Monthly Archives: March 2010

March 28, 2010

Life-Threatening Baby Slings Sold In Massachusetts Recalled

The Consumer Product Safety Commission, in cooperation with Infantino, LLC, issued a recall on March 24, 2010 of two models of baby slings that have caused at least three infants to fatally suffocate. The models – “SlingRider” and “Wendy Bellissimo” – were sold from January 2003 through March 2010 at Walmart, Burlington Coat Factory, Target, [...]

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March 26, 2010

Massachusetts Man Wins $1.5 Million In Table Saw Case

In a recent Boston Globe article, reporter Jenn Abelson covered a $1.5 million jury verdict in favor of a Malden man, Carlos Osorio, in a products liability action against a table saw manufacturer that claimed the saw was defective because it was not equipped with “flesh detection technology” that would have caused the blade to [...]

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March 26, 2010

Link Roundup (Week Of 3/22/10)

Dallas personal injury lawyer Bob Kraft (I assure you, he’s a totally different guy than the Bob Kraft we New Englanders tend to think of, not to mention a much better lawyer than the other Kraft) and New York medical malpractice lawyer Eric Turkewitz had good posts this week on how the new health care [...]

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Posted in Medical Malpractice
March 24, 2010

Journal Article Reveals Undisclosed Conflicts Of Interest In Avandia Studies

Professor Alberto Bernabe’s Torts blog has a good round-up of the recent coverage of a British Medical Journal article revealing undisclosed financial ties between researchers who discounted a link between the diabetes drug and heart attacks and the drug’s maker, GlaxoSmithKline. In 2007, the FDA issued a warning that Avandia may elevate a patient’s risks [...]

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Posted in Pharmaceutical Litigation, Products Liability
March 21, 2010

Plaintiff Loses In First Seroquel Trial To Go To Jury Verdict

It’s been reported that the first Seroquel trial to go to jury verdict anywhere in the country has resulted in a loss for the plaintiff, with jurors voting 7-1 on Wednesday that AstraZeneca, Seroquel’s manufacturer, adequately warned the plaintiff’s doctors about Seroquel’s putting the plaintiff at an elevated risk for diabetes. Seroquel is a pharmaceutical [...]

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Posted in Dangerous and Defective Products, Pharmaceutical Litigation, Seroquel
March 20, 2010

The Checklist Manifesto: How To Get Things Right (A Book Review)

Medicine has made amazing advances over the past century. At the beginning of the century, doctors killed more patients than they saved. We’ve only known the that hypertension, smoking, diabetes and cholesterol contribute to heart disease for a few decades, yet we’ve made incredible strides in treating heart disease. How have our doctors changed in [...]

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Posted in Medical Malpractice
March 18, 2010

On Uncontrolled Acceleration And Black Boxes

Last week, big business shill Theodore H. Frank wrote an op-ed drawing on data from a Los Angeles Times article reviewing the fifty-six fatalities attributed to sudden uncontrolled acceleration problems with Toyotas. Frank noted that, in about half of the car crashes, the driver’s age could be ascertained from the LAT‘s compilation and the ages [...]

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Posted in Car Accident, Car Crash, Product Recall, Tort Reformers
March 13, 2010

What Medical Malpractice Lawyers And Hedge Fund Managers Have In Common

I’m currently reading Michael Lewis’ new book The Big Short: Inside The Doomsday Machine, about the subprime mortgage collapse. (Side note: while I was happy to see Sandra Bullock win an Oscar the other night for her role in the movie production of Lewis’ book The Blind Side, where was the Oscar nom for Tim [...]

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Posted in Medical Malpractice, Tort Reformers
March 11, 2010

FDA To Investigate Link Between Osteoporosis Drugs And Femur Fractures

In response to research and media reports suggesting a link between a certain class of osteoporosis drugs – known as oral bisphosphonates – and femur fractures, the FDA announced yesterday that it is working with outside experts to insure that the osteoporosis drugs are safe. Fosamax, Actonel, Boniva and Reclast are all oral bisphosphonates, the [...]

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Posted in Dangerous and Defective Products, Fosamax, Products Liability
March 10, 2010

NHTSA Investigators To Probe Massachusetts Toyota Crash

The Boston Globe reports today that experts from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration will soon descend upon Cape Code to investigate a car accident where a Harwich woman’s 2010 RAV4 drove through the wall of a doctor’s office in Yarmouth. The woman reported that her car accelerated after she depressed the brake. The woman [...]

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Posted in Car Accident, Car Crash, Product Recall