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WALL STREET JOURNAL

 

Plaintiffs' Lawyers Fight Restrictions
On Product-Liability Suits

By ALICIA MUNDY
August 13, 2008; Page A3

WASHINGTON -- Since 2001, the Bush administration has steadily whittled away the ability of consumers and other groups to sue corporations for damages related to their products.

Now plaintiffs' lawyers are fighting back by raising money to battle a Supreme Court case and to support candidates seen as sympathetic to their cause in the November congressional elections.

At stake are billions of dollars in potential product-liability lawsuits. Some corporations are already getting tough in settlement talks. Judges have put on hold some cases, including three involving GlaxoSmithKline PLC's antidepressant Paxil, pending a Supreme Court ruling.

"It is a war," said Houston attorney Ed Blizzard, a member of the plaintiffs' lawyers task force to fight regulations that pre-empt plaintiffs' right to sue.

The Supreme Court case, Wyeth v. Levine, which is to be heard Nov. 3, could affect lawsuits involving products such as cars, toys and flammable mattresses.

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HMMM...I think some should be sued. Carelesness.I am inclined to agree. Everything has an inherent liability--that's life. If you don't read the directions and follow them, you are screwed.  The point here is that they didn't inform the doctors. 
 
You guys, this is really bad for us.  The FDA went from being a watchdog group to protect us to working for premeption.  How is that going to protect us?  If the drug companies lie to the FDA how are we going to know about it?  If there are no suits, the info never gets out.  And more and more of us will die because they'll have nothing to protect us from them OKing even less safe meds.
 
Don't think of yourselves - think of kids and automobiles too.  Think unsafe at any speed.
 
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Pip
I will admit some lawsuits are frivolous in nature..But to make where a consumer can't sue ? I mean they want to do nothing in return not even lower the very expensive price must of us have to pay for their product. Most of us here with RA take bio drugs and many other types not cheap at all.....The drug companies just want to have their cake and eat it too..sadly they probably will.......
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