Defective & Dangerous Products

• Light Cigarettes and Class Action

  John Hopkins | September 16, 2006 12:34 PM | 0 CommentsWest Palm Beach, FL

  The Tobacco Industry began marketing "light" cigarettes because? Anybody, anybody? It seems likely that it involved, at least a little, the need to hedge against the increasing sounds being made by the anti-smoking faction; don't you think? Could a fear of shrinking profits have been involved? Could they have had a desire to create the idea that smoking "light cigarettes" was somehow healthier?...

• Light Cigarettes Sound Better--and That's What Tobacco was Going For!

  John Hopkins | September 15, 2006 1:54 PM | 0 CommentsWest Palm Beach, FL

  Smokers came to know that smoking was not good for them, but Big Tobacco had an answer for them: "light cigarettes". Lower in tar; lower in nicotine; keep on puffin'!!That fiction, sold to the public for over 20 years, may actually be exposed by the light of day. Plaintiffs have asked District Couirt Judge Jack Weinstein to certify a class action lawsuit in which the plaintiffs allege that Big...

• Philip Morris continues Big Tobacco's duck and cover

  Cal Warriner | September 12, 2006 2:44 PM | 0 CommentsWest Palm Beach, FL

  As Gomer Pyle used to say, "Surprise, Surprise, Surprise." Having been hammered in Federal Court and again by the Massachusetts Department of Health study finding ever increasing nicotine levels in Marlboro cigarettes Philip Morris denies the validity of the Massachusetts study.At the same time, when asked pointedly whether Philip Morris adds nicotine to its cigarettes, its spokesman withheld...

• Patients May Be Endangered by Stents

  John Hopkins | September 11, 2006 4:58 PM | 0 CommentsWest Palm Beach, FL

  Reuters reported that notable cardiologist, Dr. Stephen Nissen, believes that cardiac stents have not been tested long enough before wide spread use in patients. Dr. Nissen, head of cardiovascular medicine at Cleveland Clinic, believes that the newer generation of stents may lead to increased late-stent thrombosis:"No one has done the right kind of long-term study. We need a prospective,...

• Texas Teen sues Bausch and Lomb

  Cal Warriner | September 09, 2006 1:41 PM | 0 CommentsWest Palm Beach, FL

  A thirteen year old Texas teen has sued Bausch and Lomb after suffering a fungal infection. The teen had used ReNu with MoistureLoc. As many others have found, doctors were not able to quickly diagnose the infection because fungal eye infections are so rare. The boy has lost significant vision and sees white spots.By the time time everyone who suffered these infections is determined, Bausch and...

• Bausch still selling ReNu overseas

  Cal Warriner | September 06, 2006 8:37 AM | 0 CommentsWest Palm Beach, FL

  What are they thinking? Over the past several months Bausch's ReNu with MoistureLoc contact lens solution has been determined by the CDC to have caused hundreds of potentially catastrophic fungal eye infections. Bausch stopped selling the product world wide but has taken virtually no steps to insure that consumers throw away unused solution. New clients are calling my office every day suffering...

• Recipe for Injury: Bad Prescribing and Bad Prescriptions

  John Hopkins | September 05, 2006 8:36 PM | 0 CommentsWest Palm Beach, FL

  One and a half million Americans are harmed each year at a cost of over $3.5 million dollars per year due to preventable mistakes; as reported by the New York Times recently. This article was based on a report issued by the Institute of Medicine this summer. These figures, according to the report, account for only the prescribing errors and not the errors resulting from drugs that did not work...

• Big Tobacco Increasing the Habit

  John Hopkins | August 31, 2006 9:36 AM | 0 CommentsWest Palm Beach, FL

  The Boston Globe and the Washington Post reported that the nicotine content in cigarettes has increased an average of almost 10% between 1998 and 2004! So, in the face of lawsuits, public scrutiny and the exposure of these tactics in the past, Tobacco companies are trying to hook smokers more and more. Doral Lights reportedly incraesed 36% and Marlboros, hot with the young smokers, increased...

• Woman injured by defective lawnmower receives 1.8 million dollar verdict against retailer Wal Mart

  Cal Warriner | August 30, 2006 10:09 AM | 0 CommentsWest Palm Beach, FL

  A woman seriously injured when she jumped from a riding lawnmower received a 1.8 million dollar jury verdict. The lawnmower, manufactured by bankrupt Murray and sold by Wal Mart, was designed so that its blades would not spin if the driver's seat was not occupied and would stop spinning during operation if the driver's weight left the seat.The plaintiff apparently thinking the lawnmower was...

• Bausch and Lomb ReNu users not to blame CDC says

  Cal Warriner | August 28, 2006 8:16 AM | 0 CommentsWest Palm Beach, FL

  A new article goes into more depth regarding the CDC's recent reporting of its Fusarium Keratitis outbreak investigation. After studying the outbreak in more detail the CDC's latest statement reports at least two important findings. First, it seems this outbreak is limited to Bausch's ReNu with MoistureLoc brand which it has recalled. Second, and more importantly, the CDC has thrown cold water...