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Created: 14 May 2009 CQ HealthBeat (5/14, Kim) reports that the House Energy and Commerce Committee’s Health Subcommittee “heard witness testimony on a measure that would allow consumers to sue companies under state law for injuries sustained by sophisticated medical devices” on Tuesday. Supporters of HR 1346, the Medical Device Safety Act of 2009, said “that the bill would ensure…
Created: 06 May 2009 The AP (5/6, Twiddy) reports, “A Missouri appeals court on Tuesday reinstated a $17 million verdict against American Family Mutual Insurance Co. as part of a class-action lawsuit over aftermarket vehicle parts.” The appeals court said that “Jackson County Circuit Judge Edith Messina was wrong when she overturned a jury’s decision last year against the Madison,…
Created: 04 May 2009 The Wall Street Journal (5/2, Favole) reported, “Consumers should ‘immediately stop’ using Hydroxycut weight-loss products amid concerns they may cause jaundice and liver failure, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration said Friday.” Responding to “23 serious reports of health problems with Hydroxycut products and one death in a 19-year-old male who had used the weight-loss products,”…
Created: 01 May 2009 The AP (5/1) reports, “The family of an Iowa County girl permanently disabled by a surgeon has received a $17 million settlement from the state’s medical malpractice fund.” According to court documents, the physician “used a blender-like device to help remove the” patient’s spleen, “but caused internal damage that left the” patient “with permanent brain injuries.”…
Created: 28 April 2009 The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (4/28, Rohde) reports, “A jury awarded $2.1 million a former Illinois restaurant operator in a medical malpractice case he brought for injuries suffered during treatment he received after a devastating motorcycle accident nearly nine years ago.” The jury found that “Dr. Lorraine C. Novich-Welter was negligent in the medical care she provided…
Created: 27 April 2009 The AP (4/27) reports, “A federal court jury in Denver has awarded $3 million to a former United Airlines employee after finding the company retaliated against her for complaining about discrimination.” The employee alleged that when she needed to take unpaid leave she was denied and when she didn’t show up to work, she was fired.…
Created: 21 April 2009 The Kansas City Star (4/21, Margolies) reports, “Two insurers and an insurance administrator have agreed to end litigation over the sale of long-term care insurance policies by entering into settlements valued at $15 million.” Hundreds of Missouri residents “who bought policies from American Heritage Life Insurance Co. and Wakely and Associates Inc.” will be affected by…
Created: 21 April 2009 Bloomberg News (4/21, O’Reilly) reports, “Wyeth, the drugmaker being acquired by Pfizer Inc., must face a lawsuit by a woman who claims her breast cancer was caused by the menopause medicine Prempro [estrogens, conjugated/medroxyprogesterone], a Texas appeals court ruled.” The court decided that “Susan Brockert’s ‘failure-to-warn’ claims aren’t preempted by federal drug-labeling regulations, overturning a district…
Created: 17 April 2009 The New York Times (4/17, A22, Robbins) reports that Gloria Aguilar was “awarded $27.5 million” by a jury “after a New York City Transit bus ran over her while it was turning a corner two blocks from her apartment in 2005.” She “had to have her leg amputated and has worn a prosthetic leg ever since.”
Created: 16 April 2009 Bloomberg News (4/16, Pearson, Fisk) reports that Bayer AG “has started settling lawsuits over its Magnevist contrast agent used in diagnostic imaging tests.” In May 2007, the Food and Drug Administration “ordered…that all five gadolinium-based agents in the US carry a black-box warning, the agency’s strictest caution.” The products are “used to highlight internal organs in…