Oct 7, 2016 | Defective Drugs, Defective Products, Drug Side Effects, Personal Injury, Pharmaceutical Litigation, Product Liability
Pharmaceutical companies have received a bad reputation because of the high prices they charge for their medications. The latest demonstration is making the news with Mylan Pharmaceuticals and its outrageous increase in the cost of EpiPens. Mylan Pharmaceuticals has...
Jul 4, 2016 | Defective Drugs, Defective Products, Drug Side Effects
Many parents and children love the FluMist flu vaccine because it avoids the necessity of receiving another shot. FluMist is approved by the Food and Drug Administration for people between the ages of 2 and 49 as an effective and safe way to guard against the flu...
Jun 22, 2016 | Defective Medical Devices, Defective Products, Personal Injury, Recalled Products
The FDA has identified the recall of battery packs used with the Capnostream™ 20 and Capnostream™ 20p Patient Monitors as a Class I recall. A Class I recall is the most serious type of recall. Using the batteries can cause serious injury or death. Medtronic...
Apr 29, 2016 | Defective Medical Devices, Defective Products, Personal Injury, Product Liability
In 2014, approximately 76 product liability lawsuits had been filed naming Intuitive Surgical, Inc. as a defendant alleging a defective medical device had caused injury to patients. The da Vinci Surgical Robot is used in thousands of hospitals throughout the United...
Mar 21, 2016 | Defective Products, Recalled Products
A recent CNBC story highlights the danger in keeping defective product settlements confidential. Remington allegedly knew that its Model 700 rifle had a dangerous flaw in its design that could cause the rifle to fire without anyone pulling the trigger. After years of...
