Posts tagged Fraud

• Tobacco Companies to Kids: Be Cool, Try It!

  Brian Denney | October 05, 2009 9:33 AM | 2 CommentsWest Palm Beach, FL Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  Would you believe that eating lots of apple sauce is no more dangerous than smoking cigarettes? www.youtube.com/watch Would you believe that some pregnant women like to smoke so they can have...

• Drug and Medical Device Manufacturers: "It is someone else's fault"

  John Hopkins | September 03, 2009 10:59 AM | 2 CommentsWest Palm Beach, FL Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  A responsible FDA has brought a drug manufacturer to justice. The FDA has settled with Pfizer over its off label and deceptive marketing of the drug Bextra; $2.3 billion in fines and penalties....

• Contact Lens Solution Linked to Acanthamoeba Keratitis

  John Hopkins | May 30, 2007 9:12 AM | 0 CommentsWest Palm Beach, FL Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  On May 25, AMO (Advanced Medical Optics) announced a recall of their "No Rub" solution, Complete® MoisturePlus ™ Multipurpose Solution. Although the company stands by its product and casts the blame on contact lens wearers who "improperly store, disinfect or handle" their contact lenses, the CDC forced them to recall the solutionThis recall is not so distant from Bausch & Lomb's recall of...

• AOL; the lady doth protest too much, methinks

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

  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...

• Big Tobacco, Scorched Earth Tactics & the Engle Case

  John Hopkins | February 06, 2007 5:05 PM | 0 CommentsWest Palm Beach, FL Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  The Florida Supreme Court has issued its mandate in the Engle v Liggett case. This case involved a class action by Florida smokers against Big Tobacco. Florida smokers who qualify as "Engle class members" must now take some action against Big Tobacco in less than one year. The Supreme Court made certain findings of fact and law that may place Big Tobacco at a distinct disadvantage and Florida...

• The Law of Large Numbers

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

  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...

• First, Physician Do No Harm

  John Hopkins | December 08, 2006 2:18 PM | 0 CommentsWest Palm Beach, FL Category: Miscellaneous
  

  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...

• Drug Companies Scamper to Garner Members of Congress

  John Hopkins | November 26, 2006 11:31 AM | 0 CommentsWest Palm Beach, FL Category: Miscellaneous
  

  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...

• Frivolous Lawsuits "Picking On" Big Business

  John Hopkins | November 20, 2006 11:23 AM | 0 CommentsWest Palm Beach, FL Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  A California group, Citizens Against Lawsuit Abuse (CALA), thinks that corporate America needs protection from lawsuits. They fear that Big Business can not continue to reap profits producing products they know are dangerous and so, they intend to continue a campaign to "inform" the public. According to Ralph Shaffer, Cal Poly Pomona Emeritus of History, they intend to continue their campaign of...

• We Can All Sleep Better...Malpractice Insurers Reaping Profits

  John Hopkins | November 10, 2006 8:46 AM | 0 CommentsWest Palm Beach, FL Category: Head & Brain Injuries
  

  Injured victims of medical negligence continue to suffer the inability to find lawyers who have the expertise and financial strength to handle medical negligence cases. The passage of "tort reform" in Florida has created a situation in which injured victims can no longer recover fair compensation for their "human damages". Human damages are those that the insurance lobby feel juries have gotten...