Uh-oh – it looks as though the makers of Tamiflu could have a potential controversy on their hands. Due to new reports of “bizarre” behavior and deaths related to falls and other similar behavior, new warnings may be placed on Tamiflu labels. Doctors and parents are being told to watch for signs of
We all hear the jokes and the stories about HMO plans – they’re expensive, unpopular, and many people find them a pain to deal with. Well, a recent jury verdict in Illinois will do nothing but reinforce many beliefs about HMOs. A health maintenance organization hired by the government to provide cov
Here’s to hoping I find a dead rat in my salad sometime soon! If I find a dead rat in a salad, I have the potential to recover $1.7 million for my “emotional and physical pain and suffering,” not to mention my “change in dining habits.” If one of my parents were to unfortunately die as a result of m
Keep in mind that Louisiana’s neighbor to the West, a little state known as Texas, has a cap on non-economic damages (i.e., all of the pain and suffering that one has to endure for a lifetime as a result of a serious injury or loss of a loved one) of $250,000 or $500,000 (depending on the number and
I know this isn’t one of my customary topics, but news like this just doesn’t come up all that often. We’ve all been to a doctor or nurse whose bedside manner or treatment practices we have questioned. Most health care litigation attorneys have even met (and deposed) some real nut jobs (that is the
Toymaker Playskool and the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission issued a recall Friday of about 255,000 of its “Team Talkin’ Tool Bench” toys following the deaths of two young children.Playskool, a unit of Hasbro Inc., said it received reports that a 19-month-old boy from Martinsburg, W.Va., and
We’ve all read the articles that medical errors harm hundreds of thousands, if not over a million people every year. This time, an easily preventable medication error took the life of multiple infants. Lena Nelson had looked forward to buying dolls and other presents for her first granddaughter, who
A coroner’s jury in Illinois has ruled that the death of a 49 year old woman while she waited in an emergency room in Lake County, Ill was a homicide. The woman, Beatrice Vance, entered the hospital emergency room in July of 2006, complaining of neasea, shortness of breath and chest pain. Ms. Vance
A Plano, Texas woman who suffered a miscarriage and developed potentially life-threatening blood clots after using the Ortho Evra birth control patch has filed a federal lawsuit against drug manufacturing giant Johnson & Johnson inMarshall, Texas.According to an article on PR Newswire, Elizabeth Bar
A Ventura, California woman received a $20 million civil court judgment against the man that forcibly raped her in 2003. The attacker was recognized weeks later by the victim, after he appeared on the television show “Blind Date.”Ulrick Kevin White was convicted of rape and false imprisonment for th
Merck & Co. was hit with two major legal setbacks over the withdrawn painkiller Vioxx on Thursday when a federal jury in New Orleans ordered the drugmaker to pay $51 million to a heart attack victim, and a state judge in New Jersey overturned a November verdict favoring the company. In New Orleans,
Thousands of consumers who have suffered at the hands of Bausch & Lomb’s ReNu with MoistureLoc have finally received some of the answers they have been looking for. Federal disease control experts and leading eye doctors have formally concluded that ReNu With MoistureLoc from Bausch & Lomb was the o
