Idaho Personal Injury Blog

Created: 07 April 2009 The New York Times (4/7, B1, Meier) reports that Sprint Fidelis, which is a heart defibrillator cable, was pulled from the market by Medtronic after “five patients who had the cables died.” However, “in the next few years, thousands of those patients may face risky surgical procedures to remove and replace the electrical cable, which connects…

Created: 02 April 2009 The New York Law Journal (4/2, Fass) reports that three decades after his daughter had been immunized against polio and Mr. Tenuto contracted the disease after coming in contact with the infant’s stool, becoming paralyzed, he “has won a $22.3 million verdict in New York state court against Lederle Laboratories, the giant pharmaceutical company he claims…

Created: 26 March 2009 The Toledo Blade (3/25) editorialized, “Consumers have been handed an important victory by the U.S. Supreme Court in the form of a 6-3 decision in a case in which the high court dismissed the argument of drug makers and the Bush administration that federal approval of drugs shields them from lawsuits by injured patients.” The Blade…

Created: 18 March 2009 In an story that appears on its front page, the Washington Post (3/18, A1, Vedantam) reports, “The study would come to be called ‘cursed,’ but it started out just as Study 15” which “was a long-term trial of the antipsychotic drug Seroquel.” Recently exposed “documents show” that “Study 15 suffered the same fate as many industry-sponsored…

Created: 16 March 2009 The National Law Journal (3/16, MacLean) reports, “Proposed reforms to ethical and campaign requirements for California’s judiciary would for the first time require trial judges to disqualify themselves in cases in which they received $1,500 or more in campaign donations from either side” and “in a second major change, lawyers challenging sitting judges for election would…

Created: 13 March 2009 The AP (3/13, Nuckols) reports, “A jury awarded about $150 million to 91 families Thursday who sued Exxon Mobil over wells contaminated by a gasoline leak north of Baltimore.” A leak in “an underground storage tank bled about 26,000 gallons of gasoline over 37 days in Jacksonville.” The company had already “paid a $4 million settlement…

Created: 11 March 2009 The AP (3/11) reports that Dr. Aubrey Miller, “a medical expert testifying Tuesday in the W.R. Grace trial described his disbelief when, arriving in Libby 10 years ago, he found that people who had never worked at Grace’s vermiculite mine were dying from asbestos-related disease.” He said, “To see an individual who had died of asbestos-related…

Created: 11 March 2009 The Legal Intelligencer (3/10, Needles) reported, “The wife of a man who died after his doctor allegedly failed to diagnose and treat him for heart disease has been awarded $4 million by a Berks County jury.” The jury deliberated for nearly five hours at the close of an eleven day trial and “found Dr. Donald J.…

Created: 10 March 2009 The Legal Times (3/9, Mauro) reported, “Last week’s decisive Supreme Court ruling against Wyeth in a landmark pharmaceutical product liability case may also close off a major front in a hard-fought battle by businesses and the Bush administration to insulate national corporations from state tort litigation.” Justice John Paul Stevens wrote for the majority, saying, “Wyeth…

Created: 09 March 2009 In a story that received coverage from many news sources, the New York Times (3/5, A1, Liptak) reports on its front page, “In a major setback for business groups that had hoped to build a barrier against injury lawsuits seeking billions of dollars, the Supreme Court on Wednesday said state juries may award damages for harm…