Dawn Snyder is an attorney as well as a regular contributor at Injury Lawyer News. Her special areas of interest include the relationship between the FDA and the pharmaceutical companies, circumstances surrounding voluntary recalls, and the settlement process.
Early last month, a Texas woman filed a product liability lawsuit against the maker of popular metal replacement hip components over injuries that she allegedly suffered after a hip replacement. The plaintiff was fitted with the Stryker Accolade and LFit v40 hip components, which were... Read More
A South Hadley couple is suing two Cooley Dickinson Hospital (CDH) doctors over an alleged botched birth that left their daughter with cerebral palsy. They filed the lawsuit last month in the Hampshire Superior Court. According to the complaint, CDH’s doctors, Jay Sprong and Lisa... Read More
A Missouri jury has hit Johnson & Johnson (J&J) hard, awarding a family a $72 million judgment in a baby powder lawsuit. After hearing that Jacqueline Fox had used both J&J’s Baby Powder and Shower to Shower talc-based products regularly for over 35 years, the... Read More
According to a Massachusetts jury, a doctor’s negligence caused a Holyoke girl’s severe brain injury at birth. The Hampden Superior Court jury awarded the girl’s family nearly $30 million on their medical malpractice claim over the birth injury. The girl’s parents, Luis Gallego and Jeanette... Read More
A nine-year-old boy from North Carolina, along his mother as his natural guardian, has filed a birth injury lawsuit against a New York hospital seeking compensation for his ongoing medical care. He filed the complaint in the United States District Court for the Northern District... Read More
In the heat of debate over how antipsychotic prescriptions may impact the health of children, a new study solidifies the link between the medications and diabetes. The medical journal JAMA Psychiatry released the report of the study late last month and the results indicate that... Read More
Medical advances in the field of obstetrics have changed lives of women and children all over the world. Pregnancy and childbirth are safer now than they have been at any other point in history. However, stillbirth rates are not going down - even in advanced... Read More
Last month, GlaxoSmithKline LLC asked the federal district court overseeing the Zofran birth defects multidistrict litigation (MDL) to dismiss the complaints or grant judgment in favor of the drug manufacturer on all of the involved lawsuits. The motion, filed on December 11, 2015, in the... Read More
