“Everything is on the Table” for Fuel Tank Investigation
2013 Jeep Recall In 2013, Chrysler issued a recall of approximately 1.56 million Jeep SUV vehicles due to fuel tanks that had a dangerous propensity to explode and/or result ...
Boston Scientific to Pay $100M in Transvaginal Mesh Trial
On May 28, 2015, a Delaware jury ordered Boston Scientific Corp. to pay $100 million to a woman who was injured by transvaginal mesh. The verdict is the largest so far against ...
Tragic Amtrak Disaster Reminder of RPDFA Act
The Rail Passenger Disaster Family Assistance Act was passed in 2008 in an effort to coordinate the response to rail disasters in the United States and assign ...
New DC Wage Theft Law Protects Workers
What is Wage Theft? Wage theft occurs when workers do not receive the minimum wage for all hours worked, and overtime of time-and-a-half for hours worked over forty in one ...
New Prescription Drug Labeling
The new FDA rule will require more information about a drug’s effect on pregnant and nursing women. A rule affecting prescription drug and biological product labels will go ...
Bill Proposes FDA Regulation of Cosmetics
The New York Times reported on April 20 that a new bill has been proposed that aims to give the Food and Drug Administration (“FDA”) more oversight over the regulation of the ...
Generic Drug Labeling: Explaining PLIVA, INC v. Mensing
Recently, there has been a lot of talk about proposed changes to federal laws that govern generic drug labeling. The Food and Drug Administration has proposed a law that would ...
Powdered Alcohol Gains Approval, But Also Bans
Last month, the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau approved labels for Palcohol, which allows the product to be sold in the United States. Palcohol is a powdered alcohol ...
FDA Unkind to KIND Bars
Go to your local grocery store and you will likely find KIND bars in the health food section. KIND has marketed their bars as being a great health-food snack for consumers. ...
Common Herbicide Labeled “Probable Carcinogen” by WHO
In late March, the International Agency for Research on Cancer, the France-based cancer research arm of the World Health Organization (WHO), labeled the weed-killer RoundUp a ...