The proposed settlement offer from Johnson & Johnson and DePuy is estimated to pay about $350,000 for an individual with a failed DePuy ASR hip implant. While the details are not yet available to fully analyze and explain the settlement I expect that there will…
What drives big trial verdicts? Defense trial lawyer organizations are buying into the theory that if a plaintiff lawyer is able at trial to trigger jurors’ survival instincts, that jury is far more likely to return a big verdict in favor of the plaintiff. If jurors see…
In Alabama, the minimum “bodily injury” insurance coverage is $25,000.00. So, what if another driver crashes into you and causes significant personal injury and only has the minimum coverage? Well, you can either hope the other driver is independently wealthy so that if you obtain…
I’ve been reading reports by various bloggers, Bloomberg News, and the National Law Journal that Johnson & Johnson, DePuy Orthopaedic’s parent company, is considering whether to agree to pay $3 billion to settle more than 10,000 cases filed concering its defective metal-on-metal ASR hip replacement
The rippling impacts of the partial shutdown of the Federal Government spread far and wide; potentially to the dinner table of every American. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (the website is only partially updated because of the shutdown) reported Tuesday that nearly a dozen food…
According to a report by NBC News, married cancer patients are 20 percent more likely survive. Specifically, married men had a 23 percent better survival rate than single men and 16 percent of women had a better survival rate than single women. The report is…
During a trial over the cause of the BP oil spill that claimed the lives of eleven people and decimated the Gulf coast with about 4.9 million barrels of oil, both the government and BP alleged that faulty cement work by Halliburton Co. contributed to the…
The first federal Johnson & Johnson DePuy ASR metal hip implant trial was scheduled to start on September 9, 2013. The judge has delayed the start of the trial because there are legal rulings that need to be made before the jury is impaneled. This…
It has now been over three years since the Johnson & Johnson DePuy ASR metal on metal hip was recalled and there is still no settlement program for injured consumers. There are over eleven thousand lawsuits pending and more being filed every week. Bloomberg News…
Fall is right around the corner and football season is back. In an effort to raise the bar on football safety, and awareness of the risks associated with head injuries and concussions, the National Football League and Pop Warner leagues are joining forces to promote…
Regulators in Utah and California, facing a rash of severe injuries such as broken necks, shattered limbs, dislocated feet, and brain hemorrhaging, are considering regulating so called “jump parks,” otherwise known as indoor trampoline facilities. Injuries have resulted in several jumpers being para
In 2011, the FDA issued a safety warning stating that “serious complications associated with surgical mesh for transvaginal repair of [pelvic organ prolapse] are not rare.” The FDA ordered surgical mesh manufacturers to submit additional studies of the safety and effectiveness of their products. C
