During the cold winter months, many people go on holiday on a cruise ship. These vacations can result in wonderful, lifelong memories. They can also end up causing injury, disability and death due to the negligence or carelessness of the cruise ship crew or defects in the ship itself. Food poisoning cases have also been…
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Many people are burned by flammable garments each year. Some victims of these defective products are “burned” a second time, when they entrust their cases to lawyers who advertise, but do not know what they are doing. One of the ways these lawyers can ruin a meritorious “Flammability case” is by failing to preserve the…
Continue readingI have previously written about the tragic case of the boy whose foot was “swallowed” at a professional baseball game by the escalator at Shea Stadium. My father’s record verdict in that case helped to bring to light the fact that escalators pose a significant risk of injury, especially when they are not inspected or…
Continue readingNew York state officials filed a lawsuit against CVS Caremark Corp. over the sale of expired products at its stores. An investigation last year revealed that CVS, the nation’s second-largest drug store chain, had sold expired products in 60 percent of its New York stores. Bloomberg also reported that the state announced that Rite Aid…
Continue readingThe family of a California woman who died following neck surgery filed a lawsuit Tuesday against medical device maker Medtronic Inc. According to the lawsuit, the woman’s death was caused by use of the Infuse spinal graft in her neck and a Medtronic representative encouraged the surgeon to use the implant for off-label uses prior…
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