As a Texas Benzene Leukemia and Toxic Tort attorney, I am directing the public to the dangers of benzene and its carcinogenic (cancer causing properties). Benzene is found in petroleum, gasoline products and oil and gas production. Mayflower, Arkansas Oil Spill Six months ago, 200,000…
A jury reached a $4 million verdict in a medical malpractice case alleging negligence in which an obstetrician delivered a baby. An expert witness testified that the obstetrician should have recognized signs that a cesarean delivery was safer. The case asserted that the obstetrician did…
As a Texas medical doctor and Dangerous Drugs attorney, I have been warning about the serious and potentially deadly side effects of this commonly used medication. I have had personal experience of the liver damage that this drug can inflict on the young, elderly and…
The first federal trial date involving the recalled DePuy ASR hip implant has been delayed again. The judge overseeing the litigation noted that the parties are experiencing problems in scheduling witness testimony. Scope of the DePuy ASR Litigation Currently there are more than 8,200 DePuy…
A Louisiana Hospital may have avoided a lawsuit with the use of the RF (radio-frequency) Surgical Detection System in an addition to any safety measures already in place during surgical procedures. A man filed a medical malpractice lawsuit alleging that a doctor left a sponge…
It isn’t uncommon in Missouri for crazy, rights-stripping bills to be enacted. So it isn’t strange that we are discussing another piece of legislature that has us trial lawyers concerned. But the recent House Bill 339 has many people shaking our heads and those who…
Last week I testified before the Committee on Education of the Michigan House of Representatives, chaired by Lisa Posthumus Lyons, regarding two bills being introduced about Epipens in our Michigan schools. I was testifying on behalf of the Michigan Association for Justice (MAJ) and as…
A bombshell study published this month in the Journal of Patient Safety estimates that between 210,000 and 400,000 patients die prematurely due to preventable errors. The study updates a 1999 report “To Err is Human,” which rocked the medical and patient safety communities with its…
Walking into poles and potholes (or right in front of traffic), because you have a cell phone in front of your face sounds more like a cartoon than like reality. But more and more people are getting into serious accidents caused by texting. And walking.…
Scientific American, one of the country’s most prestigious scientific publications dropped a bombshell in it’s recent article “How Many Die from Medical Mistakes in U.S. Hospitals?” The author, Marshall Allen, drops the bombshell in the first paragraphs: It seems that every time researchers estimate how often…