Students at Crowley High School mourned the loss of sophomore Germain Harris II, who died in a car wreck. Harris, 16, died after his car struck a sign pole in front of an Arby’s restaurant in the 3800 block of Altamesa Boulevard in southwest Fort Worth. The wreck happened at…
Federal regulators say the drugmaker Pfizer has failed to correct problems with its testing procedures that resulted in overdoses of several children during a company trial. The Food and Drug Administration issued a warning letter saying Pfizer did not properly monitor physicians testing an experimental medication, which the agency did…
Two years ago, 4-year-old Colin Holst drowned in a Life Time Fitness swimming pool surrounded by adults and lifeguards. After being hit with a $25 million wrongful death lawsuit by Colin’s parents, Life Time is suing Colin’s mother and two of her friends, accusing them of trespassing, fraud and breach…
Many lawsuits have been filed against the pharmaceutical companies associated with the birth control product NUVARING® in the United States. NUVARING® is a birth control product that releases two synthetic hormones, etonogestrel (a progestin) and ethinyl estradiol (an estrogen), into the woman’s body. The lawsuit complaints allege that the parties…
Robert Eglet’s client, is infected with hepatitis C, and his Las Vegas law firm going head to head with one of the largest drugmakers in the world and its international law firm. It’s a battle that began more than two years ago after local health officials announced a hepatitis C…
An Illinois maker of asbestos-laden shipboard parts was hit with a $2.99 million verdict brought by the spouse of a former Navy sailor who died a year ago of asbestos-related cancer. After a 12-day trial in Newport News Circuit Court, a seven-member jury sided with the wife of Robert Hardick,…
When the oral contraceptives Yasmin and Yaz came on the market in 2001 and 2006, respectively, they were thought to be safer than other birth control pills because they contained a different kind of synthetic progestin. But in the lawsuits against the pills’ maker, Bayer HealthCare, plaintiff attorneys claim that…
Federal regulators are requiring Bayer Healthcare to revise its marketing materials for Yaz and Yasmin to reflect new safety information that was recently added to the drugs’ labels. In a letter to Bayer dated April 7, the Food & Drug Administration (FDA) said revisions must include “prominent disclosure of the…
NuvaRing, a contraceptive device marketed by Organon Pharmaceuticals and Merck & Co., has been named in some 300 product liability lawsuits. The lawsuits claim that NuvaRing caused plaintiffs to suffer serious, life-threatening blood clots. NuvaRing is a transparent, flexible vaginal ring that provides month-long birth control by emitting a continuous…
A Philadelphia Common Pleas Court jury awarded $89 million to family members of passengers killed in a Youngstown, Ohio, plane crash and a survivor, finding that the manufacturer of the plane’s engine had concealed information about a faulty carburetor that caused the crash. The six-seat Piper Cherokee, built in 1968,…