A newly released Governor’s Highway Safety Association report notes that motorcycle rider fatalities were up 10% in 2015 compared to the year before. Just as alarming, while motorcycles are only 3% of all registered vehicles in the US and travel only 1% of all of…
Boston Scientific Corp. is adding new safety warnings to the labels for its medical devices that are among the most heavily litigated: surgical mesh devices that are used to repair pelvic disorders in women. The medical device manufacturer has faced thousands of personal injury lawsuits…
Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf just signed into a law a measure that will allow some first time DUI offenders to install an ignition interlock system on their vehicle, rather than have their license suspended. The new law will take effect in 15 months. In earlier…
The family of an Amtrak worker who was killed in a train crash near Chester PA on April 3 has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the rail company. The 61 year-old man was one of two men who died on the tracks in the…
A Montgomery County OH jury awarded $6 million last month to a man whose wife passed away while giving birth to their son six years ago. The wrongful death, medical malpractice jury awarded the husband the pay out after it deliberated for four hours. The…
A hospital and nursing home in New Hampshire are being sued for wrongful death in the case of an 87 year old man who died in 2011 after he developed pneumonia. According to court documents filed at Hillsborough NH County Superior Court, the elderly man…
A bill called Tiffany Heitkamp’s Law passed the New York State legislature last week, which will require state judges to consider earlier drunk driving and boating offenses when deciding on a sentence. The law is named after a 20 year old woman who died in…
AAA stated this week that setting a blood test limit for marijuana is impossible, noting that six states where marijuana is now legal have laws that require blood tests for possibly impaired drivers. Those tests have questionable scientific validity and need to be overhauled The…
The family of Joan Rivers reached a settlement earlier this month with the clinic and doctors that it sued for medical malpractice over her death. The doctors who operated on Rivers accepted responsibility for her death but the amount of the settlement was not disclosed.…
Johnson & Johnson for many years represented the risks of vaginal mesh implants for thousands of patients, according to the attorneys general of Washington state and California this week as they filed lawsuits against the healthcare giant. One of the patients named in one of…
National safety advocates argue that automakers and federal regulators have acted with ‘criminal negligence’ in not fixing a car safety flaw that has been known for years, which they say has played a role in hundreds of deaths. The issue is car seats that malfunction…
A jury in Philadelphia PA awarded $44 million to a woman who suffered a major brain hemorrhage during treatment at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, according to media reports. The jury determined that the hospital was 65% liable and the doctor on the…