Non-Compete Agreements: Do They Overreach?
A company hires a software engineer, or a stock broker, or perhaps a bio-chemist. This company, knowing the newly hired employee could in the future use his or her knowledge against them, requires the employee to sign a contract agreeing not to look for a job at a rival company for a set period of…
Read MorePatients Should Know: Power Morcellation to Treat Uterine Fibroids May Spread Cancer
The surgical procedure called power morcellation has become a popular treatment for uterine fibroids. Laparoscopic power morcellators are electric surgical devices. Morcellation refers to the cutting up of tissue into smaller pieces or fragments. The technique involves insertion of a tiny instrument with rapidly spinning blades, the morcellator, used to break up the fibroids […]
Read MoreLaparoscopic Power Morcellators Used to Treat Uterine Fibroids Could Spread Cancer
Laproscopic power morcellators are electric medical devices used during different types of laparoscopic surgeries. A set of spinning blades is used to cut tissue. Power morcellation is used in surgeries to treat unterine fibroids, such as removing the uterus (hysterectomy) or removing the uterine fibroids (myomectomy). Morcellation refers to the division of tissue into smaller…
Read MoreCan Your Employer Really Stop You From Taking a New Job?
When an employee leaves one job for another, they often are surprised to find out that their previous employer might be able to prevent them from working in the same industry. Many employers write provisions into their employment contracts that seek to prevent employees from working for competitors. However, these provisions do not always comply…
Read MoreConfusing Reports about J&J DePuy ASR Hip Settlement
Last week it was reported widely that Johnson & Johnson had “tentatively agreed to a settlement” that could reach up to $4 billion to resolve thousands of lawsuites filed for patients injured by defective DePuy ASR hip implants. DePuy Orthopaedics is a division of Johnson & Johnson. Reports by the New York Times, Bloomberg, and others […]
Read MoreDefending Traumatic Brain Injury Cases With Innuendo and/or Junk Science-Part I
What drives big trial verdicts? Defense trial lawyer organizations are buying into the theory that if a plaintiff lawyer is able at trial to trigger jurors’ survival instincts, that jury is far more likely to return a big verdict in favor of the plaintiff. If jurors see the defendant’s conduct as an immediate danger to themselves, their […]
Read MoreWhat is Going on with DePuy ASR Hip Replacement Litigation?
I’ve been reading reports by various bloggers, Bloomberg News, and the National Law Journal that Johnson & Johnson, DePuy Orthopaedic’s parent company, is considering whether to agree to pay $3 billion to settle more than 10,000 cases filed concering its defective metal-on-metal ASR hip replacement device. The implication is that the MDL plaintiffs’ steering committee and/or other plaintiff lawyers who […]
Read MoreIs a Kickback the Reason Your Pharmacist or Physician Recommended That New Drug?
Two federal lawsuits charge Novartis Pharmaceuticals with making fraudulent kickbacks to promote sales of its drug, Myofortic.
Less than three years ago, Novartis settled criminal and civil investigations into whether it had illegally promoted …
Read MoreLarge Estate May Pass to New York State
“He was a very smart man but he died like an idiot,” is the frank and harsh assessment made by Paul Skurka concerning his friend and fellow Holocaust survivor, Roman Blum, who died last year at the age of 97 without a will. Blum had no kn…
Read MoreMeet Nancy Hull Davidson
Phelan Petty is excited to announce the hiring of attorney, Nancy H. Hull. Prior to joining the firm, Nancy worked in Washington, D.C. at a well-respected international law firm, White & Case, where she practiced in the fields of investment and commercial arbitration. Nancy will practice primarily in our securities and white collar criminal defense…
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