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Couple Sues J&J Over Death of 2-year-old Son
Last week, the Washington Post reported the story of a Washington state couple suing Tylenol manufacturers, Johnson & Johnson. According to the Post, Daniel and Katy Moore claim that their 2-year-old son River Moore died as a result of consuming a Children’s Tylenol product. The specific package in question had been recalled due to high levels of the active ingredient acetaminophen. Shortly after taking the over-the-counter medication for a slight fever, the young boy died of liver failure, a known effect of an acetaminophen overdose. “The lawsuit, filed…in Philadelphia’s Court of Common Pleas, accuses Johnson & Johnson of recklessness, negligence, breach of warranty, infliction of emotional distress, conspiracy and other offenses,” the story explains.
The article also notes that Johnson & Johnson’s 2009 recall of the product at the center of this lawsuit is “part of the company’s continuing string of recalls of drugs and medical devices.” In fact, the drug injury practice of Seeger Weiss LLP is currently investigating complaints of liver damage at the hands of Tylenol. If you or someone you know has suffered liver damage as a result of taking Tylenol, let Seeger Weiss help you seek justice. Our experienced drug injury attorneys have won billions of dollars for our clients and will review your Tylenol liver damage case for free.
Blogger takes on Verizon: “Broken on purpose”
Blogger Allison Shaw breaks down Verizon’s wrongful data charges:
It happens like this: you own a non-smartphone from Verizon. It can access the mobile web, but you decide you’re not going to buy a data plan because you don’t want to browse the web on your tiny mobile screen. You go about using your phone, but it has a big huge button that launches the mobile browser. When you click that button, it automatically starts loading some kind of “home” screen, using whole kilobytes worth of data in the process. Then you get charged a minimum usage fee for those kilobytes. This shows up on your statement, and you pay it probably without realizing it.
You can’t avoid pressing that web browser button on your non-smartphone because it’s in the same spot as another button that appears on a different screen, and we’re creatures of habit so of course we’re going to press it, or it’s too close to another button, or the buttons are too flat, or the icon looks like something else you did want to click. Oh, and you also can’t reassign the button to mean something else, or disable the web browser entirely.
In my mind, and I think probably everyone else’s as well, Verizon did this to customers on purpose. Through intentionally bad, broken design, they managed to charge their customers an extra $90 million dollars. Only when they were investigated by the FCC did they “discover” the “error” and vow to fix it, explaining that, “Verizon Wireless values our customer relationships and we always want to do the right thing for our customers,” (Mary Coyne, deputy general counsel for Verizon Wireless).
Verizon recently agreed to pay out the $90 million sum in refunds after being investigated by the FCC. You can read more about the story at the Huffington Post.
Fortuitous Sufganiyot
From the National Law Journal:
Stephen Weiss thought it would be easy. His wife, Debra, was bogged down with running holiday errands in New York and needed him to pick up sufganiyot for the first night of Hanukkah. The jelly donuts are a holiday mainstay for the Weisses and their children, Alex, 17; Samara, 14; and Jason, 7. “It was the one thing she wanted me to do,” he said.
Little did he know how rare the sweets become on the Upper East Side of Manhattan as the Jewish holiday approaches. “I stopped at a dozen and a half places, including Dunkin’ Donuts,” he said. Out of options, he trudged homeward with trepidation to confess to his wife that he wasn’t able to do the one task she had asked of him.
Half a block from their apartment, however, he spotted a fellow delivering boxes of something into a bagel shop. “What are those?” he asked the man. “Jelly donuts!” came the reply. Disaster averted.
Justice and Art
Representing Justice [is] an academic treatise on threats to the modern judiciary that doubles as an obsessive’s tour of Western art through the lens of the law.
The book charts how the iconography of justice has both reflected and influenced the development of courts and national governments and how that imagery is now often no longer able to carry the weight of the legal demands of the modern world.
Seeger Weiss Rewind: Chris Seeger Discusses Vioxx on Bloomberg
A jury in Atlantic County, N.J. eventually returned verdicts, awarding $20 million in compensatory damages and $27.5 million in punitive damages to plaintiff Frederick ‘Mike’ Humeston and his wife Mary against defendant Merck & Co. (NYSE: MRK) in the Vioxx-related personal injury trial entitled, Humeston v. Merck. The Humeston family was represented by Seeger Weiss LLP. The jury’s verdicts represent a total damages award against Merck of $47.5 million.
Seeger Weiss Rewind: Marc Albert and his client, Maria, on the Today Show
Maria, who was brutally raped in a New York City subway station, blames onlookers for doing little to help her. TODAY’s Meredith Vieira talked to Maria and her attorney, Marc Albert, about the attack.
In FDA Panel, 12 vote to withdraw Avandia
The New York Times live blogged the FDA Panel on Avandia.
3:37 p.m. The Vote on Removing Avandia
Twelve members voted to withdraw Avandia from the market, while 10 voted that it should continue to be sold but with serious revisions to its label as well as possible restrictions on its sale. Seven voted to simply add further warnings to the drug’s label. Three voted to allow further sales without change.
The vote is an enormous blow to Avandia and GlaxoSmithKline. The vast majority of panel members voted either to withdraw the drug or to allow continued sales only if strict controls are added.
A final decision will be made by the F.D.A., of course, at a later date.
Seeger Weiss Announces Investigation of BP’s Catastrophic Oil Spill
On April 20, 2010, an explosion aboard the Deepwater Horizon, a drilling rig leased by the oil company BP, set off a blaze that killed 11 crew members. Two days later, it sank about 50 miles off the Louisiana coast and crude oil began streaming out of a broken pipe attached to a well that the rig had been drilling nearly a mile below sea level.
Millions of gallons of oil have flowed into the Gulf of Mexico since the explosion. This massive slick continues to close in on the fragile Louisiana coast, and drift toward Alabama and Florida. President Obama has called the spill an “unprecedented environmental disaster.”
The gulf fishing industry is crucial to hundreds of thousands of jobs. Already thousands of workers have been idled because coastal Louisiana east of the Mississippi River has been closed down.
Seeger Weiss LLP is investigating claims of environmental damage and loss of income in communities affected by the Gulf oil spill. If you have been adversely affected by the Gulf oil spill, contact us and an experienced attorney with Seeger Weiss LLP will assist you in evaluating your claim. Learn more the News section of our website.
Accutane Side Effects May Quadruple Risk of Ulcerative Colitis
Researchers at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill have found that using Accutane increased the risk of developing ulcerative colitis by four. They published their findings in the March 30, 2010 issue of The American Journal of Gastroenterology. Researchers looked at data from 87 health insurance plans and discovered roughly 8,200 patients diagnosed with IBD, or inflammatory bowel disease. IBD represents a group of disorders of the digestive track, including ulcerative colitis and Crohn’s disease. The study also revealed that the risk of developing a bowel disorder increased in relation to the dosage size of Accutane.
Wildcats News Update
Livingston County News: “Bus crash damages could be capped”
“We don’t see how Canadian law should apply to a motor vehicle accident in New York,” said plaintiffs’ attorney Marc Albert. “We are confident that New York law applies and we think we will prevail.”
“This will be a test to determine which law — the New York or Canadian — is adhered to,” Albert continued. “A lot of different factors play into it including the location of the accident and the parties involved.”
“In this case you have [Canadian] plaintiffs on a Canadian bus hitting a Pennsylvania tractor trailer. The coach company is a common carrier that makes millions upon millions of dollars availing themselves of New York roadways, constantly bringing charters in — then saying they want to not be held to the responsibilities of New York law.”
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