FDA, medical device makers reach deal on user fees 
By:
Kimberly Atkins
Published: February 8, 2012
Tags: FDA, Medical Device User Fee Act, medical devices
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.
Bus company pays $5 million to settle wrongful death
Published: February 8, 2012
Tags: bus, car accident, Missouri, 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.
New York City settles loitering suit for $15 million
Published: February 8, 2012
Tags: class action, contempt, loitering, New York
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.
Groups ask court to block FDA’s tobacco warning rule
Published: February 7, 2012
Tags: cigarette warnings, FDA, regulation
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.
Navy vets can’t proceed with asbestos suits
Published: February 7, 2012
Tags: asbestos, mesothelioma, negligence, product liability, strict liability
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.
IRS eases rule making injury awards non-taxable
Published: February 7, 2012
Tags: gross income, Internal Revenue Code, Internal Revenue Service, IRS, Small Business Job Protection Act, tax on damages, taxation
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.
Jury awards $975,000 to woman who gave birth on jail cell floor
Published: February 7, 2012
Tags: birth, jail, Washington
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.
Family wins $2 million wrongful death civil suit against highway patrol
Published: February 6, 2012
Tags: California, police shooting, shooting, wrongful death
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.
Plaintiffs’ lawyers challenge medical ghostwriters
Published: February 3, 2012
Tags: ghostwriting, products liability
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.
Stryker hip suit isn’t completely preempted
Published: February 3, 2012
Tags: FDA, hip replacement, Medical Device Amendments, preemption, product liability
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.
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