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• Merk Admits Data Error on Vioxx

  James Sabatini | May 31, 2006 2:15 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs

  Vioxx admitted that its statistical analysis test does not support the company's 18-month theory about Vioxx.Since pulling Vioxx from the market, Merck has argued that only continuous use of VIoxx for over 18-months can lead to heart problems. The company cited to its 2005 statistical test results to support its theory. Now Merck admits that the test was wrong. This admissions only fuels what...

• Jury's Verdict - State Farm Acted in Bad Faith

  James Sabatini | May 30, 2006 5:25 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Miscellaneous

  An Oklahoma jury awarded 13 million dollars in damages to the lead plaintiffs in a lawsuit against State Farm Insurance Company after finding that the company engaged in bad faith when it denied plaintiffs' property damage claim caused by a wave of destructive tornadoes.According to CNN:The jury found that State Farm acted recklessly and with malice in handling insurance claims from dozen of...

• Fatal Car Crash, I-84W in West Hartford Claims Life

  James Sabatini | May 30, 2006 11:51 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Automobile Accidents

  Over the weekend, a fatal car crash on Interstate 84 in the Town of West Hartford has taken one life and injured another. The driver of a car lost control around a curve, sailed over the grassy median and crashed into an oncoming car. According to the Hartford Courant:The eastbound traveling car flew over the median and crashed into a westbound car. The crash set off a four car collision...

• Truck Accident Causes I-95 Ramp, Lane Closures

  James Sabatini | May 25, 2006 3:05 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Automobile Accidents

  The Kimberly Avenue off ramp and the right and center lanes od South I-95 were closed recently when a tractor-trailer went off the bridge of the exit 44 ramp. The noon accident took over three hours to clear.According to the Hartford Courant:Traffic was backed up northbound on I-95 to Exit 41, southbound traffic on I-95 was bumper-to-bumper all the way to the Pearl Harbor Memorial "Q-Bridge,"...

• Bausch & Lomb Recall Saga Followed Closely

  Staff Writer | May 22, 2006 11:53 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Defective & Dangerous Products

  Fellow InjuryBoard.com blogger, Sarasota lawyer Joe Saunders, has been following the Bausch and Lomb Renu news with quite a watchful eye and made several posts about the link between the contact lens solution and the fungal infection fusarium keratitis.Last week, the CDC released an update on Renu with moistureloc and fusarium keratitis which announced the agency had received reports of 130...

• Guidant Issues Yet Another Defibrillator Warning

  Staff Writer | May 17, 2006 12:17 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Medical Malpractice

  Brandon Smith at Childers, Buck and Schlueter in Atlanta brought my attention to a Guidant article from Bloomberg News in the St. Paul Pioneer Press. It appears Guidant is having yet another problem with their difibrillators as almost 1000 devices may quit working prematurely.According to the Guidant defibrillator defect article:Defibrillators are implanted in the chests of heart-failure...

• Three, YES 3!, Percent of Medical Malpractice Lawsuits Frivolous

  Staff Writer | May 12, 2006 12:29 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Medical Malpractice

  A recent study in the New England Journal of medicine found that three percent of medical malpractice lawsuits filed have no verifiable injuries. This means that in 97% of all cases, there is a verifiable injury, and that lawsuit cannot be called frivolous. Justinian at corpreform.com has a great analogy at his site:The remaining question is whether malpractice was the cause of those injuries....