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Several years ago I stopped calling aviation disasters “airplane accidents.” There are airplane crashes, collisions, or disasters, but not “accidents;” nor are there incidents or mishaps.

A St. Louis, Missouri, jury awarded the family of a woman who passed away from ovarian cancer $72 million. The woman used Johnson & Johnson’s baby powder for more than 35 years before she was diagnosed with ovarian cancer.

DVT is a serious medical condition that does not discriminate, but instead can inflict all walks of life. On average, one person dies every six minutes from a blood clot and fewer than one in four people recognize any symptoms.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration released the next steps for Essure®, including two multipart actions in effort to provide women and physicians with better information about the potential risks associated with using Essure.

The FDA’s disregard of safety issues has made it appear as an arm of the pharmaceutical and medical device industry than governmental agency. These practices may have allowed dangerous medical devices and prescription drugs to enter the marketplace.

BP might finally, six years after the Deepwater Horizon disaster, be changing its tune. I think 2016 will be a better year for many people, especially Gulf Coast business owners who are still suffering from the 2010 oil spill.

Motley Rice co-founder Joe Rice was appointed to the Plaintiffs’ Steering Committee for <em>In re Volkswagen "Clean Diesel" Marketing, Sales Practices, and Products Liability Litigation</em>, in the U.S. District Court Northern District of California.

Motley Rice LLC, one of the nation’s largest plaintiffs’ firms, has filed two suits for California women against Bayer, Corp., Bayer Healthcare LLC, Bayer Essure, Inc., (formerly known as Conceptus, Inc.), Bayer Healthcare Pharmaceuticals, Inc., and Bayer AG for personal injuries and 10 alleged counts, including fraudulent concealment and negligent misrepresentation of the permanent birth control device Essure®.

The current poster child for greed in health care just might be 32-year-old Martin Shkreli, a now former pharmaceutical CEO, who created a public outcry in September when he raised the price of Daraprim more than 55 times.

Okay, let’s face it, drones are fun. That is why more than a million Americans are expected to receive or buy a drone this holiday season. They were not built in Santa’s workshop so it is important to remember that drones are not toys but aircraft.