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Off-label prescribing of drugs is a common occurrence. Thalidomide was widely prescribed off-label in the U.K. in the 1960’s for alleviating morning sickness before it was realized that thousands of pregnant women experienced side effects, including birth defects and infant death.

Motley Rice is proud to be on the National Law Journal’s 2016 Plaintiffs’ Hot List. Motley Rice is only one of two firms to make the list every year since 2012.

New reports indicate that the behind-the-scenes work that goes into roasting the perfect cup of coffee may be harming workers in commercial coffee roasting facilities.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.