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  • Brett Oppenheimer Speaks at Mass Torts Made Perfect (MTMP)
    Brett Oppenheimer Speaks at Mass Torts Made Perfect (MTMP)

    Brett was honored to speak at a national conference on the topic of the opioid crisis and its impact on newborn babies. Babies are being born addicted to and in withdrawal from these dangerous drugs ...

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  • First IVC Bellwether Trial Yields $2 Million Verdict Against Bard
    First IVC Bellwether Trial Yields $2 Million Verdict Against Bard

    In March of 2018 jury awarded 2 million dollars to a woman who suffered serious injuries from an IVC Filter, which is a blood clot capturing device made by C. R. Bard Inc. Bard is liable for $1.6 ...

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  • Prescribing Medicare Doctors Received Payments from Opioid Manufacturers
    Prescribing Medicare Doctors Received Payments from Opioid Manufacturers

    CNN and Harvard researchers analyzed information from a federal government database that tracks payments from pharmaceutical companies (drug companies) to doctors and a separate federal database that ...

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  • St. Louis Judge Upholds $110 Million Talc Verdict Against Johnson & Johnson
    St. Louis Judge Upholds $110 Million Talc Verdict Against Johnson & Johnson

    In May of 2017 a Missouri jury awarded $110 million to a plaintiff who claimed she developed ovarian cancer after prolonged use of Johnson & Johnson’s Baby Powder. The verdict was one of five ...

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  • FDA Warnings on Absorb GT1 Bioresorable Vascular Scaffold (BVS)® and Adverse Cardiac Events
    FDA Warnings on Absorb GT1 Bioresorable Vascular Scaffold (BVS)® and Adverse Cardiac Events

    In March of 2017 and again in October of 2017, the FDA sent letters to healthcare providers warning that an ongoing study involving the Absorb GT1 Bioresorbable Vascular Scaffold (BVS)® indicates an ...

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  • A Kentucky Judge Strikes Down Medical Review Panels
    A Kentucky Judge Strikes Down Medical Review Panels

    A Kentucky judge has struck down Kentucky law requiring that a panel of doctors review all medical malpractice claims prior to trial on the grounds that the law is unconstitutional. This Medical ...

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