Companies that make inherently harmful products have a duty to inform users of the risks those products pose. This bedrock principle of corporate responsibility received one of its most-recent affirmations when the top appeals court in Erie County, New York (NY), determined that Fisher Controls bore 100 percent of the liability for causing the mesothelioma…
AstraZeneca last week announced that it would pay a total of $520 million to settle federal and whistleblower charges that it had improperly marketed its medication Seroquel. The size of these combined settlements, first reported in the New York Times, may seem large. Compared with the $1.4 billion Eli Lilly agreed to pay in fines…
“Between a sleepless night at his second job, conversation on his cell-phone headset, and fiddling with the iPod at his side, Frederick R. Poust III appeared to save little concentration for the job he was supposed to be doing on Feb. 17: driving a school bus loaded with 45 children to Perkiomen Valley Middle School…
Our VA personal injury lawyers have accepted several fentanyl pain patch cases involving overdose or death under highly unusual circumstances–such as a sudden wrongful death where the fentanyl drug be linked to overdose or death. We are representing two families seeking answers. In both cases, the spouse died of sudden overdose while wearing the prescribed fentanyl pain patches. …
A crash between a car and a van in Virginia Beach, VA, on the morning of July 26, 2017, sent six people to hospitals with serious, but not life-threatening injuries. In all, eight people required medical treatment after the collision at the intersection of Independence Boulevard and Shelton Road. Police received the call…