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• Pfizer Pleads Guilty to Criminally Illegal Marketing

  Don Greiwe | September 21, 2009 9:42 AM | 0 CommentsTampa Bay, FL

  Earlier this month, drug giant Pfizer agreed to pay a $2.3 billion penalty to settle claims over payment of kickbacks and illegal drug marketing and promotion that violated federal drug laws...

• Defective Product Accountability for Foreign Manufacturers

  Joe Saunders | September 14, 2009 8:44 AM | 0 CommentsTampa Bay, FL

  The Foreign Manufacturers Legal Accountability Act of 2009 (S. 1606) is a good consumer protection bill that's been introduced in the US Senate by Senators Dick Durbin, Sheldon Whitehouse, and Jeff...

• New Bill Proposes to End Foreign Manufacturer Tort Liability Loopholes

  Don Greiwe | September 09, 2009 2:34 PM | 1 CommentTampa Bay, FL

  Each year, many people in the United States are injured by defective foreign products imported into the United States. Loopholes in the law give foreign manufacturers ways of delaying lawsuits...

• Free Drug Samples: Does it Really Benefit a Patient?

  C. Todd Alley | September 08, 2009 2:40 PM | 2 CommentsTampa Bay, FL

  A problem we have come across time and again in our personal injury practice is that drug samples handed out by medical providers are often not well-documented (if even documented at all) in our...

• Tobacco Control Act and What it Means for Tobacco Users

  Jim Clark | August 31, 2009 10:34 AM | 0 CommentsTampa Bay, FL

  The Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act passed easily in both the House and Senate and was signed into law on June 22 of this year. The bill creates greater restrictions on the sale...

• Xenical/Alli Under FDA Investigation After Patient Complaints

  C. Todd Alley | August 27, 2009 2:07 PM | 0 CommentsTampa Bay, FL

  The FDA has begun investigating a potential link between liver damage and Orlistat (obesity drugs marketed as Xenical and Alli). On Monday, the FDA issued an Early Communication report to alert...

• Alli Diet Drug Investigated by FDA for Liver Injury

  Joe Saunders | August 24, 2009 10:41 PM | 0 CommentsTampa Bay, FL

  Alli, the over-the-counter weight loss drug manufactured by GlaxoSmithKline and its prescription counterpart Xenical, manufactured by Roche, are being investigated by the FDA after more than two...

• Published Medical Journal Articles Concerning HRT Revealed to Be “Ghostwritten”

  Jim Clark | August 20, 2009 8:00 AM | 0 CommentsTampa Bay, FL

  Recently disclosed court documents reveal that Wyeth, the pharmaceutical giant behind hormone replacement medications Premarin and Prempro, has played a “major role” in 26 scientific...

• FDA’s Top Medical Device Regulator Steps Down, Another Top Official Under Investigation

  C. Todd Alley | August 19, 2009 8:58 PM | 0 CommentsTampa Bay, FL

  As my colleague wrote about in April, the FDA has come under fire from internal dissent over questionable medical device approval. Earlier this month on August 11, Dr. Daniel G. Shultz, the...

• Youth Pastor Sent to Prison for Sex Abuse

  Joe Saunders | August 18, 2009 8:54 PM | 0 CommentsTampa Bay, FL

  Scott Dewayne Wright, 35, was a youth pastor at Calvary Chapel Worship Center in NewPort Richey. He pleaded guilty to unlawful sexual activity with a minor child and received a 49 months in prison....