As health officials continue to search for explanations behind a recent epidemic of vaping-related illnesses, a new danger has hit Morgantown, West Virginia. According to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, two local high school students recently overdosed on heroin-laced vape pens. The students have been hospitalized. The…
November is National Alzheimer’s Disease Awareness Month and in an effort to fight this debilitating disease that affects an estimated 5.7 million Americans, Chaffin Luhana LLP team members, Dana Glad and Chelsea Aichinger interviewed Jill Orenzuk regarding her experience after her mother was diagnosed with…
November is National Alzheimer’s Disease Awareness Month and in an effort to fight this disease, Chaffin Luhana LLP team members, Eric Chaffin and Eric Rudel collaborated with Jeffrey J. Rokisky, an established elder law and estate planning attorney, to provide the legal guide below to help…
A Tennessee couple has filed a new Ethicon Physiomesh lawsuit against manufacturer Ethicon and parent company Johnson & Johnson. The couple claims that after the wife went through hernia repair surgery with the mesh, she suffered from serious injuries. They filed the case in the…
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) states that diesel exhaust is a mixture of gases and particulates produced during the combustion of diesel fuel, and that workers exposed to diesel exhaust “face the risk of health effects ranging from irritation of the eyes and…
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reports that each year at least two million people become infected with antibiotic-resistant bacteria in the United States, and that at least 23,000 of them die from these infections. Antibiotics are designed to kill or stop the…
On October 5, 2017, a New Mexico woman filed a Covidien hernia mesh lawsuit in the District of New Mexico. She claims that after she was implanted with the mesh, she experienced serious injuries that required additional hospitalization. She seeks in excess of $75,000 in…
The European Union planned to vote this year on extending the approval license for Roundup. That vote was initially delayed because of an ongoing debate about the safety of glyphosate, the main herbicide in Roundup. European officials met in Brussels in early October to discuss…
On September 12, 2017, a Tennessee man filed a new Roundup lawsuit against manufacturer Monsanto. The case is pending in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri. But as all federally-filed Roundup lawsuits were consolidated in California last October, this case will…
Currently, there are about 250 Roundup lawsuits filed against manufacturer Monsanto that are pending in the Northern District of California, where all federally-filed cases have been consolidated. U.S. District Court Judge Vince Chhabria was assigned to oversee the Roundup Multi-District Litigation (“Roundup MDL”). Judge Chhabria…
