We often hear about doctors being involved in multimillion dollar lawsuits, but it is rare that the physician is actually the one suing rather than the one being sued. A Connecticut physician sued the anesthesiologist and hospital where his wife died during routine face-lift surgery for a total of $3.1 million and won. Dr. Alan […]
Pfizer Faces Charges for Experimenting on Children
The world’s largest drug manufacturer, Pfizer Inc., is facing criminal and civil charges in Nigeria. Nigerian officials brought the charges in early May 2007 because of a study eleven years ago in which Pfizer gave children an experimental drug for meningitis called Trovan. Pfizer says its decision to give Trovan to children saved many lives […]
$64 Million Paxil Class-Action Settlement
One of the world’s largest drug manufacturers, GlaxoSmithKline of Great Britain, is in trouble again, this time with their antidepressant drugs Paxil and Paxil CR, the controlled-release version of the drug. Still reeling from the recent FDA announcement that their diabetes drug, Avandia, causes life-threatening cardiac problems, GlaxoSmithKline just learned that parents who bought Paxil […]
Accutane and Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD)
Roche Holding AG, a Swiss drug manufacturer with U.S. operations in Nutley, New Jersey, has been ordered to pay $2.5 million in damages to a 36-year-old man who developed severe Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) after taking the acne medication Accutane. IBD refers to chronic diseases that cause inflammation in the form of painful swelling and […]
New Jersey Docs Trying to Avoid Jury Trials
Some New Jersey obstetricians and gynecologists have begun asking their patients to sign away their right to a jury trial in the event of medical malpractice. More than a dozen New Jersey obstetricians and gynecologists have joined Obstetricians & Gynecologists Risk Retention Group of America (OGRRGA), a new company based in Montana, that is reportedly […]
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