Posts tagged defective products

• $10 Million Awarded To Asbestos Widow

  M. Brandon Smith | August 04, 2006 7:45 PM | 0 CommentsAtlanta, GA Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  A Jury in the Newport News Circuit Court awarded $10.4 million to the widow of a shipyard worker who died from lung cancer after four years of exposure to asbestos containing products. The wrongful death lawsuit was brought against three companies that manufactured the materials: John Crane Inc., Denver's Johns Manville Corp., and Garlock Sealing Technologies. According to the...

• Second Federal Vioxx Trial Begins

  M. Brandon Smith | August 03, 2006 4:12 PM | 0 CommentsAtlanta, GA Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  In New Orleans, Louisiana, Merck and Co. is defending its second federal trial involving the controversial pain killer Vioxx. The Plaintiff in this case is a retired FBI agent, Gerald Burns, who took Vioxx for approximately 32 months prior to his heart attack in August of 2002. The trial, which began on Monday, is scheduled to last only two weeks in front of the presiding Judge Eldon E. Fallon...

• Defense Verdict In First California Vioxx Trial

  M. Brandon Smith | August 03, 2006 12:02 PM | 0 CommentsAtlanta, GA Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  A Los Angeles jury found in favor of Merck and Co. in California's first Vioxx trial. The jury found that Vioxx did not cause 71 year-old Stewart Grossberg's heart attack in 2001. The defense showed Grossberg had high cholesterol, arteriosclerosis, and a family history of cardiac problems. Merck and Co. has vowed to keep defending the withdrawn pain medication one by one.According to...

• First California Vioxx Trial Goes To The Jury

  M. Brandon Smith | August 02, 2006 10:36 AM | 0 CommentsAtlanta, GA Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  Jury deliberations are set to begin today in the first Vioxx trial in California. This case involves a Stewart Grossberg, 71, who took Vioxx beginning in 1999 to manage joint pain in his knees and hands. Grossberg suffered a heart attack in 2001 and attributes that event to his use of Vioxx. In this trial, Grossberg and his attorneys, contend that Merck, the manufacture of Vioxx, was negligent...

• Actonel Same Problems As Fosamax?

  M. Brandon Smith | June 15, 2006 7:00 AM | 1 CommentAtlanta, GA Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  I was recently asked about Actonel, a bisphosphonate used to treat sufferers of osteoporosis, and if it was known to cause osteonecrosis like Fosamax, Zometa, and Aredia. The short answer is YES. All of these drugs are members of the family of drugs known as bisphosphonates. A link has been found between bisphosphonates and a bone disease called osteonecrosis of the jaw (ONJ). Bisphosphonates...

• $111 Million Suit Filed Against Home Depot

  M. Brandon Smith | June 14, 2006 9:36 AM | 0 CommentsAtlanta, GA Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  Jay and Laura Flynn recently filed a $111 Million suit against Home Depot and the manufacture of a defective grout-sealing product the mega home retailer sold them in July of 2005. According to the complaint, the product's fumes permanently damaged his lungs and dramatically affected every facet of his daily life.According to the AJC.comFlynn's breathing difficulties have caused him to quit his...

• Vioxx: New Insight On The VIGOR Study

  M. Brandon Smith | June 08, 2006 2:42 PM | 0 CommentsAtlanta, GA Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  Did Merck & Co. act appropriately back in 1999 when it discovered the dangers of heart attack and stroke associated with its product Vioxx? A new article published in today's NPR puts that question to the test by questioning three renown scientists who are authorities on heart disease and clinical studies about the VIGOR study. For more information about this article on the VIGOR study click here

• First California Vioxx Trial to Start June 21, 2006

  M. Brandon Smith | June 08, 2006 9:13 AM | 0 CommentsAtlanta, GA Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  With the first of two Vioxx trials to start on June 21, 2006, Merck & Co. has filed a motion for summary judgment on the case of a 73 year-old man who had a heart attack after taking Vioxx. The basis of the motion is that the lawsuit was filed after the statute of limitations had ran in California. A hearing on that motion is set for June 15, 2006. Although the motion is most likely to be...

• Two-Thirds Of Eye Fungus Sufferers Connected To Bausch & Lomb

  M. Brandon Smith | June 07, 2006 11:53 AM | 0 CommentsAtlanta, GA Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has noted that nearly two-thirds of contact lens wearers who contracted eye infections reported using Bausch & Lomb's ReNu with Mositureloc. The number of confirmed cases of fungal infection or Fusarium keratitis, has increased to dramatically in recent days to a number well over 100 according to the CDC. According to ABCNEWS.ComWithout eye-drop...

• Jury Selected In Latest Vioxx Trial

  M. Brandon Smith | June 05, 2006 10:28 AM | 0 CommentsAtlanta, GA Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  A jury panel of 5 women and 5 men has been selected in the latest trial asserted against Vioxx in Atlantic City, New Jersey. In this trial, the drug manufacture Merck & Co. is defending its pain mediation against the allegations of Elaine Doherty, a 68-year-old grandmother who suffered a heart attack after taking Vioxx for 3 years.According to Reuters. Com"She had no idea that Vioxx could cause...