December 24, 2014
New Congress Expected to Take Aim at Asbestos Victims
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Now that the dust has settled after this year’s midterm elections–in which thirty-three Senate seats and all 435 seats in the House of Representatives were up for grabs–both the House and the Senate will be in the hands of Republicans (for the first time since 2006).
View MoreDecember 17, 2014
Generic Drugmaker Makes Potentially Dangerous Product, Sues FDA for Slowing Its Sale
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This blog has been covering issues related to generic drugs–warning labels, FDA oversight, and legal immunity–for more than a year, but this industry is nothing if not persistent.
View MoreDecember 10, 2014
$15 Million Herbalife Settlement Raises Questions about Dietary Supplement Regulation
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In the past few months, this blog has explored ways in which class action lawsuits and FDA regulation affect the lives of everyday Americans.
View MoreDecember 03, 2014
More Evidence Tort Reform Doesn’t Lower Healthcare Costs
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One of the issues this blog has covered tirelessly is tort reform, which (in states that have passed such legislation) has neither created more doctors nor lowered overall healthcare costs.
View MoreNovember 26, 2014
More Seniors Means More Falls, More Deaths
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Americans are living longer due to advances in medicine, but the physical safety of the elderly population is becoming even more precarious.
View MoreNovember 22, 2014
Feldman Shepherd Named a 2015 ‘Best Law Firm’ by U.S. News – Best Lawyers and Achieves Philadelphia Metropolitan Tier 1 Ranking
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Philadelphia personal injury law firm Feldman Shepherd Wohlgelernter Tanner Weinstock & Dodig LLPhas been named a 2015 “Best Law Firm” by U.
View MoreNovember 20, 2014
Understanding the Dangers of Trucks in the Wake of the Berks County Tragedy
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Over the past few years, this blog has discussed the dangers of trucking from various angles, covering the government’s efforts to keep drivers off their cell phones and reporting about the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s findings that tractor-trailers killed nearly 3,800 people in 2011.
View MoreNovember 19, 2014
Campaign Finance Undermines Americans’ Faith in Judicial Branch
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Tort reform is hardly a headline-grabbing subject, and it’s not all that often that a high-profile news outlet runs a thorough and insightful piece on the subject.
View MoreNovember 12, 2014
Takata Air Bag Recall: Worse Than We Thought
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Back in July of this year, we published an article about a recall that happened at the same time as the 20 million-vehicle GM recall, which despite being nearly as dangerous was not as well-chronicled.
View MoreNovember 05, 2014
How Class Action Lawsuits Help All Americans
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In the past, this blog has covered the issue of forced arbitration (through contracts of adhesion), a practice that enables corporations and other businesses to avoid lawsuits from consumers in favor of mediation with a company-appointed arbitrator.
View MoreOctober 29, 2014
Are Punitive Damages in Texas Punitive Enough?
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In mid-September of this year, a jury in Texas awarded Martha Salazar $73 million dollars–including $50 million in punitive damages–after she brought a lawsuit against Boston Scientific, the company responsible for manufacturing the Obtryx transvaginal mesh sling.
View MoreOctober 22, 2014
Missouri Cap on Punitive Damages Overturned
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Punitive damages–monetary amounts designed to be a deterrent for reckless behavior against defendants–are important to the civil justice system in this country.
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