As a personal injury attorney, medical doctor and concerned environmentalist I have decided to team up with my very good friend, Spencer Aronfeld of the Aronfeld Law Firm. Today we are going to the Gulf Coast to assess for ourselves first hand the impact of this environmental catastrophe. What will…
Driven deep into Gulf Coast waterways by wind and seasonally high tides, the spreading oil slick from the Deepwater Horizon accident could cause serious ecological and wildlife-health consequences long after signs of surface damage have been erased. Independent studies of several major oil spills, including the 1989 Exxon Valdez accident,…
Frank Campo thinks the oil spill approaching the marshes east of New Orleans may destroy his community. Campo, who runs Campo’s Marina in St. Bernard Parish’s Shell Beach, says the response to the spill is too little and too late to prevent economic disaster for the commercial and recreational fishermen…
We blogged on Thursday about the initial lawsuits getting filed over the huge oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Those suits, however, are likely to turn out to represent just the tip of the iceberg in regard to the legal trouble likely facing a host of defendants, including BP,…
The results of a new study found that the side effects of Accutane, an acne drug that is also known as generic isotretinoin, increases the risk of developing inflammatory bowel problems. The study, conducted by the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, was published March 30 in the American Journal…
As oil edged toward the Louisiana coast, fears continued to grow that the leak from the seabed oil well could spiral out of control. One official at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, said the oil flow could grow from the current estimate of 5,000 barrels a day to “an…
BP PLC said Friday that it would honor all “legitimate claims” for damages stemming from the Louisiana oil spill, as the company’s stock continued to fall amid investors’ concerns about potential litigation and a total clean-up bill that could run well into the billions of dollars. The disaster was set…
British Petroleum downplayed the possibility of a catastrophic accident at an offshore rig that exploded, causing the worst U.S. oil spill in decades along the Gulf Coast and endangering shoreline habitat. In its 2009 exploration plan and environmental impact analysis for the well, BP suggested it was unlikely, or virtually…
Bayer recently released its Annual Report for 2009. The report is 274 pages long. Here are the highlights: * By Bayer’s count, as of February 15, 2010, about 1,100 lawsuits were filed against it by women injured by Yaz or Yasmin. * Yaz and Yasmin are Bayer’s best-selling pharmaceutical products…
It’s looking much more likely that the oil spill from a BP well blowout in the Gulf of Mexico will have political ramifications in the U.S. The situation in the Gulf deteriorated again as the U.S. Coastguard revealed that oil is gushing from the damaged well five times faster than…