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- Get Out of Jail Free
WASHINGTON -- Bush administration officials, in their last weeks in office, are pushing to rewrite a wide array of federal rules with changes or additions that could block product-safety lawsuits by consumers and states.
- Fiery plane crash at Madrid airport kills 153
MADRID, Spain — A jetliner heading to the popular Canary Islands vacation resort crashed during takeoff Wednesday, turning a wooded area off the end of a runway into a hellish scene of charred bodies and smoldering wreckage. Some 153 were believed dead — Spain's worst air disaster in nearly 25 years
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FDA Warns About Cipro, Other Antibiotics
WASHINGTON — Drug safety officials Tuesday imposed the government's most urgent safety warning on Cipro and similar antibiotics, citing evidence that they may lead to tendon ruptures, a serious injury that can leave patients incapacitated and needing extensive surgery.
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Jury Awards $3.6 Million in Mall Rape Case
HOUSTON – A jury awarded a former Galleria employee $3.63 million on Nov. 8 in a case against a security company and the largest shopping mall in Texas. The woman was 19 in August 2003 when she was abducted from the Galleria parking garage and raped. David Matthews and Jason Webster, the victim’s attorneys, argued that HG Shopping Center, LP., and its security company IPC International Corp., were negligent in failing to warn her of three previous assaults on women in the 3 1/2 months prior to her kidnap and rape.
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Graco Cradle Kills Baby
Greg Storts last saw his son Shane alive at 2:30 a.m. on August 3, 1990. He looked in on Shane when he came home from his job at a Tulsa, Okla., print shop, and found the three-week-old baby stirring in the Converta-Cradle his wife, Pamela, had bought.
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Engineer Killed on Oil Rig
AMARILLO – Matthews and Associates have been hired by the wife of an engineer who was killed Oct. 17, 2006 when a metal rope line he was spooling yanked him onto the spool drum and crushed him. Amarillo native Michael Blaine, 32, was positioning a metal cable in the assembly of an oil rig when the mishap occurred.
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$4.85 Billion Vioxx Settlement
We’re pleased to announce that Merck & Co. has finally agreed to settle the Vioxx claims of more than 50,000 people injured by the expensive pain drug. Matthews & Associates has spent millions of dollars, thousands of hours, and tremendous effort in litigating Vioxx claims for more than three years. We are the official “document depository” for the state of Texas and have reviewed in excess of 20 million documents. Our Vioxx staff is as well versed as any in the country in the issues pertaining to the proposed settlement.
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Medtronic Sprint Fidelis Leads Recalled
USA — Medtronic has suspended sales of the Sprint Fidelis family of defibrillator leads because of the potential for lead fractures, reports of at least five patient deaths and other serious, life-threatening complications. Matthews & Associates are actively handling these cases.
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Tire "Blowout" Death
TEXAS – Matthews & Associates have been retained by the husband of a 28-year-old Texas woman who was killed in May 2006 when a violent tire blowout caused a truck to spin and flip. The woman, a mother of three, was a passenger in a 2000 Mazda pickup when one of its tires, made by Cooper Tire & Rubber Co., malfunctioned. The tread separated from the tire in the blowout and precipitated the tragedy.
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$1.5 Million Jury Verdict in Hospital Death
BEAUMONT – Matthews & Associates attorneys David Matthews and Jason Webster won a case in September for the family of a man who died of an undiagnosed heart attack at Christus Hospital St. Mary in Port Arthur. The suit charged that Christus staff doctors ignored Aurilano Salas’ family’s admonitions about Mr. Salas’ heart condition and Plavix mediction.
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Gadolinium Lawsuits
Until recently, most people did not have reason to contact gadolinium attorneys, as this substance was merely an element found on the periodic table with no widespread use. However, after a period of early promise, gadolinium's risks began to surface, putting thousands of people at risk for serious and permanent injuries and even death. The gadolinium attorneys at Matthews & Associates would like to introduce you to this substance, but if you've been injured as a result of having gadolinium injected into your system, contact our gadolinium attorneys immediately for a free consultation.
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FDA gets an "F"
WASHINGTON, D.C. – A 2007 report by the Office of Inspector General of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) states, "weaknesses in the FDA's information systems and management processes hinder the agency's ability to oversee clinical trial inspections." The report said the FDA inspected just one per cent of clinical trial sites from 2000 to 2005. Of the estimated 350,000 trial sites, the FDA is believed to have inspected just 2,855. The report also revealed a lack of follow up on sites which had been issued a warning letter after being classified as “Official Action Indicated” (OAI) for regulatory violations.
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Trasylol Tragedy
USA — Bayer announced in November 2007 that it was halting worldwide sales of Trasylol, a blood clotting agent used in heart surgeries. Already under intense scrutiny, Trasylol was pulled after an Ottawa-based clinical trial was abruptly stopped when researchers found that Trasylol could be linked to a higher risk of death than similar, cheaper drugs made for the same purpose.
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Priests Violate Trust
IOWA – After successfully concluding recent abuse cases in Iowa, we are currently interviewing several cases in other states.
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