Before becoming LegalReader's Editor-in-Chief, Jay W. Belle Isle worked as a freelance copywriter with clients on four continents. Jay has a degree in Business Administration from Cleary University and a Juris Doctor from Thomas M. Cooley Law School. Jay has also worked as a contracts administrator for a DOD contractor specializing in vehicle armor.
A new but not Takata-related airbag recall was issued today. GM recalled 1,750 sedans, midsize pickup trucks over faulty front airbags placed in the vehicles’ steering wheels. The recall was issued today along with a stop-sales order, which forbids dealers from selling the affected vehicles until the defect has been repaired.
The Department of Health and Human Services issued the following Public Comment Instructions for FDA Essure Guidance re: Docket No. FDA-2016-D-0435]. I strongly urge all E-Sisters, Mad Men of Essure, families, supporters, doctors, caregivers, friends and anyone concerned with the crime against womens’ health known as Essure to follow these instructions and let the FDA know your opinion
One of Volkswagen’s main goals at the International Motor Show, held in Geneva from March 3 – 16, is keeping and rebuilding customers’ trust. According to reporter David Pollard, VW’s emissions scandal is a big topic, drawing fire even from the CEOs of VW’s rivals. VW claims former CEO may have ignored 2014 diesel warnings.
The recall total caused by defective airbag inflators continues to rise as Toyota just recalled another 331K vehicles due to Takata airbags. The faulty inflators can rupture – and not only during impact when one would expect them to do so – with incredible force propelling shrapnel into the vehicles’ passenger cabins similar to the way a Claymore anti-personnel mine functions.
Those of us who advocate for the removal of Bayer’s “permanent” birth control device, Essure, from the market, as well as the tens of thousands of innocent victims whose lives this product has destroyed have waited since September 2015 for the FDA to take action to protect innocent women. All the waiting was for naught, sadly. The FDA failed women and left deadly Essure on market.
According to the letter, plaintiffs’ counsel contacted a Mirena doctor violating court orders. Judge Seibel had previously issued a Case Management Order (CMO 21) that prohibited plaintiffs’ attorneys “from engaging in ex parte discussions with plaintiffs’ providers [doctors] concerning liability issues or theories.”
Rep. Rosa DeLauro spoke out against Essure during a meeting of the Appropriations Committee on February 25, 2016. The video – a short four-minutes – shows her impassioned speech, her tough questions to the FDA and the agency’s unsurprising lackluster responses. Though the numbers Rep. DeLauro opened with were lower than the actual numbers (but
Today’s big news on the Essure crisis comes courtesy of Thomas Hedges of TheRealNews.com. It’s a tale of Bayer Pharma, fetal deaths, and illegal kickbacks to doctors.
This is the full text of a letter written by Rep. Mike Fitzpatrick (R-PA) to Dr. Jeffrey Shuren, Director, Center for Devices and Radiological Health for the FDA in which a congressman questions FDA over Essure Data.
Earlier this week, German automaker Daimler announced 840K-vehicle recall over Takata airbag issue. The company plans to take a $383.96M (340M euros) hit to its fiscal year 2015 results to pay for the recall.