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Helping Bring Holiday Cheer and Toys To Deserving Children
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Helping Bring Holiday Cheer and Toys To Deserving Children

Our firm is proud to be a part of the Boys and Girls Club’s 2014 holiday gift program. We are helping to ensure that 50 children in need receive gifts this Holiday Season. We are also sponsoring two deserving families in need of help.  We…

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Has Purdue Met Its Match? OxyContin Case Goes to Trial in Kentucky
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Has Purdue Met Its Match? OxyContin Case Goes to Trial in Kentucky

Purdue, maker of the painkiller OxyContin, has won dismissals in over 400 personal injury lawsuits related to the medication, has settled product liability cases involving the drug without disclosing the terms, and has defeated more than ten class actions suits brought against it over the…

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Did Takata Know But Fail to Disclose Airbag Problems in 2004?
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Did Takata Know But Fail to Disclose Airbag Problems in 2004?

Former Takata employees have charged that the Japanese airbag manufacturer conducted secret tests in 2004 on 50 airbags retrieved from scrapyards, saying that tests were performed after work hours, on weekends, and holidays during the summer of 2004 at the company’s American headquarters in Auburn…

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Study Questions Potential Healthcare Savings Gained by Tort Reform
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Study Questions Potential Healthcare Savings Gained by Tort Reform

Although many proponents of tort reform believe that fear of malpractice lawsuits prompts physicians to order unnecessary tests and indirectly drives up medical costs, a Rand Corporation study recently published in the New England Journal of Medicine found otherwise. The study analyzed the experienc

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NFL Lawsuits and Painkillers-An Alarming Issue
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NFL Lawsuits and Painkillers-An Alarming Issue

A group of retired NFL players has filed a lawsuit against the league alleging that teams knowingly and illegally supplied players with painkillers and anti-inflammatory drugs to keep them on the field, and held back information regarding the long-term dangers associated with taking the drugs.…

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Update: Stryker Rejuvenate Hip Implant Lawsuits Continue To Mount
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Update: Stryker Rejuvenate Hip Implant Lawsuits Continue To Mount

Earlier this year the JPML Court agreed to consolidate all of the federal lawsuits concerning the Rejuvenate and ABG II implants to one Court, with a case list of over 80 law suits, and thousands more expected to follow. As lawsuits surrounding the Stryker Hip…

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