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Showing posts with label addiction. Show all posts
Showing posts with label addiction. Show all posts
Wednesday, September 6, 2023

Anti-SLAPP protects doctor for reporting patient-doctor's opioid use to physician treatment authority

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Cindy Shebley CC BY 2.0 via Flickr A doctor who prescribed opioids for a fellow doctor and ultimately reported the patient-doctor for possi...
Wednesday, July 20, 2022

Flawed instruction on 'reasonable alternative design' requires vacatur of tobacco defense judgment

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Plaintiff's decedent started smoking in the early 1960s, at age 13 or 14, with free samples of Kents. (David Shay CC BY-SA 2.5 via Wiki...
Wednesday, September 15, 2021

Court affirms widow's $21m verdict vs. Big Tobacco, upholds punitive damages despite '98 settlement

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Marlboro Red Open Box by Sarah Johnson ( CC BY 2.0 ) The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court today affirmed a $21m verdict against Phili...
Thursday, October 22, 2020

Opioids, coronavirus add up to dangerous interaction

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pxfuel.com Purdue Pharma will plead guilty to criminal charges in the marketing of OxyContin, the Justice Department (DOJ) announced yeste...
Thursday, April 2, 2020

Doctor's blog briefs COVID-19, medmal, learned intermediary doctrine, and addiction in legal profession

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Like you, likely, I am at home.  And one thing I can tell you about home:  This ain't Rwanda.  Where I was supposed to be.  Apologies in...
Wednesday, September 4, 2019

Not sure how to keep guns away from the mentally unfit? This cop has a stake and a plan.
Plus: Sandy Hook Update

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Rob Devine, former deputy police chief of Stoughton, Massachusetts, and a concerned parent. Father of two, 19-year police veteran, UM...