J. Douglas Peters Law Blog

In a major decision from the United States Supreme Court, American consumers are now denied the right to sue generic drug manufacturers for failing to warn of known dangers to human health caused by generic drugs.

In a five-four split, the five Republican Justices decided the case of Read More

If you want to dispose of unused medications you should follow these suggestions:

·         DO NOT FLUSH unused medications and DO NOT POUR them down a sink or drain.

COLON CANCER SCREENING

Saving your own life can be as easy as getting a colonoscopy screening. 

Over 50,000 people died from colon cancer in 2010.  Over 100,000 new cases of colon cancer were diagnosed that same year.  Fortunately, there is a 90% survival rate... Read More

To date, two lawsuits have been filed in the State of Florida involving drug-coated metal heart stents.

Currently, Charfoos & Christensen, P.C. is only interviewing cases where patients receiving drug-coated heart stents have suffered death as a result of blood clots in those stents, as determined by autopsy.

The safety of drug coated cardiac stents was first called into question in peer reviewed medical journal articles published in September of... Read More

Medical malpractice law in Michigan, in 2010, is a complex and highly regulated area of law as a result of Republican legislatures and Governor Engler’s attempts to limit the amounts of money that can be recovered, shorten the statutes of limitations, that is the time within which lawsuits might be brought, as well as a variety of other changes which make the litigation... Read More

Charfoos & Christensen, P.C. is accepting referrals of drug product liability cases on a case by case basis.

DEPUY HIP IMPLANTS INVOLVING THE PINNACLE IMPLANT -- where the patient has had to undergo a removal and replacement of the implant (a revision surgery).  We are accepting cases of anyone who has the ASR model implant regardless of whether it has been removed yet or not.