Every year, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) discovers an innovative tax scam that threatens the identify and security of tax filers. This year, the new filing scam is so sneaky, the IRS is urging tax professionals to step up security and watch out for phishing…
The death toll at Parkland’s Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School stands at 17, all victims of a single gunman, who by all accounts is a deeply troubled young man. Despite multiple warnings to law enforcement officials, this young man slipped through the cracks in our…
We have all seen those commercials for law firms that help injured people obtain their workers’ compensation benefits when obstacles arise. However, if you have never filed a claim for an on-the-job injury, the ins and outs of workers’ compensation may be unclear. In a…
For most, an injury to their new infant during birth would be a devastating occurrence—yet, for one Tennessee family, insult was added when Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville charged the family in full for the service, minus any kind of apology for any ill-treatment…
A high school student from Liberty, North Carolina has died after a single-car accident on Feb. 11. The next day, the driver of the vehicle, an 18 year old, was charged with DWI for having alcohol in his system at the time of the accident.…
In Boettcher v. Conoco-Phillips Co., No. No. 17-6115 (W.D. Okla., 2018), the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit answers that question. Plaintiffs Thomas Boettcher and Pamelia Vennerberg (“Boettchers”) allege Boettcher’s cancer was caused by exposure to emissions from Defendant’s refinery in Ponca…
Like many states, North Carolina has been hit hard by the opioid crisis, and workers’ compensation claimants are particularly vulnerable, because they must find a way to control their pain, so they can get back to work.
Recently I wrote about the Pope supporting Bishop Juan Barros in Chili against survivors. The Pope: Zero Tolerance??? The Pope hopefully learned from that when he restarted the Sex Abuse Commission. But I am again I am asking the questions I asked when the commision was…
Hernia Mesh Litigation Moves Forward as MDL Court Establishes Pretrial Timeline and Bellwether Date for Ethicon Physiomesh. After years of battling transvaginal mesh lawsuits, Johnson & Johnson subsidiary Ethicon finds itself at the forefront of the expanding litigation over defective hernia mesh products.
First Bard IVC Filter Bellwether Trial set for March. As injured IVC filter plaintiffs wait for their day in court, the first Bard IVC filter bellwether trial is off to the races on March 14 in Phoenix, Arizona. The over 3,500 plaintiffs consolidated in the…