Ms. Benetta Buell-Wilson of San Diego, California was awarded $82.6 million in personal injury damages from Ford after a crash in 2002. She had swerved to avoid a metal object and lost control of the 1997 Explorer she was driving, causing it to roll four and a half times. Ms. Buell-Wilson was paralyzed when the […]
Drug Manufacturer Marketing Flaw : Positive Advertising Leaves Liability
Based on a publication of the Los Angeles Times, there has been a recent “explosion” of lawsuits dealing exlusively with product liability. According to research from Thomson West, plaintiffs have filed over 71,000 product liability suits since 2001 in federal courts, and then “untold others” in state courts. Prescription drug lawsuits currently account for over […]
New Lawsuits Filed Against Lipitor
A total of 17 new lawsuits were filed on July 14th, 2006 in the New York State Supreme Court. The suits were from California, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Jersey, New York, and Virginia. Pfizer’s Lipitor has successfully become the best-selling drug in the world with its effective marketing scheme, with sales over $15 billion in […]
Death After Compensation
Mervyn Winter had worked at an ice cream factory for years, from 1951 to 1978, never realizing that he was contracting mesothelioma. He had been a night shift overseer at an old ice cream factory called Amscol where his nightly assignment of stirring the milk vats brought him up a flight of stairs and past […]
Influenza Pandemic And The Work Force
Early this year, the Bush administraton released a “Pandemic Influenza Plan” with the hopes of deterring potential victims away from the reality of a viral flu which has been an issue in this nation for several years. The fact of the issue is that the plan has no comprehensive strategy for protecting those workers who […]
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