InjuryBoard Charlottesville Archives

• Tattoos, Nicotine Patches And Other Medical Devices May Pose Problem During M.R.I.s

  Greg Webb | March 31, 2009 5:44 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Medical Malpractice

  Federal health officials warn that patients who wear nicotine or other drug patches during M.R.I. scans may get burned due to the machine’s huge magnet that can heat tiny metal elements found...

• Medical Device Bill To Be Introduced Following Recent Supreme Court Decision

  Greg Webb | March 31, 2009 5:37 PM | 2 Comments
  Category: Defective & Dangerous Products

  Democrats in Congress are moving to overturn a Supreme Court decision that allowed medical device manufacturers to be shielded from lawsuits after the Supreme Court Justices recently decided drug...

• Massachusetts High Court Rules Non Profit Soccer Programs Immune from Liability

  Greg Webb | March 23, 2009 8:00 AM | 3 Comments
  Category: Defective & Dangerous Products

  Massachusetts’ highest court, the Supreme Judicial Court, has ruled that a young boy, whose leg was broken when a soccer goal post flipped over, cannot sue nonprofit youth soccer associations...

• SlyDog Retractable Dog Leash Recalled

  Greg Webb | March 22, 2009 8:00 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Defective & Dangerous Products

  A retractable dog leash, made by SlyDog, has been recalled after it recoiled unexpectedly and partially blinded a young girl. Dereka Williams was walking her pit bull terrier puppy when the leash...

• Recent Supreme Court Ruling Bring Back Issue of Medical Devices

  Greg Webb | March 21, 2009 9:31 PM | 2 Comments
  Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs

  The U.S. Supreme Court recently ruled that consumers can sue drug makers for defective warnings, though earlier ruled consumers cannot sue medical device manufacturers if the device was FDA...

• NHTSA Did Not Release Children’s Car Seat Crash Data

  Greg Webb | March 13, 2009 8:00 AM | 1 Comments
  Category: Defective & Dangerous Products

  Out of sixty-one infant car seats tested, thirty-one flew off their bases or exceeded injury limits in a series of frontal car crashes conducted by federal researchers using 2008 model year...

• Despite Complaints, FDA Did Not Timely Inspect Syringe Plant

  Greg Webb | March 12, 2009 8:00 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Defective & Dangerous Products

  AM2PAT Inc., a North Carolina syringe factory, operated for two years without any type of inspection, despite several complaints that its needles were dirty or filled with colored particles. Court...

• New Food Safety Bill Introduced In Senate

  Greg Webb | March 11, 2009 1:00 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs

  In the Senate this past Tuesday, food-safety legislation, called the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Food Safety Modernization Act, was introduced, which would give the FDA new power to order...

• Manufacturer of Lexapro - Forest Laboratories - Accused of Fraud

  Greg Webb | March 11, 2009 12:28 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs

  The Justice Department has charged drug manufacturer Forest Laboratories with defrauding the government of millions of dollars after it, allegedly, illegally marketed popular antidepressants Lexapro...

• Maytag Recalls Refrigerators That May be Serious Fire Hazard

  Greg Webb | March 11, 2009 11:39 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Defective & Dangerous Products

  Maytag is issuing a recall this week for approximately 1.6 million refrigerators sold from January 2001 thorugh January 2004 at department, applicance, home builder stores. Affected models include...

• Congressmen Push To Nullify Supreme Court’s Medical Device Decision

  Greg Webb | March 03, 2009 8:00 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Medical Devices & Implants

  Some members of Congress are attempting to remove a 2008 Supreme Court decision that stands as a barrier against suing medical device manufacturers. This ruling has barred patients, or their...

• Number of Hospital-Acquired Drug-Resistant Bacteria Growing

  Greg Webb | March 02, 2009 8:00 AM | 1 Comments
  Category: Toxic Substances

  More strains of drug-resistant bacteria have been cropping up, rivaling the superbug MRSA that has been making recent headlines. Anicetobacter baumannii, Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Klebsiella...

• South Carolina Legislation May Eliminate Jury’s Right To Decide Punitive Damages

  Greg Webb | March 01, 2009 9:57 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Miscellaneous

  A bill, which takes away a civil jury’s right to determine whether punitive damages should be awarded in appropriate civil jury trials, was recently introduced in the South Carolina House and...

• Lawsuit Filed for Disclosure of Cleaning Product Chemicals

  Greg Webb | March 01, 2009 9:22 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Defective & Dangerous Products

  A lawsuit has been filed against Proctor & Gamble, Colgate-Palmolive, and other household cleaner manufacturing giants for disclosure of chemicals in their cleaning products. “People...