by Vickery & Shepherd | May 21, 2019 | Captain's Corner, Justiceseekers, lawsuits, News, Product Liability, Uncategorized
Vickery & Shepherd partner Andy Vickery is featured in a new American Public Media story and podcast focusing on the numerous instances in which the current generation TASER X2 devices have failed to stop assailants. According to the story, there have been over...
by Vickery & Shepherd | Feb 9, 2018 | Drug Injury, lawsuits, Product Liability, Uncategorized
Vickery & Shepherd is currently investigating the connection between OCALIVA, its 2016 and 2018 labels, and liver injuries and death in patients. This investigation was initiated by the FDA’s recent January 2018 safety communication to healthcare providers and...
by Vickery & Shepherd | Jul 14, 2015 | Justiceseekers, lawsuits, Product Liability, Uncategorized
On July 13, 2015, US District Judge Tena Campbell in Salt Lake City, Utah issued an opinion soundly rejecting Forest Laboratories’ motions challenging the scientific propriety of our expert opinion evidence that Lexapro caused Kurt Shipley to take his own life, and...
by Vickery & Shepherd | Jan 22, 2014 | Captain's Corner, Drug Injury, lawsuits, Product Liability, Uncategorized
On January 21, 2014, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court made it clear that pharmaceutical companies who are negligent in their design or marketing of drug products will be held accountable under the law. The drug company in Lance v. Wyeth argued that the only two bases...
by Vickery & Shepherd | Sep 27, 2013 | Captain's Corner, Humira, Product Liability
Today was a sad one for justice in the case of Maureen Calisi. In a 34 page opinion, US District Judge Denise Casper ruled that the testimony of our “warnings” expert, Dr. Michael Hamrell, should be excluded, and that, without it, there was no case to submit to a...
by Vickery & Shepherd | Sep 17, 2013 | Drug Injury, Product Liability, Recalls
According to a Bloomberg article, Johnson & Johnson issued a recall last week of 5,000 vials of their schizophrenia drug Risperdal Consta. The recall was issued after, “routine analysis showed one lot of the injected drug was contaminated with alternaria...
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