My colleagues Rick Shapiro, John C., and Jim Lewis bestowed some of their extensive legal knowledge (each has been practicing law for over 20 years) in a seminar focused on injury law. This material is now available on our web site and is a must-read for anyone who is in the midst of a lawsuit…
My colleague Jim Lewis recently wrote about the porous safety measures taken by truck companies with their vehicles in an article entitled “Safety Last: Thousands of Trucks on the Road Fail Basic Safety Standards.” What’s even more distressing is that trucking companies aren’t taking action. All the while, nearly 5,000 people were killed in 2007 due to trucking accidents….
Reading the pregnancy warnings section of the Paxil drug label is a troubling experience. For starters, the antidepressant known generically as paroxetine produces heart defects in as many of 2 percent of babies whose mothers take the drug during the first trimester. Many women taking the drug to relieve depression, anxiety, obsessive-compulsive disorder or posttraumatic…
Norfolk Southern unveiled an energy efficient locomotive prototype. Is this the future of rail trains?
Tuesday’s Virginian-Pilot featured a front-page story I already knew all too well. In a nutshell, the story is that no one involved in the manufacture, regulation, sale or implantation of medical devices has a complete handle on ensuring that the devices are safe. The article relates case after case in which surgeons did not get…