In his latest post to our firm’s Virginia Beach Injuryboard blog, my colleague Rick Shapiro calls out Fox News and ABC commentator John Stossel for his hypocrisy and lack of journalistic integrity in advocating so-called “tort reform” while doing a supposed expose on the problems with personal injury law and consumer protection regulations. Rick catalogs…
Toy helicopters produced by a Texas (TX) company have been recalled because their rotor blades can detach while they are spinning, posing a laceration hazard, the Sacramento Bee, reported. The Military Copters that are sold in Rite Aid stores and manufactured by Excite USA of Carrollton, TX, were recalled after three incidents, two of them laceration…
A growing shortage of medicines in hospitals has left health care providers desperately looking for drug substitutes and delaying treatment, according to a report by the Associated Press. And the shortage could threaten patient safety because of the threat of incorrect doses or overdoses of medicine being administered or the wrong substitutes being used. “It’s…
Each week, more and more plaintiffs have come forward to file claims against DePuy for harm caused by its badly-designed ASR (hip replacement). There have been so many problems with this hip implant that even mainstream media publications such as Bloomburg Business Weekly are focusing on the defective device. However, the health risks and side…
It’s bad enough being a victim of a dangerous manufacturing fault in your car or truck. But victims whose injuries were linked to defects in Chryslers say insult has been added to their physical hurt because the car giant has freed itself from liabilities for many claims under a restructuring financed by the victims’ own…