Miscellaneous

• The Sprint Fidelis Lead is the Other Kind of Class III Device; but all is Not Lost

  Armand Rossetti | September 12, 2008 1:35 PM | 1 CommentWest Palm Beach, FL

  The Medtronic Sprint Fidelis lead is the small subset of Class III device approved under the more stringent FDA PMA process. Therefore, barring any further federal legislation that would revise the...

• Preemption and the Vanishing Threat of Liability

  Armand Rossetti | September 09, 2008 2:32 PM | 0 CommentsWest Palm Beach, FL

  Today, when Americans use defective products that cause injury they have a remedy. Injured consumers usually sue the product’s manufacturer in state court. However, this opportunity for the courts...

• 2008 Stanford Study Proves Injectable Pain Medicine from Pain Pumps Kill Tissue

  Cal Warriner | September 02, 2008 6:10 PM | 1 CommentWest Palm Beach, FL

  A very recent laboratory study conducted at Stanford University heavily suggests that common anesthetics used in pain pumps cause significant tissue destruction. The study, prompted by poor outcomes...

• Family Awarded $5.5 Million in Duragesic Patch Suit

  Jenny Albano | June 21, 2007 9:37 AM | 0 CommentsWest Palm Beach, FL

  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 ALZA Corporation over their son Adam's death in 2003. Adam died of an overdose of...

• What are the so-called "ancillary ingredients" in AMO's Complete MoisturePLUS?

  Armand Rossetti | June 15, 2007 7:44 PM | 0 CommentsWest Palm Beach, FL

  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,...

• The Eyes Have It

  Armand Rossetti | June 14, 2007 5:52 AM | 0 CommentsWest Palm Beach, FL

  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...

• AMO Says the Fault Lies With the Consumers--Not With Complete

  John Hopkins | June 12, 2007 10:17 AM | 0 CommentsWest Palm Beach, FL

  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 lady doth protest too much, methinks

  John Hopkins | March 05, 2007 2:17 PM | 0 CommentsWest Palm Beach, FL

  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...

• Trading Gas Mileage for Safety?

  John Hopkins | December 19, 2006 4:47 PM | 0 CommentsWest Palm Beach, FL

  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

  John Hopkins | December 11, 2006 10:49 AM | 0 CommentsWest Palm Beach, FL

  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...