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Do drug companies protect profits by unethical means?

Posted: February 7, 2012 Pharmaceutical

Sometimes it is hard to know whom you can trust. But trust is of the utmost importance when it involves human life. Unfortunately, drug companies are apparently demonstrating they are more interested in profits than in protecting the consumers who

Brain injury lawsuits against NFL consolidated in Philadelphia

Posted: February 2, 2012 Personal Injury

The National Football League (NFL) is being hit with a growing number of lawsuits filed by former NFL players and their families blaming the league for dementia and other brain diseases linked to repeated concussions.

Yaz lawyers oppose former FDA chief’s testimony

Posted: February 1, 2012 Pharmaceutical

Drug giant Bayer is not at all happy that a former Food and Drug Administration (FDA) chief has been tapped to testify against the drug company in a multidistrict litigation (MDL) focusing on the safety of Bayer’s top-selling birth control

Family of Florida medical flight crash victim sue helicopter’s owners, operator

Posted: January 25, 2012 Product Liability

The family of a medical technician who was killed when the heart-transplant helicopter he was on crashed December 26 is suing the helicopter’s owners and operator saying they hope others may be spared having to experience such a “horrible, horrible”

Lawsuit says city, state could have prevented deadly I-10 New Orleans pileup

Posted: January 24, 2012 Product Liability

A Pearl River, Louisiana, resident who was injured in the December 29 pileup on Interstate 10 in New Orleans has filed a lawsuit against the city of New Orleans and other defendants, alleging a combination of negligent acts caused the

First Yaz trial will be April 30 if mediation fails

Posted: January 20, 2012 Pharmaceutical

If mediation fails between Bayer and lawyers for the defendant, the first Yaz/Yasmin trial against the drug company will start on April 30. U.S. District Judge David Herndon ordered the mediation earlier this month in an attempt to settle the

Two wrongful death lawsuits filed after Las Vegas helicopter crash

Posted: January 20, 2012 Product Liability

Two wrongful-death lawsuits have been filed against Sundance Helicopters Inc., the Las Vegas, Nevada-based aerial tour company that lost one of its aircraft December 7 in a remote canyon near Lake Mead and Hoover Dam, killing four passengers and the

SSRI exposure late in pregnancy increases risk for PPHN

Posted: January 19, 2012 Pharmaceutical

The risk of a fetus developing a rare but life threatening lung defect is relatively low. But if a mother takes a common class of antidepressant medication late in her pregnancy, the risk for her baby to develop the condition

Final settlements reached in WV mine explosion, criminal charges likely to follow

Posted: January 19, 2012 Personal Injury

Alpha Natural Resources, the new owner of West Virginia’s Upper Big Branch Mine, has settled with the remaining families of the miners who were killed in an April 2010 explosion, believed to be the worst mining disaster in 40 years.

First Yaz lawsuit ordered to mediation for potential settlement

Posted: January 9, 2012 Pharmaceutical

The first of more than 10,000 lawsuits against Bayer over its birth control pills Yaz and Yasmin won’t go to trial this week as planned because a judge appointed a mediator in hopes of settling the case. The lawsuit accused