Recently, a federal jury ordered Monsanto to pay $80 million to 70-year-old Edwin Hardeman, who got diagnosed with cancer after using their weed killer for 26 years. The weed killer in question, Roundup, is a glyphosate-based herbicide that Hardeman regularly used on his 56-acre property…
Merck & Co. are battling lawsuits that involve their Zostavax shingles vaccine that allegedly caused blindness, paralysis, brain damage, liver failure, and even death. Shingles are most common in adults over 50 years of age. You must have previously had the chickenpox to contract shingles.…
On February 21, 2019, the FDA released a new safety communication concerning the gout medication, Uloric (febuxostat), manufactured by Takeda Pharmaceuticals. This was an update to a previous communication in which the FDA notified the public that they were evaluating Uloric for possible connections to…
Obtaining a personal injury settlement is, without a doubt, a victory for the plaintiff. But what might come as a surprise later is that the influx of money from the settlement can disqualify the same person from government benefits like Supplemental Security Income (SSI) and…
The purpose of medical devices and medications is to help make people healthy. Unfortunately, the very products that are supposed to help us end up causing serious injury or illness. Sometimes, a dangerous medical product can even cause the death of the patient it was…
Roundup maker Bayer AG has been ordered by a jury to pay $80 million in damages to a plaintiff who developed non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma after years of using the weed-killing product. Last week’s verdict comes several months after another jury awarded $289 million against Bayer in…
Shortly after a California court linked glyphosate, the herbicide in the popular weed killer Roundup, to a plaintiff’s cancer, Los Angeles County officials ordered a moratorium on that same weed killer, citing a need for further research on the herbicide’s safety risks. “I am asking…
The latest issue of Milestone Consulting’s Living Safer magazine is now available to view online. In this issue, we discuss the ways millennials are changing our world. This age group has frequently been the target of judgment by older generations. Still, they are becoming an…