West Palm Beach Personal Injury Lawyer articles in category: Miscellaneous

The father of a man who died while wearing a Duragesic patch was awarded $5.5 million on Tuesday by a federal jury in West Palm Beach. The jury decided that the drug's company was liable for Adam Hendelson's death.The Hendelson family sued Johnson & Johnson subsidiaries Janssen Pharmaceutica Products and the Alva Corporation over their son Adam's death in 2003. Adam died of an overdose of...

On April 13, 2005, the FDA approved AMO's Complete MoisturePLUS. This time, AMO represented that Complete MoisturePLUS was "the same as the currently marketed solution." But it wasn't just like it, because MoisturePLUS contained two additional ingredients, propylene glycol (used as antifreeze in automobile radiators) and taurine (used as a specialized buffer). On two prior occasions, AMO had...

AMO, Bausch & Lomb, and other solution manufacturers have been practicing market driven Science. While market driven science is not necessarily bad, if taken to its extreme, it can violate basic Voodoo principles.The eye is one of the most complex organs in the human body, and one of the few organs that are directly open to the environment. The biology and chemistry that is the eye has evolved...

Well, American Medical Optics' president and CEO, James Mazzo has finally taken the same path that Bausch & Lomb has in defending ReNu with MoistureLoc. Associated Press reported Mr. Mazzo as stating that the problem with Complete® MoisturePlus is not his company's problem. Instead, he has chosen to blame the consumer and, if some Chicago researchers are to be believed, it is even in the water....

AOL, the once power house of on-line communities, has just put up a new feature on the "Money & Finance" portion of their web site. The section is called "Most Outrageous Lawsuits" and they say that "Americans are lawsuit crazy". They also make the claim that lawsuits have "caused some companies to be extra cautious..." Wow, imagine how horrible--lawsuits cause companies to become more...

Americans who are trading in their gas hogs for smaller, more fuel-efficient vehicles may well be trading in the safety provided by many of those larger vehicles as well. According to a recently-released study by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, "[o]nly the Versa earned the top rating of "Good" for front- and side-impact protection as well as for whiplash protection in rear impacts."...

The "law of large numbers" is the theory upon which all insurance exists. Essentially, it says that if you can put enough "risks" together, then the majority can pay the claims of the minority. It relies on the idea that, in any large group, it will be the minority who suffer some sort of loss and submit an insurance claim. The larger the group, the more likely that premiums paid by the...

Three years ago, insurance companies and rabid tort reformer physicians convinced the unsuspecting public that tort reform was needed to reduce malpractice insurance rates being paid by physicians. They told the public that victims of medical negligence were simply litigious and that trial lawyers were greedy. They told the public that if tort reform was not passed, they were all leaving Florida...

If you are in the US senate or house, Big Drug Companies want you! So, if you want a luxury vacation, a free executive jet ride, or a contribution, just speak up as the pharmaceutical lobbyist comes to call. The New York Times reported that: "Drug Industry Is on Defensive as Power Shifts". Apparently, Big Drug Companies do not think that Democrats will be quite as generous with them as...

Kudos to Ms. Cindy Ritchie for having the tenacity to stand up to one of the big tire companies. Ms. Ritchie had a tire on her truck that delaminated, causing her truck to roll over. She made a property damage claim to the manufacturer, Yokohama Tire Corporation. Not only did she not receive compensation; received no apology; but the big tire company lost her tire! Many people might give up and...

Seeming to have forgotten the public relations nightmares of high profile and high-dollar litigation of the past decade, Big Tobacco has gone back to its roots. And its roots are not a pretty sight. Since the first famous whistleblower described an industry culture of creating and fostering addictions to nicotine at all costs, the industry has paid billions of dollars in settlements, public...

The IndyStar reports that over 8000 people who thought they had health insurance through the Indiana Construction Industry Trust Helath Plan were victimized and suffered denials of their medical claims. Executives of the company have reportedly been sent to jail for their embezzlement of millions. Sending the executives to jail, however, still left thousands of victimized policyholders holding...

When a U.S. judge set aside a $10 million verdict against Custer Battles last week, it brought into question the ability of the government and whistleblowers to penalize companies that profited illegally from the war in Iraq. Custer Battles was found to have grossly inflated invoices to the Coalition Provisional Authority, but Judge T.S. Ellis, III ruled that invoices to the CPA were not proven...

At Searcy Denney Scarola Barnhart & Shipley PA, we don't separate what we are from who we are . . . because they are one and the same.We are attorneys motivated by a passion for justice:- A passion for protecting standards of fairness and equality; - A passion for defending people whose rights have been violated; and - A passion for making wrongdoers accountable for their actions. Since 1979,...

From the first day of his law practice, Cal Warriner has specialized in civil trial law. He gained invaluable, early experience defending general tort and medical malpractice cases. In 1988 Chris Searcy offered Cal a position to work directly for him. Cal immediately accepted and has been with the firm ever since. He was elected a shareholder in 1991.Cal's trial experience at Searcy Denney has...