Year: 2015

Recent Posts in 2015
December 29, 2015

Ashcraft & Gerel’s Joe Musso Discusses Nursing Home Privacy Horrors

As millions of Americans prepared to enjoy the holidays with family and friends last week, a disturbing report from ProPublica gained national headlines. A review of the ...

November 17, 2015

What You Should Know About MRSA

According to 2011 statistics from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, MRSA (methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus) causes more than 80,000 invasive ...

October 2, 2015

Keeping Large Corporations Honest – the Volkswagen “Clean Diesel” Debacle

For many years, we as a society have known that our development and consumption have taken a toll on our planet.  I still remember hearing the jingle as a child “reduce, ...

September 29, 2015

The Volkswagen Scandal from an Owners Perspective

For the past 8 years the world’s largest car manufacturer has been intentionally lying to millions of its customers, and I’m one of them.  Volkswagen marketed its turbo diesel ...

September 28, 2015

Nathan M. Peak Represents Whistleblower in Case That Settles for $35M

A&G’s Nathan Peak represented a whistleblower in two federal False Claims Act cases that settled for an amount that could total $35 million, to be paid overtime by the ...

September 10, 2015

FDA Issues Warning to Tobacco Manufacturers Regarding “Natural” Labeling

On August 27, 2015, the Food and Drug Administration (“FDA”) issued warning letters to three tobacco companies regarding their labeling of cigarettes as “additive-free” and/or ...

September 8, 2015

Workers Claim They Were Paid as Little as $200 for Four Weeks of Labor

Six construction workers who helped assemble the steeple-shaped roof on a new Prince William County library are claiming that they were paid as little as $200 a piece for four ...

August 14, 2015

FDA Issues New Guidance for Children’s OTC Acetaminophen Products

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration recently issued a new Guidance for Industry on Over-the-Counter Pediatric Oral Liquid Drug Products Containing Acetaminophen. The ...

July 27, 2015

Amtrak Seeks to Consolidate Philadelphia Derailment Lawsuits

Amtrak has requested consolidation of the lawsuits over the May 12, 2015 train derailment before a federal judge. On June 30, Amtrak, along with many plaintiffs, requested ...

July 13, 2015

FBI Investigating Manufacturers of Power Morcellators

In late May 2015, the FBI began investigating Johnson & Johnson in connection with its manufacture of power morcellator devices, surgical tools used to cut and remove ...