On the topic of conflicts of interest, our clients and those who do research for them are under constant scrutiny and encounter an ever-escalating call for disclosure of every dime of research money, speaker money, consulting money, etc. Not all conflicts though boil down to money. And the sole, and obsessive, focus on financial disclosures makes us question whether what is being sought is “context,” as often asserted in defense of witch-hunt (more…)

Over two years ago (have we really been at this so long we can say that?) we wrote a post “Docs for the Goose, Docs for the Gander,” in which we praised Weiss v. Astellas Pharma, US., Inc., 2007 WL 2137782 (E.D. Ky. June 25, 2007), for requiring an even playing field when it came to the always-contentious issue of informal defense interviews with plaintiffs’ treating physicians. In Weiss, the plaintiff’s (more…)