U.S. District Court Judge Cynthia M. Rufe of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania appointed long time mass tort lawyer Dianne M. Nast of RodaNast in Lancaster, Pa., and Mark P. Robinson Jr. of Robinson Calcagnie Robinson Shapiro Davis in Newport Beach, Calif., as plaintiffs’ co-counsel and as members of the…
Preliminary results from a fascinating new study could spell the eventual end for cerebral palsy. Cerebral palsy is a neurological disorder that prevents the brain from being able to adequately communicate with the body, causing physical difficulties with tasks like walking. In the first part of the study, investigators from…
People on dialysis have enough problems without having to worry about heart attacks. But it seems that the nation’s leading supplier of dialysis products (mostly through its own dialysis centers) may be causing an untold number of dialysis patients to have heart attacks and other cardiac problems. Fresenius Medical Care…
In my insurance law class, I talk in Chapter 2 about the idea of fortunity. It is mostly a theoretical concept. Insurance is intended to provide protection against unknown events that occur in the future. So obviously, the law and common sense dictate that when you buy car insurance after…
There is a growing concern there there is a compound in Teflon® that may cause cancer. No one is filing any lawsuits about this, at least not yet. Science has to dig a lot deeper into all of this. The purpose of this post is just to give you an…
A 28-year-old prison inmate is suing the hospital that circumcised him as a newborn. The reason? He is claiming the procedure has robbed him of his sexual prowess. He is alleging that the doctor misled his mother into thinking that the circumcision was a necessary medical procedure. He is arguing…
Beyaz is Bayer’s new and improved birth control. Its big selling point: it is not Yaz/Yasmin (If this does not leave you cynical, you are a better person than I am.). But, alas, just like YAZ and Yasmin, Beyaz’s active ingredients are drospirenone and ethinyl estradiol. These ingredients work to…
A settlement has been reached in the deaths of a young California attorney and her cousin, after the two women fell to their death while hiking in Hawaii. The details are tragic. A 32-year-old attorney and her 25-year-old cousin were hiking in a state park, in December 2006. The two…
A fatal school bus accident last week has prompted a lawsuit alleging unsafe conditions for the bus’ lack of seatbelts. The details here are sad. The 60 year old school bus driver and a five-year-old little girl were killed in the crash. The bus, which struck a bridge, was carrying…
The Court of Appeals of Georgia, Georgia’s intermediate appellate court, wrote about a topic I touched on two years ago. In an extremely short opinion, this Georgia court was faced with the question of how far lawyers can go in referencing biblical passages in the Bible or other religious texts.…