A special election will be held on March 11, 2014 for Florida’s 13th United States Congressional District. This district is in Pinellas County, Florida. This seat has been held since 1971 by Republican Bill Young who died in October, 2013 in office. Democrat Alex Sink…
In a “zero fatalities” report issued yesterday, the Utah Department of Transportation (UDOT) blames 71 of 219 roadway deaths in 2013 on people not wearing seat belts. That is disproportionately high percentage of the deaths that occurred on Utah roads last year. The silver lining…
The New York Times recently reported that the Federal Trade Commission charged four companies with deceptively marketing weight-loss products, asserting they made “unfounded promises” that consumers could shed pounds simply by using their food additives, skin creams and other dietary supplements. Th
The basic terms of the DePuy ASR hip implant settlement offer were released at the end of November 2013. That offer to settle hip implant revision lawsuits provides for an average $250,000 payment to patients who had to have a recalled DePuy ASR hip implant…
A number of recent, local football-related tragedies have resulted in former football players, Richmond doctors, Richmond coaches, and others pushing for football safety measures, including rule changes, better equipment, and a different approach to practice. As many people know, there have been
I posted recently about a wonderful new device designed to prevent a driver from being able to use his or her mobile phone manually once the vehicle is started. I expressed concerns at the end of the post that the interlock system could be overridden…
There seems to have been a proliferaton of recent stories involving automobile, bus, tractor trailer truck, train, and boat crashes caused by distracted driving. There may be some very promising news on the distant horizon with respect to texting while driving an automobile. Clay Skelton,…
When the Utah Department of Health launched its injury prevention programs 30 years ago, it was one of only five states to do so. The first program focused on school injuries, specifically figuring out when, where, how and why the who (children) are injured at…
http://www.usasrhipsettlement.com/Un-Secure/Documents.aspx After weeks of details being released about the multi billion dollar settlement offer in the Johnson & Johnson DePuy ASR Hip Implant Litigation, today, the full written settlement agreement was released. The Settlement offer provides for a b
Last week it was reported widely that Johnson & Johnson had “tentatively agreed to a settlement” that could reach up to $4 billion to resolve thousands of lawsuites filed for patients injured by defective DePuy ASR hip implants. DePuy Orthopaedics is a division of Johnson &…
ASR Hip Implant Judge David A Katz posted a docket entry this afternoon which for the first time confirmed that there is a settlement in the DePuy ASR metal on metal hip implant litigation. It has been widely reported based upon unamed sources that there…
ASR Hip Implant Judge David Katz scheduled a federal court hearing for next Tuesday November 19, 2013 at 4:30pm in Toledo, Ohio. The hearing notice does not specify the subject matter of the hearing but it is expected that the terms of a proposed…
