According to homeowners who have retained my friend Ervin Gonzalez, Chinese-made drywall is ruining their homes. Gonzalez has filed a class action lawsuit on their behalf. Consumer Product Safety Commission (“CPSC”) officials are looking into claims that Chinese-made drywall installed in some Florida homes is emitting smelly, corrosive gases and ruining household systems such as…
Continue readingThe State of Connecticut Attorney General’s Office Press Release announced a landmark $25.1 million agreement with drug maker Eli Lilly and Company for allegedly marketing its antipsychotic drug Zyprexa for unapproved uses, and concealing the drug’s serious side effects, for more than a decade. The Connecticut AG’s office sued Eli Lilly last year for corrupting…
Continue readingHaving handled cases where defective fans cause sparks and fires, burn injury lawyer Doug Landau was intrigued by the Lasko Products case. According to the Philadelphia Daily News story, four years after a fire ignited by a faulty floor fan killed a 7-year-old Germantown boy, his family found some solace this week when a jury…
Continue readingThe oral contraceptives Yaz and Yasmin are the top-selling pharmaceutical line for Bayer HealthCare, largely as a result of marketing that presents them as much more than mere pregnancy prevention. Yaz, in particular, the top-selling birth control pill in the United States, owes much of its popularity to multimillion-dollar ad campaigns that have promoted the…
Continue readingWhen traveling to try cases, Florida, North Carolina and New Jersey car crash lawyer Doug Landau has rented cars from Enterprise. He was shocked to see that one of the nation’s leading rental car companies ordered thousands of cars without side impact airbags in an attempt to save millions of dollars. Then the rental car…
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