On August 2, 2022, the White House issued a press release from President Joe Biden that he will sign into law the Camp Lejeune Justice Act providing veterans and their families an opportunity to seek justice after having suffered from the contaminated water at Camp…
In June 2021, Exactech issued a recall of its Connexion GXL acetabular polyethylene hip implant liners. In February 2022, a recall was issued for Exactech knee and ankle implants that contained the same polyethylene used in the hip implants. The knee implant systems are the…
The number of product liability lawsuits focusing on paraquat’s alleged tie to Parkinson’s, a degenerative brain disease that leads to loss of muscle coordination, continues to grow. In June, the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation (JPML) ordered all paraquat lawsuits to be consolidated into the U.S.…
Millions of Americans currently suffer from heart failure, and ventricular assist devices are a popular tool to assist people with advanced heart failure to return to normalcy. The HeartWare Ventricular Assist Device (HVAD) has been implanted into more than 19,000 patients. HeartWare, later acquired by…
Exactech has added another 40,000 hip implants to its growing list of defective medical implants. On August 11, 2022 the company announced it was recalling another group of implants over failure of polyethylene liners in the devices. The latest recalled Exactech implants are; –…
Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, who was defrocked by Pope Francis after an abuse inquiry in 2019, is now facing indecent assault and battery charges in Massachusetts. McCarrick has been criminally charged with repeatedly sexually assaulting a teenage boy at a 1974 wedding reception. With these charges…
The Supreme Court has rejected an appeal from Johnson & Johnson seeking to undo a damages award against it over allegations that asbestos in its talc powder products caused women to develop cancer. The company must now pay $2.1 billion in damages to 20 women…
Today, Exactech, a Gainesville, Florida medical device manufacturer, added 40,000 hip implants to its list of defective medical implant recalls. Exactech had already recalled over 90,000 hips,140,000 knees, and about 2,500 ankles. All of the recalls related to a failure of the polyethylene parts in…
A devastating accident in northern Kern County claimed two lives and left three other victims badly injured. The California Highway Patrol says the accident occurred on Sunday morning sometime before 2 a.m. outside of Delano on Highway 155/Garces Highway. KGET-TV reported the collision happened along…
Archbishop Paul Russell, a Detroit auxiliary bishop, is the subject of a sexual abuse lawsuit filed in Massachusetts. The lawsuit stems from sexual abuse that occurred when the survivors was a 12-year-old parishioner at Saint Mary of the Sacred Heart Parish in Lynn in 1989…
