Jennifer Karen Cook, a 23-year-old Chamblee woman has been indicted on felony charges she injured an on-duty Smyrna police motorcycle officer in a 2012 traffic accident. The wreck occurred on South Cobb Drive on May 8, 2012, when Cook made a left turn into Cpl. Eugene Crawford’s…
Thousands of women use a form of birth control to avoid, or at least try to avoid, getting pregnant from intercourse. The birth control pill (and other oral contraceptives), the birth control shot (Depo-Provera), the birth control patch, the vaginal ring and IUD’s (intrauterine device)…
Yet another set of transvaginal mesh cases have been consolidated into an MDL, or multidistrict litigation, as the result of an order issued by a federal judicial panel at the beginning of…
A leading diabetes treatment drug, Actos, has been the subject of heightened interest recently due to its being implicated in an increased incidence of bladder cancer among patients taking…
A group of lawsuits that contend the diabetes drug, Actos, carries an increased risk of bladder cancer are set for an initial trial in Louisiana beginning in 2014. In December, the U.S….
The number of lawsuits involving Pradaxa internal bleeding claims has increased so dramatically that the United States Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation created an MDL to…
The number of patients that die each year due to preventable hospital errors is equal to four full jumbo jets crashing each week. While hospitals are capable of great medical feats, they are also…
A panel of judges have recently agreed to consolidate all GranuFlo lawsuits, according a press release issued April 1, 2013. The U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation on March 29, 2013…
Many problems have been associated with the faulty Stryker hip implant recall. According the FDA, they have received numerous reports from patients about serious side affects associated with the…
Michael O. Snider, a 70 year old Stone Mountain resident, decided that crashing into tens of vehicles was not only ok, it was warranted when he told police that I [Snider] do whatever I want….
For several years as metal-on-metal devices have failed at alarming rates and a question has been repeatedly asked but not yet answered: Is there a lack of a clinical advantage with…
The hip implant systems Rejuvenate and ABG II modular-neck were recalled in June 2012 by Stryker. Recently on January 3, 2013, Stryker announced several important developments concerning these…
