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• ABA Takes Issue With the President

  Staff Writer | July 31, 2006 11:11 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Miscellaneous

  The American Bar Association has said that President Bush is flouting the Constitution and undermining the Rule of Law by claiming that he has the power to disregard certain portions of bills passed by congress that he has signed. In a detailed report, a bi-partisan eleven-member panel of the ABA documented that President Bush has used such "signing statements" far more than any of his...

• Public Citizen sues FDA over plans for secret meeting

  Staff Writer | July 24, 2006 10:05 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Medical Malpractice

  Public Citizen has filed an emergency law suit to force the FDA to open what was scheduled to be a secret meeting scheduled for Friday, July 14, 2006 on an experimental blood substitute product. The U.S. Navy has submitted a proposal to test Hemopure, a blood substitute product derived from cows' blood on civilian trauma patients. The FDA has reportedly turned down three separate requests from...

• Medication Errors

  Staff Writer | July 20, 2006 11:09 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Medical Malpractice

  A new report from the Institute of Medicine says that more than 1.5 million Americans are injured every year by drug errors in hospitals, nursing homes and doctors offices. At least ¼ of these medication related injuries are preventable. The Institute has recommended that all prescriptions should be written electronically by 2010.Perhaps the most stunning aspect of the report was the conclusion...

• Consumer Products Safety Commission proposes a rule change that will put consumers in danger

  Staff Writer | July 18, 2006 9:32 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Miscellaneous

  The Consumer Products Safety Commission has recently proposed revisions to its rules regarding when manufacturers, distributors and retailers of consumer products must report product hazards. The proposed revisions would increase the likelihood that defects in consumer products would not be disclosed to the CPSC or the public. This would make it more difficult for consumers to bring lawsuits...

• Products are safer because of civil law suits

  Staff Writer | July 14, 2006 9:31 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Miscellaneous

  Many of the products that we use today are safer because of law suits that have been brought against the manufacturers in the past. Every garage door opener now includes a 15¢ part that causes it to reverse if it hits an object or a child while descending. That 15¢ part was not added until after a garage door manufacturer was successfully sued for the death of a child. Ford used to...

• Lawyer Wins $11,000,000.00 verdict against Allstate

  Staff Writer | July 10, 2006 9:04 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Automobile Accidents

  A New Mexico jury has awarded nearly $11,000,000.00 in damages against Allstate Insurance Company to an Albuquerque lawyer because they ruined her legal practice. Allstate Insurance Company had routinely hired Suzanne Guest, an Albuquerque lawyer, to represent the company in defense of personal injury claims; however, when Guest and Allstate were sued by two people she had injured, the company...