Consumer Alerts and Legal Answers from the Lawyers at Morgan & Morgan

A 52-year-old Florida man has been arrested and charged for his role in an accident that claimed the life of an Arkansas police chief in April. Lowell, Arkansas Police Chief Joe Landers was at a motorcycle event in Panama City when he was hit by another vehicle, causing him to flip over his handlebars. Landers died from his injuries about a week after the accident. According to the News Herald, Jimmy John Christo Jr. has been charged with fleeing the scene of a critical injury accident, possession
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Thirteen people have been charged for their role in the hazing death of Florida A&M University (FAMU) band drum major Robert Champion. According to The Washington Post, Eleven FAMU band members were charged with a third degree felony charge of hazing resulting in death and two others face misdemeanor counts of first-degree hazing. The 26-year-old Champion passed away in November soon after taking part in an initiation routine that invo
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Charges have finally been filed after two years of investigating the circumstances that caused two Italian nationals to be fatally engulfed in flames at a hyperbaric clinic in Lauderdale-by-the-Sea. According to the Sun-Sentinel, 62-year-old Vincenza Pesce and her four-year-old grandson Francesco Martinisi were burned alive after a fire erupted in the pressurized chamber. The two had traveled to South Florida from San F
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Recently, a number of lawsuits have been filed against Bayer alleging that it failed to properly warn of the health risks associated with its top selling Yaz and Yasmin line of oral contraceptives. To date, Bayer has resolved 651 suits claiming that Yaz and Yasmin can cause fatal blood clots and other related health issues in women who take the medication. According to various reports, Bayer has paid a total of approximately $142 million in damages, or about $218,000 per individual case. While these figures may seem substantial, Bayer may only have seen the tip of the iceberg as far as com
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The Florida Highway Patrol (FHP) has been faulted but not held criminally liable for playing a role in a series of deadly crashes that occurred in January on Interstate 75. According to Fox News, the Florida Department of Law Enforcement has determined that the FHP erred in reopening a dangerous road but that no there were no criminal violations. On January 29th, the FHP reopened I-75 outside of Gainsville even though it was blanketed by fog and wildfire smoke. That morning,
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An elderly woman was charged with careless driving after crashing her Toyota Camry into a crowded Publix supermarket in Palm Coast. According to WTSP, 76-year-old Thelma Wagenhoffer traveled quite far into the store after crashing through the exit doors. The car struck ten people in the store, but there were no fatalities as a result of the accident. The crash reportedly occurred when Wagenhoffer stopped at a stop sign and then hit the gas pedal instead of the brakes.

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Morgan & Morgan is proud to announce that attorney Michael Goetz has been appointed to the Plaintiffs' Steering Committee for litigation against companies that manufactured certain transvaginal mesh products. Judge Joseph R. Goodwin named distinguished attorneys from around the United States to serve on a committee to coordinate the prosecution of personal injury claims involving transvaginal mesh. The transvaginal mesh multidistrict litigation actions are against manufacturers Johnson & Johnson/Ethicon, Bard, American Medical Systems (AMS), and Boston Scientific.

Transvagin
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 Morgan & Morgan has been advised there are groups in the gulf coast region purporting to be representatives of our firm who are disseminating information about the Deepwater Horizon oil spill settlement with BP.  We understand these groups may have Morgan & Morgan documents in their possession.

These groups are not authorized by Morgan & Morgan to represent our firm, nor are they authorized to provide legal advice or other information about oil spill claims.  They are certainly not authorized to “sign up” clients on behalf of Morgan
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Morgan & Morgan is pleased to announce that attorney Michael Goetz will speak at a Pradaxa litigation webinar to address the legal implications of the potentially lethal side effects of the popular blood thinner drug. Mr. Goetz will present updates on the latest developments in Pradaxa litigation and effective strategies for case selection. Pradaxa (dabigatran) is an oral blood thinner in class of drugs called direct thrombin inhibitors, prescribed to prevent strokes among patients with non-valvular atrial fibrillation (an irregular heartbeat).

The U.S. Food and Drug Administrat
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Tampa Bay Rays minor league pitcher Brian Bush was charged with a number of crimes after he hit a motorcycle and drove away, allegedly while under the influence. According to the Chicago Sun-Times, Bush was driving south on U.S. 41 in Port Charlotte when he hit a motorcycle driven by 72-year-old Anthony Tufan and drove away in the other direction. Bush has been charged with DUI, multiple counts of leaving the scene of an accident with injury, and driv
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