Tuesday, February 14, 2017
ATRIUM C-QUR HERNIA MESH LAWSUITS: THE LATEST MESH MADNESS IN MULTI-DISTRICT LITIGATION IN NEW HAMPSHIRE
IGNORE ALL THE LATEST ATRIUM C-QUR AND ETHICON PHYSIOMESH HERNIA MESH ATTORNEY ADS!
THEY ARE DESIGNED TO USE THE PAIN AND SUFFERING OF MESH INJURED PATIENTS TO PUT $$ MILLIONS, IF NOT $$BILLIONS OF DOLLARS IN THE ATTORNEYS POCKETS!
MULTI DISTRICT LITIGATION and MASS TORTS are an attorney's dream. It may take millions of dollars to prosecute but with thousands and thousands of injured plaintiffs in the pools, the Return on Investment is spectacular.
Defense Attorneys have boiler plate defenses they have honed over the years. They fight tooth and nail and DON'T PAY until the absolute end of the presiding judge's patience.
CONFIDENTIALITY REIGNS!
No INJURED PLAINTIFF will ever know what happens as the years drag by, their medical needs grow, they lose their jobs, their homes, their families, their friends. They lose EVERYTHING!
JUST ASK THE WOMEN IN THE TRANSVAGINAL MESH LITIGATION, OVER 100,000 WOMEN.
HORRIBLY, PERMANENTLY INJURED WOMEN WERE PAID AN AVERAGE OF $40,000.00. AFTER SUBROGATED MEDICAL EXPENSES, 40% + 5% ATTORNEY FEES, MAYBE THEY GET $5-10,000.00.
THE ATTORNEYS...THE PLAINTIFF'S STEERING COMMITTEE...A VERY SMALL GROUP OF LAW FIRMS?
MILLIONS AND MILLIONS OF DOLLARS IN THEIR POCKETS.
WHO IS SPENDING THOSE MILLIONS?
ASK THE PLAINTIFF'S STEERING COMMITTEE WHO FOLLOW THE PHILOSOPHY "DON'T KILL THE COMPANY!"
THEY KEEP THE COMPANIES ALIVE TO MAKE MILLIONS AND MILLIONS MORE ATTORNEY FEES, WHILE DRAGGING THOUSANDS AND THOUSANDS MORE INJURED PATIENTS THROUGH AN UNCARING COURT SYSTEM.
So the giant money making MULTI DISTRICT LITIGATION MACHINE grinds on, protecting the profits of the companies, the jobs of the doctors and the multimillion dollar incomes of ALL the attorneys, plaintiff and defense alike.
MASS TORTS ARE NOT MADE PERFECT FOR THE INJURED PLAINTIFFS!
Thursday, December 29, 2016
GOOD MORNING GOD! THANK YOU FOR STOPPING THE MASSIVE HARM TO WOMEN WORLDWIDE! THE CARNAGE HAS TO STOP!
WHO IS PROTECTING WOMEN FROM SURGICAL HARM
BY DOCTORS IMPLANTING MESH?
Last I checked, NO ONE!
Not the FDA. Not Hospitals. Not Doctors. Not Medical Device Manufacturers. Not Attorneys.
If you as a woman have surgery for bladder suspension, pelvic organ prolapse, hysterectomy,
FOR SURE YOU WILL BE HARMED!
HYSTERECTOMY IS PROMOTED by JOHNSON & JOHNSON +Johnson & Johnson and ETHICON INC +Ethicon Inc. through Kathy Kelly and her Hyster Sisters commercial website, a company Ethicon has paid for years to drive women to their own website to their paid for doctors who use J&J/Ethicon products.
Hysterectomy sets you up for pelvic organ prolapse and a myriad of complications that will keep you in the doctors office the rest of your life seeking treatment for the problems caused by hysterectomy.
HYSTERECTOMY is an old wives tale PROMOTED BY J&J/ETHICON! DON'T HAVE ONE. YOU WILL REGRET IT.
Don't sign up for the Hyster Sisters website and
become a stat that pays Kathy Kelly very, very well
to influence you to be used and abused by
Major Drug & Device Companies!
Kathy Kelley
Hyster Sisters, Inc
2436 S. I-35 E. Ste. 376-184
Denton, Texas 76205
kathy@hystersisters.com
Hyster Sisters, Inc
2436 S. I-35 E. Ste. 376-184
Denton, Texas 76205
kathy@hystersisters.com
POSTED ON HER SITE TO GET ADVERTISERS!
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DON'T SIGN UP FOR HYSTER SISTERS!
DON'T BE A PAWN IN THE FAKE HELP SITES!
Wednesday, October 19, 2016
COLLUSION OR COINCIDENCE? PLAINTIFF ATTORNEYS PROTECTING THE SYSTEM, NOT THE PLAINTIFFS? ANTIQUATED ABDOMINAL SACRAL COLPOPEXY ATTACHING THE VAGINA TO THE SPINE WITH POLYPROPYLENE SURGICAL MESH PROTECTED IN A COURT OF LAW AND DOCTORS CAN NOT BE SUED FOR THE HARM THEY CAUSE WOMEN. HOW DID THIS HAPPEN?
1.
Plaintiff Attorneys used an anemic trial
strategy despite significant scientific expert evidence and knowledge to the
contrary. Ambiguity remains. Hundreds of thousands of women are at risk from
unsafe surgical procedures using synthetic surgical mesh in the female pelvis
and reproductive system for serious permanent disabling injuries.
2.
Plaintiff Attorneys did not integrate all the
causes of the harm from transvaginal mesh procedures in their strategy. The procedure,
synthetic surgical mesh and trocar combined in the female pelvis and reproductive system are
catastrophic along with comorbidities, age, concomitant procedures, again
catastrophic.
3.
The Trial Strategy used was a limited concept of
pore size which is difficult to prove and does not integrate the myriad
physical and chemical properties of polypropylene synthetic surgical mesh and
wound healing, critical to the understanding of mesh injury. Most important
physical property: the polypropylene synthetic surgical mesh shrinks itself due
to inherent manufacturing defects.
Synthetic Surgical Mesh remains on the
market. Why?
1.
Plaintiff Attorneys,
2.
the American Urogynecological Society (AUGS)
3.
the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology
(ACOG)
4.
Doctors such as Dr. John Miklos and Dr. G. Willy
Davila
5.
Hospitals such as Cleveland Clinic and the Mayo
Clinic
6.
the United States Food and Drug Administration’s
Center for Devices and Radiological Health (FDA’s CDRH)
7.
the director of the CDRH, Dr. Jeffrey Shuren,
and David Krause, and other top officials at the FDA and
8.
Johnson & Johnson’s Ethicon
Kept mesh on the market by a series of
events.
The events listed below culminated in plaintiff’s attorneys
proving abdominal sacral colpopexy was a better, safer alternative procedure to
Pleivc Organ Prolapse repair through the vagina in bellwether trials in the U.S.
District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia.
January 2012:
The FDA’s CDRH issues 522 orders to 33 companies for 99 products they must
begin clinical trials testing their synthetic surgical mesh products for safety
and efficacy.
April 2012: Dr. John Miklos
and Dr. Robert Moore hold doctor conference in Atlanta. Topic of speech, how doctors can avoid
legal liability when implanting mesh
April 12, 2012 Mass Torts Made
Perfect Panel
Abdominal Sacral Colpopexy recommended
Pelvic Mesh: How to Represent the
Victims
Robert Price, Levin Papantonio Thomas
Mitchell Rafferty & Proctor
Amy Eskin, Hersh & Hersh
Lana Keeton, Truth in Medicine
April 27, 2012 Lana Keeton
sends letter to all Plaintiff’s Attorneys in the MultiDistrict Litigation
warning of the significant dangers of Abdominal Sacral Colpopexy including
clinical trials
May 2012 Johnson
and Johnson’s Ethicon will stop selling 5 of their transvaginal mesh products. Only
the TVT Secur was removed and the rest of the TVT bladder sling meshes remained
on the market.
GYNECARE ProliftTM
Pelvic Floor Repair System
GYNECARE Prolift +MTM
Pelvic Floor Repair System
GYNECARE ProsimaTM
Pelvic Floor Repair System
GYNECARE GYNEMESH MTM
Partially Absorbable Mesh
GYNECARE TVT SecurTM
System (not all TVT products)
Ethicon also notified
FDA's Office of Surveillance and Biometrics of their intention to make a
labeling change to the Indication for Use for GYNECARE GYNEMESH PS
Nonabsorbable PROLENE Soft Mesh indicating it for abdominal (open or
laparoscopic) use only.
(ABDOMINAL SACRAL COLPOPEXY!)
With approval of the labeling change
by the FDA, the 522 orders for their products
were placed on hold and eventually terminated since the orders were applicable to vaginally
placed POP mesh products only. Sales continued in the US and globally under
the then current indication until regulatory approval of the labeling change
was obtained in each country.
June 2012:
Johnson and Johnson’s Ethicon send letter to Judge Joseph Goodwin they are removing
5 products from market
September 2012:
The applied for approval of label changes for indication for use to Abdominal Sacral
Colpopexy was eventually signed by Dr. Ben Fisher at the FDA’s CDRH
This
Very neat package NEVER publicized Kept Mesh on the
Market for use in the Female Pelvis and Reproductive System. This, in my
opinion, is a crime against women. It PRESERVES:
a. Use
of mesh for abdominal sacral colpopexy by doctors
b. The
mesh profits for Johnson & Johnson’s Ethicon Gynemesh
c. Injury to hundreds of thousands of women
patients
There is NO
LEVEL ONE (1) EVIDENCE of success
of abdominal sacral
colpopexy despite decades of use.
COLLUSION OR
COINCIDENCE?
Tuesday, October 18, 2016
THE DECISION MAKERS and THE PAYEES - - - U.S. DISTRICT COURT for the SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF WEST VIRGINIA PTO 84 dated 08-26-2013 and PTO 207 dated 01-15-2016 COMMON BENEFITS FUND FEE & COST COMMITTEE (FCC) CONTACT INFO IS FROM THE PTO'S ON THE COURTS WEBSITE
THESE 18 ATTORNEYS IN PTO 84 BELOW ARE BEING PAID FROM THE 5% COMMON BENEFIT FUND OF ALL 7 MDLS IN WEST VIRGINIA.
THE MINIMUM AMOUNT OF THE COMMON BENEFIT FUND BASED ON APPROXIMATELY 92,922 CASES THAT POTENTIALLY SETTLE FOR $40,000.00 EACH WILL BE $1.8 BILLION DOLLARS FOR THE WORK THE 18 HAVE DONE.
READ ALL THE WAY TO THE BOTTOM TO SEE THE 9 PEOPLE WHO DECIDE WHO GETS WHAT PORTION OF THAT MINIMUM $1.8 BILLION DOLLARS.
IT IS MY UNDERSTANDING, THE ATTORNEYS WHO DO THE WORK IN THE MDL'S ARE THE ONES BEING PAID FROM THE 5% COMMON BENEFIT FUND $1.8 BILLION DOLLAR MINIMUM.
THE OTHER 40% BEING WITHHELD FROM YOUR SETTLEMENT IS MOST LIKELY FOR YOUR ORIGINAL ATTORNEY FILING YOUR SHORT FORM COMPLAINT, AND NOT MUCH ELSE. AND PROBABLY ADVERTISING COSTS TO GET YOU TO FIND HIM AND SIGN UP WITH HIM.
AUGUST 26, 2013 THE MDL 2187 C.R. BARD 5% FUND WAS ESTABLISHED BY PTO 84 WHICH YOU CAN FIND ON THE WEST VIRGINIA COURT WEBSITE.
Renee Baggett
THE 9 PEOPLE BELOW ARE THE DECISION MAKERS AS TO WHO GETS PAID WHAT FROM THE 5% COMMON BENEFIT FUND BASED ON PT0 207, ALSO ON THE WEST VIRGINIA COURT WEBSITE. INTERESTING, HUH?
IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
PTO 207 Common
Benefit Fee and Cost Committee (“FCC”)
01-15-2016
Renee Baggett
THE MINIMUM AMOUNT OF THE COMMON BENEFIT FUND BASED ON APPROXIMATELY 92,922 CASES THAT POTENTIALLY SETTLE FOR $40,000.00 EACH WILL BE $1.8 BILLION DOLLARS FOR THE WORK THE 18 HAVE DONE.
IT IS MY UNDERSTANDING, THE ATTORNEYS WHO DO THE WORK IN THE MDL'S ARE THE ONES BEING PAID FROM THE 5% COMMON BENEFIT FUND $1.8 BILLION DOLLAR MINIMUM.
THE OTHER 40% BEING WITHHELD FROM YOUR SETTLEMENT IS MOST LIKELY FOR YOUR ORIGINAL ATTORNEY FILING YOUR SHORT FORM COMPLAINT, AND NOT MUCH ELSE. AND PROBABLY ADVERTISING COSTS TO GET YOU TO FIND HIM AND SIGN UP WITH HIM.
AUGUST 26, 2013 THE MDL 2187 C.R. BARD 5% FUND WAS ESTABLISHED BY PTO 84 WHICH YOU CAN FIND ON THE WEST VIRGINIA COURT WEBSITE.
PTO 84 AUGUST 26, 2013 ESTABLISHING MDL 2187 FUND to
COMPENSATE and REIMBURSE ATTORNEYS for SERVICES PERFORMED and EXPENSES
INCURRED for MDL ADMINISTRATION and
COMMON BENEFIT
Plaintiffs’
Coordinating Co-Leads, Executive Committee And Co-liaison Counsel, consulted
and approved the
same among all Plaintiff Steering Committee Counsel
Harry F. Bell,
Jr.
Plaintiffs’
Co-Liaison Counsel
hfbell@belllaw.com
West
Virginia Bar No. 297
The
Bell Law Firm, PLLC, P. O. Box 1723 Charleston, WV 25326
(304)
345-1700
Paul T. Farrell,
Jr.
Plaintiffs’
Co-Liaison Counsel
paul@greeneketchum.com
West
Virginia Bar No. 7433
Greene
Ketchum Bailey Walker Farrell & Tweel, P. O. Box 2389, Huntington, WV
25724-2389
(304)
525-9115
Carl N.
Frankovitch
Plaintiffs’
Co-Liaison Counsel
carln@facslaw.com
West
Virginia Bar No. 4746
Frankovitch
Anetakis Colantonio & Simon, 337 Penco Road, Weirton, WV 26062
(304)
723-4400
Henry G. Garrard, III
Plaintiffs’ Coordinating Co-Lead Counsel and
Executive Committee
Fred Thompson, III
Plaintiffs’ Coordinating Co-Lead Counsel and
Executive Committee
fthompson@motleyrice.com South Carolina Bar No. 5548
Motley
Rice, LLC, 28 Bridgeside Blvd., Mt. Pleasant, SC 29464
(843)
216-9118
Bryan F. Aylstock
Plaintiffs’ Coordinating Co-Lead Counsel and
Executive Committee
BAylstock@awkolaw.com
Florida
Bar No. 078263
Alystock
Witkin Kreis & Overholtz, 17 E. Main Street, Suite 200, Pensacola, FL 32502
(877)
810-4808
Clayton A. Clark
Plaintiffs’
Executive Committee
cclark@triallawfirm.com
Texas
Bar No. 04275750
Clark,
Love & Hutson, G.P., 440 Louisiana Street, Suite 1600, Houston, TX 77002
(713)
757-1400
Amy Eskin
Plaintiffs’
Executive Committee
California
Bar No. 127668
Levin
Simes LLP, 353 Sacramento Street, 20th Floor San Francisco, CA 94111
(415)
426-3000
Derek H. Potts
Plaintiffs’
Executive Committee
dpotts@potts-law.com
Missouri
Bar No. 44882
The
Potts Law Firm, LLP 908 Broadway, 3rd Floor Kansas City, MO 64105
(816)
931-2230
Aimee H.
Wagstaff
Plaintiffs’
Executive Committee
Colorado
Bar No. 36819
Andrus
Hood & Wagstaff, PC 1999 Broadway, Suite 4150, Denver, CO 80202
(303)
376-6360
Thomas P.
Cartmell
Plaintiffs’
Executive Committee
tcartmell@wagstaffcartmell.com
Missouri
Bar No. 45366
Wagstaff
& Cartmell, LLP 4740 Grand Avenue, Suite 300 Kansas City, MO 64112
(816)
701-1100
Fidelma P.
Fitzpatrick
Plaintiffs’
Co-Lead Counsel
Rhodes
Island Bar No. 5417
Motley
Rice, LLC, 321 South Main Street, Suite 200, Providence, RI 02903
(401)
457-7700
Plaintiffs’
Co-Lead Counsel
RBaggett@awkolaw.com
Florida
Bar No. 0038186
Aylstock,
Witkin, Kreis & Overholtz 17 East Main Street, Suite 200, Pensacola, FL
32502
(850)
202-1010
Mark C. Mueller
Plaintiffs’
Co-Lead Counsel
Texas
Bar No. 14623000
Mueller
Law, 404 West 7th Street Austin, TX 78701
(512)
478-1236
Robert Salim
Plaintiffs’
Co-Lead Counsel
robertsalim@cp-tel.net
Louisiana
Bar No. 11663
Law
Offices of Robert L. Salim 1901 Texas Street, Natchitoches, LA 71457
(318)
352-5999
Riley Burnett
Plaintiffs’
Co-Lead Counsel
Texas
Bar No. 03428900
Law
Offices of Riley L. Burnett, Jr. 440 Louisiana, Suite 1600, Houston, TX 77002
(713)
757-1400
Benjamin
H. Anderson
Plaintiffs’
Co-Lead Counsel
Ohio
Bar No. 0067466
Anderson
Law Offices, LLC 1360 West 9th Street, Suite 215, Cleveland, OH 44113
(216)
589-0256
Martin
D. Crump
Plaintiffs’
Co-Lead Counsel
Mississippi
Bar No. 10652
Davis
& Crump, 1712 15th Street, Suite 300, Gulfport, MS 39501
(228)
863-6000
THE 9 PEOPLE BELOW ARE THE DECISION MAKERS AS TO WHO GETS PAID WHAT FROM THE 5% COMMON BENEFIT FUND BASED ON PT0 207, ALSO ON THE WEST VIRGINIA COURT WEBSITE. INTERESTING, HUH?
IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
FOR THE SOUTHERN
DISTRICT OF WEST VIRGINIA
CHARLESTON DIVISION
IN RE: C.R. BARD, INC., PELVIC
REPAIR
SYSTEM PRODUCTS LIABILITY
LITIGATION MDL 2187
-------------------------------------------------
THIS DOCUMENT RELATES TO ALL CASES
Henry G.
Garrard, III
Blasingame,
Burch, Garrard & Ashley, PC, 440 College Ave., Ste. 320, Athens, GA 30601
706-354-4000
706-549-3545 (fax)
hgg@bbgbalaw.com
Joseph F. Rice
Motley
Rice, LLC, 28 Bridgeside Blvd., Mount Pleasant, SC 29464
843-216-9000
843-216-9450 (fax)
jrice@motleyrice.com
Clayton A. Clark
Clark,
Love & Hutson, GP 440 Louisiana St., Ste. 1600, Houston, TX 77002
713-757-1400
713-759-1217 (fax)
cclark@triallawfirm.com
Carl N.
Frankovitch
Frankovitch,
Anetakis, Colantonio & Simon, 337 Penco Road, Weirton, WV 26062
304-723-4400
304-723-5892 (fax)
carln@facslaw.com
Yvonne Flaherty
Lockridge
Grindal Nauen, Suite 2200, 100 Washington Avenue South, Minneapolis, MN 55401
612-339-6900
612-339-0981 (fax)
ymflaherty@locklaw.com
Thomas P.
Cartmell
Wagstaff
& Cartmell, LLP, 4740 Grand Avenue, Suite 300, Kansas City, MO 64112
816-701-1100
816-531-2372 (fax)
tcartmell@wagstaffcartmell.com
Aylstock
Witkin Kreis & Overholtz, Suite 200, 17 East Main Street, Pensacola, FL
32502
850-202-1010
805-916-7449 (fax)
RBaggett@awkolaw.com
Riley L.
Burnett, Jr.
Burnett
Law Firm, 55 Waugh Drive, Suite 803, Houston, TX 77007
832-413-4410
832-900-2120 (fax)
rburnett@rburnettlaw.com
William H.
McKee, Jr.
1804
Louden Heights Road, Charleston, WV 25314
304-546-2347
bmckee@suddenlink.net
Sunday, October 16, 2016
PLAINTIFFS SHOULD ATTEND MASS TORTS MADE PERFECT - LAS VEGAS - OCTOBER 19-21, 2016 - TO HEAR THEIR ATTORNEYS DISCUSS THEIR LAWSUITS
A lot of focus is placed on getting more cases while actual plaintiffs recieve little, if any, guidance once the complaint has been filed in a multidistrict litigation like the 7 Transvaginal Mesh MDL's in the S.D. of West Virginia.
Special Needs Counsel and/or Elder Law Attorneys should be hired to assist the plaintiffs, not just sent a letter, take it or leave it (the settlement).Plaintiffs are not professionals and depend on the guidance of their attorneys. The relationship between plaintiff and attorney becomes adversarial because of neglect of the plaintiff during intake and during the settlement process.
Plaintiffs should be equipped with ALL the facts so they will be able to make an informed decision. Do I file a lawsuit? Do I accept the settlement? What are my options? Plaintiff's needs are not well served by the current system.
From injury to case settled is a very long journey for plaintiffs and there should be some true assistance to them in coping with the realities of a long legal battle.
PLAINTIFFS DO NOT HAVE LEGAL SKILLS and ARE DEPENDENT on their ATTORNEY'S REPRESENTATIONS to MAKE INFORMED DECISIONS.
PLAINTIFF'S ARE NOT INFORMED! And some are now dead.
Linda Batiste is dead.
Joan Budke is dead.
Joy Poteet is dead.
They did not survive the long legal process but their legal cases have continued.
sad.
Special Needs Counsel and/or Elder Law Attorneys should be hired to assist the plaintiffs, not just sent a letter, take it or leave it (the settlement).Plaintiffs are not professionals and depend on the guidance of their attorneys. The relationship between plaintiff and attorney becomes adversarial because of neglect of the plaintiff during intake and during the settlement process.
Plaintiffs should be equipped with ALL the facts so they will be able to make an informed decision. Do I file a lawsuit? Do I accept the settlement? What are my options? Plaintiff's needs are not well served by the current system.
From injury to case settled is a very long journey for plaintiffs and there should be some true assistance to them in coping with the realities of a long legal battle.
PLAINTIFFS DO NOT HAVE LEGAL SKILLS and ARE DEPENDENT on their ATTORNEY'S REPRESENTATIONS to MAKE INFORMED DECISIONS.
PLAINTIFF'S ARE NOT INFORMED! And some are now dead.
Linda Batiste is dead.
Joan Budke is dead.
Joy Poteet is dead.
They did not survive the long legal process but their legal cases have continued.
sad.
Monday, September 26, 2016
MASS TORTS MADE PERFECT....FOR WHO? BIG PHARMA & PLAINTIFF'S ATTORNEYS & DEFENSE ATTORNEYS - - NOT THE INJURED PLAINTIFFS!
MULTI DISTRICT LITIGATION and MASS TORTS are an attorney's dream. It may take millions of dollars to prosecute but with thousands and thousands of injured plaintiffs in the pools, the Return on Investment is spectacular.
Defense Attorneys have boiler plate defenses they have honed over the years. They fight tooth and nail and DON'T PAY until the absolute end of the presiding judge's patience.
CONFIDENTIALITY REIGNS!
No INJURED PLAINTIFF will ever know what happens as the years drag by, their medical needs grow, they lose their jobs, their homes, their families, their friends. They lose EVERYTHING!
So the giant money making MULTI DISTRICT LITIGATION MACHINE grinds on, protecting the profits of the companies, the jobs of the doctors and the multimillion dollar incomes of ALL the attorneys, plaintiff and defense.
MASS TORTS ARE NOT MADE PERFECT FOR THE INJURED PLAINTIFFS!
Defense Attorneys have boiler plate defenses they have honed over the years. They fight tooth and nail and DON'T PAY until the absolute end of the presiding judge's patience.
CONFIDENTIALITY REIGNS!
No INJURED PLAINTIFF will ever know what happens as the years drag by, their medical needs grow, they lose their jobs, their homes, their families, their friends. They lose EVERYTHING!
So the giant money making MULTI DISTRICT LITIGATION MACHINE grinds on, protecting the profits of the companies, the jobs of the doctors and the multimillion dollar incomes of ALL the attorneys, plaintiff and defense.
MASS TORTS ARE NOT MADE PERFECT FOR THE INJURED PLAINTIFFS!
Wednesday, September 21, 2016
BAD LAWS, BAD DRUGS, BAD DEVICES & GREED. SO WHO WILL BE THE NEXT PROMINENT CLASS ACTION ATTORNEY LIKE STANLEY CHESLEY DISBARRED FOR SKIMMING A SETTLEMENT FUND?
FOUR HUNDRED (400) PLAINTIFFS GOT $46 MILLION DOLLARS.
ONE (1) ATTORNEY, STANLEY CHESLEY GOT PAID $20 MILLION DOLLARS FOR HIS INVOLVEMENT IN THE SETTLEMENT NEGOTIATIONS ONLY...HE DID NOT EVEN APPEAR AT TRIAL. HE LOST HIS LICENSE TO PRACTICE LAW BUT DID NOT HAVE TO REPAY THE MONEY.
THE PATIENTS WERE PAWNS IN THIS CLASS ACTION LAWSUIT WHERE MILLIONS OF DOLLARS WERE PAID IN CONFIDENTIAL SETTLEMENTS AND EVEN THE JUDGE COLLUDED WITH THE ATTORNEYS.
HOW DO PATIENTS KNOW THEY ARE RECEIVING THEIR FAIR SHARE OF SETTLEMENTS IN CLASS ACTIONS AND MASS TORTS? ANSWER: THEY DON'T.
JUST LIKE HEALTHCARE, PATIENTS WHO BECOME PLAINTIFFS ARE IN THE DARK WITH LITTLE OR NO INFLUENCE OVER A MAJOR LIFE ALTERING EVENT.
WE CAN ONLY HOPE THERE ARE NOT ANY "STANLEY CHESLEYS" IN THE ONGOING HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF DOLLARS IN THE TRANSVAGINAL MESH SETTLEMENTS ACROSS THE COUNTRY! BUT DON'T COUNT ON IT. WITH ETHICON & WELLS FARGO IN THE MIX THERE ARE BOUND TO BE SOME NEW "CRASHES & BURNS".
http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-03-22/stanley-chesley-titan-of-the-plaintiffs-bar-crashes-and-burns
Bloomberg Business Week 03/22/2013 by Paul Barrett, assistant managing editor and senior writer.
"STANLEY CHESLEY, TITAN OF THE PLAINTIFF'S BAR, CRASHES AND BURNS"
The big-time plaintiffs’ bar justifies its multimillion-dollar fees by claiming to vindicate the “little guy.” Justice ain’t free, according to free-wheeling trial lawyers, and taking on (alleged) corporate villains requires heavy pecuniary incentives.
Sadly, the titans of this elite segment of the bar have a tendency to flame out in spectacular bursts of greed and deceit, undercutting their claims of righteous dedication. The latest example is famed class-action attorney Stanley Chesley of Cincinnati, for decades one of the leading scourges of industries that range from pharmaceuticals, to chemicals, to firearms.
The Kentucky Supreme Court on March 21 upheld Chesley’s disbarment in that state for “unreasonable” fees received in the settlement of a class action originally filed in 1999 against Wyeth, now part of Pfizer. The allegation stemmed from $20 million in fees Chesley received for his involvement in an action concerning the diet drug known as fen-phen (fenfluramine/phentermine), which was shown to cause harmful side effects. The case was settled in 2001 for $200 million.
Under Ohio’s Rules of Professional Responsibility for lawyers, the disbarment in Kentucky may provide grounds for Chesley to get drummed out of the legal trade in his home state, as well.
Here’s a helpful description of Chesley’s troubles from Bloomberg News:
“In 2009, two Kentucky lawyers involved in the case were sentenced to 20 years and 25 years in prison for stealing from the [diet drug] settlement fund. The lawyers had contracts entitling them to fees of as much as one-third of the $200 million awarded to a statewide group of Kentucky citizens who said they were harmed by diet drug. The lawyers tried to keep more than twice that amount, prosecutors said.
In its 38-page decision, the Kentucky Supreme Court noted that Chesley didn’t meet directly with any of the clients to effectuate the settlement, and it wasn’t shown that he had specific knowledge of the deception practiced on each client to secure the signed release.
The court did find that his “$20,497,121.87 share of the fee was unreasonable, especially in light of his professed ignorance and lack of responsibility for any aspect of the litigation except showing up at the mediation and going through the motions of announcing the agreement.”
BE SURE TO READ THE WHOLE STORY AT BLOOMBERG...IT'S WAY TOO JUICY TO MISS!
FROM MY PERSPECTIVE AS A PATIENT, A PATIENT ADVOCATE AND A LEGAL CONSULTANT, THIS IS A MESS CREATED BY BAD LAWS, BAD DRUGS AND DEVICES AND GREED. IT IS A SYSTEMIC ISSUE CREATED BY THE AMERICAN HEALTHCARE SYSTEM WHICH DOES NOT PROTECT PATIENTS.
MY ADVICE: STAY WELL, STAY OUT OF THE HOSPITAL AND DON'T TAKE DRUGS UNLESS ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY. YOU MAY BE UNKNOWINGLY HARMING YOURSELF!
BEST, BLESSINGS, LANA
[POST FIRST PUBLISHED 2013]
ONE (1) ATTORNEY, STANLEY CHESLEY GOT PAID $20 MILLION DOLLARS FOR HIS INVOLVEMENT IN THE SETTLEMENT NEGOTIATIONS ONLY...HE DID NOT EVEN APPEAR AT TRIAL. HE LOST HIS LICENSE TO PRACTICE LAW BUT DID NOT HAVE TO REPAY THE MONEY.
THE PATIENTS WERE PAWNS IN THIS CLASS ACTION LAWSUIT WHERE MILLIONS OF DOLLARS WERE PAID IN CONFIDENTIAL SETTLEMENTS AND EVEN THE JUDGE COLLUDED WITH THE ATTORNEYS.
HOW DO PATIENTS KNOW THEY ARE RECEIVING THEIR FAIR SHARE OF SETTLEMENTS IN CLASS ACTIONS AND MASS TORTS? ANSWER: THEY DON'T.
JUST LIKE HEALTHCARE, PATIENTS WHO BECOME PLAINTIFFS ARE IN THE DARK WITH LITTLE OR NO INFLUENCE OVER A MAJOR LIFE ALTERING EVENT.
WE CAN ONLY HOPE THERE ARE NOT ANY "STANLEY CHESLEYS" IN THE ONGOING HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF DOLLARS IN THE TRANSVAGINAL MESH SETTLEMENTS ACROSS THE COUNTRY! BUT DON'T COUNT ON IT. WITH ETHICON & WELLS FARGO IN THE MIX THERE ARE BOUND TO BE SOME NEW "CRASHES & BURNS".
http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-03-22/stanley-chesley-titan-of-the-plaintiffs-bar-crashes-and-burns
Bloomberg Business Week 03/22/2013 by Paul Barrett, assistant managing editor and senior writer.
"STANLEY CHESLEY, TITAN OF THE PLAINTIFF'S BAR, CRASHES AND BURNS"
The big-time plaintiffs’ bar justifies its multimillion-dollar fees by claiming to vindicate the “little guy.” Justice ain’t free, according to free-wheeling trial lawyers, and taking on (alleged) corporate villains requires heavy pecuniary incentives.
Sadly, the titans of this elite segment of the bar have a tendency to flame out in spectacular bursts of greed and deceit, undercutting their claims of righteous dedication. The latest example is famed class-action attorney Stanley Chesley of Cincinnati, for decades one of the leading scourges of industries that range from pharmaceuticals, to chemicals, to firearms.
The Kentucky Supreme Court on March 21 upheld Chesley’s disbarment in that state for “unreasonable” fees received in the settlement of a class action originally filed in 1999 against Wyeth, now part of Pfizer. The allegation stemmed from $20 million in fees Chesley received for his involvement in an action concerning the diet drug known as fen-phen (fenfluramine/phentermine), which was shown to cause harmful side effects. The case was settled in 2001 for $200 million.
Under Ohio’s Rules of Professional Responsibility for lawyers, the disbarment in Kentucky may provide grounds for Chesley to get drummed out of the legal trade in his home state, as well.
Here’s a helpful description of Chesley’s troubles from Bloomberg News:
“In 2009, two Kentucky lawyers involved in the case were sentenced to 20 years and 25 years in prison for stealing from the [diet drug] settlement fund. The lawyers had contracts entitling them to fees of as much as one-third of the $200 million awarded to a statewide group of Kentucky citizens who said they were harmed by diet drug. The lawyers tried to keep more than twice that amount, prosecutors said.
In its 38-page decision, the Kentucky Supreme Court noted that Chesley didn’t meet directly with any of the clients to effectuate the settlement, and it wasn’t shown that he had specific knowledge of the deception practiced on each client to secure the signed release.
The court did find that his “$20,497,121.87 share of the fee was unreasonable, especially in light of his professed ignorance and lack of responsibility for any aspect of the litigation except showing up at the mediation and going through the motions of announcing the agreement.”
BE SURE TO READ THE WHOLE STORY AT BLOOMBERG...IT'S WAY TOO JUICY TO MISS!
FROM MY PERSPECTIVE AS A PATIENT, A PATIENT ADVOCATE AND A LEGAL CONSULTANT, THIS IS A MESS CREATED BY BAD LAWS, BAD DRUGS AND DEVICES AND GREED. IT IS A SYSTEMIC ISSUE CREATED BY THE AMERICAN HEALTHCARE SYSTEM WHICH DOES NOT PROTECT PATIENTS.
MY ADVICE: STAY WELL, STAY OUT OF THE HOSPITAL AND DON'T TAKE DRUGS UNLESS ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY. YOU MAY BE UNKNOWINGLY HARMING YOURSELF!
BEST, BLESSINGS, LANA
[POST FIRST PUBLISHED 2013]
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