The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced this week that the diabetes drug Avandia will no longer be available in stores starting in November. The drug is one of the most popular diabetes drugs on the market, but came under fire in 2007 when a study was published that showed “that the drug increased heart…
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According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), over 30,000 people are killed in car accidents each year in the United States. Costs of those deadly car crashes are upward of $41 billion a year when looking at medical expenses and work loss costs. And those costs are simply the measurable ones —…
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Last week, the supreme court threw out another suit brought by an injured patient. The case, the latest of numerous rulings against patients, was Harris Methodist Fort Worth v. Ollie, ___ S.W.3d ___ (Tex. 2011)(5/13/11). In this case, after receiving a total knee replacement surgery, Ms. Ollie slipped on a wet floor, and injured her…
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While bus safety is at the forefront of the media, now comes yet another report of a deadly bus crash. Late Wednesday night, a Valley Transit Greyhound bus left Houston, Texas. The Greyhound bus was travelling en route on U.S. 77 to the border of Mexico. A pickup truck, turning onto the highway from a…
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Honda recently announced the recall of 833,000 additional vehicles to repair defective airbags that could deploy with too much force during a collision. In its description of the defect to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Honda said that “the driver’s airbag inflator could produce excessive internal pressure. If an affected airbag deploys, the increased…
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The Texas House of Representatives this week has passed a bill that is being called the “loser pays” bill. Proponents of this bill are touting the necessity of the bill by misleading the general public into thinking that this bill is only aimed at “frivolous” lawsuits. The goal of the bill, according to those that…
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In a year where the State faces a 27 billion dollar budget deficit, working Texans can’t afford health care, gas is over $4.00 a gallon, and education has become an afterthought, Governor Perry decided that so called “tort reform” is an emergency agenda item. After 2003, it’s hard to imagine how Texans for Lawsuit Reform…
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Federal officials investigating the Deepwater Horizon incident released their investigation report in April, a year and two days after the deadly oil rig explosion killed 11 workers and injured another 17. According to the 348-page report, which is only Volume One of a larger report that will be released in July, the owner of the…
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