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Chinese drywall could become the new asbestos – a building substance that’s the target of a growing number of lawsuits.
About 150 lawsuits already have been filed over Chinese drywall, including about a dozen in Mississippi, and the number is growing almost daily, based upon federal court records. The cases will be consolidated into a class-action lawsuit in federal court in New Orleans.
A U.S. judge said he would declare a mistrial in a case against Merck & Co over its Fosamax osteoporosis drug if a jury could not reach a unanimous verdict by the end of business on Friday.
U.S. District Court Judge John Keenan in New York was responding to a motion for mistrial on Wednesday by a lawyer for a Florida woman who sued the drug company, claiming Fosamax caused damage to her jaw.
Lawyer Timothy O’Brien, representing 71-year-old Shirley Boles of Walton Beach, Florida, told the court that notes from one woman juror indicated she felt intimidated or threatened.
The YAZ birth control pill, manufactured and marketed by Bayer Pharmaceuticals has been linked to a number of serious, life-threatening side effects. Yaz, which is nearly identical to Yasmin birth control, is a newer type of oral contraceptive sold by Bayer. It has been aggressively marketed without adequate warnings about potentially life-threatening side effects.
Yaz, a birth control pill linked to blood clots, heart attacks and strokes, has been the subject of a misleading marketing campaign.
Deceptive Yaz commercials prompted the Food & Drug Administration (FDA) to issue Bayer a warning letter, and the company was forced to correct its false advertising.
Bayer’s Yaz campaign not only made false claims about the benefits of the drug, it also downplayed the serious side effects – including life-threatening blood clots – known to be associated with Yaz. Because of Bayer’s false advertising, millions of women took Yaz without being fully aware of the drug’s health risks.
The hearing on the Petition to consolidate the Yaz, Yasmin and Ocella product liability litigation in the Northern District of Ohio has been set for September 24, 2009 in Richmond, Virginia.
The hearing will be held before the Judicial Panel on Multi -District Litigation. If the case is consolidated as an “MDL” case it will be sent to a single judge for case management purposes. For a detailed explanation of the workings and purpose of an MDL you may go to our earlier blog article.
A Dallas attorney says he will file Tuesday to reopen 15 lawsuits involving rollover accidents as a result of allegations by a former Toyota lawyer that the company withheld or destroyed crash safety data it should have disclosed in up to 300 civil lawsuits.
Lawyer Todd Tracy says he will seek to reopen the cases on the basis of fraud and racketeering if Toyota (TM) deleted or didn’t hand over files as required.
Tracy is one of several lawyers revisiting cases in light of allegations made by former Toyota lawyer Dimitrios Biller in his suit against the company. He was involved in cases involving rollovers. Lawyer Richard McCune of Redlands, Calif., filed last week to reopen two cases and sought class-action status. Attorney Tab Turner of Little Rock says he’s watching to see if it makes sense to reopen some of his rollover cases.
The state orders the medical centers to pay $25,000 each in administrative penalties for incidents that in some cases led to death or injury.
Six Southern California hospitals have been fined $25,000 each in administrative penalties for serious violations that, in some cases, led to death or serious injury, according to state Department of Public Health officials.
Children’s Hospital of Orange County was fined because its nursing staff failed to ensure appropriate drainage after a child’s neurological procedure in November, an oversight that led to severe brain injury.
Dr. Maria Minon, the hospital’s chief medical officer, said the hospital “very much” regrets the incident and has adjusted protocols for patient care, increased staff training and added layers of checks and balances to minimize the chance of it occurring again.
Yaz gallbladder disease information and the latest news for women who have suffered from gallstones and Yaz birth control.
In addition to the other injuries caused by birth control pills Yasmin, Yaz and Ocella (including pulmonary embolism, deep vein thrombosis, pancreatitis, stroke, and heart attack), Yaz drug injury lawyers are investigating gallbladder problems.
Doctors and the medical literature report an increase in gallbladder disease among otherwise healthy adults (including young adults), and the only connection appears to be that these women are all taking one of these drospirenone-containing birth control medications.
Doctors speculate that Yaz can increase cholesterol levels in bile while simultaneously decreasing gallbladder contractions, leading to gallstones. This leads many women to have their gallbladder removed (cholecystectomy).
Yasmin/Yaz have been associated with deep vein thrombosis (blood clots), pulmonary embolism, strokes, heart attacks and, as a result of these health consequences, death.
Yasmin/Yaz lawsuits allege product liability, negligence and failure to warn claims against Bayer. There has been in recent months new medical articles have come out regarding Yasmin and Yaz.
Below is a summary of what is out there. The venous thrombotic risk of oral contraceptives, effects of oestrogen dose and progestogen type: results of the MEGA case-control study, BMJ 2009;339:b2921.
Every baseball fan — or at least every attorney who follows baseball — knows that under the doctrine of assumption of the risk a team is not liable for fans injured by, say, foul balls or broken bats.
Now, in a suit filed by a fan whose nose was fractured by a bat at a Brooklyn Cyclones game, a Brooklyn judge has ruled that the doctrine also extends to a bat “propelled” by a player either “warming up” or “horsing around.”
“Among the dangers to which a baseball spectator has consented to is the danger that a loose baseball bat will strike a spectator and cause injury,” Supreme Court Justice Mark I. Partnow held in Elie v. City of New York, 20244/03.
A federal judge presiding over hundreds of lawsuits against Chinese drywall makers and installers said Thursday that he plans to hold the first trial in January 2010 for the cases, which claim the imported products emit sulfur, methane and other chemical compounds that have ruined homes and harmed residents’ health.
U.S. District Judge Eldon Fallon told attorneys that he expects them to pick six plaintiffs whose cases could be tried in early 2010, with the first trial starting in January.
Kerry Miller, a lead lawyer for companies named as defendants in the suits, said defense attorneys may need more time to prepare for the first batch of bellwether trials. Russ Herman, a lead plaintiffs lawyer, said he supports Fallon’s scheduling plan.
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