- Jamie Sheller | October 28, 2005 11:32 AM |
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FDA & Prescription DrugsThe Pa. Superior Court in Pierce v. Northwstern Human Services, Inc. (Pa. Super Sept.22, 2005) rejected the plaintiff's claims. This tragic case involves a plaintiff, Pierce, who suffers serious psychiatric problems. He was prescribed a medication which, according to the warning label, had to be maintained at proper levels to control his psychotic behavior. The manufacturer of this drug decided...
- Jamie Sheller | October 27, 2005 10:35 AM |
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FDA & Prescription DrugsFive months after Abbott Laboratories stopped producing and selling the ADHD drug Cylert, and 10 years after Canada and Great Britain removed the drug from their markets, the FDA announced that doctors should begin transitioning their patients to other ADHD therapies. Cylert has been linked to liver failure and death. Smartmoney.com notes studies showing the liver failure rate among Cylert...
- Staff Writer | October 27, 2005 9:15 AM |
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Automobile AccidentsA careless driver hit their car. Their son will take months to fully recover. Yet they can't collect for pain and suffering.Why? They didn't have full tort insurance.Do you? If you don't, you're at risk.You and your family need full insurance protection. What an insurance company may call "full protection" is not always full protection.Insist on full tort: It gives you the unlimited right to...
- Staff Writer | October 19, 2005 4:23 PM |
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Defective & Dangerous ProductsIn cooperation with the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), Far East Brokers and Consultants, Inc., of Jacksonville, Fla., is warning consumers about 48,500 Jack ‘O Lantern buckets containing eight tea lights.In cooperation with the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), Far East Brokers and Consultants, Inc., of Jacksonville, Fla., is warning consumers about 48,500 Jack...
- Staff Writer | October 19, 2005 4:22 PM |
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Medical MalpracticeIn a Harvard study funded by the FDA, researchers concluded that recalls this year by defibrillator manufacturers Guidant, Medtronic and St. Jude Medical show a steady rise in the number of failures among the devices. The study shows that nearly one in every 50 defibrillators malfunctions and blames those failures for 31 deaths. In 2002, doctors were replacing almost 21 of every 1000 devices...
- Staff Writer | October 19, 2005 4:20 PM |
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MiscellaneousHumana settled a class-action suit filed by more than 700,000 doctors who claimed the company, along with several other insurers, was delaying payments as well as shortchanging the doctors when they did pay. Humana was the sixth of ten companies to settle, agreeing to pay up to $58 million - $40 million to the doctors and $18 million in legal fees. The Louisville Courier-Journal provides more...
- Staff Writer | October 19, 2005 4:17 PM |
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FDA & Prescription DrugsVioxx was pulled from the market after the arthritis drug was linked to heart attacks, strokes and blood clots. The second Vioxx trial is currently taking place in Atlantic City, New Jersey, where Superior Court Judge Carol Higbee struck the testimony of a Merck researcher (the defense’s first witness). Vioxx was pulled from the market after the arthritis drug was linked to heart attacks,...
- Staff Writer | October 19, 2005 4:06 PM |
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Automobile AccidentsThe Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, a Virginia nonprofit organization, studied the cell phone records of 500 drivers involved in accidents in Perth, Australia from 2002-2004 and discovered that drivers using cell phones are four times more likely to have a serious accident.Cell-phone records in the United States are not public record, so the IIHS sent investigators to Perth, where...
- Staff Writer | October 15, 2005 5:34 PM |
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MiscellaneousFounded in 1977, Sheller, P.C. is a law firm committed to the aggressive and passionate representation of its clients. One of the largest plaintiff's personal injury and class action law firms in the Eastern United States, we maintain a national practice concentrating in areas of consumer fraud, drug product and medical device liability, medical malpractice, toxic tort and complex catastrophic...
- Staff Writer | October 15, 2005 5:26 PM |
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MiscellaneousJamie Sheller currently handles and supervises an extensive caseload including medical malpractice, medical device, and drug product liability cases, complex product liability cases, Multi-District Litigation and Class Action Litigation for breast implant, tobacco, fen-phen and Norplant, as well as general personal injury cases. She works on all aspects of the litigation from initial client...