Layser & Freiwald

by Northwest Herald Editorial Board The end of the road recently arrived for a class-action lawsuit filed in 2006 that sought to force Philadelphia-based Rohm and Haas to pay for medical monitoring and property damage relief for McCullom Lake-area residents. As reported Feb. 26, a federal court has refused to certify the lawsuit, and it [...]

By Amaris Elliott-Engel, The Legal Intelligencer — A Montgomery County jury has awarded $1.83 million to the estate of a man who died from a heart problem, in a lawsuit alleging an emergency room physician failed to diagnose his condition. The jury in late September awarded $738,500 in wrongful death damages and $1.09 million in [...]

by Amaris Elliott-Engel, The Legal Intelligencer — A Philadelphia judge has struck down mandatory arbitration clauses in three medical malpractice cases because the agreements stipulated hearings would be governed by non-existent American Arbitration Association rules. Orthopedists Dr. David Nazarian and Dr. Arthur Bartolozzi, both of the 3B Orthopaedics practice in Philadelphia, asked Nazarian’s patients, Steven [...]

by Kevin P. Craver A $400,000 check from a settlement in the McCullom Lake brain cancer lawsuits added to what could be a record year for the Gavers Barndance cancer fundraiser. The Gavers Community Cancer Foundation received the payment before its Saturday fundraiser at Emricson Park in Woodstock, charity founder and president Steve Gavers said. [...]

We’re not sure what to make of the recent legal proceedings in the first of the McCullom Lake brain cancer cases to go to trial. A Pennsylvania judge late last month dismissed the case of Joanne Branham, who blames her husband’s 2004 death from brain cancer on a Ringwood chemical manufacturer. Judge Allan Tereshko’s decision [...]

by Shannon P. Duffy Drug manufacturers may be held liable for a “false marking” claim under a federal whistleblower law for printing expired patent numbers on their product packages even when they have fully complied with the Hatch-Waxman Act by submitting accurate patent expiration dates for publication by the FDA, a federal judge has ruled. [...]

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court declared that the statute of limitations requires that amur resolve questions of fact regarding the need to inquire and the reasonable of an inquiry into whether an injury has taken place. The High Court’s ruling, coming in a case Mr. Freiwald is handling on behalf of northeastern Pennsylvania family alleging toxic [...]

by Carolina Bolado Additional reporting by Samuel Howard Editing by Andrew Park Ortho-McNeil-Janssen Pharmaceuticals Inc. lost a bid to toss a suit Tuesday accusing the drugmaker of marking five medical supplies with expired patents, despite the heightened pleading standards for false marking whistleblowers set by a recent ruling of the Federal Circuit. Judge Ronald L. [...]

Business Wire Layser & Freiwald, a Philadelphia law firm, and Modine Manufacturing Company (NYSE: MOD), a diversified global leader in thermal management technology and solutions with a manufacturing plant in Ringwood, IL, jointly announced today that more than $815,000.00 would be distributed to charities in McHenry County. The money is what remains of a fund [...]

by Chelsea Conaboy Cassandra Barger knew something was wrong almost immediately. Kermit Gosnell, the abortion doctor charged in January with eight counts of murder, had begun giving her anesthetic to end a pregnancy. Barger ripped the IV from her arm. Racked by convulsions, she crashed from the exam table to the floor. She would stay [...]