Another reason to question what your doctor and the FDA tell you about the safety and efficacy of any drug has now come to light. The Annals of Internal Medicine has just reported that Merck used the unsavory tactic of a “seeding trial” in its development of Vioxx. (This has…
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NTSB Faults Ketchikan Tour Operator And FAA In Plane Crash
The NTSB has issued its findings as to the cause of the July 24, 2007 de Havilland Beaver airplane crash near Ketchikan. The crash killed the pilot and four passengers. The NTSB faulted the FAA’s supervision of tour operators and recommended a system of weather information to aid pilots in…
FDA Preemption: Another Bush Legacy Wrecking The House
The Bush Administration has consistently sought to undermine consumer-oriented regulatory practices in favor of corporate interests. If it could also take a shot at plaintiffs and their demon trial lawyers, all the better. One of its more spectacular successes was the Supreme Court’s recent decision in a medical devices case,…
Victory, the Gift that Keeps Giving
Alaska is the only state where the party that prevails in litigation is regularly entitled to recover partial attorney fees and litigation costs from the losing side. For an injured individual, this can mean that a major portion of their attorney fees and costs will effectively be paid by the…
Stealth Tort Reform: AmBush At The FDA
At the Alaska Personal Injury Law Group, we commonly face the unpleasant task of explaining to prospective clients the way in which “tort reform” has dramatically taken away the legal rights they thought they possessed. One of the recent unsung accomplishments of the Bush Administration is the silent destruction of…
Study: Bad Faith Claim Practices Make Allstate The Worst Insurance Company in America
The Alaska Personal Injury Law Group has previously discussed some of Allstate’s bad faith practices, for example Institutional Bad Faith 101 — How Allstate’s DOLF Program Works, and Study Finds Institutional Bad Faith at Allstate, State Farm and Other Major Insurers. A new study just released by a national consumer’s…
Metabolife CEO Headed To Prison
The Alaska Personal Injury Law Group has long been involved in the analysis of defective products sold by the diet supplement industry. Talbert v. E’ola Products, Inc. We have watched this industry repeatedly use unqualified personnel to design and sell products that are, in a word, dangerous. The industry has…
13 Hurt In Charter Bus Crash
On Monday, June 9, 2008, a chartered tour bus carrying Korean tourists traveling to Fairbanks crashed when the bus left the highway and rolled. The cause of the accident is unknown, but the initial scene investigation indicated that the bus hit a ditch, went airborne, and rolled at least once.…
Getting All The Evidence Is Key To Successful Insurance Claims
Alaska Personal Injury Law Group attorneys have waged many legal battles to force Allstate to produce documents that are relevant to insurance “bad faith” claims against the insurer by injured Alaskans. These claims have alleged that Allstate unfairly and unreasonably delayed and “low balled” their personal injury insurance claims. Significantly,…
ERA Helicopters Sheep Mountain Helicopter Crash–4 Killed, Boy Survives
An ERA Helicopters Eurocopter Arrow Star 350 B2 helicopter crashed in heavy weather conditions near Sheep Mountain on April 15, 2008, killing four people, and seriously injuring a 14-year-old boy. Killed in the crash were the pilot, Benoit Pin, and three employees of the Alaska Department of Administration, Michael D.…