Dallas Fort Worth Injury Lawyer Blog

November 7, 2010

Texas Benzene Cancer Exposure Attorney

As a Texas Benzene Cancer Exposure Attorney, I frequently write articles about this new scourge of the 21st century.

I firmly believe, based on my medical knowledge, that all this drilling and fracking for oil and gas is setting us up for a new wave of benzene induced cancers, particularly leukemias.

Earlier this year, there was a huge gas leakage at BP’s Texas City refinery, which led to the company having to flare gases. As the company worked to fix the leakage, approximately 530,000 pounds of noxious pollutants were released into the Texas City air. This included 17,000 pounds of benzene, a known carcinogen.

November 6, 2010

BP Oil and Gas Pipelines in Alaska Exposed to Severe Corrosion

by Dr. Shezad Malik

As a Fort Worth Benzene Toxic Spill attorney, I read with interest the following article regarding BP’s petroleum operations in Alaska. The last pristine wild-life area in the world is at great risk for an environmental disaster of immense proportions. This another in a series of articles that I am writing regarding the toxic exposure we are experiencing.

The huge pipeline system that moves oil, gas and waste throughout BP’s petroleum operations in Alaska, has severe corrosion, according to an internal report.

The report states that 148 BP pipelines on Alaska’s North Slope have received an “F-rank’ from the company.

November 4, 2010

Houston Medical License Attorney

by Dr. Shezad Malik

Houston Physician Services & Professional License Defense

Having worked in both academic teaching hospitals and private hospitals through out the United States, Dr. Malik understands, perhaps better than most, the hard work and effort it takes to achieve the medical license and then to maintain it. Dr. Shezad Malik Law Firm concentrates in the representation of physicians and medical professionals in all matters relating to their professional license defense.

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November 3, 2010

Austin Medical License Defense Attorney

by Dr. Shezad Malik

Texas License and Medical Staff Privileges

We provide Medical License Defense for all types of medical practitioners. We represent and counsel health care provider clients in licensure and medical staff privilege matters. We handle matters on behalf of physicians, dentists, pharmacists, podiatrists, chiropractors, nurses and other licensed health care providers in Texas and other states.

For a health care provider there can be serious consequences of State licensing actions or hospital adverse actions including criminal actions, actions by other states or hospitals, negative reports to state and national data banks and to third party payors.

November 2, 2010

Texas Man Awarded $4 M in Surgical Sponge Malpractice Suit

by Dr. Shezad Malik

As a Fort Worth Medical Malpractice attorney, I read with interest this Texas medical malpractice case.

A Texas jury awarded $4 million to a man who had a surgical sponge left inside him after a cholecystectomy surgery in 2008.

Several months later, he returned to the hospital with severe stomach pain, according to the law suit. Upon further testing including abdominal ct scan,, it was discovered that a sponge had been accidentally left inside his abdomen.

November 1, 2010

Dallas Depuy Hip Recall Attorney

by Dr. Shezad Malik

As a Dallas Depuy Hip Recall Attorney, I am fielding many calls from concerned plaintiffs regarding their implanted DePuy ASR Metal on Metal Hip prosthesis.

Many plaintiffs are understandably concerned, about what to do next once they receive a certified letter from their orthopedic doctor, allegedly ghost written by DePuy.

Many folks are asked to get a blood test and are asked to sign over their hip surgery medical records. Patients with the metal hip devices have suffered pain and inflammation from device malfunction, and have endured metallosis when the grinding of metal parts in the hip implants releases cobalt and chromium into their bloodstream.

October 31, 2010

Benzene Air Pollutant Linked to Spina Bifida Birth Defect

by Dr. Shezad Malik

As a Fort Worth Benzene Lawsuit Attorney, I have been writing over the past month a series of stories on the Environment and Toxicity.

According to a new study, mothers who live in Texas neighborhoods with higher levels of benzene, a pollutant from refineries and tailpipes, are more likely to have babies with a serious neurological defects.

Texas leads the nation in benzene releases, accounting for more than 34% of emissions.

October 28, 2010

Chromium and Cobalt Poisoning With DePuy ASR Hips

by Dr. Shezad Malik

As a Dallas DePuy Recall attorney I am concern about the risks of Cobalt and Chromium poisoning, resulting from the metal on metal grinding of the DePuy ASR Prosthetic Hips.

In August of this year, DePuy Orthopaedics Inc., recalled the ASR metal-on-metal hip replacement system, admitting that about one out of every eight patients who receives the hip implant may experience early hip failure within five years. The actual ratio of defective hips may be as high as one out of five or 20%, or even higher.

Structeral design and manufacturing problems with the DePuy metal-on-metal hip replacement system allow the toxic release of chromium and cobalt to be absorbed into the blood-stream.

October 26, 2010

DePuy Hip ASR And Metallosis

by Dr. Shezad Malik

As a Fort Worth DePuy Hip Product Liability attorney I took an interesting potential client inquiry. The woman had hip replacement and she has noticed that her hair is falling out in clumps, suggesting toxic metal ion poisoning., which is described below.

DePuy XL ASR Prosthetic Hips are unique, in that they involve metal on metal grinding during a patient’s ambulation. While the metal design may have have sounded good in theory, they have turned out horribly bad in clinical practice.

Patients then develop 2 types of problems. The repetitive grinding motion, leads to microscopic wearing down of the articular surfaces and the release of metallic ions, particularly cobalt and chromium, into the tissues surrounding the hip. The metal becomes fatigued and leads to early failure.

Also there is the resultant loosening and dislocation of the device resulting in the need for early hip revision surgery and/or the release of metal debris causing tissue damage.

This absorption of metallic ions in the tissues, leads to an inflammatory reaction, resulting in pain, swelling and immobility. The absorption of metallic ions into the bloodstream leads to cobalt and chromium toxicity. Polyneuropathy is caused by cobalt–chromium metallosis after total hip replacement. Read the article here.

artificial hip joint; biopsy; metal intoxication; polyneuropathy; toxic neuropathy

October 25, 2010

Fort Worth Artificial Hip With DePuy ASR Replacement?

by Dr. Shezad Malik

Today as a Fort Worth DePuy ASR Hip Lawsuit attorney, I took in a case for DePuy ASR product liability lawsuits that we are filing.

Johnson and Johnson acknowledged in August, with the withdrawal from the market their artificial hips, that there are problems with high failure rates, metal on metal grinding and release of metal ions into the joints.

Now class actions lawsuits are being filed across the nation.

Approximately 30,000 DePuy hips have been implanted in the US alone. There is a Fort Worth orthopedic group that has implanted 800, over the past 6 years.

DePuy is paying orthopedic doctors $50 to hand over their patients medical records and grabbing the artificial joints when they get removed. Both of these acts should be resisted at all costs. This is unethical, and you risk the loss of key evidence of a defective product. We are storing our clients DePuy artificial hips in storage bottled containing formalin.

I would encourage all patients who have had a DePuy hip implanted to seek legal advice, and to safeguard their legal rights. If you have one of the DePuy ASR hip systems, you have the potential of a legal claim. Potential recoveries include compensation for your medical bills, lost wages and your pain and suffering.