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A jury has found a former landlord negligent for the conditions in which he kept a home that caused a former tenant to be poisoned by lead-based paint.

On June 24, 2015, the FDA updated its website following a review of the Essure^® permanent birth control system in response to reports from women stating “that they have experienced pain or other health problems after Essure placement.”

Following the FDA's warning in April 2014 regarding the 1-in-350 risk of uterine fibroids being cancerous and the potential for the surgical device known as a power morcellator to spread that cancerous tissue during the removal process, key figures involved in the controversy over the safety of morcellation devices have stated that the FBI is investigating the devices’ largest manufacturer: Johnson & Johnson. A formal FBI investigation, however, has not been publicly announced.

An Air Force F-16 Fighting Falcon jet collided with a civilian Cessna 150C at approximately 11 am EST on Tuesday, July 7, 2015, near Lewisfield Plantation in Moncks Corner, about 25 miles north of Charleston, South Carolina.

Motley Rice attorney Kevin Dean was interviewed by WSB-TV Atlanta reporter Jim Strickland about potentially deadly Tataka airbags in a segment that aired on July 2, 2015.

A sightseeing floatplane carrying eight Holland America Line MS Westerdam passengers and a pilot fatally crashed about 25 miles northeast of Ketchikan, Alaska.

Motley Rice client and survivor of an accident involving an allegedly defective Takata airbag, Angelina Sujata, spoke before a large crowd of vehicle safety advocates, legislators and reporters gathered outside of the Capitol building in Washington, D.C. to show her support for the Vehicle Safety information Act (H.R. 1181).

Victim awarded $100 million in damages. A Delaware jury today awarded $25 million in compensatory and $75 million in punitive damages to Deborah Barba, finding Boston Scientific liable for several permanent and serious injuries caused by its Advantage Fit and Pinnacle transvaginal mesh (TVM) products.

During a press conference on Tuesday, May 19, 2015, National Highway Transportation Safety Administration (NHTSA) Administrator Mark Rosekind and U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx announced that Japan-based Takata Corp. has declared an estimated 33.8 million vehicles defective due to airbags that may explode with excessive force and potentially shoot metal shrapnel at passengers.

CBS Evening News interviewed attorney Kevin Dean, the firm’s automotive forensic technical advisor Bill Williams and our client Angelina Sujata. The interviews tell the story of how Kevin and Bill came to be the only known people, other than Takata, testing recalled airbags.