| June 29, 2009 | Dallas Morning News When Cover-All Building Systems named a new engineering director in late 2003, it was just wrapping up construction on the Dallas Cowboys practice facility and just beginning the long process of losing a lawsuit over the recent collapse, in Philadelphia, of another big tent-like building. |
| June 29, 2009 | The Hill The Supreme Court on Monday narrowly reversed a controversial decision written by President Obamas nominee to join the body, giving conservative groups a chance to take issue with Judge Sonia Sotomayor even as her confirmation looks increasingly likely. |
| June 29, 2009 | San Jose Mercury News Recent discussions of nationalizing health care have brought a slew of issues to the table, with medical malpractice being one of the most talked about. |
| June 29, 2009 | Washington Post General Motors will assume responsibility for product liability claims filed after the carmaker emerges from bankruptcy protection, a concession that removes a potential obstacle to the Obama administration's plan for the company's quick restructuring. |
| June 26, 2009 | USA Today The Supreme Court's decision Thursday striking down the strip search of an eighth-grade girl for prescription-strength ibuprofen requires schools nationwide to weigh more carefully how intrusively they search for drugs. |
| June 26, 2009 | Washington Post Comcast pulled a cable television advertisement criticizing General Motors' bankruptcy plan earlier this week after the automaker challenged the spot's claims. The ad was paid for by a group of people injured in GM and Chrysler vehicles, who say the taxpayer-funded restructurings should not allow the automakers to escape liability claims for injuries or deaths that occurred before the bankruptcy filings. |
| June 26, 2009 | Wall Street Journal The Nestlé USA plant at the center of a federal probe into an E. coli outbreak involving cookie dough refused to give inspectors access to pest-control records, environmental-testing programs and other information, according to newly released inspection reports covering the past five years. |
| June 26, 2009 | Associated Press The Supreme Court has ruled that seamen injured on the job may sue for punitive damages when employers refuse to pay for medical care and time off. |
| June 25, 2009 | Minneapolis Star-Tribune The nomination of Sonia Sotomayor to the U.S. Supreme Court has had a remarkable effect on people's hearing. All ears now are perked for the voice of judicial activism, but how many of us have ever actually heard it speak? I have, once, up close and personal, from my seat in the second row of the visitors' bench in the Supreme Court chamber. And believe it or not, the voice belonged to Chief Justice John Roberts. |
| June 25, 2009 | Associated Press Has the National Transportation Safety Board become the government's "I-told-you-so" agency? After this week's deadly subway collision in Washington, board member Debbie Hersman pointed to safety recommendations the NTSB made years earlier to replace older subway cars, which might have saved lives if they had been followed. |
| June 25, 2009 | Wall Street Journal Consumers, doctors and scientists told the Food and Drug Administration Wednesday the public deserves to know more about how the agency makes complex scientific decisions about the medicine and food Americans consume. |
| June 25, 2009 | New York Times As a society, we trust doctors to be more concerned with the pulse of their patients than the pulse of commerce. Yet the American Medical Association is using that trust to try to block a robust public insurance option as part of health reform. |
| June 25, 2009 | Washington Post Health insurers have forced consumers to pay billions of dollars in medical bills that the insurers themselves should have paid, according to a report released yesterday by the staff of the Senate Commerce Committee. |
| June 23, 2009 | Washington Times General Motors came under attack Monday from another quarter when 37 states, including Maryland and Virginia, filed an objection in the automaker's bankruptcy proceedings. |
| June 23, 2009 | New York Times If you think your doctor will automatically tell you if you have an abnormal test result, think again. Researchers studying office procedures among primary care physicians found evidence that more than 7 percent of clinically significant findings were never reported to the patient. |
| June 23, 2009 | Los Angeles Times The Supreme Court strengthened the rights of parents of children with disabilities on Monday and dealt a potentially costly setback to cash-strapped public school districts across the nation. |
| June 23, 2009 | Arizona Republic In what could be the opening salvo in a new wave of lawsuits against the Scottsdale-based maker of Zicam, lawyers on Monday filed a lawsuit on behalf of 117 people who claim they have suffered loss of smell after using the popular nasal spray. |
| June 19, 2009 | Washington Post In October 2005, Jeremy Warriner swerved his new Jeep Wrangler to avoid an oncoming car and crashed into a utility pole. The pole fell, trapping Warriner inside the car. Then, allege engineers hired by his attorneys, the plastic brake fluid reservoir broke, setting the Jeep on fire. |
| June 19, 2009 | Associated Press The Supreme Court has made it harder to prove discrimination on the basis of age, ruling against an employee in his mid-50s who says he was demoted because of his age. |
| June 19, 2009 | Reuters The U.S. Food and Drug Administration's approval process for medical devices needs strengthening to better protect patients from safety risks, experts told lawmakers on Thursday. |
| June 19, 2009 | Tampa Tribune Shortly after Frances Gari-Colon moved into her Riverview townhouse, she started to get itchy eyes and headaches. Then the air conditioner stopped working - the copper coils turned black. The builder replaced them, but it happened three more times. "Last year, I couldn't get my contacts out of my eyes because they were so dry," Gari-Colon said. "When I took them out, my doctor says it peeled the first layer of my eyes off." |
| June 19, 2009 | Bloomberg News Matrixx Initiatives Inc. said today it didnt turn over to U.S. regulators 800 consumer complaints about side effects linked to its withdrawn Zicam nasal spray and swabs. |
| June 17, 2009 | New York Times The crash near Buffalo of a commuter plane operated by Colgan Air earlier this year killed 50 people and revealed troubling gaps in the nations air-safety regulations. Federal officials need to rewrite the decades-old rules that govern how long pilots can fly before they rest. |
| June 17, 2009 | South Florida Sun-Sentinel Prodded by Congress, the federal investigation into tainted Chinese drywall has shifted into overdrive. A sample of homes in Florida will be tested in June. |
| June 17, 2009 | Associated Press Setting up a certain fight with big business, President Barack Obama is proposing a new regulatory agency to police lenders and protect consumers in credit, savings and other banking transactions. |
| June 17, 2009 | The Hill Congressional Democrats and the White House are scrambling to regain their footing after a series of setbacks has stalled political momentum to reform the nations healthcare system. |
| June 17, 2009 | Wall Street Journal The Food and Drug Administration told consumers to stop using certain Zicam cold and allergy products because they can cause permanent loss of smell, the latest crackdown under new FDA leaders. |
| June 12, 2009 | Wall Street Journal The Eleventh Circuit ruled on Wednesday on an interesting and provocative case, albeit one with tragic facts. In an unpublished opinion, the Eleventh Circuit affirmed a trial courts grant of summary judgment in a case in which the mother of a 17 year-old who committed suicide in 2000 sued Hoffman-La Roche, Inc. The plaintiff alleged that Accutane, an acne drug made by Hoffman-LaRoche caused the suicide. |
| June 12, 2009 | Associated Press The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is convening business groups on Friday to plot strategy as alarm grows over the direction of Democratic health care overhaul proposals. |
| June 12, 2009 | USA Today Cigarettes marketed as "light," "low" tar or "mild" will be banned within a year as part of a historic bill the Senate passed 79-17 on Thursday. |
| June 12, 2009 | New York Times For the first couple of days after his flight ditched into the Hudson River, Paul Jorgenson was just glad to be alive. But then he started to need his laptop, his wallet, his car keys all the essentials he had stowed under his seat and left behind in the sinking plane. |
| June 11, 2009 | Washington Post Chrysler completed its alliance with the Italian automaker Fiat Wednesday, largely wrapping up its short stay in bankruptcy and forming a new company that its backers hope to transform into a global automotive competitor. |
| June 11, 2009 | Los Angeles Times As many as 80% of pregnant women suffer morning sickness in the first trimester of pregnancy. For the lucky ones, it can be controlled with saltines and frequent small meals. When such strategies do not work, physicians often prescribe drugs to control the nausea -- even though none are approved for such use in the U.S. |
| June 11, 2009 | Associated Press Advisers to the Food and Drug Administration said Wednesday that three blockbuster psychiatric drugs appear safe and effective for children and adolescents, despite side effects that can increase the risk of diabetes. |
| June 11, 2009 | Wall Street Journal If it is too late to bring a criminal case against a child abuser, should it be too late to sue in civil court? A handful of legislatures have grappled with that question, and a pair have said better late than never. |
| June 10, 2009 | Wall Street Journal After 11 years, three presidents and millions of dollars in lobbying by worried cigarette makers, Congress is poised to put the tobacco industry under the regulation of the Food and Drug Administration. |
| June 10, 2009 | NPR Jamie Leigh Jones was a 20-year-old Halliburton employee in 2005 when she was sent to work in Iraq. She'd been there just four days when she joined a small group of Halliburton firefighters outside her barracks at the end of the day. One of them gave her a drink. She took two sips, and Jones says that was the last thing she remembered. |
| June 10, 2009 | Washington Post The Federal Aviation Administration's call for voluntary measures to counter safety lapses at regional airlines is drawing criticism from family members of victims who died in the Feb. 12 crash of a commuter plane outside Buffalo. |
| June 10, 2009 | New York Times After consulting closely with the White House, Senate Democrats announced Tuesday that hearings on Judge Sonia Sotomayors nomination to the Supreme Court would begin on July 13, infuriating Republicans who said that they had been blind-sided and that the timetable would recklessly short-circuit the review process. |
| June 10, 2009 | Chicago Tribune When the state ordered Crestwood officials nine years ago to test their community well for toxic chemicals, they said it wasn't necessary because all of the village's drinking water came from Lake Michigan. |
| June 9, 2009 | Dow Jones Newswire The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday asked the Obama administration to weigh in on whether a Georgia family should be able to bring a product liability lawsuit against vaccine makers Wyeth (WYE) and GlaxoSmithKline PLC (GSK). |
| June 9, 2009 | New York Law Journal Sen. Russell Feingold, D-Wis., last month reintroduced his "Arbitration Fairness Act" to the 111th Congress and, in view of the inroads the Democrats made in last November's national election, many observers believe this time it stands an excellent chance of being enacted into law. |
| June 9, 2009 | Associated Press A key Senate vote Monday put Congress in sight of fulfilling a decade-old quest to put the content and marketing of tobacco products under the control of the federal government. |
| June 9, 2009 | New York Times Elected judges must disqualify themselves from cases involving people who spent exceptionally large sums to put them on the bench, the Supreme Court ruled on Monday in a 5-to-4 decision. |
| June 9, 2009 | Bloomberg News Asbestos-injury claimants asked for an official committee in General Motors Corp.'s bankruptcy case, saying the government-backed plan to sell the automaker may be unconstitutional since they've been left out of negotiations. |
| June 8, 2009 | Associated Press Three Indiana state pension and construction funds want the Supreme Court to block Chrysler's sale to Fiat so they can pursue an appeal in hopes of getting a better deal. |
| June 8, 2009 | Chicago Tribune A Lake Zurich man is a fugitive after his company's medical devices are linked to 4 deaths and scores of illnesses. |
| June 8, 2009 | Associated Press Toy maker Mattel Inc. and its Fisher-Price subsidiary have agreed to pay a $2.3 million civil penalty for importing and selling toys with excessive levels of lead. |
| June 8, 2009 | Kansas City Star Sweeping changes in how the government controls tobacco content and marketing are likely to be approved by the U.S. Senate this week, despite a strong last-ditch effort by tobacco interests and skepticism from some experts that smokers won't kick their habit. |
| June 3, 2009 | New York Times The Food and Drug Administration has created a task force to recommend ways to reveal more information about how the agency makes decisions about the safety and efficacy of drugs and medical devices. Any move in the direction of greater transparency is bound to help both patients and their doctors better understand the risks and benefits they face. |