On a December evening in 2003, a 28-year old man began to type his resume, but he never finished. Instead, he died at his desk from a lethal overdose of Fentanyl, a powerful narcotic. His wrongful death was the result of a defective Duragesic Fentanyl Transdermal Patch made by Johnson & Johnson. Seven years before […]
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Salting Your Way to Personal Injury and Death
Dietary salt is killing Americans and people all over the world at a disgusting rate. The body can get all the sodium that it needs from foods, but the salt (sodium chloride – NaCl) that’s added to processed foods and restaurant meals is the key factor in high blood pressure (hypertension), the silent killer that […]
Reglan Personal Injuries and Wrongful Deaths: Tardive Dyskinesia
Metoclopramide is a damaging drug that many doctors use to treat gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD), a chronic form of heartburn. Some doctors also prescribe Reglan for nausea and vomiting. Reglan was developed by Wyeth, the successor in interest to A. H. Robbins which first obtained FDA approval for the drug. Schwarz Pharma purchased from Wyeth the […]
Avandia False Promises: Resulting Personal Injuries and Wrongful Deaths
Diabetes is an injurious disease that requires constant vigilance from its sufferers. In people with Type 1 diabetes, the body produces no insulin, a hormone which allows the body to utilize a simple sugar called glucose for energy and many other vital functions. Until the early part of the 20th century, Type I diabetes was […]
Suing Drug Manufacturers for Personal Injuries and Wrongful Deaths
It is now legal to sue drug manufacturers for personal injuries or wrongful death caused by a dangerous drug or the failure of a pharmaceutical manufacturer to give a proper warning about the use of a product. That is what the Supreme Court decided in a 6-3 vote in a rare pro-consumer decision by upholding […]
