The recalled Stryker Rejuvenate and ABG II hip implant lawsuits are moving forward towards mediations and bellwether trials. Most of the pending lawsuits are in the state court in New Jersey and in the federal court in Minneapolis. Almost all of the cases filed in…
Motorcycles Acquire New Safety Features Motorcycles can be dangerous, which can be due to factors with the motorcyclist such as poor driving skills, distractedness or intoxication. It may also be other careless drivers on the road who may not share the road very well with…
More 30 AndroGel lawsuits filed in Northern District of Illinois federal court will be centralized before U.S. District Judge Matthew F. Kennelly. The testosterone injury lawsuits allege that men suffered heart attacks, strokes and blood clots that were caused by side effects of the testosterone…
A study presented at the 2014 Annual Meeting of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry concurs with what many young men and boys already know: users of Risperdal may face as much as a 69 percent increased risk of male breast growth, or gynecomastia in…
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Is the GM ignition switch defect that has been linked to at least a dozen deaths (and potentially hundreds more) more widespread than originally thought? That’s exactly what one report suggests. A federal lawsuit has alleged the defect goes beyond the design of the…
Hoarding Easily Leads to Fires I’m sure you’ve watched the TV show “Hoarders” on TLC, or at least flipped by it with the remote. The plights of the hoarders on that show are surely sad, but hoarding can cause problems for other people than just…
Uber is a ride sharing service that has been facing accusations that its drivers aren’t properly insured. And since this is a legal blog, the comments about insurance become important. Not being properly insured translates into putting innocent passengers in danger. It can mean not…
I am outraged to report that a motorcyclist, a U.S. Marine from Union City, just recently home to the San Francisco Bay Area from Afghanistan, was killed by a drunk driver. While we are all outraged at wrongful deaths and always when the fatal crash…
According to a recent report in the Green Bay Press Gazette, the state of Wisconsin has ordered the Longview Terrace assisted living center to close. The administrator, Jason Tegge, has been accused of abusing residents. His mother, Debra Tegge—who is also the owner of the…
ThinkPad notebook computer battery packs have been recalled by Lenovo, in cooperation with the CPSC, in Canada and the U.S. because they have the potential to overheating, posing a fire hazard. To this date the company has received two reports of the battery packs overheating…
