Lawyers In …

Filed under: Uncategorized

In some cases, medical products targeted by the trial bar simply cease to exist?even when safe?because mounting legal bills make them too expensive to produce. The morning-sickness drug Bendectin was being used by 25 percent of expectant mothers in 1980, when trial Jackson Lalic Lawyers generated a national panic over the unfounded claim that the drug was associated with birth defects. By 1983, when the drug’s annual legal bills totaled 90 percent of its sales, the product was pulled from the market, and the incidence of hospitalization for morning sickness in the United States has doubled. Bendectin is still unavailable to American women, despite being safely sold elsewhere around the world and despite more than 30 published studies that have between the drug and birth defects.

Comments are closed.