As Co-Founder of the Bairs Foundation with my wife, Amy, I am proud to announce the formal launch of our nonprofit foundation’s website at BairsFoundation.org. The Bairs Foundation provides a lending alternative for plaintiffs and their families who face a non-recourse loan industry offering a…
Government-supplied benefits like Supplemental Security Income (SSI) and Medicaid help thousands of Americans with special needs in paying for their care. These needs-based benefits most often have a low ceiling in the resources they provide each person – low enough that many disabled individuals supplement…
Plaintiffs who had open-heart procedures, and then fell victim to deadly infections are filing complaints in federal courts for their injuries. Several of these cases have been filed in recent months, with plaintiffs claiming that Stockert 3T heating-cooling systems, which are often used in operating…
According to the American Academy of Pediatrics, choking is one of the leading causes of death in children under the age of three. On average, a child will die every 5 days in the U.S. from choking on food. Foods like hot dogs, grapes, popcorn,…
As Stryker Orthopedics and its parent company Howmedica Osteonics, enter another round of product liability litigation over their allegedly defective metal hip implants, an application has been filed to consolidate the lawsuits for centralization in a multidistrict litigation or MDL. Six filed Stryker LFIT Lawsuits…
Michigan State University was named as a defendant today in our first Notice of Intention to File a Claim in the Court of Claims pursuant to MCL 600.6431, on behalf of a minor. The Notice alleges on at least 8 office visits with Lawrence Nassar,…
For years, officers who arrive on the scene of a traffic accident could not cite either driver with a traffic violation. The theory behind this procedure was that if the officer didn’t see the wreck, the officer could not issue a citation. This was contrary…
A Minnesota couple has filed a new hip replacement lawsuit against the makers of the Stryker Accolade TMZF hip stem and LFIT Anatomic V40 femoral head. They filed their case on November 14, 2016, in the U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota. The…
This Sunday I will be speaking on CBS Pittsburgh’s The Sunday Business Page at 6:30am (Eastern Time) about the prosecution of Takata for its recalled airbags, as well as the pending lawsuits against the company. Last week Attorney General Loretta Lynch announced a $1 billion…
I recently read an article about a case against Subaru that was scheduled for trial. The West Virginia lawsuit resulted from a fatal wreck on April 2, 2009. A 2002 Ford Explorer crossed the center line and hit a 1999 Subaru Forester head-on. The Subaru went…