The diabetes drug Avandia, once the world’s top-selling diabetes medication, took two more hits with one new study linking it to an increased risk of heart attacks and a separate study linking it to an increased risk of heart failure and stroke. The research comes only weeks before an upcoming…
A jury has ruled that Enterprise Rent-A-Car must pay $15 million to the family of two girls who died in a fiery car crash in 2004 in one of the company’s rental cars. Raechel and Jacqueline Houck were riding in a rented Chrysler PT Cruiser when the car crashed, killing…
An $835,000 settlement has been reached in a lawsuit filed against the city of Louisville over an accident with a police cruiser that killed a local man in 2006. Donnie Puente was standing next to his car in the emergency lane on a Kentucky highway when a police car driven…
The National Law Journal (6/11, Bronstad) reports, “Dozens of sudden-acceleration lawsuits filed against Toyota Motor Corp. in California’s state courts will be coordinated in Los Angeles. California Chief Justice Ronald George issued an order to that effect on Tuesday, following a hearing on May 21 when Los Angeles County, Calif.,…
The AP (6/11) reports, “Texas jury has awarded $82.5 million in damages to the family of a man who died in a 2007 explosion at a natural gas processing plant in Hood County. Houston-based Hanover Compressions L.P., which has since been renamed Exterran Energy Solutions L.P., constructed, engineered and installed…
The Wall Street Journal (6/11, B4, Whalen, Mundy) reports that David Graham, an FDA drug-safety official argues in a new study that the diabetes drug Avandia (rosiglitazone) may have led to thousands of heart problems that could have been prevented if patients had been using a different medication. The agency…
An Alabama woman has filed a lawsuit against the city of Huntsville, Ala., and three police officers that were involved in a police chase in May 2008, which resulted in the death of her husband. Darren Spurlock was killed in a car accident when he was hit by a woman…
A subcontractor trying to install an electrical pole hit a 36-inch natural gas transmission line south of Pecan Plantation today, leading to a huge gas explosion that burned for more than two hours. Two or three people, most likely workers at the scene of the blast, were missing, officials said,…
The widow of long-time actor David Carradine has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against film production company MS2 S.A., claiming they did not provide Carradine with “sufficient assistance” while he was shooting a movie for them. Carradine died last June and his death, which was initially thought to have been…
A Myrtle Beach hospital has been ordered to pay $2.88 million to the husband of a woman who died from a seizure after being treated by a hospital doctor in 2002. The South Carolina jury determined that Grand Strand Regional Medical Center and Dr. Stephen Law were negligent in the…