A partner with Childers, Schlueter & Smith, LLC,, Brandon Smith has devoted his practice to pharmaceutical litigation, mass torts, products liability and serious personal injury. A frequent guest spea
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DeKalb County now has a new law: if you talk on your cell phone and cause an accident while doing so you can expect an additional $500 fine. The new Georgia law sanctions drivers whose improper use of a mobile phone was “a contributing factor” in causing damage, injury, or death. Thought to be the f
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Washington D.C. Federal Judge Gladys Kessler recently expressed her unfavorable opinions on the tobacco industry as a whole last week in her 1, 742 opinion which specifically included nine cigarette manufactures and two trade groups. The ruling showed the tobacco industry conspired to conceal the tr
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The first of over 4,500 Prempro lawsuits is set to go to trial before a U.S. Magistrate Judge in Little Rock, Arkansas with jury selection slated to begin first thing tomorrow morning. Benton Arkansas resident, Linda Reeves, is suing the drug manufacturer Wyeth after alleging she developed breast ca
FDA & Prescription Drugs
As an attorney, I always find myself looking for ways to help out a client in terms of the law. Sometimes however that is just not enough. Sometimes clients need their attorneys to help them find answers to everyday questions concerning their current injuries including suggestions on treatment and s
FDA & Prescription Drugs
Over the last few years there have been seemingly well justified concerns into the role of the Food and Drug Administration and the decisions its ultimately makes on any given medication before allowing dispersement to patients all over the United States. A recent survey published on July 20, 2006 b
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Two East Paulding High School teenagers died last week after the vehicle they were riding in ran off the road last Thursday evening. The two victims, 16-year-old Rianna Winchester and 17-year-old Jonathon Hicks were riding in the back seat of 17-year-old Daniel Barron’s vehicle when he lost control
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Alabama State Troopers said a man driving a Honda Accord struck and killed Danny Horne, 40, after the impaired driver left the road at a high rate of speed and collided with numerous other vehicles before coming to a complete stop. State troopers involved found numerous beer cans in the vehicle of t
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The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has stated a nationwide crack down on drivers who chose to drive while impaired on our nation’s highways. The NHTSA note previous efforts have not done enough to reduce deaths from dui drivers which accounted for over 13,000 deaths in traffic accide
FDA & Prescription Drugs
Judge Carol Higbee, a state judge in New Jersey, who presided over the first Vioxx trial in the state, threw out a defense verdict that had favored Merck in a case brought by 60-year-old postal worker Frederick Humeston, who claimed Vioxx caused his heart attack. That jury ruled that Merck & Co., ha
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A New Brunswick Superior Court jury recently awarded Allen Williams, a 31 year-old man, $3 million for his injuries related to his automobile accident in June of 2000. Williams suffered head and facial injuries including a nine inch scar on his forehead after being cut off by another motorist who dr
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On Tuesday, four people were killed and four others were seriously injured after a truck slammed into numerous vehicles on the New Jersey Turnpike. The driver of the truck lost control after striking the first vehicle then overturned and went over a guardrail killing two people in a vehicle below. C
FDA & Prescription Drugs
In the second federal Vioxx trial, a New Orleans jury awarded Gerald Barnett $51 million in compensatory and punitive damages after finding Vioxx contributed to his heart attack in July of 2002. The jury found Merck and Co., “knowingly misrepresented or failed to disclose information” about the drug