The continuing tragedy that is the Takata airbag issue has taken a turn for the worse. Michigan-based Ford Motor Co. announced Friday that it’s expanding its list of recalled vehicles to include the popular Ranger model pick-up. The Ford Ranger recall comes after tenth Takata airbag death. Ford made the announcement shortly after its officials,
It reads like something out of an espionage thriller: major medical device company smuggles counterfeit materials into the U.S. and causes massive injuries to an unsuspecting public. Unfortunately, it’s far from fiction. A West Virginia plaintiff is suing claiming medical device maker Boston Scientific used counterfeit resin in vaginal mesh product.
In a recent Senate report and subsequent op/ed piece in the New York Times, Senator Elizabeth Warren rightly accuses the Obama administration of having been “shockingly weak” on holding corporations accountable for their crimes. “The failure to punish big corporations or their executives when they break the law undermines the foundations of this great country,”
Medical device manufacturer Johnson & Johnson agreed to $120M vaginal mesh settlement. The settlement resolves 2,000 – 3,000 vaginal mesh cases. This is a huge move in the years-long litigation in which tens of thousands of women claim constant pain and organ damage as a result of eroded mesh products.
Think you’re mad about the Flint water crisis? Have a seat and take a deep breath. Crain’s Automotive News ran a story on Sunday revealing that a Flint General Motors plant has avoided using the city’s corrosive water since December of 2014. It turns out that Flint’s water was corroding GM’s metal parts. “The water
He waves his hand out at the cameras, “Show the crowd. Go ahead and show em.” Waves his hand again, “Whatever.” We hear them cheer, the crowd we can’t see. They cheer the bravado, and they cheer for the “whatever,” that adolescent dismissal of the outside world. They don’t matter after all, those cable news
What went wrong with the meeting Wednesday night was miscommunication. That there was no busload of people from Flint was disappointing, but could be overcome. That the teachers present—if there were teachers present—did not choose to speak removed from the evening some of the feeling of direct contact with the issue, but not entirely. For
The greedy thieves who came around and ate the flesh of everything they found, whose crimes have gone unpunished now, who walk the streets as free men now, they brought death to my hometown. –Bruce Springsteen Much ado about nothing. That sums up the media response to the news that bond insurer Ambac Financial Group
Pfizer may have got a lucky break in the Lipitor multidistrict litigation (MDL). The popular statin drug used to treat high cholesterol has been linked to the development of type-2 diabetes. Based on a recent judicial order, the Lipitor MDL plaintiffs may be facing summary judgment in Pfizer’s favor. Is this Lipitor litigation’s last gasp?
This is not your father’s working class. On Wednesday evening at Detroit’s Wayne State University, the Socialist Equality Party (SEP) held an “emergency meeting” that was to feature residents of Flint, whose water has been poisoned with lead and other contaminants, and Detroit Public Schools (DPS) teachers who have been staging “sickouts” for the past