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Hydroxycut Diet Drug Recalled - Saturday, May 02, 2009

Hydroxycut, a popular diet supplement, has been recalled by the FDA. The supplement has been shown to cause serious liver injuries, including liver failure and death. Symptoms of liver injury can include jaundice, brown urine, vomiting, light colored stool, weakness, fatigue, and loss of appetite.

This is another wake-up call that there is no "quick fix" for weight loss and that many popular "magic pills" are not only ineffective but dangerous. If you are taking Hydroxycut, stop immediately and instead, get proper exercise and eat a balanced diet.

If you or a family member have liver damage from taking Hyroxycut or other diet supplements, you may want to know your legal rights. Call CGWC for a free consultation.

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Darvocet Recall? - Friday, March 06, 2009

On January 30, 2009, an advisory panel recommended that the Food and Drug Administration issue a recall of Darvon, which when combined with acetominaphen is called Darvocet, a commonly prescribed pain medication. The panel concluded that the risk of addiction, overdose and suicide outweighed the benefits of these painkillers and recommended Darvon and Darvocet be pulled from the market. So, if you have Darvocet in your medicine cabinet, you might want to consider destroying it. And if a doctor prescribes it, you should ask about substitutes. Darvon and Darvocet contain narcotics and perhaps you can get equal pain relief from less risky medications.

In addition, the Supreme Court of the United States ruled in Wyeth v. Levine that FDA approval of a drug does not immunize the manufacturer from negligence and product liability lawsuits under state law. So, the fact that Darvocet and Darvon are approved, at the moment, for use by the FDA does not meant that they are entirely safe for consumers or that injured consumers don't have rights against manufacturers who put these products in the stream of commerce for profit.

Be an informed and proactive patient. Educate and inform yourself. Ask questions and don't blindly take risky medication.

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Florida Product Liability Attorneys Warn Baby Cribs Can Be Deadly - Sunday, November 02, 2008

The Consumer Products Safety Commission recently recalled baby cribs due to the risk of entrapment and death following the death of an infant. Over a million drop side baby cribs manufactured by Delta Enterprise Corporation after it was found that the drop side could detach when a spring peg is not engaged, causing potential entrapment, suffocation and death.

If you or a loved one has been injured by a defective product of any kind, you need experienced product liability attorneys to protect your family and your legal rights. Call CGWC for a free consultation about you product liability case.

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Florida Wrongful Death Lawyers Advise Consumers To Return Deadly Products - Sunday, September 21, 2008


The Consumer Product Safety Commission has recalled yet another deadly dangerous product made in China. This time, it's a baby crib. The Simplicity brand Drop Side baby crib has been recalled due to serious entrapment and suffocation hazards to infants and toddlers.

Because of sizing problems with the crib's hardware, the drop side can come off its track, creating a hazardous gap that can entrap and suffocate a sleeping infant or toddler. The recalled model numbers include: 8620, 8745, 8748, 8755, 8756, 8778, 8810, and 8994. The recalled cribs have a date code found on the label of the headboard under the mattress support, which ends in 05DH, 05GB, 06GB, 07DH or 07GB. The recalled model names includ Apen and Crib 'N Changer Combo, Gabrielle, Camille, Providence and Shenandoah.

Dangerous scuba diving equipment has also been recently recalled. The Apeks Second Stage Scuba Regulators were recalled due to a drowning hazard. The regulators can be missing their diaphragm cover, resulting in a drowning hazard if the diaphragm is displaced during a dive.

If you or a loved one has been injured by a dangerous product, call CGWC for a free consultation about whether you are entitled to compensation from the manufacturer of the dangerous product under product liability laws.

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Bayer's Trasylol Killed 1,000 Patients Per Month - Monday, February 18, 2008


During and after open heart surgery, bleeding is always a concern. Doctors prescribe medications to control bleeding and reduce the need for blood transfusions. For 14 years, patients were given Trasylol, generically known as aprotinin, for this purpose. Many patients don't even know that they were given this drug. Many more families don't know that it was this drug that caused serious complications or death for their loved ones.

According to a 60 Minutes investigative report, this dangerous drug was on the market for 14 years and may have contributed to the deaths of thousands of patients. Trasylol was a big money maker for Bayer and was being given to thousands of surgery patients. Partly as a result of an expensive and aggressive marketing campaign, Trasylol was being used in about 1/3 of all open heart surgery cases by 2006. Then, a study reported in the New England Journal of Medicine comparing patients who were given Trasylol with patients who either received no anti-bleeding medication or were given other generics, showed dramatically increased risks of stroke, heart failure, and kidney failure requiring dialysis for those patients who were given Trasylol.

As it turns out, there were concerns about Trasylol even before the NEJM study. Long before the Food & Drug Administration (FDA) took it off the market, major studies revealed problems with Trasylol. Why did Bayer not take this drug off the market immediately? What did Bayer know about its dangers? And when did Bayer know it?

According to 60 Minutes there were concerns as far back as the 1980's when Dr. Juergen Fischer, director of the Institute of Experimental Medicine at the University of Cologne told Bayer that Trasylol was causing severe kidney damage in animals. He says Bayer was disinterested in investigating these potential side-effects. A later study in the early 1990's by a top heart surgeon at the Missouri Baptist Medical Center also showed a high incidence of kidney problems after Trasylol regimens. Last year, a Canadian study of Trasylol had to be stopped because patients in the study were dying.

Worse yet, other drugs costing hundreds of dollars less than Trasylol can accomplish the same anti-bleeding goals without the dangers of kidney failure, stroke, and heart failure. According to the author of the NEJM study, about 22,000 deaths were caused between the time of the study and the date the drug was taken off the market.

If you or a loved one had open heart surgery and then had complications of heart failure, stroke, or kidney failure, the complications may have been caused by Trasylol. If you suspect this drug may have killed or injured you or a loved one, call CGWC for a free conultation. The attorneys at CGWC are actively engaged in the litigation of Trasylol cases right now. Unlike many firms who advertise for such cases, the attorneys at CGWC actually handle Trasylol cases from our Orlando offices and hold membership in the American Association for Justice (AAJ) Trasylol Litigation Group.

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High Volume Drugstores And Prescription Errors - Thursday, February 14, 2008

A USA Today investigation has revealed that profit driven corporate policies contribute to frequent pharmacy errors at the big chain drugstores, like Walgreens and CVS. The mega-companies establish policies that allow or encourage pharmacists to fill hundreds of prescriptions each day and even reward the pharmacists for fast work. Of course, speed can kill in drugstores, just as it does on public streets.

According to the investigation, some of the stores owned and operated by these big businesses have pharmacists working long shifts with few breaks while filling these hundreds of prescriptions each day. They also rely on lesser trained technicians to help licensed pharmacists process and package prescriptions in an attempt to meet guidelines for speed in filling prescriptions. Sometimes these guidelines set goals of as little as two minutes to fill a prescription. Some professional pharmacists and unions say this leaves little time to counsel patients about a new prescription while also contributing toward human error in the process.

Walgreens even pays bonuses to pharmacists and pharmacy managers for increased volume of filled prescriptions. Until recently, CVS had similar compensation bonus programs. Pharmacists in these chain drugstores are worried about workloads and staffing pressures and are more likely to say they are stressed by these influences than pharmacists overall according to national surveys.

Avoid being a victim of prescription error by knowing your medications and why you are taking them, inspecting your pills when you leave the store, knowing and understanding your specific dosage, sticking to one drugstore, and really communicating with your pharmacist. Don't assume your prescription is safe. If it looks different from the medication you expected to receive in any way, ask questions and be certain you've received the right medicine and the correct dosage.

While most prescription errors fortunately don't result in major health complications, some errors can have catastrophic consequences, including death. If you or a loved one has been the victim of prescription error, CGWC is here when you need us.

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Child Car Seats Recalled - Friday, February 01, 2008

Evenflo has recalled a million child car seats after tests by the company and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration revealed the base could become detached in high impact side collisions. Several Discovery Infant Car Seat models are affected by the recall which was a voluntary one. If your family owns one of the affected seats you should immediately contact Evenflo for information on returning the model or obtaining a tether device to make it safe.

Evenflo is to be commended for this voluntary recall, but many product manufacturers are not so responsible and place unreasonably dangerous and defective products on the market recklessly. These products cause untold harm, including serious injuries and death to the unsuspecting public.

The public has a right to expect products on the U.S. market to be safe for intended uses. If you or a family member has been injured or killed in an accident that may have involved an unsafe consumer product or an unsafe industrial product, contact the experienced product liability attorneys at CGWC for a free consultation about your legal rights.

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Pacifiers Recalled - Choking Hazard - Sunday, December 02, 2007


The United States Consumer Products Safety Commission has announced the voluntary recall of Chinese made "flashing pacifiers" and "2 in 1 flashing pacifier with whistle necklace" distributed in the U.S. by Sailing International Corporation of Hackensack, New Jersey. The nipple of these pacifiers can detach from the base and pose a choking hazard to infants.

If you have a pacifier that looks like those in this photograph, discard and destroy it immediately. More and more, it seems products manufactured in China are unreasonably dangerous and still being placed into the stream of commerce for U.S. consumers by American distributors. In addition, sometimes the defects are in the design of the product, and the design is usually one of American, rather than Chinese, engineers. American companies who use cheap Chinese labor to manufacture products for distribution to consumers in the U.S. are legally responsible for any injuries caused by these dangerous and defective products. If you or a loved has been injured or killed by a dangerous product of any kind, whether at home, in recreational activities, or in the work place, you need an experience product liability attorney. At CGWC our attorneys are experienced in a variety of product liability cases.

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Experts Say Kids Shouldn't Use Cold Medicines - Saturday, October 20, 2007

According to a panel of outside experts gathered by the Food and Drug Administration to assess medicines used to treat common colds and coughs in children, the over the counter medicines just don't work. That's right. There is no evidence that they work! What's more, there is enough risk of harm to children, that children under 6 years of age should never be given these over the counter medicines.

These medicines have been used by decades and billions of doses have been given by parents to their children over the years. The drug companies who sell these products have spent billions of dollars marketing many different brands for a long, long time. The findings are not binding on the FDA or manufacturers, but the conclusions of the panel of experts will hopefully lead, at minimum, to regulations requiring warnings or instructions on labels in the future. Until then, be careful what you put in your and your children's bodies. Just because a product is on the market, that doesn't mean it's safe. Far from it.

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Ban Sought On Children's Cold Medicines - Saturday, September 29, 2007

Some doctors quip to their patients that their common cold will last 7 days if they take some over the counter cold medicines but will last a full week if they don't. The more we learn of the dangers of taking unnecessary medications, the more one wonders whether it is wise to take many over the counter medications. In the case of children, some cold medicines can be outright harmful.

Some experts have urged the Food and Drug Administration to ban over the counter, multi-symptom, cough and cold medicines for children under 6 years of age. There are about 800 popular cough and cold medicines that might be affected by a ban, including Toddler's Dimetapp, Triaminic Infant and Little Colds. The experts said in a lengthy report that there is little evidence that these medicines are effective and mounting evidence that they are dangerous. The experts cited statistics on the number of children who have died after taking medicines containing decongestants and antihistimines and suggested that the true toll is probably higher. The Center For Disease Control and Prevention recently found that more than 1500 children under two years of age suffered serious health problems between 2004 and 2005 after taking such medicines.

In 1990, Americans spent more than 2 billion dollars on these medications. The typical drugstore has over 30 brands of these medicines on its shelves. So, big drug companies have little incentive to take these medicines off the market. Before you give your child a cold medication, talk to your doctor. Maybe Tyelnol or an aspirin would be just as effective for a common cold or associated symptoms. Try mentholated creams or steam to help with congestion. Americans are far to quick to seek a "magic pill" for many ailments. Often, the "magic pill" they've been sold is not only ineffective; it's dangerous.

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One Million Baby Cribs Recalled - Friday, September 28, 2007

Simplicity and Graco recalled 1 million baby cribs recently after two babies died in separate incidents. The Consumer Products Safety Commission says to take no chances with these cribs. Like many recently recalled toys, these baby cribs were manufactured in China. The design defect is a "drop side" rail that can pull away from the mattress, creating a gap that can trap and suffocate sleeping infants. The recalled cribs have been manufactured for almost all of the past ten years.

Since many products are manufactured overseas, it is important for consumers injured by the products to understand that the retail and wholesale sellers of these products are liable for such unreasonably dangerous products, even if they didn't manufacture them. If you or a loved one has been injured by a dangerously designed or defective product, you may have a legal claim for money damages and should consult with an experienced product liability attorney. Product liability claims often involve complex engineering, as well as legal issues, requiring attorneys with the skill, knowledge, experience, and finesse to prove all necessary elements of the claim in state or federal court.

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Walmart Liable For Tire Failure - Saturday, September 22, 2007

Walmart must pay a $ 4 million judgment flowing from a jury verdict in Alabama recently. A woman was left paralyzed following an automobile accident caused when the tread on the tire of her Ford Expedition separated, causing her SUV to flip into the median on Interstate 85.

Often overlooked, tire stores and auto maintenance shops can also be responsible for injuries or deaths caused in tire failure accidents. Recognizing the signs of a developing tread separation, warning a customer of signs of separation, and notifying a customer that their vehicle is operating on a recalled or dangerously defective tire are things tire shops can do to avert serious accidents causing serious injury or death to unsuspecting motorists. These opportunities to prevent tragic accidents are often missed leading to potential legal liability of the shop owners and operators.

If you or a loved one have been injured by any dangerous or defective product, you need an experienced products liability lawyer. At CGWC, we have extensive experience litigating claims of product liability.

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Mattel Recalls 700,000 More Toys - Tuesday, September 04, 2007

Due to toxic lead paint used by Chinese manufacturers, Mattel has announced yet another recall, this time involving approximately 700,000 additional toys. These toys include Barbie accessories, as well as some Fisher Price toys. This is the third massive recall of Mattel toys in a month, largely due to the use of toxic lead paint by Chinese suppliers. If ingested by small children, lead paint can cause brain injury, hearing loss, stunted growth, reduced IQ, delayed development, and damage to the nervous system. In Florida, product manufacturers, as well as wholesale and retail distributors are legally responsible for injuries or deaths caused by unreasonably dangerous or defective products, whether the dangerous defect is in the workmanship or the design of the product. Anyone injured by any kind of dangerous product needs a product liability attorney experienced in litigating these complex and expensive cases. Likewise, handling brain injury cases requires experienced and skilled trial attorneys.

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Mattel Recalls 19 Million More Toys - Friday, August 17, 2007


Mattel is the world's largest toy company. A couple of weeks ago, Mattel announced the recall of about a million Chinese made toys due to the use of dangerous lead paint in their manufacturing process in China. Mattel has now announced the recall of 19 million more toys due to dangerous product defects. Of those, 436, 000 are die case cars of "Sarge" from the movie, Cars. Those toys are likewise covered with lead paint. The other 18.2 million toys are being recalled due to the potential for ingestion by children of tiny powerful magnets. Accidental ingestion of these magnets can cause serious intestinal injury or death. These toys were NOT made in China but were designed defectively right here in America by Mattel. They include such popular toys at Polly Pocket figures, Doggie Day care, Batman, and Barbie.

There have been a series of product recalls this past several months, often involving Chinese distributed products, such as contaminated pet food, defective tires, and tainted toothpaste. Some say these recalls demonstrate that the Consumer Products Safety Commission needs greater funding and more authority to protect American families from dangerous and defective products often shipped to American wholesalers and retailers from other countries in the new global economy. CGWC says this is another reason all Americans should reject insist that the right to jury trial be preserved. Often, only the threat of being held to account in a court of law by a civil or criminal jury provides the incentive to multibillion dollar corporations to clean up their act. These companies are legally liable for these dangerous products under Florida law, as well as under the law of most states, even if the defects or flaws were the fault of their foreign suppliers. And rightly so. They should have rigorous testing and inspection of any foreign supplied products. And there is no excuse for millions of dangerous products to find their way to the playrooms of American children.

Be a smart consumer and understand these dangers. Just because a product is on a shelf in a store doesn't guarantee it is safe and free from unsafe design flaws or product defects. This includes toys. You can check with government sources like the CPSC for product defects and recalls. You can also check with other nonprofit organizations such as World Against Toys Causing Harm (W.A.T.C.H.) which regularly lists the most dangerous toys on the market. You can also check with the Federation Of State Public Interest Research Groups which regularly lists stories on dangerous toys. They also have a separate Toy Safety website.

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Electrocution Injuries Devastate Victims - Tuesday, August 14, 2007

The number of workers electrocuted on the job in America rises every year. Many electrocution injuries are fatal, and the others result in severe burn injuries that leave the workers totally or partially disabled and scarred for life. Contact with overhead power lines is a common mechanism of injury, accounting for about two fifths of all fatal electrocution injuries.

Electrocution injuries often enter through the hands, many times entering through one hand and arm and exiting through the other. In addition to severe burns, damage to other organs, such as the heart, during this type of electrocution injury can occur.

The attorneys at CGWC are experienced in handling electrocution and burn injuries, having handled such injury claims caused by defective manlift devices, having inadequate insulation or other protection from electrocution, defective electrical appliances, and negligence of employers who failed to take adequate precautions, such as grounding equipment and de-energizing power lines, during work expected to bring workers in the vicinity of overhead power lines or other power sources.

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Ford Recalls 3.6 Million Vehicles - Saturday, August 04, 2007


On Friday, Ford Motor Company announced a recall of about 3.6 million passenger cars, trucks, vans and suv's due to defects in cruise control switches that has led to previous recalls related to fires. Ford says it was responding to safety concerns of its customers and questions about the speed control deactivation switch in the vehicles. Ford had previously recalled 6 million vehicles in 2005 due to fires linked to the cruise control systems.

Owners with questions about the recall and whether their vehicles are involved can call Ford at (888) 222-2751. In addition, Ford says it will start calling customers on August 13, 2007. The recall involves Ranger pickups, Lincoln Town Cars, Crown Victorias, Ford Explorer models, some F-series trucks, and several other Ford models.

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Mattel Recalls 1 Million DangerousToys - Thursday, August 02, 2007

In today's global economy, it is incumbent upon American companies to demand that their overseas business partners live up to the safety and quality standards expected by Americans who buy their products. With toys or their component parts often manufactured in places like China, American businesses are obliged to assure that their products reach the American consumer in a reasonably safe condition free of any defect. This is why the law of most states makes distributors of a products in America, including both wholesale and retail outlets, legally responsible to the ultimate consumer for any injuries or deaths caused by unreasonably dangerous and defective products. Other countries don't afford the legal rights and remedies our great system of justice assures its citizens in the pursuit of life, liberty and happiness. And other countries don't possess our tradition of expecting businesses to act ethically, morally, and with the safety of our consumer citizens paramount. So, we as Americans expect and demand that the companies who sell us products will inspect and test those products, even if they are manufactured wholly or partly overseas, and guarantee their safety. The consuming public has a right to rely on businesses to sell only products that are safe for use by the men, women and children in America who are targets of multi-million dollar marketing and advertising campaigns and who eventually pay hard earned money for those products.

Mattel has recalled almost 1 million toys because they were covered in unreasonably dangerous and toxic lead paint. Mattel says a Chinese contractor is to blame. According to Mattel spokespersons, they intercepted more than 2/3 of the toys, but about 300,000 of them may have been purchased by unsuspecting consumers. According to the Consumer Products Safety Commission, the applicable date codes are 109-7LF to 187-7LF which should appear on the product or its packaging. Toys recalled included the Elmo Tub Sub, the Dora the Explorer Backpack, and the Giggle Gabber.

In the past year, China has been the source of many dangerous and defective products reaching the U.S. including pet food, tires, and lead paint on the Thomas & Friends toys. American businesses can force these Chinese businesses to exercise better quality control and provide safe products. They should, and to do so, American companies must adequately test, inspect, and examine all overseas products or component parts for safety and quality.

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Pool Drains Can Be Dangerously Designed - Friday, July 06, 2007

Summertime brings with it days filled with watersports and, for most Florida families, lots of activities in the family pool or at public or resort swimming pools. Unbeknownst to most swimmers and parents, poorly designed pool drains can be extremely dangerous to young swimmers, especially in shallow pools, children's pools, and wading pools. More often than you would expect, children have lost intestines and suffered horrible internal injuries after sitting on drains and becoming trapped by the strong suction of the pool's pump system. In many cases over many years, severe internal injuries have occurred.
Recently, a six year old girl in Minnesota suffered this same fate. Abigail Taylor sustained a tear in her rectum and lost much of her small intestine after sitting on the drain of a wading pool. She then required surgical removal of much of her intestinal tract. Now, she will likely have to receive her nutrition from an implanted port for the rest of her life.
For years, many states have had code requirments to prevent these injuries. Laws and regulations in those states require pool systems to have suction relief or automatic shut-0ff devices to prevent serious injuries from the powerful suction of pool drains. But that doesn't mean that the installer or manufacturer will always comply with those statutes. So, parents must be always vigilant to protect their children from these dangerous defective products. If your child is playing in the pool, train them to stay away from pool drains and suction holes for pool vacuums and pool cleaners. Educate your children that these areas of the pool can be dangerous and are OFF LIMITS. In addition, if you don't know what kind of system your pool has, have a professional inspect it for suction relief devices or controls, as well as any other desired safety equipment. And then, have fun safely.
If you or a member of your family are injured while using any kind of product, remember, the accident may have been preventable with proper and safe design or manufacturing. If you think you or a loved one may have been injured by a defectively designed or manufactured product, call CGWC for a free consultation.

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Diabetes Drug Poses Heart Attack Risk - Monday, May 21, 2007

According to a new study, the widely prescribed Avandia, a drug used to treat Type 2 diabetes, poses a greater risk of heart attack and death than previously thought. GlaxoSmithKline put Avandia on the market about 8 years ago. Since then, about 6 million people worldwide have taken the medication used to treat the most common form of diabetes which is linked to obesity. Results of dozens of studies now reveal a 45% greater risk of heart attack according to an analysis published online by the New England Journal of Medicine. Type 2 diabetes occurs when the body does not make enough insulin or cannot effectively utilize the insulin it does produce. Avandia is supposed to help sensitize the body to insulin and had been considered a breakthrough medicine for controlling blood sugar. Several experts have said that this is another "Vioxx-like" example of the Food and Drug Administration failing to detect a safety problem before millions of people had bought and taken the drug.

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Drug Maker Fined $ 600 Million For Fraud In Marketing Oxycontin - Saturday, May 12, 2007

American drug companies have become incredibly aggressive in their advertising to consumers, physicians, and hospitals. Perhaps to illegal levels in some instances. This week, the manufacturer of Oxycontin, a powerful long-acting narcotic painkiller approved by the Food and Drug Adminstration in 1995, agreed to pay $ 600 million in fines and other payments for "misbranding" the drug. Three top executives also pled guilty to misdemeanors related to the misbranding.
Purdue Pharma and its executives admitted in federal court that they had misled doctors and patients, representing that oxycontin was less likely to be abused than traditional narcotics because of its time release formula. This false representation was at the core of an aggressive marketing campaign that sold over $ 1 billion worth of oxycontin per year.
In fact, oxycontin was nothing more than a pure and stronger version of a long used narcotic, oxycodone. It didn't take long for experienced drug users and novices alike to learn that chewing a tablet, or crushing and snorting or injecting the drug, would produce a powerful high akin to heroin use. By 2000, areas in the U.S. saw skyrocketing crime and drug abuse rates related to oxycontin abuse. According to testimony in the federal court, the results were rising crime rates, teenage drug addiction and many deaths. According to the director of the health research group at Public Citizen, "The damage to the public from these white collared drug pushers surely exceeds the collective damage done by traditional street drug pushers."
Drugs, whether approved by the FDA or not, can be harmful. Research any medication you are prescribed. Don't blindly follow your doctor's advice. Find out what the potential side effects may be before you take it. Find out whether it can be addictive or otherwise harmful. And remember, you cannot always rely on the company selling the product to tell you everything you need to know. In which case, you made need attorneys experienced in pharmaceutical product liability litigation.

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Air Bag Injuries - Sunday, February 25, 2007

According to the Insurance Information Institute air bags can be dangerous and care should be taken to avoid air bag injuries in automobile accidents. Deploying air bags can cause serious injuries or death when small children or small adults sit unbelted. This is also especially true of pregnant or small elderly drivers, who sit too close to the steering wheel in order to reach the pedals, and infants in rear facing seats. Defective airbags or poorly designed airbag systems can deploy without warning or at the wrong time or circumstance, causing serious injuries or death.

While the National Highway and Traffic Safety Administration touts airbags for saving thousands of lives each year, by preventing deaths of drivers and passenger by 30% and 27% respectively, airbags can also be deadly. Until the automotive industry takes the action necessary to design better airbags, a little knowledge can help prevent air bag injuries.
  1. Small children should be placed in the back seat and should wear their safetly belts.
  2. Small adults should move their seat backward so that their breastbone is at least 10 inches from the airbag cover.

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Polly Pocket Toys Recalled As Choking Hazard - Friday, December 08, 2006

4.4 million Mattel Polly Pocket toys have been recalled due to the danger of choking and other ingestion injuries.
The Consumer Product Safety Commission announced the recall of the magnetic Polly Pocket sets and urged Holiday shoppers to avoid buying toy sets with small magnets for children under six. This recall doesn't involve Polly Pocket sets currently on store shelves.
The CPSC received 170 reports of the small magnets falling from Polly Pocket dolls and accessories, and three children swallowed more than one magnet suffering perforated intestines requiring surgery. If more than one magnet is swallowed, the two can attach to one another and cause perforations, infections, or blockages, which can be fatal.

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Vioxx litigation continues - Friday, August 04, 2006

The Vioxx litigation continues with two trials in progress. One in California State Court and the other in a Federal Court in Louisiana. Final arguments have been completed in the California Vioxx lawsuit and it is in the hands of the jury. The federal Vioxx case is just getting started.

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