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Ta-Nehisi Coates on the so-far ineffective struggle to create a safe weight loss pill
Ta-Nehisi Coates on the so-far ineffective struggle to create a safe weight loss pill: “It’s still all a dream…I wonder what the long-term effects of weight-loss pill would be?”
FDA Withdraws Meridia from the Market
Sidney Wolfe of Public Citizen’s Health Research Group, which had petitioned the FDA to remove Meridia, noted that while European regulators recently pulled two other drugs – the pain pill Darvon and the long-controversial diabetes drug Avandia – both remain available in the United States.
“Both of these unacceptably dangerous drugs remain on the market in this country, predictably injuring or killing many people, who, unlike their European counterparts, do not have the government protecting them from drugs with no unique benefits but significant, unique risks,” Wolfe said.
Meanwhile, in yet more bad news for people trying to lose weight, the FDA also warned Friday against using “Slimming Beauty Bitter Orange Slimming Capsules,” an herbal product sold over the Internet, because tests found it contains sibutramine.
Study slams confusion, waste in BP oil spill response
Associated Press: “A second report, entitled “Decision-Making in the Unified Command,” portrays the cleanup effort as confused, wasteful and often ineffective…”
Verizon Wireless Investigated by the FCC for ‘Mystery’ Data Charges
From Bloomberg:
Verizon Wireless, the largest U.S. wireless company, is under investigation by the Federal Communications Commission for charging 15 million customers “mystery” fees for data use on their mobile phones.
The FCC began its investigation 10 months ago after customers complained about the fees, the FCC said in an e-mail statement yesterday. Verizon Wireless has reportedly put the amount of the overcharges at more than $50 million in the past two years, the commission said.
Verizon will give refunds to 15 million customers in the next two months as compensation for incorrect data billing, the company said in a separate statement yesterday. Most of the refunds will be $2 to $6. Current customers will get a credit to their account, while former subscribers will be sent checks, the company said.
BP says oil spill costs rise to $11.2 billion
The oil company said it has spent $11.2 billion so far reacting to the blowout, which began April 20 with an explosion that killed 11 workers aboard the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig. The well was declared to be fully sealed on Sept. 19.
BP announced in June that it would set up a $20 billion trust fund to guarantee payment of individual damage claims.
So far, BP said it has contributed $3 billion to the fund, and would add $2 billion in the fourth quarter. In following quarters, BP said the contribution would fall to $1.25 billion.
Scope widens in Chinese drywall case
Drywall produced by Knauf Tianjin Plasterboard Co. Ltd. — one of the problematic manufacturers identified so far — made it to the inland town of Sebring, about 90 miles east of Sarasota in Highlands County, the Herald-Tribune has confirmed.
Meanwhile, a national consumer advocacy group is claiming that the scope is much broader. The Washington, D.C.-based America’s Watchdog, which is partnering with high-powered attorneys across the country, says that its own investigation has found defective Chinese drywall in Florida, Arizona, Colorado, Georgia, Louisiana, Maryland, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, North and South Carolina, Virginia and Texas.
“We think this could literally turn out to be the worst case of sick houses in U.S. history,” said Thomas Martin, the organization’s president.
Seeger Weiss LLP recently filed a new Chinese drywall case in Bergen County, NJ. For more information on Chinese drywall, visit our Legal Resource Center.
“Lawyer training fighter”
Ex-boxer Chris Seeger, whose law firm Seeger Weiss has an office in town, has been coaching mixed-martial-arts fighter Wayne Hargrove in boxing. Hargrove KO’d Victor Romero in five seconds a little while back at Atlantic City’s Resorts, and Seeger plans to catch Hargrove competing at Resorts in the New Breed Fighters Ultimate MMA competition Oct. 8 and 9.
U.S. Joins Pfizer Suit Over Drug’s Marketing
The filing continued a crackdown on drug industry fraud. Over the last three years, the government has also settled false claims suits against Bristol-Myers Squibb for $515 million, AstraZeneca for $520 million, Eli Lilly for $1.4 billion, and last week, a unit of Forest Laboratories for $313 million.
Toy recall, report signal small-battery dangers
Swallowing button batteries can be fatal or cause serious harm, and research suggests that severe injuries in children, though relatively scarce, are on the rise.
Oil Spill’s Other Victims: The Animals
Wall Street Journal Law Blog :
It is an age old question for animal activists, but one that the BP oil spill has raised anew: Should wildlife enjoy some legal rights that, while perhaps subordinate to those of humans, would elevate a turtle or a pelican above a wetland or a tree?
Learn more at the BP Oil Spill Network or Seeger Weiss’s own Gulf Oil Spill Legal Resource Center.
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