New Happy Hour Law for Illinois After 25 years, as of July 15, 2015, Illinois will once again be allowing drinking establishments to have happy hour drink specials, thanks to a new happy hour law. They were banned due to the belief that there was a positive correlation between drink specials and excessive drinking, impaired …
Every day, Americans are injured by side effects of dangerous drugs. For many, their only recourse is to file lawsuits against the companies that sell the products. The pharmaceutical industry makes sky-high profits that allow them to move quickly from one faulty drug to the next. From 2004 to 2008, Pfizer, one major pharmaceutical company, …
4th of July Safety Congratulations 4th of July. You were named “Most Dangerous Holiday” by the National Safety Council. From about 5pm on July 3 to midnight on July 4, danger seems to set in. There are always an unfortunately high number of traffic fatalities and other debilitating injuries on the highways. Over half of …
Last month I wrote about how the FDA has been fining pharmaceutical companies billions of dollars for marketing their drugs to doctors for non-approved (“off label”) uses. Earlier this month, a pharmaceutical company (Amarin Pharma) took a novel preemptive strike – they are suing the FDA over violation of freedom of speech, claiming that they …
In April 2015, a jury in our own fair city of St. Louis found Pfizer’s Zoloft, the best-selling antidepressant on the market, not responsible for causing birth defects in a child whose mother took Zoloft while pregnant. This case was a bell-weather lawsuit -the first of its kind to go to trial, while many similar …
While large trucks make up less than 5% of traffic on the roads, to anyone driving along side one of these beasts on the highway, it probably seems like a lot more than that. Despite being only 5% of roadway traffic these trucks account for over 10% of all fatal truck accidents in Missouri and …
The term “off label drug use (OLDU)” refers to the practice of doctors prescribing medications for a condition, use or category of patients, that has not been approved by the FDA. All prescription medications sold in the United States must be approved by the Federal Drug Administration (FDA). The approval process can be long, complicated …
As a lawyer who specializes in auto accidents and lawsuits, friends and clients ask me all the time what they should do when they are pulled over by a police officer. We’ve all been there…. You’re singing your little heart out to Taylor Swift when all of a sudden you see that red and blue …
Risperdal (also sold under the brand name Invega or the generic names Risperidone and paliperidone) is an anti-psychotic drug manufactured by Johnson & Johnson and sold through its pharmaceutical unit Janssen, approved for use in adults. Risperdal is a drug that was approved by the FDA for use in adults to treat psychosis. However, as …
As we weather yet another winter storm, our minds wander to the Spring that is just around the corner and the promise of coming sunshine and warmth. Many of us will head South for spring break to get a respite from the long cold winter we have endured. A trip to warmer climates often involves …