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“The Easy Case For Products Liability Law,” a Harvard Law Review article by Professors Goldberg and Zipursky, defending products liability law. Professor Alberto Bernabe reports on the $21 million verdict that a New Hampshire jury returned against a pharmaceutical company. The plaintiff in the case developed Stevens-Johnson Syndrome from her use of a generic nonsteroidal [...]

I want to go on vacation with Eric Turkewitz. He definitely goes on way cooler vacations. [New York Personal Injury Law Blog]. Over at Torts, law professor Alberto Bernabe covers an ethically troubling phenomenon: the outsourcing of pediatric clinical trials. More and more pediatric clinical trials are being conducted outside the United States. Nearly forty [...]

You probably saw the news a couple weeks ago that Boston Scientific’s division Guidant, LLC agreed to plead guilty to two federal misdemeanor counts and pay a $296m fine in connection with its sale of defective heart devices. The backstory involves reprehensible conduct on the part of some executives: aware of the fact that these [...]

CNN reports on the latest research studying the relation between Neurontin (gabapentin), Depakote and several other drugs and an increased risk of suicide, including the new Journal of the American Medical Association article on the subject.

Sometime ago, I read a favorable review of a documentary called The Last Campaign. (I believe the review was by David Yas, the editor of Mass Lawyers Weekly, but I cannot be certain.) The movie made its way into my Netflix queue and arrived in my mailbox this weekend. The movie depicts the 2004 re-election [...]

I recently came across this statistic: in 2008 more US Marines died in motorcycle accidents than died in Iraq. The actual numbers: twenty-five Marines died in motorcycle accidents in 2008, twenty-two Marines were killed in Operation Iraqi Freedom. In response, the Marine Corps has produced “Semper Ride,” a motorcycle safety film. The film features many [...]