Personal Injury Law

Illinois Trooper Gets Probation for Two Teen Deaths

Posted on April 22, 2010
LEARN MORE Trooper Matt Mitchell PursuitSAFETY Web site PursuitSAFETY Media Kit on arguments for police pursuit KSDK-TV Investigation into police pursuits in Missouri and Illinois The Unwritten Policy- IB Safety Magazine, Spring 2010 IMAGE SOURCE: KSDK TV Web site / PursuitSAFETY Web site 30 Months Probation Illinois State Police trooper, Matt Mitchell, denied he was speeding at 126 mph using a laptop and talking on his cell phone when he crashed his patrol car head-on into a car driven by two teenage sisters three years ago...

FDA Tackles Ethics

Posted on April 22, 2010
FDA Ethics LEARN MORE Guidance for the Public, FDA Advisory Committee Members, and FDA Staff FDA Commissioner letter to FDA staff IMAGE SOURCE: FDA logo Ethics seem to be in the air...

Doctors Groups Set New Policy To Avoid Big Pharma Conflicts

Posted on April 21, 2010
Curb Industry Sway LEARN MORE CMSS Code (pdf) Physician Payment Sunshine Act IB News- Million Dollar Conflict of Interest Uncovered by Grassley- October 2008 IB News- Harvard Psychiatrist on the Hot Seat for Conflict of Interest- November 2008 IMAGE SOURCE: WikipediaCommons/ medications/ Tibor Kadek A nice family trip to Hawaii...

RAND Study - Patient Safety Also Benefits Doctors

Posted on April 20, 2010
Safety for Patients and Doctors LEARN MORE The RAND Corporation -Is Better Patient Safety Associated with Less Malpractice Activity? IMAGE SOURCE: Wikimedia Commons/ National N aval Center hospital, Bethesda/ operation on a young patient/ U...

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FDA Initiative Will Cut Salt in Processed Foods

Posted on April 20, 2010
LEARN MORE FDA- Lowering Salt in your Diet American Heart Association on sodium CDC- Americans Consume Too Much Salt IMAGE SOURCE: Wikimedia commons/ sea salt/ author: Pin Pin New Initiative The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has been trying to encourage food manufacturers to voluntarily reduce the sodium in everyday foods Americans consume...

Injured By A Medical Device? You're Still Out of Options

Posted on March 08, 2010
Riegel Decision Still Reverberates Today  LEARN MORE  U.S. Supreme Court - Riegel, v. Medtronic, Inc., February 20, 2008 Medtronic Sprint Fidelis Information HR 1346- Medical Device Safety Act of 2009 IB News- Suffering in Silence From a Medical Device -Surgical Mesh (Part One) InjuryBoard on Medtronic Defective Defibrillator Lawsuits Medtronic Sprint Fidelis Defibrillator Leads IB News- Federal Judge Cites Preemption in Dismissal of Medtronic Suits - January 2009 IMAGE SOURCE: Katie Meyer, Alliance For Justice- Faces of Preemption / iStockPhoto/ courtroom gavel Two years after a Supreme Court decision that favored medical device makers over those patients injured from them, and thousands of patients still have no legal recourse...

Insurance Rate Hikes Spur Health Reform Debate

Posted on March 08, 2010
Capping Rate Hikes? LEARN MORE  Goldman Sachs Analysis-Americas: Managed Care Physicians for a National Health Program- On Single Payer H.R. 1200- America's Health Security Act IMAGE SOURCE:  iStockphoto/ sick money/ author: Elnur The health care reform battle will resume this week with Democrats trying to pass reform before the end of the month...

Rhonda Smith Answers Critics About Her Toyota Troubles

Posted on March 05, 2010
IB News talks to Rhonda Smith of Sevierville, Tennessee. Smiy recently testified during the House Energy and Commerce Committee hearings into Toyota about the runaway Lexus 350 that nearly took her life on October 12, 2006 when she was driving in Tennessee on Highway 66 entering I-40...

Two Women Refuse Full-Body Scans, Coming Soon To An Airport Near You

Posted on March 04, 2010
Refusing The Scan LEARN MORE  Rapiscan Web site TSA - New security measures for international flights ACLU- Backgrounder on Virtual Strip Searches IB News- Body Scans Can Store, Sent Images Privacy Group Says - January 2010 IB News - Full Body Scans on Order - January 2010   IMAGE SOURCE: CBS News Web site on body scans Two women were stopped from getting on a plane at Manchester Airport in the UK for refusing to submit to a full body scan...

Massive Waves Hit Cruise Ship In Mediterranean, Kills Two

Posted on March 04, 2010
Mediterranean Cruise and Freak Waves LEARN MORE  International Federation of Red Cross Web site Tsunami- Five Year Progress Report, Indonesia IMAGE SOURCE: The Louis Majesty/ from Daily Mail UK Web site Investigators are on their way to Barcelona, Spain where a Greece-based cruise ship is docked after massive waves hit the ship killing two people...

FDA Plans Get Tough Attitude With Pharma, Food

Posted on March 04, 2010
LEARN MORE US v. Guidant LLC GAO report- Food and Drug Administration: Improved Monitoring and Development of Performance Measures Needed to Strengthen Oversight of Criminal Misconduct Investigations...

Aspirin, Tylenol And Hearing Loss

Posted on March 03, 2010
Hearing Loss LEARN MORE  Pub Med - Aspirin-induced hearing loss, University of Texas Dec. 1984 American Journal of Medicine on hearing loss IMAGE SOURCE: ©iStockphoto/ aspirin With the advice of "an aspirin a day" for heart health comes another consideration...

Class I Recall of Baxter Dialysis Machine

Posted on March 03, 2010
Class I Recall LEARN MORE FDA Recalls - Baxter Healthcare Corporation HomeChoice and HomeChoice PRO Baxter Press Release IMAGE SOURCE: Baxter International Web site Baxter International Inc...

Toyota - Not An Electronics Problem

Posted on March 02, 2010
ETCS  LEARN MORE  Senate Committee on Commerce, Science & Transportation Center for Auto Safety Web site Toyota Web site IB News- Ralph Nader Weighs In On Toyota- February 2010 Toyota Customer Service line 800-331-4331 Hilliard Munoz Guerra LLP, Corpus Christi, Texas (IB Partner) Beasley, Allen,Crow, Methvin, Portis & Miles, P...

FDA Panel Will Study Menthol Cigarettes

Posted on March 02, 2010
Menthol Cigarette Flavoring LEARN MORE FDA - Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act Report, Jan. 1995 – Menthol vs Nonmenthol Cigarettes: Effects on Smoking Behavior FDA- Ban on candy cigarettes IMAGE SOURCE: UCSF video image from Newport TV commercial 1967/ Internet Archive Web site An advisory panel of the Food and Drug Administration will meet at the end of March to consider the safety of menthol flavoring in cigarettes...

Toyota Crash Questions May Reopen Vehicular Manslaughter Conviction

Posted on March 02, 2010
Was The Camry Runaway? LEARN MORE  IB News - Rhonda Smith- Shame On You Toyota! - February 2010 Center for Auto Safety Web site Toyota Web site IB News - Class-Action Lawsuits Pursue Toyota Problem - February 2010 IB News- Ralph Nader Weighs In On Toyota- February 2010 Toyota Customer Service line 800-331-4331 Hilliard Munoz Guerra LLP, Corpus Christi, Texas (IB Partner) Beasley, Allen,Crow, Methvin, Portis & Miles, P...

Protecting Writers' Free Speech From Overseas Defamation Suits

Posted on March 01, 2010
LEARN MORE New York's Libel Terrorism Protection Act, May 2008 Freedom of Speech Protection Act (SB 449) Rachel Ehrenfeld – Background in The Guardian American Center for Democracy Web site Congressional Record: Feb 13,2009 - Statement on Introduced Bills and Joint Resolutions IMAGE SOURCE: Newseum Five Freedoms/ Wikimedia Commons Web site Injury can take many forms, such as an encroachment on a writers' livelihood or freedom of speech...

Ralph Nader Weighs In On Toyota

Posted on February 04, 2010
Ralph Nader He may know more about automobiles than almost anyone in America. Consumer advocate, Ralph Nader, has been exposing the hazards of the automobile industry for more than four decades. In 1965, the then-unknown lawyer, Nader wrote, Unsafe At Any Speed, an expose of the problems with the Chevy Corvair and the automobile industry's disregard for consumer safety by producing defective and unsafe vehicles...

Toyota Whistleblower Biller's Fight Over Sealed Documents

Posted on February 04, 2010
Whistleblower and Sealed Documents LEARN MORE Toyota Web site IB Partner, Lansing, David Mittleman - Heat is on for Toyota- February 2010 Biller's Firm - LDT Consulting IB News - Documents Will Remain Unsealed in Toyota Rollover Related Litigation - September 2009 IMAGE SOURCE: Los Angeles Times Web site/ Dimitrios Biller Dimitrios P...

Don't Drive Recalled Toyotas Says Transportation Secretary

Posted on February 03, 2010
Prius Braking Complaints Too LEARN MORE Toyota Web site House Energy and Commerce Committee Web site Toyota Customer Service line 800-331-4331 IB Partner, Lansing, David Mittleman - Heat is on for Toyota- February 2010 IMAGE SOURCE: Wikimedia Commons/ runaway Prius Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood says park your recalled Toyotas for now...

Safety Gaps in Regional Carriers Highlighted

Posted on February 03, 2010
Regional Carriers Dominate At Some Airports LEARN MORE NTSB on Flight 3407 NTSB Final Report on Flight 3407 Kreindler & Kreindler LLP, investigates Colgan Air crash IB News – Low Pay for Regional Jet Pilots – May 2009 NTSB Accident Dockets Captain salaries ALPA IB News – Amid Pilot Accolades – Do You Know How Much Your Pilot Makes? – February 2009 Airline Safety and Pilot Training Improvement Act of 2009 IMAGE SOURCE: Colgan Air Q400 / Colgan Air, Inc...

Informed Consumers Make The Best Patients

Posted on February 02, 2010
LEARN MORE American College of Surgeons- Risk Calculators National Surgical Quality Improvement Program IB Help Center- Avoiding Medical Malpractice IB Help Center- Medication and Prescription Errors European system for risk assessment, euroscore...

Class-Action Lawsuits Pursue Toyota Problem

Posted on February 02, 2010
Toyota lawsuits LEARN MORE Toyota Web site House Energy and Commerce Committee Web site, Feb 25 hearing on Toyota Toyota Customer Service line 800-331-4331 Hilliard Munoz Guerra LLP, Corpus Christi, Texas (IB Partner) IB Partner, Lansing, David Mittleman – Heat is on for Toyota- February 2010 IB News – Documents Will Remain Unsealed in Toyota Rollover Related Litigation – September 2009 IMAGE SOURCE: Toyota Web site Toyota, the world's largest automaker, is facing at least a dozen lawsuits seeking class-action status over the mysterious sudden acceleration problem that had led to 19 deaths...

Big Pharma And Five Shining Stars

Posted on February 01, 2010
Drugs That Off Promise of Big Profits LEARN MORE IB News on Dr. Joseph Biederman IB News - Stories of Corruption and Big Pharma - January 2009 IB News - Economy Hits Drugmaker Profits - March 2009 IB News - Merck Acquisition of Schering-Plough - March 2009   IMAGE SOURCE: money and medicine/ ©iStockphoto New medications are on the horizon, reports Barrons, and they could mean blockbuster profits for major pharmaceutical companies if the drugs are eventually approved by the Food and Drug Administration...

Toyota Announces Massive Campaign To "Fix" Runaway Cars

Posted on February 01, 2010
LEARN MORE Toyota Web site Center for Auto Safety Web site House Energy and Commerce Committee Web site Toyota Customer Service line 800-331-4331 IB Partner, Lansing, David Mittleman – Toyota Instructs Dealers to Check Floor Mats After Horrific Car Accident – September 2009 IB News – Documents Will Remain Unsealed in Toyota Rollover Related Litigation – September 2009 IMAGE SOURCE: Toyota Web site Toyota Reinforcement Bar To Be Installed With a congressional inquiry looming, massive recalls of its automobiles worldwide, production halted at five plants, U...

Congress Will Probe Toyota Accelerator Problem

Posted on January 29, 2010
What Did They Know and When Did They Know ItLEARN MOREToyota Web siteHouse Energy and Commerce Committee Web siteToyota Customer Service line 800-331-4331IB Partner, Lansing, David Mittleman - Toyota Instructs Dealers to Check Floor Mats After Horrific Car Accident - September 2009IB News - Documents Will Remain Unsealed in Toyota Rollover Related Litigation - September 2009 IMAGE SOURCE: Toyota Web site February 25 - That's the date of a congressional hearing into troubled automaker, Toyota Motor Corp...

13 California Hospitals Fined For Serious Medical Errors

Posted on January 29, 2010
Medical Errors Cost Billions and Lives LEARN MORE California Department of Public Health- List of Hospitals Cited Hearst 'Dead By Mistake' To Err is Human The American Academy of Family Physicians outlines how patients can prevent medical errors Healthgrades InjuryBoard Help Center on medical errors InjuryBoard Help Canter on medication errors InjuryBoard Help Center on Wrong-site Surgery IB News – Doctors Rarely Blow the Whistle on Errors – December 2007 Joint Commission Tips on preventing wrong-site Surgery IMAGE SOURCE: ©iStockPhoto/ doctors circling/ Kovalvs 13 California hospitals have been fined by the state for medical errors that, in some cases, seriously injured or killed patients...

Tylenol Arthritis Caplet Recall Expanded Due to Contamination

Posted on December 29, 2009
Expanded Recall LEARN MORE McNeil 1-888-222-6036 McNeil Web site FDA - MedWatch Program IB News - Lower Dose of Tylenol Recommended -  July 2009 IMAGE SOURCE: Reuters News/ image of Tylenol Arthritis Web site The Food and Drug Administration is expanding a recall of TYLENOL Arthritis Pain Caplets in the 100 count bottle...

Heightened Flight Security After Airline Terror Scares

Posted on December 28, 2009
Expect Delays LEARN MORE TSA Web site TSA Guidance following Dec. 25 incident Department of Homeland Security Statement on Northwest Flight 253   IMAGE SOURCE: Wikimedia Commons/ Copenhagen Airport/ author: Jnpet Planning to fly this holiday season? Prepare for tightened security measures after a Christmas Day terror plot was foiled on Flight 253 from Amsterdam to Detroit...

Calls For Ban On Antibiotic Use on Farm Animals

Posted on December 28, 2009
Antibiotic Use in Agriculture LEARN MORE American Public Health Association Resolution on hormones in meat and milk production Physicians for Social Responsibility Facts on antibiotic use and factory farming IMAGE SOURCE: Wikimedia Commons/ farrowing crate mother and babies/ author: Bailynorwoodrocks It may come as news to many...

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