The Great Recession, or whatever catchy label you want to use, affected everyone in the law business: drug and device companies, defense lawyers, and, it seems, plaintiffs’ lawyers as well. How else to explain two new summary judgment decisions involving devices manufactured by Howmedica, where the plaintiffs’ counsel went cheap, failed to get experts, and thus had their cases tossed?

The first case, Hughes v. Stryker Sales (more…)

Just the other daywe brought you news that the British medical journal Lancet issued a full retractionof an purported scientific article by a plaintiffs’ expert in autism litigation. The author, who was at the time also serving as a plaintiff-side expert, described parts of his research in a manner that “have been proven to be false.”

Something similar seems to be happening in the Accutane litigation. There’s (more…)