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Yaz, Ortho Evra, and Nuvaring – Dangerous Drugs Causing Personal Injury and Wrongful Death
Protect Yourself Against Personal Injury By Uninsured Drivers
How to Prove a Spinal Cord Injury
Chemicals Cause Birth Defects in Children
Traumatic Brain Injuries – Critical Information from a Brain Injury Lawyer
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Yaz, Ortho Evra, and Nuvaring – Dangerous Drugs Causing Personal Injury and Wrongful Death
Yaz tablets, the Ortho Evra patch, and the Nuvaring insert are three types of birth control that are very different from each other in their delivery systems, but all are dangerous drugs.
Our firm is currently representing women who have suffered a wide range of personal injuries that include pulmonary embolisms, blood clots, heart attacks, strokes, and death as a result of their use of these dangerous drugs.
Yaz, and the associated product Yasmin, are oral contraceptive pills. Yaz and Yasmin both contain ethinyl estradiol and drospirenone. The difference between the two products is simply that Yasmin has a higher dose of ethinyl estradiol, which has serious side effects. Drospirenone also has a proven history of causing serious personal injuries.
Bayer Pharmaceuticals has aggressively marketed Yaz, largely through television commercials on shows such as Grey’s Anatomy, which have a high percentage of female viewers.
The FDA determined that these commercials greatly overstated the product’s benefits, and the California Attorney General has been a leader in crafting an agreement among 27 states that requires Bayer to run $20 million worth of ads to clarify Yaz’s approved uses, its benefits, and its risks.
In his book, Worst Pills, Best Pills: A Consumer’s Guide To Avoiding Drug-induced Death, Dr. Sidney Wolfe, founder and director of Public Citizen’s Health Research Group, gave Yasmin a Do Not Use rating. He said that Yasmin may cause serious heart problems and other personal injuries, and he found no evidence that Yasmin is in any way superior to older birth control products.
The Ortho Evra transdermal patch, marketed by Ortho—McNeil-Janssen Pharmaceuticals, delivers the contraceptive drugs norelgestromin and ethinyl estradiol through the skin. In 2004, an ABC News report found 17 deaths, including 18 year old Zakiya Kennedy, and 62 life-threatening complications linked to Ortho-Evra, but it’s still on the market.
In 2005, Public Citizen stressed the dangerous personal injuries caused by the patch and issued a Do Not Use warning. In 2008, Public Citizen sent the FDA a petition calling for a complete ban on Ortho-Evra, but the FDA has allowed Ortho-McNeil to continue to sell the product.
In an attempt to avoid responsibility and accountability for the personal injuries and wrongful deaths that Ortho Evra has caused, Johnson & Johnson, the parent company of Ortho-McNeil, has been doing its best to hide behind preemption – a legal doctrine that absolves manufacturers of medical devices of liability if the devices have received FDA approval. In the case of Ortho Evra, Johnson & Johnson is trying to hide behind preemption even though the company deliberately hid evidence that the patches contained dangerously high levels of estrogen.
The Nuvaring, marketed by Organon, is another contraceptive device that has caused numerous personal injuries and deaths. Inside the vagina, the Nuvaring releases estrogen and progestin over a 3-week period.
One innocent victim of the Nuvaring was a young mother named Jackie Bozicev, who collapsed and died in front of her husband and small children. Many other women who have suffered because of this device have shared their painful stories to warn others of this dangerous drug.
The Nuvaring has been so destructive that it has inspired women to take action to inform other women and to warn them about the personal injuries and wrongful deaths that Nuvaring has caused.
Since research on the birth control pill began in the 1950s, the dangers have been well known. A recent study concluded that the safest birth control pills were the ones developed in the 1970s, which contained low levels of estrogen combined with a second hormone, levonorgestrel. The study also stated that newer “gimmick” versions of the pill, such as Yaz and Ortho Evra, are doing terrible things to women’s bodies.
Anyone suffering a personal injury or the death of a family member because of Yasmin, Yaz, Ortho Evra, or Nuvaring can talk to an experienced lawyer by contacting us at 888.777.1776. There is never a charge. All work is performed on a contingency basis. If we don’t collect, you owe nothing.
Onward,
Richard Alexander
Posted on: November 25, 2009 Posted in: Personal Injury / Wrongful Death, Unsafe Drugs One Comment
Protect Yourself Against Personal Injury By Uninsured Drivers
In California, nearly 1 in 4 drivers are uninsured, even though California law clearly requires all drivers to have proper coverage.
More than 3 million California drivers have no insurance. To reduce that number, a state initiative called the California Low Cost Automobile Program began in 2006. The program’s intent is to make minimal insurance [$10,000 per person/$20,000 maximum per accident] available to every driver in the state. Read the rest of this post »
Posted on: November 21, 2009 Posted in: Car / Truck / Motorcycle / SUV Accidents, Insurance Fraud / Bad Faith, Personal Injury / Wrongful Death No Comments
How to Prove a Spinal Cord Injury
The first challenge a spinal cord injury lawyer faces is knowing and understanding the medical terms, physiology and long-term impacts of a spinal cord injury in order to teach this medical field to a jury. Read the rest of this post »
Posted on: November 18, 2009 Posted in: Car / Truck / Motorcycle / SUV Accidents, Personal Injury / Wrongful Death No Comments
Chemicals Cause Birth Defects in Children
The Toxic Substances Control Act has been on the books since 1976, and it’s done almost nothing to protect Americans from toxic substances. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA has analyzed only 200 of the 80,000 chemicals in use, and has banned only 5. Read the rest of this post »
Posted on: November 12, 2009 Posted in: Toxic Chemical Exposure & Birth Defects No Comments
Traumatic Brain Injuries – Critical Information from a Brain Injury Lawyer
Selecting the right traumatic brain injury lawyer is the cornerstone of a successful claim.
Anyone can advertise their services on television or in the yellow pages. The right brain injury attorneys are lawyers and a law firm with
- a proven and consistent track record as brain injury lawyers
- winning substantial results for survivors of brain injury
- the financial strength to devote the resources of time and money to achieve a result that will last as long as a permanent brain injury
- a reputation for excellence as brain injury attorneys that is recognized by attorneys and the community.
Posted on: November 6, 2009 Posted in: Car / Truck / Motorcycle / SUV Accidents, Insurance Fraud / Bad Faith, Personal Injury / Wrongful Death No Comments
Accident Attorneys and Insurance Specialists
Accidents by definition are not foreseen or intended.
Whenever it is reasonably foreseeable that an act, or the failure to act, would cause serious injuries, permanent physical impairment or even death, it is no accident. That is negligence under accident law or, more correctly, tort law. Read the rest of this post »
Posted on: November 3, 2009 Posted in: Car / Truck / Motorcycle / SUV Accidents, Insurance Fraud / Bad Faith, Personal Injury / Wrongful Death No Comments
Traumatic Brain Injuries Change Lives Forever
With more than 20 years experience as an attorney representing survivors of traumatic brain injury, I have seen first hand that the human skull isn’t designed to take impacts at the speeds encountered in cars and motorcycles, and those that baseballs reach. Read the rest of this post »
Posted on: October 27, 2009 Posted in: Car / Truck / Motorcycle / SUV Accidents, Personal Injury / Wrongful Death No Comments
Avoid Binding Mandatory Arbitration
Whenever you sign a contract, you may be signing away your right to take legal action against the company requiring the agreement.
In the fine print, many companies, gyms, HMOs, insurance companies, credit card companies, and contractors give themselves virtual immunity against punishment for their wrongdoings with a clause that provides that the consumer agrees to settle any dispute through a process called Binding Mandatory Arbitration (BMA). Read the rest of this post »
Posted on: October 23, 2009 Posted in: Insurance Fraud / Bad Faith, Personal Injury / Wrongful Death No Comments
Old Tires with Good Tread: Personal Injuries and Wrongful Deaths
When Andy Moore left for a vacation in the family van, his father thought that he was sending his son off in a safe vehicle. The tires on the van had only 31,000 miles on them, and the tread looked good. They had passed inspection in Pennsylvania, but they were actually old tires and much more dangerous than they appeared. As Andy and a friend were driving in Canada, the tread on one of the tires separated, causing the van to go out of control and killing Andy and his friend. Read the rest of this post »
Posted on: October 19, 2009 Posted in: Personal Injury / Wrongful Death, Product Liability / Defective Products One Comment
Commuter Airline Practices Cause Wrongful Deaths
I have been a licensed pilot for 25 years. I will not fly on commuter lines. The following headlines sounds like a report from a Third World country.
The investigation of a recent crash of a commuter airliner that caused 50 deaths reveals pilot had failed flight test five times co-pilot was inexperienced, under-trained, and dangerously fatigued both missed clear signals of imminent disaster. Read the rest of this post »
Posted on: October 15, 2009 Posted in: Personal Injury / Wrongful Death No Comments