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• Hot Coffee Movie - Premieres on HBO Tomorrow June 27

  Brett Emison | June 26, 2011 11:30 AM | 0 CommentsKansas City, MO

  Hot Coffee, a documentary film by Susan Saladoff, premieres on HBO tomorrow night at 9 pm (Eastern) / 8 pm (Central). The film explores what really happened in the infamous McDonald's hot coffee...

• 'Hot Coffee' Documentary Uncovers Truths About How Injury Victims' Rights Are Consistently Denied

  Richard N. (Rick) Shapiro | June 26, 2011 11:24 AM | 2 CommentsNorfolk, Portsmouth & Hampton, VA

  I'll keep this post short, writing little more than my insistence that if you watch no other documentary this year, you make the time to watch Hot Coffee. The film debuts on HBO, Monday, June 27,...

• Injured Reglan Patients Loose Rights to Compensation

  Joe Saunders | June 26, 2011 10:40 AM | 0 CommentsSarasota, FL

  This week the U.S. Supreme Court eliminated drug consumers rights to sue generic drug manufacturers. In reviewing cases brought by consumers of the anti-nausea drug Reglan which is generically sold...

• Metal on Metal Hip Implants-New is not Always Improved

  Joe Saunders | June 26, 2011 10:21 AM | 0 CommentsPinellas, FL

  Today's New York Times discusses the American impuse to assume that the newest innovation is probably the best solution in hip implant and hip replacement surgery. The writer points out what many...

• Hot Coffee: Time for the Truth!

  Mike Bryant | June 26, 2011 9:31 AM | 0 CommentsSt. Cloud, MN

  9 pm Eastern Monday, June 27th is the HBO premiere of Hot Coffee -- a documentary about the fictions and false alarms that threaten the civil justice system. I have seen parts of it , and it really...

• Hot Coffee Premieres on HBO Monday, June 27

  David Mittleman | June 25, 2011 6:00 PM | 0 CommentsLansing, MI

  A couple of weeks ago I wrote about so-called tort reform and how it operates to protect corporations at the expense of individuals. This anti-consumer movement began following the now-famous (or...

• Congress Must Make Generic Drugmakers More Accountable in Wake of 'Bizarre' Failure to Warn Decision

  Richard N. (Rick) Shapiro | June 25, 2011 11:45 AM | 1 CommentNorfolk, Portsmouth & Hampton, VA

  The U.S. Supreme Court on June 23, 2011, published a 5-4 decision in favor the generic drugmaker Pliva that many commentators are calling a pass on side effect warnings. I lean toward a less dire...

• Drunk Driving : Real Life Story

  Mike Bryant | June 25, 2011 9:17 AM | 0 CommentsSt. Cloud, MN

  The Minneapolis Tribune had a sad but true follow up on a recent DUI sentencing. The story looked at the two people involved. The Driver: Kristin Kealy, a single mother who had a clean driving...

• Disaster Assistance Available for Alamance County, NC, Residents & Businesses

  Pierce Egerton | June 24, 2011 7:01 PM | 0 CommentsGreensboro, NC

  Many of my neighbors in Alamance County suffered major damage in the tornadoes and storms of April 16, 2011. They will be happy to learn that yesterday the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)...

• Wrong Site Surgery Still a Risk

  Beth Janicek | June 24, 2011 5:35 PM | 0 CommentsSan Antonio, TX

  In 2004, the Joint Commission, a Chicago-based group that accredits the nation’s hospitals, unveiled mandatory rules intended to prevent operations on the wrong patient or body part. The...