Category: Legal News

Sabatini & Associates File Ortho-Evra Birth Control Patch Lawsuits

Posted on October 5, 2008 by - Legal News

Sabatini and Associates, LLC has recently filed product liability lawsuits on behalf of clients who have suffered serious injuries including stroke as a result of the Ortho-Evra birth control patch.  The lawsuits allege among other things that the defendants including Johnson & Johnson knew of the increase risk of blood clots and stroke associated with the birth control patch but neglected to provide the information to the FDA in a timely fashion and failed to attach adequate warnings with the patch. 

If you or a loved one has suffered serious injuries as a result of the birth control patch, contact our attorneys today for a consultation.

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Lawsuits Help Protect People From Unsafe Drugs

Posted on October 2, 2008 by - Legal News, Unsafe Drugs

“The (court) system represents one of the key defense mechanisms that individuals have if a manufacturer has not made the risks of a product clear to the public.”  This statement was not made by a plaintiff’s attorney.  It was made by the editor of the New England Journal of Medicine, Dr. Jeffrey M. Darien.  The Journal has filed a friend-of-the-court brief in the case of Wyeth v. Levine and argues that federal law does not and should not preempt state products liability law thereby prohibiting injured citizens from suing drug manufacturers for serious injuries caused by unsafe drugs.  The doctors are arguing that lawsuits help to create safe drugs and the FDA simply is not equiped to do the job alone.  You can read more about the New England Journal Medicine’s position here.

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MRI Does Not Detect Form Of Brain Damage

Posted on September 28, 2008 by - Legal News

Boston University Medical School’s Center for the Study of Traumatic Encephalopathy has been studying the brains of former NFL players that donated their brains for medical research. The Center has now studied the brains of six former NFL players, and five of the six brains studied were found to have chronic traumatic encephalopathy. This form of brain damage is exceedingly rare in people who are as young as the five deceased NFL players were when they died. It only shows up in people this young if they have suffered repetitive brain injuries. Significantly, chronic traumatic encephalopathy DOES NOT SHOW UP ON CT SCANS, X-RAYS, OR MRIs! The condition can be confirmed only by post-mortem tissue analysis.

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Should I Settle My Personal Injury Case Or Take It To Trial

Posted on September 25, 2008 by - General, Legal News

Should I settle my personal injury case or take it to trial?  This is a question that plaintiffs face from time to time and it can be a very difficult decision.  A new study has come out showing that the plaintiff was wrong 61% of the time in electing to take the case to trial versus settling the case.  In other words, in 61% of the cases where the plaintiff rejected the settlement and went to trial, the verdict was less than the defendant’s best settlement offer.  It appears that this study only involved cases where the verdict was in the plaintiff’s favor.  The study also notes that when the defendant incorrectly elects to go to trial, the verdict is much higher than the plaintiff’s settlement demand.  Read more about the personal injury settlement and verdict study here.

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