Author: Justin Lane

A new bill is making its way through West Virginia’s congressional committees in hopes of providing protection to whistleblowers at the state level. HB4001, or the False Claims and Taxpayer Protection Act of 2014, seeks to help the State of West Virginia’s whistleblowers. “Whistleblower protections are critically important in preventing corruption,” commented Christopher Paulos, an attorney with the Levin, Papantonio law firm who practices in the areas of qui tam or whistleblower and False Claims Act litigation. “Governments must protect these individuals and use such laws to ensure that the public coffers are not plundered.” The West Virginia law...

The fallout of holding concentrated Puerto Rican bond investments is becoming widely known across the small Caribbean island.  Investors are lining up to bring UBS Puerto Rico to task because of the poor advice following the mark down by Standard & Poor’s (S&P) and Moody’s to speculative or “junk” status earlier this month, “As the effects of Puerto Rico’s recent downgrade become more widely known, investors will come to realize the extent of their exposure,” commented Peter Mougey, a partner with the Levin, Papantonio law firm and director of the firm’s Securities & Business Litigation department. “Recommending UBS Puerto...

Tylenol’s parent company McNeil currently faces over 100 cases in federal court in Philadelphia alone. Acetaminophen carries with it a growing risk. The more a user takes, the more at risk they are for causing damage to their liver. For years, watchdogs have cried out for some action from the Food and Drug Administration to recognize the risk of acetaminophen overdose. Acetaminophen is present in a large number of products available both over the counter and by prescription. This wide availability is part of what makes the drug so dangerous. “The dangers of acetaminophen overdose are very real,” commented...

According to Bud Konheim, the 99% in the U.S. should be counting their lucky stars. On a recent episode of CNBC’s “Squawk Box” the Nicole Miller CEO expressed a distaste for the 99%’s lack of global relativism. “We’ve got a country that the poverty level is wealth in 99% of the rest of the world. So we’re talking about woe is me, woe is us, woe is this. Here we are, incredibly wealthy,” Konheim said. So here’s a “guy that’s making, oh my God he’s making $35,000 a year, why don’t we try that out in India or some...

Pradaxa manufacturer Boehringer Ingelheim continues to face growing legal trouble over injuries patients are allegedly suffering due to its popular anticoagulant. According to FiercePharma, the company claims to currently face over 2,000 lawsuits due to Pradaxa causing severe or fatal bleeding. “… there have been anywhere between 15,000 and 150,000 people who have bled to death on this drug Pradaxa,” commented Pradaxa lawyer Ned McWilliams, an attorney with the Levin, Papantonio law firm who practices in the areas of personal injury and pharmaceutical litigation. “They [the FDA] broke all their own rules” by letting this drug come to the...