January 19, 2016 – When people think about toxic exposure to dangerous substances, images of Love Canal or asbestos remediation sites may come to mind. Most people are simply not aware that many commonplace household products can cause birth defects, genital deformities and cancer, including breast and prostate cancer. According to the International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics,...
January 14, 2016 – The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is receiving push-back on its 2014 warning about the threat to women from the use of power morcellators during gynecological procedures. A group of gynecologists from respected universities has asked the FDA to alter its position concerning the potentially dangerous medical devices.
Surgeons Ask FDA to Alter its Stance Concerning...
A mesothelioma expert with Mount Sinai in New York agrees with the finding of a recent Turkish study concerning the benefits of mesothelioma surgery. According to thoracic surgeon and researcher Raja Flores, MD, patients undergoing the less radical pleurectomy and decortication (PD) have better outcomes than those treated with extrapleural pneumonectomy (EPP).
Turkish Study of 72...
Five years ago, Mercy Hospital in Springfield, Missouri began a Unique Device Identifier (UDI) pilot project — a program to track implanted medical devices. The project has financial backing from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). With a new grant from the FDA, Mercy Hospital reportedly is set to receive up to $5.2 million in the next three years. The additional funding will allow...
Coloplast, the Danish medical device manufacturer, has set aside $445 million to pay U.S. women injured by the company’s transvaginal surgical mesh products. After making the announcement, Coloplast’s financial results for the year reportedly fell 62 percent.
Danish Transvaginal Mesh Manufacturer Predicts that Some Lawsuits Against it are Likely to Go to TrialVaginal mesh is a...
1. The False Claims Act (“Act”) is over 150 years old. The Act, originally known as the Lincoln Law, after its original proponent, President Abraham Lincoln, was implemented during the Civil War. The Act was a response to war profiteering by federal contractors who attempted to defraud the government by selling inadequate firearms and horses.
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December 28, 2015 – Filing a complaint expeditiously for a whistleblower and her lawyer is a top priority for experienced qui tam attorneys. As we previously discussed in the article titled, Reporting Fraud by Filing a Qui Tam Case, timeliness is of the essence to meet the first to file rule. And if the whistleblower’s case has jurisdictional defects, it has to be dismissed and...
Gary Paul, a partner in the Los Angeles office of Waters Kraus & Paul, talks to the Consumer Attorneys of California (CAOC) about the case regarding Davis v. American Standard, et. al. In this 2008 video clip, Gary discusses the challenges of representing the asbestos plaintiffs, like the Davis family, in naval asbestos-mesothelioma case. This video was shown at the CAOC’s Annual...
Industry payments to physicians have become a central allegation in many different types of litigation, including qui tam whistleblower actions, products liability suits, securities litigation, RICO actions, and personal injury cases. When a case presents financial ties between a physician and a drug or device company, the plaintiff lawyer must show the judge and juror that doctors may respond...
The U.S. Coast Guard has begun salvage operations to offload 4,700 barrels of benzene and other toxic chemicals from a sunken barge that went down in Lake Erie in 1937. Benzene is one of the top twenty chemicals used most often by American industry. When exposed to benzene over a long period of time, workers are at risk for developing acute myeloid leukemia and myelodysplastic syndrome....
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