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…
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…
Four bars and restaurants in the Midlands SC area are being sued for allegedly serving too much alcohol to a woman who then allegedly drove her car in an intoxicated state and killed a young woman in another vehicle. These type claims are called “dram…
Accidents happen all the time that are often another party’s fault, and you have the right to go to court to sue for your medical expenses, pain and suffering and lost wages. Even if you do win, what you end up with at the end…
The Goodyear plant in Danville VA has just experienced its third fatal accident on site in the last eight months, and that prompted the plant to be shut down for several days this week as OSHA investigates. The most recent death was that of Greg…
Anyone who lives in the Washington DC area knows that the last few years have not been a good time for Metro. The DC area subway system, started in the mid 1970s and once considered a great public transportation success, is now mired in serious…
