Retrieved on February 28, 2013. American academy of dermatology and aad association. (n.d.). Retrieved from https://www.aad.org/forms/policies/uploads/ps/ps-expert witnesses 6-15-07.pdf Position Statement on Expert Witnesses (Approved by the Board of Directors November 22, 2003) The integrity of the judicial process depends, in part, on the honest, unbiased testimony of expert witnesses on both sides of courtroom controversies…..
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When “Peer Review” Has Ulterior Motives
A federal judge this week upheld a jury verdict against the American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons, finding sufficient evidence for the jury’s decision that the AAOS acted with “reckless disregard for the truth” in publicizing its discipline of an orthopedic surgeon who had testified that another surgeon had committed malpractice. The decision was written by….
Continue ReadingUber/Lyft rideshare accidents
Our law firm has substantial experience representing consumers injured in accidents involving rideshare services such as Uber and Lyft. These are not ordinary “car wreck” cases. For fair compensation, smart consumers hire lawyers with sophistication and the resources needed to go up against the lawyers hired by the rideshare services like Lyft and Uber. To….
Continue ReadingCollege sports organization prevails in an early, difficult case on head injuries
Armchair quarterbacks of the legal kind have raced onto the field, arguing that a Los Angeles jury verdict will help shield the National Collegiate Athletic Association from a potential avalanche of claims asserting the group did too little to protect young players from debilitation and death due to head trauma. Maybe, maybe not. Jurors rejected….
Continue ReadingFDA knew of, but didn’t act on little devices’ deadly racial problems
Until the coronavirus pandemic struck, few regular folks knew about pulse oximeters, much less had one on hand for urgent use. The devices, which fit over a finger, are supposed to give fast readings on the levels of oxygen in patients’ blood — a key measure of their respiratory wellness. But the devices, whether in….
Continue ReadingWhen Big Pharma opens its big checkbook, life-saving disclosures vanish
Big Pharma loves to blast away at opposition lawyers and their clients, criticizing them for seeking justice in the civil system over claims of significant harms. But, c’mon, man, as a certain top political leader likes to say to express his flabbergasted skepticism. Wealthy corporations and their counsel marshal enormous, costly legal resources to bully,….
Continue ReadingSenate panel assails transplant system for causing deaths and disease
UNOS, the independent medical network responsible for procuring and distributing human organs for transplants in this country, needs big changes because it is failing desperate patients, making screening errors, among other missteps, that have killed dozens of them and caused hundreds to develop procedure-related diseases. The U.S. Senate Finance Committee reviewed hundreds of thousands of….
Continue ReadingFDA takes new fire for approving drugs too fast, with too little evidence
Taxpayers and lawmakers may be grasping just how far in the wrong direction the federal Food and Drug Administration has gone in approving prescription drugs for sale on U.S. markets — in too much haste and with too little facts about whether the new drugs really work and are safe. The issue, of course, may….
Continue ReadingMedical errors can be criminal, Tennesee nurse’s conviction shows
While nurses deserve patients’ gratitude and the highest praise for the valiant care they have provided during the coronavirus pandemic, a Nashville case has raised tough questions as to whether and when professional caregivers’ medical errors ought to be criminalized. Prosecutors decided that some mistakes rise to the criminal level, after considering the evidence against….
Continue ReadingBillionaire clan assailed as ‘scum of earth’ in unusual opioids hearing
Three members of a plutocratic clan finally got a direct, bitter earful from those who suffered grievous harms from the opioid crisis which was fostered, critics say, by their family business — Purdue Pharmaceutical and its powerful prescription painkiller OxyContin. As part of prospective $10 billion settlement of thousands of lawsuits by states, counties, cities,….
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