On October 7, 2006, Steven Butler, by his own admission, was drunk and disorderly. He refused an order from a police officer in his hometown to get off a city bus. The officer used his Taser ECD (officially, an “Electronic Control Device”) three times. According to doctors, Butler suffered immediate…
The family of the man whose Aug. 28 death spurred the first recall of Toyota vehicles for unintended acceleration has filed a products liability and negligence lawsuit against the Japanese automaker. Mark Saylor, 45, a California Highway Patrol Officer, was killed along with his family after the 2009 Lexus he…
Family members of a Fort Worth woman killed in a December wreck involving an allegedly intoxicated off-duty Fort Worth police officer filed suit today against the Fort Worth bar at which the officer had been drinking. At a news conference in Dallas today, the family’s attorney said the family of…
In an annual 2009 report released by Bayer, the number of contraceptive lawsuits over Yaz, Yasmin and Ocella has risen to about 1,100 filed cases, and that number will continue to increase as thousands of women are considering claims for serious injuries that have been caused by side effects of…
A Fairfax County jury has awarded nearly $3 million to the family of a man who died after his esophagus tore while he was swallowing a piece of steak, finding an Alexandria radiologist liable for misdiagnosing the man’s condition as a hiatal hernia. Large civil jury verdicts are rare in…
For what appears to be the first time, a former resident of Camp Lejeune, N.C., has been permitted to move ahead with a claim against the Marine Corps for years of water contamination that she says led to the development of her non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. The U.S. Department of the Navy,…
Monty and Linda Hardy had taken their 2008 Toyota Avalon to a Grapevine dealership “several times” with complaints about uncommanded acceleration but were told there was nothing wrong, their attorney says. On the day after Christmas, Monty Hardy was driving the Toyota in Southlake when it sped through a T-intersection,…
GlaxoSmithKline Plc rejected allegations that it concealed safety information about its diabetes drug Avandia or acted inappropriately in marketing it, saying a U.S. Senate staff report was inaccurate and incomplete. The company diligently studied the drug’s safety and effectiveness, and communicated its findings to governments, regulators, scientists and doctors, London-based…
The pressure on Toyota Motor Corp. intensified as the company disclosed subpoenas from a federal grand jury and the Securities and Exchange Commission related to sudden acceleration in its cars, while the leaders of a congressional panel accused Toyota of misleading the public about safety problems. The House Energy and…
The Food and Drug Administration, under fire from a new Senate report questioning the safety of GlaxoSmithKline PLC’s diabetes drug Avandia, told doctors that patients taking the medicine should stay on it unless their doctors say otherwise. Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D., Conn.), the chairwoman of the House appropriations panel that…