You might not want to read this post around mealtime. But it does offer food for thought on an old bete noire, negligence per se. Louie DePalma, a character in one of our all-time favorite sitcoms, Taxi, once hired a lawyer who advertised that if he lost a case, he’d “eat a bug”. That’s what happened in Gentry v The Hershey Co., et al., 2010 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 9278 (M.D. Tenn. Feb. 3, 2010). The Gentry case is a combination of CSI, Willy Wonka, and (more…)

When the lawsuits start rolling in, this company is ready to handle the volume it states.  When the lawsuits begin, they anticipate a large number of requests to roll in, thus they have increased the number of employees, must be news and big time business as the took the time to create a press
release.  Which lawsuit, this one: 
.  This somewhat set the stage for consumers to be able to sue a pharmaceutical or medical device company in court.  (more…)