Posts tagged lawyer

• FDA Warns of Reclast Kidney Failure Side Effects

  Council Wooten | September 13, 2011 9:34 AM | 0 CommentsOrlando, FL Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  The FDA has announced that it will revise the warning label on Reclast, warning patients about the risk of kidney failure. Reclast was approved by the FDA in 2007 for the treatment of postmenopausal...

• Thousands of Actos Bladder Cancer Lawsuits Expected

  Joe Saunders | January 29, 2012 10:04 AM | 1 CommentPinellas, FL Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  In anticipation of a wave of lawsuits, the federal courts have issued an order coordinating the Actos bladder cancer lawsuits before one judge in the United States District Court for the...

• Pelvic Mesh Implant Lawsuits Move Forward in Courts

  Joe Saunders | February 08, 2012 9:28 PM | 0 CommentsPinellas, FL Category: Medical Devices & Implants
  

  Products liability lawsuits against three different manufacturers of transvaginal surgical mesh devices were assigned to a single federal judge in a multidistrict litigation proceeding this...

• Florida Law on Texting While Driving.

  Kevin Meredith | January 30, 2012 8:37 AM | 1 CommentOrlando, FL Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has called for all states to ban talking, texting and emailing while driving, which includes talking on hands-free devices. As in many other...

• Texting and Driving as Dangerous as Drunk Driving

  Ed Normand | January 18, 2012 3:31 PM | 0 CommentsOrlando, FL Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  Drivers are 23 times more likely to get into an auto accident when texting while driving. Simple messages containing only acronyms can distract a driver long enough to lead to a collision. Text...

• Relief From Unfair Hospital Billing Practices

  Ed Normand | July 24, 2009 1:46 AM | 0 CommentsOrlando, FL Category: Head & Brain Injuries
  

  There is a little known but highly unfair practice in charges for hospital care. That is that a private pay or uninsured patient is charged much more for the exact same services than is charged...

• Airline Companies: Beware of Public Perception. The Public is Watching, Waiting, All Eyes are on You. It’s No Time to Make a Mistake.

  Robert Parks | June 23, 2009 9:38 PM | 3 CommentsMiami, FL Category: Mass Transit (Airline, Cruise Ship, Train, Bus)
  

  As I scan the latest news articles and Google alerts, there seems to an influx of stories focused on air travel safety. Could it be the media playing on the devastating Air France Flight 447...

• Metal on Metal Hip Implant Lawsuits Include Biomet

  Joe Saunders | December 18, 2011 10:09 PM | 1 CommentSarasota, FL Category: Medical Devices & Implants
  

  The wave of metal on metal hip implant lawsuits that have been filed now includes the Biomet Magnum hip replacement device. Legal cases that have been filed over the last few years have been...

• All Metal Hip Implant Failure Rate Climbs

  Joe Saunders | August 26, 2011 11:00 AM | 2 CommentsPinellas, FL Category: Medical Devices & Implants
  

  The FDA Manufacturer and User Data Base documents a surge in complaints about metal on metal artificial hip implants in 2010 continuing into 2011. The New York Times this week published an...

• Trucker Fatigue Prompts For a New Federal Safety Law

  Orman Kimbrough, Jr. | September 08, 2011 9:51 AM | 0 CommentsOrlando, FL Category: Tractor-Trailer Accidents
  

  Federal regulators say that trucker fatigue is causing fatal accidents, even as the number of fatal truck crashes has dropped in recent years after a major overhaul of rules that took effect in...