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• Jury Awards $26M in Malpractice Lawsuit Over Birth Injuries

  Chrissie Cole | October 15, 2007 7:35 PM | 0 CommentsLas Vegas, NV

  A Suffolk Jury awarded $26M to the family of a brain-damaged boy that will never walk or talk due to a botched delivery, at a Boston teaching hospital that caused life long birth injuriesThe verdict, issued Thursday, comes as a relief to the parents that now know what happened to their son, 10, who has cerebral palsy and requires constant around-the-clock care. The malpractice suit was filed...

• Lawsuit Against Nursing Home Alleges Wrongful Death

  Christina Cole | May 16, 2007 10:54 PM | 0 CommentsLas Vegas, NV

  Two Physicians and two health care facilities have been listed in a wrongful death lawsuit.Split Rail and facility employees are at the core of the suit which also names South West Arkansas Counseling and Mental Health Center as defendants.Randolph, 41, was a resident at Split Rail, according to the lawsuit, at the time of his death in March 2005. The suit alleges the man suffered from...

• Zelnorm Taken Off the Market

  Christina Cole | March 30, 2007 10:37 PM | 0 CommentsLas Vegas, NV

  The FDA has issued a public health advisory to notify health care professionals and patients that the sponsor of Zelnorm, Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation, agreed to take Zelnorm off the market. The Zelnorm recall is due to new safety analysis that found a higher chance of heart attack; stroke and chest pain can become a heart attack in patients treated with Zelnorm. Compared to those...

• Product Liability Suits Surrounding Ortho Evra

  Christina Cole | December 31, 2006 11:35 AM | 0 CommentsLas Vegas, NV

  Former vice president of two Johnson & Johnson subsidiaries claims he was fired for seeking recalls of many faulty products, including the Ortho Evra birth control patch - subject of at least 1,000 product liability suits.Joel S. Lippmann, 52, of Warren, started working for J&J in 1990 and worked his way up to vice president of clinical trials for Ortho-McNeil Pharmaceutical Inc., which makes...

• Women Sues Lawyer who vanished after settling Malpractice Lawsuit

  Christina Cole | December 15, 2006 5:43 AM | 0 CommentsLas Vegas, NV

  Tonya'n LaBeaux has lost faith in the Nevada justice system.Her lawyer is being charged with forging documents that ended her $1.5 million wrongful death lawsuit against a Washoe County doctor and making off with the settlement he negotiated without her consent. To date, the courts have rebuffed her attempts to resurrect her case against the doctor.LaBeaux, now a California resident, is going...

• Retirees at Risk from Side Effects from Gastrointestinal Prescription Medicince

  Peter Wetherall | August 01, 2008 11:01 AM | 0 CommentsLas Vegas, NV

  Our last blog entry discussed a severe neurological condition a person can get when ingesting Reglan (or its generic metoclopramide). If you read our other blog entries, you know this condition is...

• Jury Awards 3 Breast Cancer Survivors $134 Million.

  Peter Wetherall | July 31, 2008 10:26 PM | 0 CommentsLas Vegas, NV

  Recently, our firm achieved the largest personal injury verdict in the history of the state ($134M) against drug-maker Wyeth for three women who proved to a jury that their breast cancer was caused...

• Sentinel Initiative--The "Underfunded" FDA will Monitor Drug and Device Safety?

  Peter Wetherall | June 17, 2008 2:17 AM | 0 CommentsLas Vegas, NV

  Who is monitoring drug and medical device safety? If the FDA is understaffed and underfunded will the Sentinel Initiative work?

• Irony of Ironies - Government Seeks Payback for Medical Malpractice

  Peter Wetherall | February 19, 2008 12:39 PM | 0 CommentsLas Vegas, NV

  I read in this morning's Las Vegas Review-Journal that in October of this year, the federal government will start declining to pay medicare benefits to providers that commit medical malpractice, or who otherwise perform deficiently. Specifically, when providers commit certain errors, the charge for that procedure or hospitalization will be rejected, as a means of motivating these providers to...

• Advice on Avoiding Bad Prescription Drugs

  Stewart White | February 16, 2008 4:16 PM | 0 CommentsLas Vegas, NV

  After a few years in this business of representing patients/clients who have been injured by defective drugs, it appears that:1. The FDA doesn't protect consumers, though it might try2. All should know that the FDA doesn't test drugs3. The drug companies are in it for profit first, helping people second (no surprise)4. You shouldn't take any new drug until it has been out on the market...