A Johnson & Johnson unit is the latest company to face a lawsuit over selling defective hip implants. Lawyers, working on behalf of hundreds of injured patients, say the suit is in response to the harm caused by the defective products. The lawsuit is just getting underway and the first phase will determine if the parent company, Johnson & Johnson,
Due to the growing influence of social media, more and more people are making a career out of advertising products to fans through social media. Though being an influencer on Twitter, Youtube, Instagram, or Snapchat might seem very casual, it actually falls under many legal regulations. An influencer who endorses a defective product can end up in many lawsuits. What
You arrive for your first day at work, eager to start. Then your boss loads you and your colleagues onto the back of his truck to drive you to the job site. Is this even legal? What happens if you get injured? The short answer is that if you’re in New Jersey, it is legal to ride in the bed
Product liability law exists to give consumers protection when they purchase goods in the marketplace. Consumers have the right to expect that whatever they buy is safe for its intended purpose, not dangerous and that they will not be harmed. Here are some common situations where product liability law has been used to obtain a legal recovery. Car Accident Injury
The law firms of Sadaka Associates and Lopez McHugh filed a pair of lawsuits in Philadephia alleging GSK’s Lyme disease vaccine LYMERix caused treatment-resistant Lyme arthritis. According to the complaint, the plaintiffs, who were inoculated with LYMERix in the late 1990s, were later diagnosed with post-Lyme disease treatment syndrome or treatment-resistant Lyme arthritis. The complaint said that patients with a
U.S. citizens would like to think that products released on the market for the general public would function as indicated by the manufacturers. Not only do all individuals assume that governmental protections are in place, but many corporations and organizations actually rely on this assumption when designing facilities. Schools are clearly part of this group of entities relying on proper
As healthcare sees one advance after another, there are also numerous questions being asked concerning the many new vaccines that are used to treat various ailments and diseases. One of these has been Zostavax, a vaccine used to treat shingles. While many patients have been helped by the vaccine, there have been more and more reports of patients experiencing complications
Getting Fired for Testing Positive for Medically Prescribed Marijuana: Understanding Your Rights In recent years, medical marijuana has become an essential treatment for many individuals suffering from health and mental health conditions such as anxiety, PTSD, and chronic pain. However, as recent cases demonstrate, despite its legality, employees can still face job loss or discrimination for using prescribed medical marijuana.
Organic food has been rising in popularity, and its no surprise why. “There is a growing consensus in the scientific community that small doses of pesticides and other chemicals can have adverse effects on health, especially during vulnerable periods such as fetal development and childhood,” reports author and physician Andrew Weil, a leading voice for so-called integrative medicine combining conventional
Anytime you are going to get an injection at a doctor’s office, or your skin is broken in any way for a medical procedure, it is a customary practice to wipe the skin with an antiseptic towel. However, according to Health Day, although antiseptics are meant to keep bacteria and other pathogens from entering the body through breaks in the
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