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U.S. News – Best Lawyers® “Best Law Firms” Honors Motley Rice LLC
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Motley Rice LLC is honored to announce that U.S. News – Best Lawyers, has once again named the firm in its 2016 National and Metropolitan, First-Tier Rankings for Mass Tort Litigation and Class Actions.
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Co-Founder Joe Rice Named a 2015 Law360 “Product Liability MVP”
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Legal news source Law360 selected Motley Rice co-founding member Joe Rice as a 2015 “Product Liability MVP” for his leading role in product liability settlements for 2015. Rice was one of 10 lawyers nationwide selected as a “Product Liability MVP.”
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Drones: Naughty or Nice this Christmas? | Causes, Not Just Cases®
Aviation Lawsuit
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.
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When Pharma Leads To Fraud | Causes, Not Just Cases®
Securities Class Actions
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.
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2016 to offer renewed hope for many BP claimants | Causes, Not Just Cases®
Toxic Exposure
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.
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Motley Rice co-founder Joe Rice appointed to help lead VW Emissions fraud litigation
Consumer Fraud Protection
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.
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A hopeful ‘signal’ of progress from the FDA | Causes, Not Just Cases®
Medical Device Lawsuits | Medical Drugs | Women’s Health Lawsuits
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.
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Andrew P. Arnold
Andrew Arnold represents individuals, governments, and institutional investors harmed by corporate fraud and other wrongdoing in complex litigation, including multidistrict litigation and class actions. His practice spans several areas, including consumer protection, securities fraud, and technology and media.
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Medication Madness for People at Risk of Developing Blood Clots | Causes, Not Just Cases®
Medical Device Lawsuits
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.
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FDA takes action on Essure permanent birth control procedure
Medical Device Lawsuits | Women’s Health Lawsuits
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.
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Talcum powder plaintiff awarded $72 million in damages
Medical Drugs | Women’s Health Lawsuits
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.
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Exploding Electronic Cigarette (E-Cig) Lawsuits
Personal Injury Lawsuits
Electronic cigarettes, also known as a personal vaporizer, is an electronic nicotine delivery device that uses a lithium-ion powered battery to simulate tobacco smoking by producing a heated vapor resembling smoke.
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Remembering Flight MH370 | Causes, Not Just Cases®
Aviation Lawsuit
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.
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A hard cup to swallow: Is danger brewing for workers in coffee roasting plants? | Causes, Not Just Cases®
Toxic Exposure
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.
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Motley Rice named to 2016 Plaintiffs’ Hot List: “Deep Benches, High Stakes”
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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.
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Taxotere Permanent Hair Loss Lawsuits
Medical Drugs
If you’ve received a cancer diagnosis and have gone through chemotherapy or other treatments, you likely often have many questions going through your mind: will I be able to handle any other drugs I am prescribed after treatment, what’s next in my treatment schedule, and ultimately, will I stay cancer-free? While you…
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How U.S. regulation prevented off-label use of a drug and a subsequent birth defect disaster | Causes, Not Just Cases®
Medical Drugs | Women’s Health Lawsuits
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.
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Amtrak Philadelphia Train Crash, “A Colossal Mistake”
Personal Injury Lawsuits | Transportation Accident Lawsuits
On Sunday, an Amtrak train carrying 341 passengers and traveling from New York, NY, to Savannah, Ga., collided with a backhoe on the track south of Philadelphia. Two Amtrak construction workers were killed and 37 people were injured during the crash.
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21st Century Oncology Data Breach Lawsuit
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Motley Rice represents people whose private information, including names, social security numbers, medical records and insurance information, was compromised by 21st Century Oncology’s alleged lack of security in protecting patient records.
The data breach may have left millions of people vulnerable to identify…
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Tragic helicopter crash takes lives of five
Aviation Lawsuit
Motley Rice aviation attorneys are reviewing the fatal crash of a sight-seeing helicopter on Monday, April 4, 2016 around 3:30 p.m.