A pickup truck and a school bus carrying disabled children wound up hitting each other at the intersection of Route 53 and Route 618 in Albemarle County, Virginia (VA). The truck-bus wreck resulted in life-threatening injuries to the pickup truck driver, according to the Washington Examiner. The passengers on the bus were treated at a…
The failure rate for ASR hip replacements, produced by DePuy Orthopedics, was twice the industry standard. In fact, 1 in 8 people who used these DePuy hip replacements needed a repair within five years, according to arthritistoday.org. This is shockingly high considering most people who receive a hip replacement don’t need another replacement for the…
Meridia‘s days on the U.S. market may be numbered. A panel of independent experts voted on September 15, 2010, to recommend that the Food and Drug Administration ban the obesity medication know generically as sibutramine and sold by Abbott Laboratories. The agency is not bound to follow the recommendation of 8 of the 16 members…
There is a law on the books that limits the amount of damages a victim can receive from any train accident. This damage cap is set at $200 million. You may be thinking, “Wow, that is a lot of money.” You’d be right, but keep in mind this cap applies to any accident regardless of the…
In what is apparently the largest jury award in New Hampshire history of this kind, a woman who went blind after taking a drug for shoulder pain has won $21 million in court for her injuries. Karen Bartlett, 51, took the FDA-approved non-steroidal drug Sulindac (also known under the brand name Clinoril) for shoulder pain….