by Attorney | Aug 18, 2017 | Accident Cases
NJ Auto Insurance Options
When New Jersey drivers go to their local agent and/or go online to purchase car insurance, the options can be confusing and balancing the amount of coverage and options and paying for those options can often lead to poor decisions being made. Many times a small increase in a insurance premium will provide much better coverage. Let’s review some of those options.
The first decision that needs to be made is whether you want to select the “limitation on lawsuit” also known as the “verbal threshold”. Selecting the “limitation on lawsuit” or “verbal threshold” will limit your right to sue another individual unless you have sustained a permanent injury based on objective evidence. (more…)
by NJLawyer | Aug 10, 2017 | Accident Cases
Police Chief Brian Manley of the Austin Texas Police Department put carbon monoxide detectors in his officers’ Police vehicles after some officers became sick. The Police Chief discovered that there were high levels of Carbon Monoxide which can be deadly in the vehicles. His decision to not use these vehicles sparked an investigation into Ford Explorers.
Ford Motor Company has recently announced that it is investigating incidents of carbon monoxide poisoning in Ford Explorer vehicles that are used by Police Department throughout the United States. (more…)
by NJLawyer | Aug 4, 2017 | Side Effects Prescription Drugs
Three Appellate Court Judges in New Jersey reinstated cases against Hoffman-La Roche Inc. and Roche Laboratories Inc. stating that the drug maker’s warning on the adverse effects of the drug Accutane did not adequately warn that the acne drug caused inflammatory bowel disease. The drug companies did have a warning on the drug packaging which stated that Accutane was “associated” with inflammatory bowel disease but the Appellate Court held that the word “associated” wasn’t strong enough and the warning failed to warn that Accutane caused inflammatory bowel disease. (more…)
by NJLawyer | Jul 30, 2017 | Food Illness
On June 26, 2017, the Center for Disease Control (CDC) notified the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) about a Salmonella Kiambu cluster detected by PulseNet. All 47 cases have the same pattern by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE). Whole Genome Sequencing (WGS) analysis was conducted on ten patient samples in the outbreak cluster, and all were highly related. The latter indicates that the patients were likely sickened by the same type of food.
MDH informed the FDA, CDC and state partners that several ill people shopped at the same Baltimore retail location and purchased papayas. Records and samples of green and yellow papaya were collected. On July 17, 2017, Maryland reported that three of ten samples had preliminarily tested positive for Salmonella. All positive samples were Caribeña brand yellow Maradol papayas from Mexico; none of the green papayas were positive. However, as noted above, Maradol papayas are green before they ripen and turn yellow, so consumers should not eat Caribeña brand papayas regardless of the color. (more…)
