A new, not so exciting holiday is happening right now. April has been designated National Distracted Driving Awareness Month. Law enforcement across Southern California is celebrating by stepping up enforcement of laws prohibiting distracted driving, including texting...
A jury has awarded a patient fitted with a defectively-designed Johnson & Johnson (J&J) DePuy ASR XL metal on metal hip implant $8.3 million in compensatory damages. The plaintiff, Loren “Bill” Kransky, 65, endured numerous revision surgeries to...
GlaxoSmithKline is pleading guilty to three criminal charges stemming from its marketing practices of antidepressants Paxil and Wellbutrin and failure to provide safety information about diabetes drug Avandia. According to the federal government, this is the largest...
In what could be considered a warning to everyone who texts while driving, an 18 year old from Massachusetts was sentenced to two years behind bars, the maximum sentence, after being found guilty of motor vehicle homicide by texting. The teenager was the first in...
Bayer AG, the manufacturer of YAZ and Yasmin birth control pills, has agreed to pay over $110 million to settle about 500 lawsuits filed on behalf of patients who took their drugs and suffered blood clot injuries. Over 11,000 lawsuits against Bayer have been filed to...
In a widely reported news story, Honda was taken to small claims court after the Honda Civic Hybrid failed to live up to gas efficiency claims advertised by Honda. The court awarded a judgment of nearly $10,000, thousands more than Honda was offering members of a...
