Posts tagged Personal Injury

• Heparin Finger Pointing Has Already Started

  Brenda Fulmer | March 06, 2008 8:01 AM | 0 CommentsTampa Bay, FL Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  "A series of independent assessments, inlcuding one by the agency's own Science Board, have found that the F.D.A. is increasingly overwhelmed by its many responsibilties and is incapable of protecting the public from unsafe drugs, medical devices and food - particularly from China." While the Food & Drug Administration continues its investigation into contaminated Heparin blood thinner...

• First Federal Ortho Evra Trials Scheduled

  Brenda Fulmer | December 31, 2007 6:05 PM | 0 CommentsTampa Bay, FL Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  On December 6, 2007, Judge David Katz, the federal judge who oversees the Ortho Evra multi-district litigation proceedings in Cleveland issued a scheduling order for the first trials to be conducted in the federal system. Judge Katz oversees more than 1,400 lawsuits pending against Johnson & Johnson (http://www.jnj.com/home.htm) and its subsidiaries relating to the controversial Ortho Evra...

• Closing The Chapter on HRT Litigation in 2007

  Brenda Fulmer | December 31, 2007 3:37 PM | 0 CommentsTampa Bay, FL Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  Great strides were made in 2007 to educate the courts and juries about the great deception over the past few decades that led many to ingest combination hormone therapy products such as Prempro and Premarin in combination with Provera. Conventional wisdom about these hormones is finally shifting, especially in light of an unprecedented drop in national cancer registries that dovetails with the...

• Two Perish in Jacksonville Chemical Plant Explosion

  Courtney Mills | December 19, 2007 3:56 PM | 0 CommentsTampa Bay, FL Category: Miscellaneous
  

  The Faye Road chemical plant in Jacksonville exploded this afternoon around 2:30 and burst into flames. The exact reason for the conflagration at the Jacksonville chemical facility was not immediately clear, but one witness described the explosion as an immense 'black mushroom cloud rising up very quickly.'Buildings near the chemical plant had their windows completely blown out, and people...

• First Florida Vioxx Trial Underway in Tampa

  Brenda Fulmer | September 19, 2007 1:37 PM | 0 CommentsTampa Bay, FL Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  Jury selection and opening statements have now been completed in the trial of Refik Kozic v. Merck, the first Vioxx case to proceed to trial in the State of Florida. Refik Kozic, a current resident of Jacksonville and a former long-term resident of Tampa, filed his lawsuit against Merck in 2003 for injuries relating to the heart attack that he suffered after ingesting Vioxx daily for 9 weeks. ...

• What it Means to be an Ambulance Chaser

  Staff Writer | June 06, 2007 10:57 AM | 0 CommentsTampa Bay, FL Category: Miscellaneous
  

  The days of society branding personal injury lawyers as simply "ambulance chasers" is over.....at least it should be. The fact is that personal injury lawyers are helping more victims today than ever before. Tort reform has brought the profession into the national spotlight, allowing the country to see that so-called "ambulance chasers" are actually activists for victims' rights.Personal...

• Perenich Carroll - Tampa Bay Personal Injury Law Firm

  Bob Carroll | August 01, 2005 4:36 PM | 0 CommentsTampa Bay, FL Category: Miscellaneous
  

  Since 1955, the personal injury law firm Perenich, Carroll, Perenich, Avril, Caulfield & Noyes, P.A. has been a committed and aggressive voice of the injured in the extended Tampa Bay area and throughout the State of Florida. Among the thousands of firm clients have been the injured victims of motor vehicle accidents, wrongful death, nursing home abuse or neglect, misfilled prescriptions,...