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Sort by date 16,481 pages found matching <a href=""></a>- Death Toll from Recalled Chinese Heparin Continues to Rise
Apr-28-08 Philadelphia, PA: The family of a Missouri man who died after suffering adverse reactions to contaminated Chinese Heparin is suing Tyco Healthcare, claiming that the company waited too long announce a recall of the drug. And the death toll due to tainted Heparin continues to rise, because this case has not been accounted for by the U.S. Food and Drug A... - Attorney Lauren Scholnick on Common Law Protection and Wrongful Termination
Apr-28-08 Salt Lake City, UT Like many of her partners at Strindberg and Scholnick, LLC , became a Utahan by choice, moving here from her native Illinois in 1995 to clerk under Judge Gregory K. Orme at the Utah Court of Appeals. "We started the firm in January 2002," she says. "We do all sorts of employment law and labor law, everything involving labor except work... - Attorney John Heenan: "In Montana, a handshake is your contract."
Apr-21-08 Billings, MT: John Heenan runs a young one-person law shop in Billings, Montana; in a big state with a small population, that means working a broad spectrum of cases. Between college and law school, Heenan worked as a truck driver, fork lift operator, and teamster intern, experience which he says taught him the value of hard work and an honest paycheck. As... - Attorney Peter Kaufman on Accutane Litigation
Apr-25-08 Pensacola, FL Peter Kaufman, a shareholder partner in Levin, Papantonio, Thomas, Mitchell, Echsner and Proctor, P.A. , describes his practice as "almost exclusively pharmaceutical litigation on behalf of plaintiffs." He's been involved in litigation around Baycol, phenylpropanolamine (PPA), and Vioxx, as well as in three successful personal injury suits a... - Attorney Richard B. Specter on Insurance Bad Faith
Apr-25-08 Irvine, CA: Richard B. Specter of Irvine, California, had recently completed post-trial motion hearings in a successful insurance bad faith case against National Union Fire Insurance Company when LawyersandSettlements interviewed him, resulting in a $35.6 million award. LawyersandSettlements: What were the details of this case? Richard B. Specter (... - Attorney Joseph H. Saunders on Toxic Contamination and Medical Device Law
Apr-25-08 Pinellas Park, FL: Joe Saunders was on the road when LawyersandSettlements reached him. Normally we don't approve of phoning while driving, but since his hands-free Bluetooth device was working, we stretched the point. Besides, as he said, "You lucked out catching me between depositions, so we'd better do this now!" Saunders recently filed a class actio... - Attorney Steve Estep On Sports, Entertainment, and Securities Litigation
Apr-23-08 Atlanta, GA: Steve Estep had just finished an unexpected filing when LawyersandSettlements contacted him in his Atlanta office. "Fortunately, we have electronic filing these days," he said. "I don't think I'd be able to keep up without it." From his description of his practice, it's hard to disagree! LawyersandSettlements (LAS): Your biography shows th... - Understanding What's Behind Medication Errors
Apr-21-08 Horsham, PA: Michael Cohen is regularly called one of the top "100 Most Powerful People in Healthcare". Not surprising, given the scope and impact of his brainchild, the nonprofit Institute for Safe Medication Practices . The ISMP's sole focus is preventing medication errors and to do so, they form a symbiotic relationship with practitioners, health car... - DirecTV: Consumers Angry About Cancellation Fees
Apr-21-08 Seattle, WA Cell phone customers are not the only ones complaining that they are being charged too much for cancellation fees : customers of DirecTV are also upset that they are being unfairly charged for terminating their service. Much like the cell phone companies, DirecTV is apparently using changes to customer contracts as a reason to extend those c... - Attorney Brian S. Kabateck On Technology Litigation and Righting Old Wrongs
Apr-20-08 Los Angeles, CA: Brian S. Kabateck, founding partner of Kabateck Brown Kellner, LLP, specializes in consumer class action and mass torts. His client list includes the likes of Michael Jackson, Ed McMahon, José Conseco, and Lou Ferrigno. As we'll see, it also includes the victims of genocide from almost a century ago. LawyersandSettlements (LAS): You r... - Who's Watching Out for the Consumer in Washington?
Apr-19-08 Washington, DC: Linda Sherry is Director of National Priorities for Consumer Action , a national non-profit organization that both educates and advocates for the consumer. In the Washington office of the San Francisco-based organization, Sherry and her team contribute to the drafting of important protective legislation and produce award-winning publicati... - Forensic psychiatrists can help increase Class Action Damage Awards
Apr-16-08 Forensic psychiatrists/psychologists can help increase damages awards in class-action and mass tort cases. An Atrium client, California attorney Scott Schutzman handles large grave desecration cases and recently served as legal editor for "Traversing the Minefield" an industry guide for cemetery managers. In Terry Barnes et al. v. Angeles Abbey Memoria... - Attorney Terry J. Chapko on the Starbucks Class Action
Apr-16-08 Coronado, CA: During our interviews with Laura Ho and Shannon Liss-Riordan, Terry Chapko's name came up as one of the attorneys who brought the burgeoning Starbucks class action to their attention. LawyersandSettlements caught up with him in his one-person shop in this suburb of San Diego where he's practiced employment law on the plaintiff's side since 20... - Attorney Brian J. Glick on Insurance, Medical Malpractice, and Medical Device Liability
Apr-15-08 Boca Raton, FL: Attorney Brian J. Glick says that "he works for the people, not the powerful." What that involves, and how it can change things for the better, was the subject of our interview. LawyersandSettlements (LAS): How would you describe your practice? Brian J. Glick (BJG): It's all what we call liability work, people injured as a result o... - Preventing Medication Errors
Apr-15-08 Philadelphia, PA The LawyersandSettlements website is chock full of stories of errors and near-misses in medication, inaccurate or misread prescriptions as well as the resulting health complications and tragedies. The Institute for Safe Medication Practices (ISMP) is a non profit charity that exists to help prevent such occurrences by educating both cons... - Attorney Linda M. Dardarian on Structured Negotiation
Apr-12-08 Oakland, CA: Traditional litigation is often an expensive, time-consuming, and adversarial route to resolution. Sometimes it's inevitable, but some areas of law lend themselves to a collaborative approach that yields benefits for both sides. It's called structured negotiation, and Linda M. Dardarian, partner in Goldstein, Demchak, Baller, Borgen and Dard... - Hotel Safes Billing Practices
Lawyers are currently investigating complaints concerning billing practices that relate to charges for in-room safes at CHOICE Hotels which operates several hotel chains, including Comfort Inns, Clarion and Econo Lodge. At these hotels a daily charge for a "safe warranty fee" is automatically posted to a guest's folio or bill. According to the investi... - Chantix: FDA Video Mysteriously Disappears.
Apr-11-08 Washington, DC: In tandem with an update of safety warnings concerning Chantix by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), a video presentation reportedly linking Chantix to suicide presented by the FDA and available through a link to its Patient Safety News web page, has suddenly disappeared. As part of its service to drug consumers, the FDA has... - Attorney Scott R. Shepherd on WhistleBlowers, Securities, and Consumer Class Action
Apr-4-08 Philadelphia, PA: Scott R. Shepherd is a founding partner in Shepherd, Finkelman, Miller and Shah, LLC , a national law firm with offices in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Florida, Connecticut, and Wisconsin. A 1985 graduate of the University of Chicago Law School, Shepherd founded the firm in 1998. LawyersandSettlements (LAS): What are the main areas of y... - Attorney Shannon Liss-Riordan: Challenging Corporate Power and Tips Abuse
Apr-9-08 Boston, Massachusetts: LawyersandSettlements' interview with Shannon Liss-Riordan, a partner in the labor, employment, and class action law firm of Pyle, Rome, Lichten, Ehrenberg & Liss-Riordan, P.C. was delayed a day. That's because Liss-Riordan had to be in court for the verdict in a Massachusetts tips case taken against American Airlines. It was the f...