Confidentiality issues often arise in drug and device cases, usually when plaintiff lawyers want to send confidential company documents to the New York Times. But every once in a while it’s the plaintiffs who get impaled on the issue. That’s what happened in In re Viagra Products Liability Litigation, MDL No. 06-1724, slip op.(D. Minn. April 14, 2010). Pfizer had earlier been unable to knock out one of plaintiffs’ general causation experts on Daubert (more…)

Plaintiffs say that Pfizer’s anti-epileptic drug, Neurontin, causes people to commit suicide.

We say that it makes you scratch your head.

The first Neurontin-suicide case went to trial earlier this week. It sounded like a tough case for plaintiff: The decedent, who had taken Neurontin and then committed suicide, had a history of mental health disorders and abusing drugs, including cocaine. (Here’s a link to a Bloomberg story (more…)

One more Boston Hospital steps in to help with medical records that were slated to be destroyed.  The moving and storage company
pleaded with the State to take the records, but they told the owner they did not have the authority or space? 
A lot of help they were, so even the government agencies didn’t even care, so nice move on the part of the
hospital, that had to go and get a court order to step in and help
patients.  Again, nice (more…)

The Make a Wish Foundation is a great charity and nice that there’s more money coming in through donations.   I watched the video with the
announcement of the Latisse prescription drug to create longer eyelashes and it looked liked a miniature red carpet event for the Oscars, not even really looking at lashes but focused on the dresses they wore and chit chat conversations for most of the video, just somewhat different or odd. 
We get (more…)