Defective & Dangerous Products

• Bausch and Lomb ignores continuing Fusarium eye infection risk

  Cal Warriner | August 25, 2006 6:00 PM | 0 CommentsWest Palm Beach, FL

  Bausch and Lomb still has the spin doctors hard at work. Its recent announcement that it took appropriate measures to protect ReNu with MoistureLoc users is hogwash. To this date, Bausch still has done virtually nothing to get ReNu out of medicine cabinets all over the world. Sure they stopped selling the defective product but what about the millions of bottles that had already been sold?I...

• Big Tobacco has been lying to us?

  John Hopkins | August 24, 2006 10:58 AM | 0 CommentsWest Palm Beach, FL

  The Christian Science Monitor reports that big tobacco has been lying to the American public for over 50 years and District Court Judge Gladys Kessler stated that: "As the evidence overwhelmingly demonstrates, (tobacco's) fraudulent conduct has permeated all aspects of their operations -- from how they design, manufacture, and market their products to how they communicate with the public about...

• Corneal Transplants Linked to Recalled ReNu MoistureLoc

  Cal Warriner | August 23, 2006 4:46 PM | 0 CommentsWest Palm Beach, FL

  A new study reveals that nearly a third of all fusarium infections caused by Bausch and Lomb's recalled contact lens solution, ReNu with MoistureLoc result in the need for corneal transplants. This study rebuts propaganda widely disseminated by Bausch and Lomb that these infections are not that frequent or damaging. The question is with all the mounting evidence, when will Bausch and Lomb come...

• How Do the Recent Tobacco Decisions Affect Florida Lawsuits

  Staff Writer | August 23, 2006 11:31 AM | 1 CommentWest Palm Beach, FL

  Fellow InjuryBoard Blogger Bob Carroll does a great job breaking down the effect of recent court decisions on Florida tobacco lawsuits. When the Florida Supreme Court upheld a lower court's decision to throw out $145B awarded to a class of Florida smokers, the door was opened for individuals harmed by Big Tobacco to file individual lawsuits.As Bob points out in his post:In Florida, on the other...