The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has advised the public that the popular diet drugs Alli and Xenical may be linked to rare cases of serious liver injury. Alli and Xenical are the brand-names of diet medications containing the active ingredient Orlistat. Alli, an over-the-counter drug, contains 60 mg of Orlistat; Xenical, a prescription [...]
British Petroleum’s latest effort to stop the flow of oil into the Gulf is being considered a positive step toward containing the oil spill. The “cut and cap” operation was completed Thursday night when BP lowered a cap over the ruptured Gulf well after slicing off a damaged pipe. However, the oil giant was unable [...]
A congressional committee is investigating drug giant Johnson & Johnson for allegedly hiring a contractor to buy approximately 88,000 defective Motrin packets distributed in 2008, rather than issue a public recall of the over-the-counter drug. The “phantom recall” was exposed during recent congressional hearings about the company’s recent recall of children’s medications. Congressional investigators obtained [...]
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has opened a preliminary investigation into approximately 250,000 2010 model Ford Fusion and Mercury Milan autos after reports of all-weather floor mats causing the unintended acceleration of some vehicles. The investigation follows the Toyota recall earlier this year of 5.4 million U.S. vehicles due to concern over floor [...]
After British Petroleum’s weekend failure to “top kill” the leaking Gulf oil well, the disaster along the Gulf Coast is due to take a turn for the worse. The famous Pensacola Beach in Florida may become the latest loss to the oil spill. A charter boat captain reported oil sheen likely caused by the spill [...]
Baron & Budd shareholder Bruce Steckler was recently quoted in an article from the Bureau of National Affairs’ Class Action report that discusses the BP oil spill. In the article, Steckler commented about the importance of selecting the appropriate multi-district court for spill litigation. While BP executives have requested that oil spill cases be consolidated in Houston, Steckler [...]
As frustration rises around the Gulf of Mexico, the Obama administration is taking steps to distance itself from British Petroleum. The relationship between the oil giant and the federal government has been an awkward one all along, but it reached a turning point Monday when the administration said it no longer wanted to share a [...]
A class action lawsuit involving damages from toxic Chinese drywall is set to go to trial the first week of June in Miami, Florida. But first, there will be a hearing on class certification on May 27th. The lawsuit was filed in January 2009 against the German-owned Knauf Plasterboard Tianjin Co. Ltd., that mines and [...]
Three years after his twin girls were nearly killed by an overdose of Baxter’s blood-thinning drug Heparin, Dennis Quaid and his wife have filed suit against the drugmaker alleging that the injuries to his daughters were caused by Baxter’s packaging of the drug. Baxter used the same color and similar packaging for vials of Heparin [...]
Testifying before a U.S. House of Representatives field hearing, a former employee of Massey Energy Co. claims that federal mine inspectors are not getting an accurate view of mine conditions on their visits because company foremen are being warned of the inspections beforehand. The former employee—whose son was one of 29 miners killed in the [...]
