Posts tagged lawyer

• Hawaii Diabetes Alert: Actos diabetes medication linked to bladder cancer

  Wayne Parsons | May 15, 2012 5:38 AM | 0 CommentsHonolulu, HI Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  Actos is a diabetes drug that has been linked to bladder cancer. Actos' single ingredient is Pioglitazone. A medication called Duetact is a combination of Pioglitazone and Glimepiride....

• Drywall From China Causes Concern Over Sulfur Odor In Homes

  Wayne Parsons | January 02, 2009 11:51 AM | 34 CommentsHonolulu, HI Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  Chinese drywall causes concern in Lee Sulfur odor prompts material testing in some Lee homes By MARY WOZNIAK, mwozniak@news-press.com and...

• Austin, Texas Scaffold Collapse Results In Three Deaths At 21 Rio Condo Project Construction Site

  Wayne Parsons | June 11, 2009 3:21 AM | 0 CommentsHonolulu, HI Category: Workplace Injuries
  

  Probably the worst fear at a construction site is the collapse of a scaffolding. Today I came across such a story out of Austin, Texas where a scaffolding collapsed at a project called 21 Rio Condo...

• A Plaintiffs Attorney Reflects on Injury, Hardship, Disappointment and Loss - Law As Poetry

  Wayne Parsons | May 05, 2009 5:01 AM | 1 CommentHonolulu, HI Category: Spinal Cord Injuries
  

  They are all injured - my clients. Their lives have been visited by misfortune. Sometimes their house is falling down or some variation of that theme. Sometimes an insurance adjuster working for a...

• CPSC Chair Tenenbaum Seeks China's Help In Paying Chinese Drywall Claims in U.S.

  Wayne Parsons | October 16, 2009 10:57 AM | 14 CommentsHonolulu, HI Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  The story of ruined homes, hopes and dreams in the U.S. Southeast has been raging in the news for almost a year: Drywall From China Causes Concern Over Sulfur Odor In Homes - by Wayne Parsons...

• Passenger Dies In Car Crash Early On January 1, 2009

  Wayne Parsons | January 02, 2009 12:21 PM | 0 CommentsHonolulu, HI Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  As the celebrations ended on New Years eve a 23-year-old man behind the wheel of a speeding sedan lost control of his car on Likelike Highway near Kamehameha IV Road. The car went off the road,...

• Medical Malpractice Expenditures Comprise Less Than 1 Percent Of Overall Health Costs

  Wayne Parsons | October 27, 2008 2:42 AM | 14 CommentsHonolulu, HI Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  We hear a lot of propaganda from medical professionals, insurance companies and politicians who try to place the blame for America’s skyrocketing health care costs on the so-called medical...

• The History Of Tort Reform - A Story of Corporate Greed And A Conspiracy Against Justice For The People

  Wayne Parsons | May 02, 2009 5:13 PM | 7 CommentsHonolulu, HI Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  “It is no secret that, for more than three decades, business interests have invested billions of dollars to sell the public a distorted view of a legal system that is justi- fiably...

• President of DePuy Orthopedics, David Floyd, has submitted his resignation

  Wayne Parsons | August 15, 2011 4:53 AM | 1 CommentHonolulu, HI Category: Medical Devices & Implants
  

  When I first learned of the DePuy ASR hip implant recall, I recognized it for what it was: an absolute calamity. One in 8 of these devices would fail, according to the recall statement. Who would...

• Texas medical injuries mount as malpractice laws protect negligent doctors and hospitals.

  Wayne Parsons | August 13, 2011 2:50 PM | 22 CommentsHonolulu, HI Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  Today I report the sad saga of Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas, Texas. As reported by Jamie Stengle of the Associated Press in Forbes, Feds: Parkland conditions a 'threat' to patients a Texas...