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• FDA Meeting Held to Address Complaints About the Medical Device Approval Process

  Carrie Strasser | April 27, 2009 2:44 PM | 8 CommentsCape Cod, MA

  The New York Times reported last week that a rare internal meeting was held by the FDA on Wednesday to address the complaints surrounding the medical device approval process. Dr. Donna-Bea...

• Do You Know Who "Owns" Your Mortgage

  Bruce Bierhans | February 13, 2009 2:17 PM | 4 CommentsStoughton / Canton, MA

  I was in court the other day in Boston for oral argument in one of our predatory lending cases. I joked with the defense lawyer and asked if he knew who his client was today. When the case started,...

• Swine Flu Vaccine Makers Get Immunity

  Carrie Strasser | July 20, 2009 1:58 PM | 3 CommentsStoughton / Canton, MA

  Secretary of Health and Human Services, Kathleen Sebelius, signed a document last month that gives vaccine makers and federal officials immunity from lawsuits that might arise surrounding any new...

• Lasik and the Patients Right to Know

  Bruce Bierhans | April 26, 2008 11:30 AM | 3 CommentsCape Cod, MA

  In the summer of 2001, I tried a landmark case in Worcester, Massachusetts. I represented the family of a young man with hemophilia that died from receiving clotting concentrate infected with the...

• Maclaren Stroller Recall: Free Repair Kit Costs More Than Its Worth

  Steven Schafer | November 16, 2009 12:01 AM | 2 CommentsBoston, MA

  On November 9, 2009, Maclaren USA, the American subsidiary of the British manufacturer of umbrella strollers and other children’s products, “voluntarily” recalled about 1 million...

• Bedrails can kill patients

  Steven Schafer | February 25, 2009 10:27 AM | 2 CommentsBoston, MA

  Despite federal safety regulations and an increased awareness of the dangers of using bedrails at long-term care facilities and hospitals, patients continue to die from suffocation, strangulation or...

• The Bank "We Want to Help You" Scam Continues

  Bruce Bierhans | January 31, 2009 3:33 PM | 2 CommentsStoughton / Canton, MA

  A follow up to my recent comments regarding the banks repeated representations that they want to help homwowners modify their mortgages. Last Sunday in a local newspaper, , there was a letter...

• Lawyers Can Say "No"

  Bruce Bierhans | July 19, 2008 11:07 AM | 2 CommentsCape Cod, MA

  In my home town of Wellfleet, there is an ongoing controversy regarding the construction of what is now knows as the "Blasch" house. The home, referred to as a "McMansion", will be situated in one...

• Another MBTA Accident

  Bruce Bierhans | May 30, 2008 11:24 AM | 2 CommentsStoughton / Canton, MA

  This week, another horrible accident happened on the T. Interestingly, a few weeks ago, another client contacted our office about an accident on the same trolley line. She indicated that the trolley...

• Protecting Consumers from Binding Arbitration Clauses

  Ken Margolin | July 26, 2007 6:20 PM | 2 CommentsBoston, MA

  Big corporations love binding arbitration clauses. They are hidden in many contracts, requiring the individual to give up his or her right to a jury trial in the case of a dispute with the company. Some clauses attempt to block class actions. When large corporations are safe from class actions, they can cheat large numbers of people in small increments, knowing that paying off the few...