Lawyers USA Online » Personal Injury and Tort http://lawyersusaonline.com Your Business Partner Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:09:12 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 FDA, medical device makers reach deal on user fees  http://lawyersusaonline.com/blog/2012/02/08/fda-medical-device-makers-reach-deal-on-user-fees/ http://lawyersusaonline.com/blog/2012/02/08/fda-medical-device-makers-reach-deal-on-user-fees/#comments Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:24:07 +0000 Kimberly Atkins http://lawyersusaonline.com/blog/2012/02/08/fda-medical-device-makers-reach-deal-on-user-fees/ WASHINGTON – The Food and Drug Administration and the medical device manufacturing industry have reached a tentative agreement on user fees under the reauthorization of the Medical Device User Fee Act.

Though all the details of the proposed recommendations for the reauthorization have not been finalized, the parties have agreed
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]]> http://lawyersusaonline.com/blog/2012/02/08/fda-medical-device-makers-reach-deal-on-user-fees/feed/ 0 Bus company pays $5 million to settle wrongful death  http://lawyersusaonline.com/blog/2012/02/08/bus-company-pays-5-million-to-settle-wrongful-death/ http://lawyersusaonline.com/blog/2012/02/08/bus-company-pays-5-million-to-settle-wrongful-death/#comments Wed, 08 Feb 2012 15:54:48 +0000 Tony Ogden http://lawyersusaonline.com/blog/2012/02/08/bus-company-pays-5-million-to-settle-wrongful-death/ A Cincinnati-based school bus company has agreed to pay $5 million to settle a wrongful death lawsuit in Missouri where one of the drivers for First Student drove a bus over and killed a teen.

Read the full article from Cincinnati.com: Cincinnati bus company pays $5M, settles death suit

]]> http://lawyersusaonline.com/blog/2012/02/08/bus-company-pays-5-million-to-settle-wrongful-death/feed/ 0 New York City settles loitering suit for $15 million  http://lawyersusaonline.com/blog/2012/02/08/new-york-city-settles-loitering-suit-for-15-million/ http://lawyersusaonline.com/blog/2012/02/08/new-york-city-settles-loitering-suit-for-15-million/#comments Wed, 08 Feb 2012 15:52:15 +0000 Tony Ogden http://lawyersusaonline.com/blog/2012/02/08/new-york-city-settles-loitering-suit-for-15-million/ New York City has agreed to pay $15 million to settle a class-action lawsuit brought on behalf of thousands of people who were charged with loitering decades after the state’s laws were ruled unconstitutional.

Read the full article from The Wall Street Journal: City Settles Loitering Suit for $15
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]]> http://lawyersusaonline.com/blog/2012/02/08/new-york-city-settles-loitering-suit-for-15-million/feed/ 0 Groups ask court to block FDA’s tobacco warning rule  http://lawyersusaonline.com/blog/2012/02/07/groups-ask-court-to-block-fda%e2%80%99s-tobacco-warning-rule/ http://lawyersusaonline.com/blog/2012/02/07/groups-ask-court-to-block-fda%e2%80%99s-tobacco-warning-rule/#comments Tue, 07 Feb 2012 21:29:05 +0000 Kimberly Atkins http://lawyersusaonline.com/blog/2012/02/07/groups-ask-court-to-block-fda%e2%80%99s-tobacco-warning-rule/ WASHINGTON – Business groups are urging a federal court to uphold an order blocking the Food and Drug Administration from implementing a rule requiring tobacco product makers to place large, graphic warnings on product packaging.

In June, the FDA unveiled
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]]> http://lawyersusaonline.com/blog/2012/02/07/groups-ask-court-to-block-fda%e2%80%99s-tobacco-warning-rule/feed/ 0 Navy vets can’t proceed with asbestos suits  http://lawyersusaonline.com/blog/2012/02/07/navy-vets-can%e2%80%99t-proceed-with-asbestos-suits/ http://lawyersusaonline.com/blog/2012/02/07/navy-vets-can%e2%80%99t-proceed-with-asbestos-suits/#comments Tue, 07 Feb 2012 15:51:40 +0000 Pat Murphy http://lawyersusaonline.com/blog/2012/02/07/navy-vets-can%e2%80%99t-proceed-with-asbestos-suits/ Manufacturers of machinery used in U.S. Navy ships are not liable for injuries caused by asbestos products manufactured by others but used in conjunction with their asbestos-free products, a U.S. District Court in Pennsylvania has ruled in granting summary judgment.

The three plaintiffs in the case served in the Navy
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]]> http://lawyersusaonline.com/blog/2012/02/07/navy-vets-can%e2%80%99t-proceed-with-asbestos-suits/feed/ 0 IRS eases rule making injury awards non-taxable  http://lawyersusaonline.com/blog/2012/02/07/irs-eases-rule-making-injury-awards-non-taxable/ http://lawyersusaonline.com/blog/2012/02/07/irs-eases-rule-making-injury-awards-non-taxable/#comments Tue, 07 Feb 2012 15:41:01 +0000 Pat Murphy http://lawyersusaonline.com/blog/2012/02/07/irs-eases-rule-making-injury-awards-non-taxable/ Awards for physical injuries are no longer required to be derived from a vindication of “tort” rights in order to qualify for exclusion from a taxpayer’s gross income, according to a recent rule amendment issued by the Internal Revenue Service.

The
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]]> http://lawyersusaonline.com/blog/2012/02/07/irs-eases-rule-making-injury-awards-non-taxable/feed/ 0 Jury awards $975,000 to woman who gave birth on jail cell floor  http://lawyersusaonline.com/blog/2012/02/07/jury-awards-975000-to-woman-who-gave-birth-on-jail-cell-floor/ http://lawyersusaonline.com/blog/2012/02/07/jury-awards-975000-to-woman-who-gave-birth-on-jail-cell-floor/#comments Tue, 07 Feb 2012 15:31:17 +0000 Tony Ogden http://lawyersusaonline.com/blog/2012/02/07/jury-awards-975000-to-woman-who-gave-birth-on-jail-cell-floor/ A federal jury has awarded nearly $1 million to a severely mentally ill homeless woman who gave birth alone on the floor of a King County, Wash. jail cell 14 years ago.

Read the full article from The Seattle Times: Jury awards $975,000 to woman who gave birth on
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]]> http://lawyersusaonline.com/blog/2012/02/07/jury-awards-975000-to-woman-who-gave-birth-on-jail-cell-floor/feed/ 0 Family wins $2 million wrongful death civil suit against highway patrol  http://lawyersusaonline.com/blog/2012/02/06/family-wins-2-million-wrongful-death-civil-suit-against-highway-patrol/ http://lawyersusaonline.com/blog/2012/02/06/family-wins-2-million-wrongful-death-civil-suit-against-highway-patrol/#comments Mon, 06 Feb 2012 16:03:39 +0000 Tony Ogden http://lawyersusaonline.com/blog/2012/02/06/family-wins-2-million-wrongful-death-civil-suit-against-highway-patrol/ The family of Joey Pinasco – a 21-year-old shot to death by two California Highway Patrol officers – has won a $2 million civil lawsuit against the department in federal court Sacramento.

Read the full article from The Record: Jury: CHP was at fault

]]> http://lawyersusaonline.com/blog/2012/02/06/family-wins-2-million-wrongful-death-civil-suit-against-highway-patrol/feed/ 0 Plaintiffs’ lawyers challenge medical ghostwriters  http://lawyersusaonline.com/blog/2012/02/03/plaintiffs%e2%80%99-lawyers-challenge-medical-ghostwriters/ http://lawyersusaonline.com/blog/2012/02/03/plaintiffs%e2%80%99-lawyers-challenge-medical-ghostwriters/#comments Fri, 03 Feb 2012 17:21:36 +0000 Sylvia Hsieh http://lawyersusaonline.com/blog/2012/02/03/plaintiffs%e2%80%99-lawyers-challenge-medical-ghostwriters/ Plaintiffs’ attorneys are beginning to challenge the practice of medical ghostwriting, in which doctors lend their names to medical marketing literature, according to an article published in the medical journal Public Library of Science.

The practice has been uncovered during discovery
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]]> http://lawyersusaonline.com/blog/2012/02/03/plaintiffs%e2%80%99-lawyers-challenge-medical-ghostwriters/feed/ 0 Stryker hip suit isn’t completely preempted  http://lawyersusaonline.com/blog/2012/02/03/stryker-hip-suit-isn%e2%80%99t-completely-preempted/ http://lawyersusaonline.com/blog/2012/02/03/stryker-hip-suit-isn%e2%80%99t-completely-preempted/#comments Fri, 03 Feb 2012 16:28:05 +0000 Pat Murphy http://lawyersusaonline.com/blog/2012/02/03/stryker-hip-suit-isn%e2%80%99t-completely-preempted/ Federal law regulating medical devices doesn’t completely preempt the claims of a plaintiff who alleged that a hip replacement product malfunctioned and caused him injury, the 5th Circuit has ruled.

The plaintiff underwent surgery involving the implantation of a Trident hip replacement system in his left hip. The Trident system
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