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30 Apr 2024, 10:28 am
Egilman was sufficiently clever to discern that if his “method” led to a conclusion that silicone gel breast implants cause autoimmune disease, but the Institute of Medicine, along with court-appointed experts, found no basis for a causal conclusion, then by modus tollens Egilman’s “method” was suspect and must be rejected.[1] This awareness likely explains the extent to which he went to cover up his involvement in the plaintiffs’ causation… [read post]
28 Apr 2024, 11:33 am
There was a good bit of irony in Egilman’s reaching out to me to help him prepare for my deposition of him in a silicone gel breast implant case. [read post]
26 Apr 2024, 12:05 pm
Earlier in the winter of 1996, George Gore (Al’s cousin) tried a silicone breast implant case for Bristol Myers Squibb in Oregon state court. [read post]
13 Apr 2024, 3:33 pm
The Yale HSP authors delivered their final report on their case-control study to FDA, in May 2020.[6] The HSP was a study, with 702 HS cases, and over 1,376 controls, men and women, ages 18 to 49. [read post]
8 Apr 2024, 10:08 am
When the Supreme Court decided the Daubert case in June 1993, two recent verdicts in silicone-gel breast implant cases were fresh in memory.[1] The verdicts were large by the standards of the time, and the evidence presented for the claims that silicone caused autoimmune disease was extremely weak. [read post]
23 Dec 2023, 7:16 pm
Animal model studies can be both reliable and relevant in toxic tort cases. [read post]
12 Jun 2023, 1:09 pm
It is long past time to stop citing the case. [read post]
30 Mar 2023, 9:50 am
Halifax Medical Center, Inc., wherein the plaintiff alleged the person operating a mammogram machine was negligent in applying too much pressure, causing one of her silicone breast implants to rupture. [read post]
10 Feb 2023, 4:44 am
From reviewing the case law, courts remarkably have gravitated to the second, incorrect definition. [read post]
15 Sep 2022, 1:24 pm
Cheng tells us, unhelpfully, that “[d]etermining consensus is difficult in some cases, and less so in others. [read post]
20 May 2022, 2:30 am
Her areas of expertise included multi-district litigation, such as the Dalkon Shield, L-Tryptophan, and Breast Implant cases, as well as in construction law. [read post]
15 Apr 2022, 2:14 am
Her areas of expertise included multi-district litigation, such as the Dalkon Shield, L-Tryptophan, and Breast Implant cases, as well as in construction law. [read post]
19 Mar 2022, 2:09 pm
In the United States, federal agencies such as the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), or the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and their state analogues, regularly set exposure standards that could not and should not hold up in a common-law tort case. [read post]
17 Mar 2022, 5:08 pm
For example, if a surgeon inserts the wrong implant size during a breast enlargement surgery, you may have a breach of contract claim. [read post]
17 Mar 2022, 5:08 pm
For example, if a surgeon inserts the wrong implant size during a breast enlargement surgery, you may have a breach of contract claim. [read post]
2 Feb 2022, 5:37 am
In a way this mimics the re-assembling of other aspects of social life--from identity, to belonging, and solidarity, and their reconstitution. [read post]
12 Dec 2021, 2:22 pm
Supp. 2d 434 (W.D.Pa. 2003) (excluding expert witnesses in Parlodel case; noting that causality assessments and case reports fail to account for confounding) Wade-Greaux v. [read post]
26 Nov 2021, 4:03 am
The sucker who spends it on Lambo SUVs and breast implants is in the same exact boat as the one who spent his loot on surgery for a loved one. [read post]
28 Oct 2021, 9:03 pm
” FDA announced new measures targeting breast implant safety, so that patients can make informed decisions. [read post]
17 Jun 2021, 12:29 pm
Supreme Court breathed fresh life into the trial court’s power and obligation to review expert witness opinions and to exclude unsound opinions.[7] Several months before the Supreme Court charted this new direction on expert witness testimony, the silicone breast implant litigation, fueled by iffy science and iffier scientists, erupted.[8] In October 1994, the Judicial Panel on Multi-District Litigation created MDL 926, which consolidated the federal breast… [read post]
