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By now you may have already seen a press release by Garlock Sealing Technologies LLC and The Anchor Packing Company about a “settlement” of their bankruptcy involving asbestos claims, or TV advertisements about their plan of reorganization for resolving the bankruptcy.

With such immediate and resounding consequences, you’d think that medical devices would be scrutinized more than just about any manufactured product; subjected to test after test before being released for use in and on the public. But that’s just not the case.

In light of all the recent recalls, including those for Takata airbags and GM ignition switches, there are a number of good reasons to take cars that are less than a decade old to the dealer once a year, even if it is just for a simple oil change.

If BP can appeal some payments made through its Economic and Property Damages Settlement Agreement, then it only makes sense that claimants who are denied recovery would also have the right to appeal their decision.

In just a few days, your chance of recovering any economic losses due to the Deepwater Horizon BP oil spill drops to ZERO. This is it – the final claims deadline for BP’s Economic and Property Damages Settlement. After June 8, 2015, no more claims will be accepted.

With every passing day, the need to evolve programs that support 9/11 rescue and cleanup workers grows; right along with the list of serious diseases these brave men and women may suffer from.

Canada’s Day of Mourning, adopted and recognized as a national day of mourning by almost 80 countries around the world on April 28—including Workers Memorial Day in the U.S.—is a stark reminder of the untold number of lives that have been taken by exposure to asbestos in the workplace.

We at Motley Rice are honored to be a sponsor of the Yorktown Foundation's "Welcome Home You Never Got" party for our Vietnam veterans, and are honored to be joined by some of our veteran clients as well as their friends and families.

I have many concerns about Zofran being prescribed as recent studies show that exposure to this drug suggests an increased risk of birth defects in children.

Today, I am proud to have served as negotiator for another historic tobacco-related settlement – a $100 million aggregate settlement with Lorillard Tobacco Company, Philip Morris USA, R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, for hundreds of individual smokers that are part of the Engle-progeny tobacco cases.