The Legal News

A wrongful death suit has been filed against GlaxoSmithKline
creator of the drug Avandia. Avandia is a drug used treat diabetes.
Peggie stanford filed the suit in the US district court, eastern texas district. Her husband was just 60 when he died to a heart attack earlier this year.

Stanford had suffered a heart attack the very same day that the New England Journal of Medicine published findings from a study about wether or not Avandia opens users up to increased heart attacks.

This is the first lawsuit directed at the manufacturer for wrongful death. The company is also facing a suit from share holders, a class action suit, and a suit regarding personal injury. Peggie Stanford claims that GlaxoSmithKline made money in a indecent manner because they decieved people, including her husband, by withholding data of various studies. One of these studies was one in which Avandia was shown to increase the risk of heart attack. GlaxoSmithKline had 2.2 dollars in Avandia sales in 2006.

With hundreds of accidents in any given metro area monthly, many many people are left weithout hope of ever being compensated fully for their injuries. Unless they have the one coverage they need.

Uninsured motorist coverage.

For example California law  has required liability insurance for years, most states do. However California has a real problem with uninsured drivers. Estimates are at 23% of drivers have no insurance at all. We hope that lawmakers will design a solution.

San Diego has even higher numbers, on not only uninsured, but also unlicensed. How do you  protect yourself from an insured driver? Buy as much uninsured motorist coverage as you can.

A Brooke County Circuit Court jury has  decided that Massey Energy will pay more 219 million in punitive damages to Wheeling-Pittsburgh Steel Corporation. The suit was in regards to a failure to deliver on  a contract.  The contract states that Massey Energy was to deliver 104,000 tons of coal per month to Wheeling-Pitt monthly.

The suit alleged that CWVE blamed production problems for its inability to deliver per contract. The plaintiff claims however, that the Massey company  rerouting coal from its contract to another marketplace in an effort to make more money.
The jury demanded Massey and CWVE to give Wheeling -Pitt 119 million in  compensation and 50 million each in damges punitive from both defendants.

Wheeling attorneys maintain  that when the price of coal went up worlwide that the defendants would short them coal and ship it worldwide.

Massey counsel is determined to appeal the ruling.
The jury ordered Massey and Central West Virginia Energy to pay Wheeling-Pitt $119.8 million in compensatory damages, as well as $50 million each in punitive damages from both parties. Wheeling-Pitt’s attorney stated that, “When the price of coal went up, Massey started cheating Wheeling-Pitt by shorting it and sending its coal abroad and making millions of dollars.” Massey’s executive vice president, Baxter Phillips, claimed that the company “will most certainly appeal.”

How to claim your assets as exempt when filing a personal Chapter 7 bankruptcy. Your debts disappear and you can keep all or most of your assets.

Officials and generally ignorant people in the city of Denver have outlawed the pit bull breed of dogs.

However, owners of existing pit bulls can keep their dog if the meet new regulations, including a special, breed-specific licensing fee of $200, carrying $100,000 of liability insurance, be at least 21 years of age, and post warning signs in the front of their land.  Except for the licensing, this is all fine and dandy. Its what responsible dog owners would do anyways.

the ban is not just due to urban legends regarding the breed, but alot to do with irresponsible ownership. If the dog is owned by bad owners, he  is a victim of his environment, then who is at fault, the dog or his owner?

Most pit bull owners dont bother to carry insurance. And many fail to keep the animals on their own property. Even ones that have shown themselves to be aggressive.

Obviously other breeds will bite, but the kicker is this:  most dog owners will have insurance, for whatever reason this breed tends to have owners that miss that whole train of though.

Give pits a break, hold the owners accountable!

Oral sex is not allowed in the state.

It is illegal to have thistles grow in your yard.

Its against the law to throw bales of hay from a second-story window within the city limits.

It’s unlawful to take a lion to the movies.

It is against park rules to be in a public park with a sleeveless shirt.

No “tramp” or “vagrant” shall loiter in any park at any time.

It is a violation of city code to sell chicks or ducklings to a child within 1 week of the Easter holiday.

You can spit on the road, but not on the sidewalk.

You cant curse in town.

Kicking stones into a public park is prohibited.

You may not swear while on the highway.

You  may not swim in the public fountains within the city limits.
All in all, Maryland don’t seem fun at all, no spitting, no cursing, No oral sex

ACLU sponsored video on your rights with the police. See this even if you never plan on being arrested.

Most everyone will have their wisdom teeth removed, its a very common procedure.  however if its done incorrectly, the patient can end up with a permanently numb tongue. Sensation and taste are delivered to the tongue through the lingual nerve.

The day after the tooth extraction if your tongue is still numb you should report this issue to the surgeaon who performed the work. Consider getting a second opinion from a clinic that examines and evaluates lingual nerve damage. This shoudl be done forthright if you are wanting to get the nerve repaired. Most oral surgeons believe the success rate is higher if it is addressed quickly.

Caution,  some patients who have an injured lingual nerve are informed that it was part of the consent form the patient signed or was a calculated risk of the procedure — that is nonsense and  irrelevant. The real issue is whether the wisdom tooth extraction was performed properly or not.

A jury in Virginia awarded 12.2 million dollars to woman. Annette Ritzmann  was walking into a Miller Mart to get a newspaper, when she slipped on a small puddle. The puddle was there because the awning leaked. The impact of her fall snapped her head back quite violently, she had landed on her chin.

She went back to  work at the beauty salon a few days later, but she said she couldnt do multipple tasks or concentrate for any period of time. After a time her doctors diagnosed her with having post concusiion  symptoms. She still suffers from seizures, during which she appears to stare in the distance for lengthy periods of time.

SHe got an attorney who specializes in brain injuroies. her attorneys got Miller mart people  to admit that they knew the danger they had present and they did not correct it.

Myspace.com is sharing data its gathered on sex offenders with government agencies and  prosecutors.  The attorney generals from several states have demanded records be given to them and myspace is too happy to comply.

Myspace says they seek to identify and remove any sex offenders, and claims its been doing so for soem time. The officials from the AG office wanted  to know how many sex offenders  used the site anf where they live.

Myspace said thay federal privacy laws require states to file subpenas or some other legal request to make it aofficial.

Myspace hopes that every state will request simliar records. They claim to have saved all the data from the very begining in anticipation of the request. Myspace claims to have removed 7000 users that were sex offenders from their system.
My space spokesman said that its imperitive to give this data to authorities ASAP because it helps ensure the safety of children.T