Category: Dangerous Drugs

Night car accident

This is personal injury lawyer Mike Bottaro and it has been my honor to represent victims of DUI drivers in car accidents. In today’s blog, let’s examine some of the issues that arise in a DUI car accident here in RI … Continue reading

Drive Sober get Pulled Over Week

Did you know that approximately 696,900 people will be affected by a drunk driving accident just in Rhode Island? According to the Rhode Island Department of Traffic, there were 59 drunk driving fatalities just last year in 2018. The National … Continue reading

Businessman at the table makes a phone call before signing the contract

On April 7, 2014, a federal jury in Louisiana revealed that Takeda did not sufficiently warn about bladder cancer risks of using Actos (pioglitazone). Reports suggest that Takeda performed experiments on animals before the drug went to market in 1999, … Continue reading

The Department of Justice has been inspecting an antipsychotic drug called Risperdal since 2012. The drug is mainly used to treat schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and irritability in people with autism. Over the years, many individual claims have been filed due … Continue reading

Businessman at the table makes a phone call before signing the contract

In Part I, I told the story of Ms. Bartlett who suffered severe disfiguring injuries from taking a generic medication that did not include a warning about the possibility of suffering those injuries. She prevailed in the lower courts, but … Continue reading

In the recent Supreme Court of the United States decision in Mut. Pharm. Co. v. Bartlett, 133 S. Ct. 2466 (2013), generic drug manufacturers were given what Justice Sotomayor called “immunity” from state law based design-defect claims when the claims … Continue reading