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The Walking Wounded: PTSD Victims

Posted on January 26, 2009
The term "walking wounded" has long been used to describe victims of traumatic brain injury, who may appear healthy but have permanent cognitive, psychological, and other symptoms from brain damage. The term is now being used to describe the American troops in Iraq who are returning from combat duty with post-traumatic stress disorder...

What is the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act?

Posted on January 26, 2009
On Thursday, January 22nd, the U.S. Senate passed S. 181, the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act. Swift action is expected in the House to pass the bill and present it to President Obama, who is expected to sign it into law. The effect of the new law will be to restore the 'paycheck accrual rule,' making every instance of pay discrimination, every paycheck, actionable discrimination...

Does Your Home Contain Foul Smelling Chinese-Made Drywall?

Posted on January 21, 2009
This issue was first brought to my attention by fellow blogger, Wayne Parsons, in a January 2, 2009 blog, "Drywall From China Causes Concern Over Sulfur Odor in Homes." Apparently, health department and building officials across the Southeast have been getting a lot of reports about Chinese drywall which, according to the National Organization of Remediators and Mold Inspectors, emits much higher levels of sulfur, methane, and other volatile organic compounds than is considered safe for humans...

The Billion Dollar Antipsychotics Settlement?

Posted on January 20, 2009
According to an article published in last week’s New York Times, goliath drug maker, Eli Lilly appears poised to agree to a $1.4 billion settlement related to marketing and use of its antipsychotic drug, Zyprexa. The article reports that the suit alleges the company sought to push the drug for sedation of unruly seniors in nursing homes and children with behavioral problems...

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TN Coal Plant That Spilled Toxic Coal Ash Knew About Leaks

Posted on January 09, 2009
My last blog was about the coal-burning power plant responsible for the massive spill of coal ash in East Tennessee late last month. The chief executive of the Tennessee Valley Authority acknowledged Thursday that the plant’s containment ponds had leaked two other times in the last five years but had not been adequately repaired...

Toxic Coal Ash Spill Threatens East Tennesssee

Posted on December 30, 2008
This past Monday, the Tennessee Valley Authority disclosed to the New York Times a 2007 inventory of toxic materials that the Kingston Fossil Plant, a T.V.A. coal-fired electric plant 40 miles west of Knoxville, had deposited into a holding pond. The holding pond failed last week, flooding 300 acres of East Tennessee...

KBR Accused of Exposing Our Troops to Known Toxic Chemical

Posted on December 23, 2008
The CBS Evening News(12/22, story 8, 3:30, Smith) reported that on since the beginning of the war in Iraq, may be facing yet another scandal." CBS added, in April, 2003, James Gentry of the Indiana National Guard arrived in southern Iraq to take command of more than 600 other guardsmen...

Special Ed Child Kills Self After Being Forced By His School Into Seclusion Cell

Posted on December 18, 2008
pThis is a sad story of the wrongful death of a 13 year-old child who needed help from his special ed school but got a form of torture. A few weeks before a 13-year-old north Georgia special education student killed himself, he told his parents that his teachers had put him in quot;time-out...

Your Cell Phone May Be Causing Memory Problems

Posted on December 08, 2008
Is there a reason we've always been told not to stand too close to the microwave oven? If you can't remember the reason, it may be because you're using your cell phone too much. Scientists at the Division of Neurosurgery, Lund University, in Sweden Nittby studied rats that were exposed to mobile phone radiation for two hours a week for more than a year...

General Shinsheki Chosen to be Secretary of Veterans Affairs

Posted on December 07, 2008
I've blogged frequently about how traumatic brain injury is the signature injury of the Iraq war. The reaction by the Administration to this tragedy can be summarized as too little too late. Not too long ago, the Veterans Affairs Department was taking a hostile approach to wounded veterans making claims of brain damage or PTSD...

Blast-Induced Brain Damage Posing Long-Term Nightmare for Vets

Posted on December 05, 2008
Major news outlets have reported for the past couple of years that traumatic brain injury (TBI) is the signature injury of the Iraq war. In a long awaited government report, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) estimates that 22% of wounded troops have suffered brain damage, and calls on the military to take major steps to better evaluate returning veterans for traumatic brain injury...

Prescriptions of Antipsychotics to Children Attract Scrutiny

Posted on December 02, 2008
Last week I wrote a short blog touching on the increasing frequency with which antipsychotic drugs like Risperdal and Zyprexa were being prescribed to children. I primarily focused on the use of antipyschotics in the treatment of juvenile attention disorders...

Anti-Pyschotic Drugs Prescribed To Children With ADD

Posted on November 24, 2008
Attention Deficit Disorder ("ADD") affects countless school age children. ADD is often treated with drugs like Ritalin or Adderall. Both are widely acknowledged as effective weapons against attention disorders in both children and adults. Recently however, some physicians have begun prescribing powerful anti-psychotic medications to treat attention disorders in children...

Cooling Brain of Young Children Before Anesthesia May Prevent Brain Damage

Posted on November 24, 2008
Growing evidence suggests exposure to anesthetic drugs during brain development may contribute to behavioral and developmental delays. Since the human brain continues to develop until approximately age seven, this evidence presents a frightening dilemma for many parents...

FDA Rank and File Do Not Support Preemption

Posted on October 30, 2008
Yesterday the U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform issued a report saying FDA career staff objected to a change in preemption rules, even saying the central factual justifications for the agency’s new positions were false...

Retaliation Must Be Taken Seriously By Employers and Employees

Posted on October 29, 2008
Most federal laws from which employees derive rights contain what’s called an anti-retaliation provision. Basically, these provisions provide protection for employees who have engaged in a “protected activity.” A protected activity is normally thought to be an act complaining an employer's violation of federal law...

Stop Businesses From Sending Child Molestors Into Your Home

Posted on October 24, 2008
The Sex Offense Registry can be accessed for free in a matter of minutes. Requiring a prospective employee to sign a release authorizing the prospective employer to access his criminal record takes no time at all. Following through and actually requesting the criminal record simply requires mailing the form, typically with a check for a few dollars...

Documents Reveal Bush Administration Top Priority: Exempt Big Business from Civil Justice System

Posted on October 16, 2008
According to documents obtained through repeated FOIA requests by the American Association for Justice (AAJ), the Bush Administration's attempt to shield big business and Wall Street from the free market date back long before the current bail out. Documents released by AAJ detail how helping corporations escape accountability for dangerous products by denying consumers their Seventh Amendment right to trial by jury and by abrogating the Republican party's long-standing state's rights principles has long been the administration’s top priority...

Predatory Lobbying and Legislating Caused the Economic Crisis

Posted on October 01, 2008
I am a big fan of the philosophy of objectivism, which promotes rational self-interest, individual liberty,and the capitalist system. Followers of this philosophy know that one of the biggest enemies of our free-market capitalist system is government sponsored cronyism...

Serious Brain Damage May Not Show Up On MRI

Posted on September 27, 2008
Boston University Medical School's Center for the Study of Traumatic Encephalopathy has been studying the brains of former NFL players who donated their brains for medical research. The Center has now studied the brains of six former NFL players, and five of the six brains studied were found to have chronic traumatic encephalopathy...

Medtronic Accused by Own Lawyer of Pervasive Kickbacks to Physicians

Posted on September 25, 2008
A qui tam lawsuit filed against medical device maker, Medtronic, by its former senior legal counsel was recently unsealed, and it provides detailed insight into the unsavory way in which surgeons are induced to use certain medical devices. The whistleblower was senior counsel in the spinal-device unit...

New Mexico Appelate Court upholds $13 Million Dollar Negligence Verdict

Posted on September 23, 2008
Despite recent efforts by special interests to cap punitive damages, the fact remains that they are perhaps the best and only shield the general public has against egregious and unsafe actors. According to an Associated Press article reprinted on CNN...

Senate finally acts to protect disabled workers

Posted on September 12, 2008
On September 11, 2008 the United States Senate finally passed a new bill to protect disabled employees and put teeth back into the Americans with Disabilities Act. According to the New York Times, the U.S. House has already passed a similar bill by a vote of 402-17...

When A Salary Is Not A Salary

Posted on September 10, 2008
A federal judge recently ruled that managerial employees of supermarket chain Gristedes were not paid on a salary basis, which may open the door to a large verdict against the company. The lawsuit filed by managerial employees alleges that the company misclassified them as executive employees who are exempt from the overtime pay requirements of the federal Fair Labor Standards Act, which requires among other factors that the employee be paid on a salary basis...

Wal-Mart Pays Steep Price for "Off The Clock" Violations Against Employees

Posted on September 09, 2008
Retail giant Wal-Mart was hit with a $185 Million verdict in favor of employees who worked "off the clock." The class of employees involved in the lawsuit alleged that Wal-Mart maintained a national policy of preventing employees from using their break and lunch time but subtracting that time from their paychecks...

Grass Really is Greener....

Posted on September 08, 2008
Litigation involving lead paint has been with us for decades. Long ago it became recognized that when ingested, lead could have deleterious effects on the human body. Essentially everyone knows by now it is best to keep our children away from lead and especially important to make sure it does not find a way into their mouths...

Mississippi Supreme Court Part 2

Posted on August 26, 2008
Upon further inquiry into the hullabaloo surrounding the Mississippi Supreme Court's majority decision to attempt to stifle the dissenting opinion of Justice Oliver Diaz in a wrongful death case, I have learned that the anti-Justice Diaz efforts are indeed supported by the forces pushing for more tort reform...

Kudos to NY Times for Keeping Vets' Brain Injury Issues in Forefront

Posted on August 26, 2008
Today, the New York Times continues what must be at least a two year series of reports on one of the hidden tragedies of the Iraq war- the growing tide of combat veterans who come home with traumatic brain injuries. This piece tracks the unfortunate story of Sgt...

Life Imitates Art in Mississippi Supreme Court

Posted on August 25, 2008
In an unprecedented action, the Mississippi Supreme Court attempted to bar the publication of a dissenting opinion by a sitting Supreme Court Justice. The case is a wrongful death case called Mississippi Veterans Affairs Board v. Kraft. One of the issues on appeal involved the statute of limitations, which governs the time limitation for filing a lawsuit...

The New England Journal of Medicine Offers the Supreme Court Some Advice on Drug Company Liability

Posted on August 18, 2008
No drug company wants to face the massive liability created when a Fen-phen or Vioxx is exposed as being dangerous. Thus, much has been made in the press of the new in vogue defense employed by big drug companies. They argue that because prescription drugs are federally regulated, companies that make dangerous drugs are not responsible for their side effects...

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