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House Fires and Asbestos Risk

House fires are a serious issue for homeowners and their families, and the threat is compounded when structures containing harmful substances, such as asbestos, become burned and damaged. Here, the mesothelioma and toxic tort attorneys at The Law Offices of Peter Angelos detail the risks of asbestos contamination in house fires. The Role of Asbestos […]

Drug Watch — Lemtrada

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has recently added a warning to the prescribing information of Lemtrada, a pharmaceutical drug used to treat serious multiple sclerosis (MS) cases, after it was found to increase patients’ risk of stroke and blood vessel wall tears in the head and neck areas. Here, the pharmaceutical liability attorneys at […]

Contaminated Blood Products and Class Action Lawsuits

While blood products can be life-saving tools for those with a variety of serious conditions, contamination of these products can pose serious, life-threatening risks. Here, the class action attorneys at The Law Offices of Peter Angelos discuss contaminated blood products and the legal recourse available to those who may be affected by them. An Overview […]

“Failure to Warn” and Strict Product Liability

Product manufacturers have a responsibility to adequately warn the public of any potential dangers the use of their product may cause. If a manufacturer is found to have failed to meet this responsibility, they may be held liable for any injuries their product has caused, as has been seen in recent Johnson & Johnson and […]

Widely Used Diabetes Drug Can Cause Flesh-Eating Genital Infection

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently announced a warning that the common diabetes medicines under the class of sodium-glucose cotransporter-2 (SGLT2) inhibitors has been linked to a rare but serious flesh-eating genital infection. Below, the pharmaceutical liability lawyers at The Law Offices of Peter Angelos provide an overview of the FDA’s findings and what […]

How Autonomous Vehicles Will Change Tort Law

In recent years, prominent companies such as Google’s Alphabet, Uber and Tesla have heavily invested in the development of self-driving cars, or autonomous vehicles. The rise of autonomous vehicles has led many to question the legal implications that these vehicles will have on tort and insurance law. Here, the product liability attorneys at the Law […]

Monsanto Ordered to Pay $289 Million in First Roundup Lawsuit

On Friday, August 10th, a San Francisco jury ordered Monsanto pay DeWayne Johnson $289 million in compensatory and punitive damages after ruling that Monsanto’s popular herbicide, Roundup, contributed to Johnson’s development of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. Here, the product liability and litigation attorneys at The Law Offices of Peter Angelos discuss the verdict. Monsanto Found Liable for […]