Chicago and New York Personal Injury and Mesothelioma Lawyer

Chicago and New York Personal Injury and Mesothelioma Lawyer Update : Two cases from Chicago Personal Injury lawyer and New York personal injury attorney have been interesting.

In first Chicago Personal Injury lawyer news, having 400 complaints regarding the failure of a hip replacement implant reported to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) at least more than two years old case, DePuy faces increased scrutiny and a slew of pending personal injury lawsuits. DePuy, a Johnson and Johnson company, recalled about 93,000 hip replacement implants in August, due to a 12 to 13 percent failure rate associated with the devices.

There is another case of Virginia Mesothelioma Attorneys in which Robert Hatten of Patten, Wornom, Hatten and Diamonstein has recovered $4.39 million in a mesothelioma lawsuit against John Crane Inc. J. Conrad Metcalf, Hugh B. McCormick III, William W.C. Harty and Erin E. Heironoimus were among the mesothelioma lawyers also involved in the case.

BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico focused on Oil Pollution Act definitely. Robert Clifford, the nationally renowned personal injury attorney from Clifford Law Offices based out of Chicago wrote on “Lessons from the Gulf Disaster” saying “Companies dealing with dangerous operations need to either have sufficient assets or purchase appropriate insurance to cover the consequences of their wrongful actions or they simply shouldn’t be allowed to engage in the dangerous activity. Caps on liability promote negligent and even worse behavior.”

He also wrote “The escrow fund is also intended to avoid a repeat of the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil disaster. Valdez incident involved an oil tanker that struck a reef off the coast of Alaska and spilled 260,000 to 700,000 barrels of crude oil in Prince William Sound. It covered about 1,300 miles of coastline and 11,000 square miles of ocean. After that incident, Section 2004 of the Oil Pollution Act (OPA) was passed into law in 1990, which capped the liability of holders of leases or permits for offshore facilities at $75 million per spill, plus removal costs.”

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