According to a recently settled whistleblower lawsuit, 3M Company and its predecessor Aearo Technologies, Inc. —which supplied the U.S. military with Combat Arms Earplugs version 2 (CAEv2) between 2003 and 2015—made false statements about the effectiveness of those earplugs, unnecessarily putting millions of veterans in…
Former Michigan GOP governor (1991 – 2002), John Engler has resigned as interim president of Michigan State University (MSU). After former president Lou Anna Simon stepped down amid accusations that she ignored warnings about Dr. Larry Nassar, the MSU Board of Trustees only considered two…
A California jury awarded former groundskeeper Dewayne Johnson 289 million. He claimed the weed killer Roundup gave him terminal cancer. He was a groundskeeper at a school outside of San Francisco and estimated he used Roundup about 20-30 times a year. He was diagnosed with…
In recent years, the 3T Heater-Cooler Unit (“3T HCU”) is an operating room machine used in open-heart, lung and liver transplant surgeries to heat and cool blood during surgery. On October 13, 2016, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) released a safety communication warning that…
A recent study published in JAMA Internal Medicine raises more concerns about the safety of inferior vena cava (IVC) filters when used in older patients with pulmonary embolism (PE—a blood clot in the lung). Results of the study showed that patients receiving an IVC filter…
How Settlement Trusts Protect Clients from Selling Structured Settlements for Pennies on the Dollar We’ve all seen the commercials. The ones with ear-worm jingles urging those with structured settlements not to wait for their money when they could have it all now! It sounds great…
CMS has established a set timeframe to rollout formal guidelines for Liability Medicare Set-Asides (LMSAs) in 2019[i]. Plaintiff attorneys must develop Medicare compliance protocols for their law firms to avoid exposing them to liability from legal malpractice pitfalls. Plaintiff attorneys must go on the offensive…
Liability MSAs: CMS Announces Proposed Rulemaking for MSP Compliance A proposed rulemaking on “Miscellaneous Medicare Secondary Payer Clarifications and Updates” was just posted on the Office of Management and Budget website. The abstract of the rule says: “This proposed rule would ensure that beneficiaries are…