Blog Archive: January 2017

Understanding The Seriously Injured Child

Posted on Sun, 2017-01-29 13:15 by Andrew E. Greenwald in Personal Injury

INTRODUCTION


The damages sustained by a seriously injured child do not just relate to the child himself.  They also affect the altered lifestyles of siblings and parents and encompass a whole host of experts who are necessary to explain, prognosticate, and portray what the child and the family’s life will become.  This paper will concentrate on the psychological and emotional damages and not on the economic loss.  Obviously in fully presenting damages a life care plan and economist are essential.


THE CHILD

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Whistleblower Wins Key Ruling Against Celgene in Lawsuit Over Off-Label Drug Promotion
Posted on Tue, 2017-01-17 12:34 by Jay P. Holland in

Whistleblowers and those who support and represent them will be pleased and energized by a December 28, 2016, ruling by U.S. District Judge George H. King of the Central District of California in a case involving the unapproved, or off-label, marketing of prescription drugs.


Doctors are generally allowed to prescribe prescription drugs for uses that haven’t been approved by the Food and Drug Administration, but pharma companies are barred under federal law from marketing drugs to doctors for these unapproved uses.

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New Study Reports That Whistleblowers’ Activity Can Make a Difference
Posted on Tue, 2017-01-17 12:31 by Jay P. Holland in

I often represent whistleblowers – employees in either the private or public sector who become aware of wrongdoing by their employers and come forward to report the wrongdoing in the interest of pressing for change and reform.


Over the years, we have won hundreds of millions of dollars in cases that were originally spurred by whistleblowers’ activities, and we have achieved courtroom victories for whistleblowers who suffered illegal retaliation precisely because they chose to blow the whistle on improper corporate actions.

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