- Wayne Parsons | May 31, 2009 11:11 AM |
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Toxic SubstancesIn a Beyond Pesticides story on May 28, 2009 the link between pancreatic cancer and two common herbicides was reported. Pancreatic cancer, gallbladder cancer and bile duct cancer...
- Wayne Parsons | May 31, 2009 10:17 AM |
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Automobile AccidentsNo school bus automobile accidents all year and then two on one day late in May. Hopefully none of the eighteen students are seriously injured although they were taken to area hospitals for...
- Wayne Parsons | May 29, 2009 10:43 AM |
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Wrongful DeathThe Miami Herald (5/29) reports, Nearly three of 10 teenage Florida foster children have been prescribed a mental-health drug, and 73 foster kids younger than 6 are taking mind-altering drugs,...
- Wayne Parsons | May 28, 2009 7:39 PM |
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Automobile AccidentsTwo teenage students were struck in a crosswalk on Queen Emma Street in Honolulu today. he driver said that she saw the girls. No one said this, but I will - the girls also should be able to see a...
- Wayne Parsons | May 28, 2009 4:51 PM |
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Automobile AccidentsAccording to a story by the Honolulu Advertiser 2 intermediate school girls were struck by a car as they crossed Queen Emma Street at Vineyard Street in a crosswalk. The Advertiser reports...
- Wayne Parsons | May 28, 2009 9:52 AM |
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Wrongful DeathA Honolulu Advertiser story by William Cole, Military Writer reports that 2 Army helicopter pilots died when their helicopter crashed during a routine maintenance test flight. The soldiers were with...
- Wayne Parsons | May 28, 2009 9:32 AM |
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MiscellaneousCoverage of the Supreme Court nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor follows several tracks. While much attention is given to former House Speaker Newt Gingrich's online assertion that Sotomayor is a...
- Wayne Parsons | May 26, 2009 8:04 AM |
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MiscellaneousThe AP (5/26, Fredrix) reports that a lawsuit focused on advertising and product claims filed this week by Sara Lee Corp., the maker of Ball Park Franks, against Oscar Mayer-making rival Kraft Foods...
- Wayne Parsons | May 26, 2009 8:01 AM |
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Medical Devices & ImplantsThe Greenville News (5/24, Osby) reported that the Medical Device Safety Act of 2009... would reverse the high court's decision and would allow patients to sue Medtronic under state law. Don...
- Wayne Parsons | May 26, 2009 8:00 AM |
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Medical Devices & ImplantsThe Greenville News (5/24, Osby) reported that the Medical Device Safety Act of 2009... would reverse the high court's decision and would allow patients to sue Medtronic under state law. Don...
- Wayne Parsons | May 23, 2009 2:23 PM |
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MiscellaneousIf you are looking for education about legal topics I have put up the gone fishin' sign for a few hours. A friend, Christie Bridges gave me an article on what a calorie is, and I enjoyed reading it....
- Wayne Parsons | May 23, 2009 2:11 PM |
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Automobile AccidentsAn article in the Bennington Banner about seat belts and automobile accidents made me think about what we can do to encourage safety in driving at this time of year. What time of year is it? From...
- Wayne Parsons | May 23, 2009 3:31 AM |
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Medical MalpracticeMartine Ehrenclou, MA - Contributor
Author of Critical Conditions: The Essential Hospital Guide To Get Your Loved One Out Alive
A good friend of mine has to have rotator cuff surgery....
- Wayne Parsons | May 22, 2009 5:24 PM |
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Automobile AccidentsThe Detroit News (5/21, Priddle, Shepardson) reported, A flurry of objections in the Chrysler LLC bankruptcy case continue to be filed in advance of a hearing next week to approve a tie-up with Fiat...
- Wayne Parsons | May 22, 2009 5:07 PM |
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Toxic SubstancesLess than a week after Public Justice filed a complaint in federal court and threatened to seek a temporary restraining order, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers suspended its permit that would have...
- Wayne Parsons | May 22, 2009 4:20 PM |
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MiscellaneousThe idea that music and dance and art take us up into the better parts of ourselves and our lives has been often expressed. My humble effort this Friday is more for me than for anyone else. I need...
- Wayne Parsons | May 21, 2009 2:37 PM |
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Workplace InjuriesToday, Texas Watch is sending urging voters to ask their lawmakers to support pro-consumer amendments to the TDI Sunset bill, SB 1007. That Bill requires payment of reasonable medical expenses...
- Wayne Parsons | May 21, 2009 2:21 PM |
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Medical Devices & ImplantsThe AP (5/21, Yost) reports, The Obama White House on Wednesday undid a Bush administration policy that used federal regulations to undermine a wide range of state health, safety and environmental...
- Wayne Parsons | May 20, 2009 7:39 PM |
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FDA & Prescription DrugsAll Americans can celebrate the breaking news regarding a landmark achievement that was announced today in Washington D.C. From now on, the regulatory preemption of state common law will be strictly...
- Wayne Parsons | May 20, 2009 5:34 PM |
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FDA & Prescription Drugs
The Wall Street Journal (5/20, Rockoff) reports, Plaintiffs' lawyers in lawsuits against AstraZeneca PLC plan to...release documents they say show executives at the drugmaker discussed...
- Wayne Parsons | May 19, 2009 4:31 PM |
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Automobile AccidentsAnother traffic injury left a bicycle rider in critical condition on Sunday near the place where a motorcyclist died earlier in the day. The bicyclist was injured on Kamehameha highway near a 7-11...
- Wayne Parsons | May 19, 2009 4:18 PM |
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Motorcycle AccidentsA motorcyclist died as a result of a crash is Kaaawa on Sunday. The motorcyclist's 10-year-old daughter was a passenger when they were struck by an Hawaiian Telcom truck that was turning into the...
- Wayne Parsons | May 19, 2009 3:33 PM |
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FDA & Prescription DrugsThe Wall Street Journal (5/19, Johnson) reports, The Justice Department and 16 states joined two whistleblower lawsuits alleging that Wyeth defrauded the government by offering discounts to...
- Wayne Parsons | May 19, 2009 2:53 AM |
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Medical MalpracticeI can't believe what I am watching. My president and his liberal friends have sold Americans health care hopes to corporate greed. The insurnace industry wins again. Does anyone out there care?...
- Wayne Parsons | May 18, 2009 4:32 PM |
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Toxic Substances
The Journal of the National Cancer Institute reports that they have found a continuing “possible link” between formaldehyde exposure and death from cancers of the blood and lymphatic...
- Wayne Parsons | May 18, 2009 4:29 PM |
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FDA & Prescription DrugsBloomberg News (5/16, Fisk) reported, Pfizer Inc. the world's largest drugmaker, won't face class-action lawsuits by health-insurance companies and patients on claims it improperly marketed the...
- Wayne Parsons | May 15, 2009 3:24 PM |
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MiscellaneousAt a Thursday town hall meeting in Rio Rancho, New Mexico, President Obama called for passage of a bill that seeks to curb practices from credit card companies that some deem abusive. The story is...
- Wayne Parsons | May 14, 2009 2:40 PM |
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Medical Devices & ImplantsCQ HealthBeat (5/14, Kim) reports that the House Energy and Commerce Committee's Health Subcommittee heard witness testimony on a measure that would allow consumers to sue companies under state law...
- Wayne Parsons | May 14, 2009 3:14 AM |
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Toxic SubstancesJason Gale and Simeon Bennett of Bloomberg report on 13 May 2009 that
Adrian Gibbs, 75, who collaborated on research that led to the development of Roche Holding AG’s Tamiflu drug, said in...
- Wayne Parsons | May 14, 2009 2:47 AM |
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Medical MalpracticeIn her recent article:
Revived Focus on Health Care, Revival of Tort “Reform” Rhetoric
Kia Franklin shines a light on the willingness of President Obama to shed his lofty campaign...
- Wayne Parsons | May 14, 2009 2:14 AM |
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Medical MalpracticeIntroducing Contributing Author Michael Bennett, President, The Coalition For Patients’ Rights
Rather than initially launching an all out assault, conducting war by using a slow, incremental...
- Wayne Parsons | May 13, 2009 11:31 PM |
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FDA & Prescription DrugsIn response to an article I wrote on the H1N1 Swine Flu situation I got a Comment from Lou. He needs help. Can someone tell him what he should do .... about the Flu? Here is Lou's situation:
I...
- Wayne Parsons | May 13, 2009 6:38 PM |
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Medical MalpracticeAccording to leading consumer advocacy group Public Citizen, [t]he U.S. spends twice as much as other industrialized nations on health care, but still has nearly 50 million people without health...
- Wayne Parsons | May 13, 2009 6:23 PM |
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Medical Devices & ImplantsHearings began on Tuesday, May 12th before the Subcommittee on Health on H.R. 1346, The Medical Device Safety Act of 2009. I explain it below but before you go any further make sure to read the...
- Wayne Parsons | May 13, 2009 6:09 PM |
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FDA & Prescription DrugsThe Wall Street Journal (5/8, Favole) reports, The Food and Drug Administration is forcing strong warnings on two testosterone gel products after receiving reports of children who had inappropriate...
- Wayne Parsons | May 13, 2009 5:26 PM |
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Mass Transit (Airline, Cruise Ship, Train, Bus)On The Early Show on CBS News (5/12), Julie Chen spoke with attorney Mary Schiavo and the sister of one of the crash victims of Flight 3407. Schiavo said the fault lies with the airline because the...
- Wayne Parsons | May 13, 2009 2:09 AM |
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MiscellaneousSay it ain't so President Obama! I voted for you. Say it ain't so.
The number of your constituents who die from medical malpractice are equivalent to a fully loaded 747-400 crashing with all lost...
- Wayne Parsons | May 12, 2009 2:13 PM |
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Mass Transit (Airline, Cruise Ship, Train, Bus)The Wall Street Journal (5/11, A1, Pasztor) reported on its front page, The captain of a commuter plane that crashed Feb. 12 near Buffalo, N.Y., had flunked numerous flight tests during his career...
- Wayne Parsons | May 11, 2009 2:06 PM |
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FDA & Prescription DrugsThe AP (5/9, Johnson) reported that Judge Victoria Chaney of Los Angeles Superior Court has rejected a proposed class-action lawsuit brought on behalf of state residents who took the painkiller...
- Wayne Parsons | May 11, 2009 4:33 AM |
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Toxic SubstancesI didn't believe it when I read it: Forbes Magazine Calling for More Tort Lawyers? by Dan Firth. Wait!? That can't be true. That's like the Red Sox holding an appreciation day at Fenway for Yankee...
- Wayne Parsons | May 11, 2009 3:55 AM |
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Defective & Dangerous ProductsIf you get a degree in spin at your local mind twisting institute, you'll have been taught that if you call something reform everyone will support it. At the first emotional reaction will be I like...
- Wayne Parsons | May 11, 2009 3:27 AM |
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Medical MalpracticeWhat causes high premiums for doctors' malpractice insurance? The insurance industry would have you believe that the cause is the legal system. The truth is that insurance company investment...
- Wayne Parsons | May 11, 2009 2:49 AM |
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FDA & Prescription DrugsSteve Lombardi from Des Moines has posted a story out of Iowa and H1N1 Vaccine.
ISU research and H1N1, Are pigs luckier than are humans? by Steve Lombardi
You have to read that article. Steve...
- Wayne Parsons | May 10, 2009 3:28 PM |
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Automobile AccidentsThe Honolulu Advertiser has a very interesting website that I use often. Its called By the numbers. I am a numbers person which in some way probably explains the fact that I am an attorney who also...
- Wayne Parsons | May 10, 2009 3:14 PM |
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Medical Devices & ImplantsHawaii has a few Swine Flu cases, most recently a student up at UH. Our medical community seems well organized and prepared. The entire country seems to be on top of this situation.
Embedded video...
- Wayne Parsons | May 09, 2009 3:28 PM |
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Automobile AccidentsPolice shut down traffic in both directions on Kamehameha Highway after a car crash at about 5:45 a.m. on Friday May 8, 2009. The accident happened at a location a quarter-mile south of Lanikuhana...
- Wayne Parsons | May 09, 2009 2:47 PM |
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Toxic Substances
A study has shown that Hawaii women suffer higher cancer rates due to pesticide use so when I read that the EPA is giving money to clean up pesticide contaminated land, I know that this is a...
- Wayne Parsons | May 08, 2009 4:45 AM |
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Medical MalpracticeThe American Medical Association has data, according to the American Association of Justice (AAJ) that “adds to a growing body of research that proves physicians are not fleeing the profession...
- Wayne Parsons | May 08, 2009 3:40 AM |
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Miscellaneous Jacie Katsuda, Contributor
How can a mom or dad, the one who is supposed to nurture and protect, take advantage of that privilege by inflicting intentional pain on their innocent little boy or...
- Wayne Parsons | May 07, 2009 8:47 PM |
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Defective & Dangerous ProductsOn May 7, 2009 the Southeast Texas Record reporter Michelle Massey, Texarkana Bureau, writes that a portion of the tort reform law passed in 2003 by the Arkansas legislature has now been held...
- Wayne Parsons | May 07, 2009 8:00 PM |
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Medical MalpracticeWrong.
Multiple surveys have shown that lawsuits are not a concern for small business owners. A survey from the National Association of Manufacturers suggests that “lawsuit abuse” ranks...
- Wayne Parsons | May 07, 2009 3:58 PM |
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Medical Devices & ImplantsThe New York Times (5/7, B4, Abelson) reports,
The New Jersey attorney general has announced a settlement with a medical device maker accused of failing to disclose financial conflicts of...
- Wayne Parsons | May 06, 2009 6:07 PM |
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Defective & Dangerous ProductsThe Washington Post (5/6, Layton) reports President Obama has tapped a politically skilled former schools chief from South Carolina to chair the Consumer Product Safety Commission and said he will...
- Wayne Parsons | May 06, 2009 2:39 PM |
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Automobile AccidentsA primary mission of these articles is to promote safety and make Hawaii a safer place for all of us. Everyone in the Islands is concerned about crosswalk deaths and pedestrian injuries. I have come...
- Wayne Parsons | May 06, 2009 3:25 AM |
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Medical MalpracticeToday we learned that our vulnerable Island chain has now been visited with H1N1, the new Swine Flu virus. We have three confirmed cases that have been heavily reported in the press. National...
- Wayne Parsons | May 05, 2009 5:28 PM |
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Medical Devices & ImplantsThe New York Times (5/5, D5, Rabin) reports that dozens of women are suing the maker of [a] vaginal sling, called ObTape for complications they claim are associated with the product.
The product...
- Wayne Parsons | May 05, 2009 5:01 AM |
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Spinal Cord InjuriesThey are all injured - my clients. Their lives have been visited by misfortune. Sometimes their house is falling down or some variation of that theme. Sometimes an insurance adjuster working for a...
- Wayne Parsons | May 05, 2009 4:11 AM |
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Medical MalpracticeHealth care costs are rising; however, medical malpractice litigation has nothing to do with it. According to the Congressional Budget Office, medical malpractice amounted to less than 2 percent of...
- Wayne Parsons | May 05, 2009 3:37 AM |
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Medical MalpracticeThe Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) protects the privacy of your health information. But it also protects your rights to continue your health insurance as you or a spouse...
- Wayne Parsons | May 04, 2009 7:46 PM |
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Medical MalpracticeThe Wall Street Journal (5/2, A3, Weisman, Bravin) reported, The battle to influence the next Supreme Court pick began Friday as President Barack Obama announced that Justice David Souter would...
- Wayne Parsons | May 04, 2009 3:11 AM |
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Medical MalpracticeNot true! Not True! Not True!
How many times have you read that the number of lawsuits is skyrocketing in the Honolulu newspapers? How many times have you heard a TV news reporter say this? The...
- Wayne Parsons | May 03, 2009 2:20 PM |
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Head & Brain InjuriesThink about tort reform in the context of medical negligence - misdiagnosis of traumatic brain injury - on a national basis. It happens everywhere from Honolulu to Hilo to Washington, D.C. Why don't...
- Wayne Parsons | May 02, 2009 5:13 PM |
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Medical Malpractice
“It is no secret that, for more than three decades, business interests have invested
billions of dollars to sell the public a distorted view of a legal system that is justi-
fiably...
- Wayne Parsons | May 02, 2009 2:43 PM |
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FDA & Prescription DrugsThis week the news broke across the country about a new FDA Warning: Don’t use Hydroxycut Dietary Supplements. In Hawaii we don't always get the news about these things and so I have been...
- Wayne Parsons | May 01, 2009 3:12 PM |
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Wrongful DeathMary Vorsino, of the Honolulu Advertiser reports that the Coast Guard has reported on two tourist deaths in separate incidents. A 13 year old boy was killed on a catamaran off Waikiki in 2006 when...
- Wayne Parsons | May 01, 2009 2:25 PM |
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Miscellaneous
A news note from:
Arthur Bryant
Executive Director
Public Justice
& the Public Justice Foundation
The Public Justice Access to Justice Campaign and Mandatory Arbitration Abuse...
- Wayne Parsons | May 01, 2009 2:13 PM |
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Medical MalpracticeArbitration Fairnress Day was celebrated on April 29th and now the public is being educated about the evil of forced arbitration also know as binding mandatory arbitration or BME. Thwety five years...
- Wayne Parsons | May 01, 2009 12:04 PM |
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FDA & Prescription DrugsSupreme Court Justice Souter's planned retirement was heavily covered by the media, appearing on the front page of major national newspapers. The AP (5/1, Sherman, Loven) reports that Supreme Court...