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Pfizer recalls birth control pills

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Yahoo! News reported today that women could possibly sue the drug companies for a lot of money for becoming pregnant after taking defective birth control pills.  The pills were recalled by Pfizer on February 1.

Glenn Cohen, assistant professor and co-director of the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology and Bioethics at Harvard Law School comments that courts have typically thought about so-called wrongful pregnancy cases as similar to medical malpractice.  He goes on to say that similar cases have allowed people to sue for things such as unwanted pregnancies after botched vasectomies. In the past, there has even been a case in which a woman successfully sued a pharmacist for a pregnancy that resulted from errors in filling the woman’s birth control prescriptions, Cohen said.

The best chance for a case is for women to band together and bring a class-action lawsuit against Pfizer, said Arthur Caplan, a bioethicist at the University of Pennsylvania. Class action cases could ask for considerably more money than individual cases.

Women taking the recalled products should begin taking non-hormonal birth control immediately, the company said.

Source:  https://news.yahoo.com/defective-birth-control-could-spur-big-lawsuits-pfizer-184603402.html?ugccmtnav=v1%2Fcomments%2Fcontext%2Fbe4289ea-894f-35c9-b1b6-ed29cb338f0d%2Fcomments%3Fcount%3D20%26sortBy%3DmostReplied

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Truck Accident

A 20-year-old man who had been married for just 12 days left home on his way to work. He was driving on Pleasant Grove Road in Sutter County in the early morning when he came upon a slow-moving truck. As he pulled out to pass the truck, the truck driver turned left in front of him. The young man attempted to steer back into his lane but his vehicle struck an un-flagged piece of metal extending from the back of the truck. He died in the resulting crash.

Expert witnesses brought in by the Arnold Law Firm proved that the truck, owned and operated by a hauling firm, should never have been on the highway that morning. Specifically, the rear and side turn signals did not work and the rear-view mirror was in a poor state of adjustment at the time of the collision. As a result, the driver, who had failed to properly inspect the vehicle before setting out that morning, couldn’t see the young man’s vehicle as it attempted to pass.

The poor condition of the truck, its lack of maintenance and the manner in which it was operated were found to be substantial factors in causing the collision that killed the young man. The testimony also established that the man had been making a lawful pass at the lawful speed limit and acted reasonably when he attempted to avoid the collision.

The man’s 20-year-old widow was awarded $3,767,000.77, his parents were awarded $185,131 and the family was reimbursed $11,899 in funeral expenses. Though money is a poor substitute for a young man’s life, this verdict demonstrates that drivers who endanger the lives of others will be held accountable for their actions.