My colleague John C. has posted a new blog on the Norfolk, Portsmouth & Hampton Injury Board about a vehicle fire that claimed the life of a U.S. Navy sailor and injured his family. The incident raises worrying questions over the liabilty of the manufacturer of his new Chevrolet Traverse. In this accident on the…
Within weeks of the announcement that a widely used artificial hip was being recalled by its manufacturer because of high failure rates, patients who had experienced pain, mobility problems and health problems ranging from heart failure to flu-like symptoms began contacting personal injury, medical malpractice and defective products attorneys. Nearly 1,000 Americans who had DePuy’s…
A panel of advisers to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has recommended halting the use of Avastin (bevacizumab from Genentech) for treating breast cancer, pointing to studies showing the medication was not effective for that purpose, the Bellingham Herald reported. The recommendation followed two days of sometimes emotional testimony from doctors, patients and advocacy…
General Motors has announced two separate recalls affecting about 10,000 pickup trucks because of defects that could lead to crashes. “GM recalled more than 9,000 Chevrolet Colorado and GM Canyon trucks for the model year 2011 because these vehicles may have been built with an automotive transmission clip that could slip and inaccurately show the…
In his latest post to our firm’s Norfolk Injuryboard blog, my colleague Rick Shapiro argues that federal lawmakers and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration must hold makers of generic medications and brand-name drugmakers to the same standards for warning patients about dangerous drug side effects. Rick’s concern over the unequal treatment of the pharmaceutical…