are investigating Chinese manufacturers of children's jewelry for using the metal cadmium in the jewelry...

Concussions Cause Brain Damage: Just Ask Ex-La Salle Football Player

Posted on December 30, 2009
Four years ago, Preston Plevretes played in a football game for La Salle University a month after an earlier concussion. He collided head-on with an opposing player on a punt return at Duquesne University on Nov. 5, 2005. He was briefly knocked unconscious, awoke and was combative for a few minutes, then lapsed into a coma...

NTSB Recognizes Need to Better Monitor Truck Driver Fatigue

Posted on December 03, 2009
Last month, Deborah Hersman , Chairwoman of the National Transportation Safety Board, spoke in Washington to the National Press Club and stated that every day over 100 Americans die in transportation accidents, mostly on our highways. After her speech, the Chairwoman turned her comments to truck accident prevention...

Wal-Mart Settles Massive Wage & Hour Lawsuit

Posted on December 03, 2009
According to an article in today's Boston Globe, Wal-Mart has agreed to settle a wage and hour lawsuit which will net $40,000,000 to be divided amongst a class of tens of thousands of employees and former employees. The lawsuit alleged a cornucopia of violations including failure to pay overtime, denial of rest and meal breaks, and manipulation of employee time cards...

Experts Not Permitted to Testify Plaintiff is Faking or Exaggerating Symptoms

Posted on December 02, 2009
A written opinion issued earlier this month from the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, Richmond Division slams shut the door on the defense practice of hiring a medical expert to accuse the plaintiff of malingering, symptom magnification, being motivated by secondary gain, having somatoform disorder or any of the other names used by defense doctors to imply that injured plaintiffs are faking or lying...

Ethical Law Firm Marketing?

Posted on November 30, 2009
The endless quest to improve search engine optimization may have landed one Wisconsin personal injury firm in hot water. Wisconsin's largest personal injury law firm, Habush, Habush & Rottier, is suing another firm, Cannon & Dunphy alleging that Cannon has been hijacking Habush's name in Google searches...

NFL Concussion Policy: a Very Slow Work in Progress

Posted on November 24, 2009
With every new round of concussions in the NFL, it seems to me that the press and the NFL react as if dangerous concussions were a new issue in football...

Coping with Brain Injury During the Holidays

Posted on November 23, 2009
For victims of acquired brain injury, the time of year that once brought great joy may now be the most difficult time of year. Brain injury victims often struggle to cope with, among other sequelae, memory problems, obsessive compulsive behaviors, an aversion to loud noises, big crowds, and bright lights, decreased communication skills, and special diets...

Traps and Pitfalls in Representing Truck Accident Victims

Posted on November 21, 2009
Truck accident insurance investigation teams and defense lawyers are some of the most competent adversaries a plaintiff lawyer will encounter. The truck company investigators are often at the scene of the accident before the vehicles are removed from road...

Defense Neuropsychologists Want to Replace Jurors

Posted on November 09, 2009
Defense neuropsychologists are hell-bent on being able to testify whether they believe an injured person is telling the truth. They cannot be serious, you say. Determining the veracity or credibility of a witness is the exclusive province of the finder of fact...

Fredericksburg Tractor Trailer Crash Yields Jail Time for Truck Driver

Posted on October 27, 2009
On February 2, 2009, a tractor trailer truck loaded with 83,000 pounds of sand ran a red light on U.S. 17 and killed a Stafford, Va. woman. The truck driver told police he thought the light was green and that he never saw the victim's vehicle. However, police tested the truck and determined that it had no front left brakes and the right front brakes were not working...

Department of Labor States Drug Reps are Entitled to Overtime

Posted on October 16, 2009
The issue of whether Pharmaceutical Sales Representatives ("Drug Reps" as they are sometimes called) are entitled to overtime has been bouncing around and dividing the Federal Courts for several years. However, just yesterday the United States Department of Labor ("DOL") came out and affirmatively stated that Drug Reps are entitled to overtime compensation...

If You Thought Texting While Driving Was Dangerous...

Posted on September 28, 2009
What could possibly be more dangerous than a teenager texting while driving? how about the driver of an 18 wheeler tractor trailer truck using a computer keyboard on his lap while driving. Hundreds of thousands of long-haul truckers use computers in their cabs to get directions and stay in close contact with dispatchers...

Experience Counts When Representing Victims of Brain Damage

Posted on September 24, 2009
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1.4 million people suffer traumatic brain injuries (TBI). This number is a conservative estimate as brain injuries often go undetected. TBI's are caused by a blow or jolt to the head or a penetrating head injury that disrupts the normal function of the brain...

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