Takeda, the maker of Actos, has offered $2.2 Billion for settlement of all current Actos bladder cancer lawsuits. If accepted, it would result settlements patients with bladder cancer in the range of $275,000 per patient.
The Open Notes project has had a profound effect on patients’ ability to play a more active role in their own health care.
Significant maternal morbidity and death is a problem that for many women can and should be prevented. Studies show that 40-50% of all maternal deaths are preventable. Only a year or two into the course of my legal career, I met a young software engineer who immigrated to the United States. Tragically, my friend lost his wife and first child immediately following child-birth. I was humbled when asked to investigate whether the deaths could have been avoided.
Marie McCulla writing for the Philadelphia Inquirer at Philly.com in her post on May 11, 2014 reports on actions the Food and Drug Administration took
Too frequently women with precursors or early forms of cervical cancer suffer unnecessary pain or loss of life as a result of medical malpractice. Lupetin
“Up to Date” is an online scientific medical practice resource available to physicians and anyone else who is willing to pay the annual subscription fee.
Pennsylvania has a two-year statute of limitations for filing a lawsuit to recover damages resulting from death. A death caused by the negligence of another
The hard work of Attorneys Brendan Lupetin and Greg Unatin of Lupetin & Unatin paid off when on March 7, 2014 a Pittsburgh jury returned a verdict of $6 million dollars on behalf of their client, Brand Marketing Group, L.L.C. (BMG). BMG was represented in court by its principle, David Brand, an inventor and small distributor whose company was crippled after a subsidiary of the world’s largest product-testing company, Intertek Testing Services, botched the testing of his newly unveiled space heater – the Thermablaster.
The importance of quality nursing home care has grown exponentially in the United States with the nation’s rapidly growing elderly population. Unfortunately, negligent nursing home
The ability to maintain a patent airway is the most critical duty of an anesthesia provider. When a doctor fails to anticipate a “difficult airway” or mismanages a patient’s oxygenation during surgery, the results are often catastrophic, leading to permanent brain damage or death. This article explores how our legal team evaluates these complex cases, focusing on pre-operative assessments, emergency protocols, and the standard of care in PA.
Patients thankfully do not frequently suffer a brain injury during the course of a hospitalization. When such injuries do occur, medical personnel are quick to
The growth of a tumor mass inevitably results in the mass doubling in size over time. Experts defending delay in diagnosis of cancer cases have
