Paxil side effects, surgeries can spur a Paxil birth defects lawsuit
Many American women have taken antidepressant drug Paxil during their pregnancy. Now many American newborn children are suffering birth defects as a result. Since 2005 Paxil has been shown to have serious side effects in newborn babies, including ailments of the heart, brain, spinal cord, lungs and other vital organs. Such Paxil side effects injuries often require surgery or even repeated surgeries to correct.
That’s a high price to pay for the negligence of a pharmaceuticals giant such as Paxil creator GlaxoSmithKline of London, England. GSK reaps almost $1 billion per year in Paxil sales in America alone, and that huge amount is only about 2 per cent of its total annual drug sales. Meanwhile, American children are suffering horribly due to Paxil side effects injuries.
Fortunately, the legal system provides a means for addressing such negligence. Already, more than 100 Paxil lawsuits have been filed. Indeed, last fall a Philadelphia, PA jury awarded $2.5 million to a family whose infant son was born with heart problems requiring several surgeries after his mother took Paxil during pregnancy.
If you, too, need to press a Paxil lawsuit to recover damages for your child’s Paxil birth defects injury, alert a defective drugs lawyer or attorney with Jim S. Adler & Associates and launch the process of gaining economic recovery. A Paxil side effects lawsuit can send a strong message to negligent multi-billion dollar corporation GSK that Americans will not tolerate the harm its defective drug has inflicted on innocent newborns.
Fill out the free case evaluation form on this Web page, or call toll-free to 1-800-505-1414, and an Adler legal representative will respond shortly to help you assess your case. You need not be alone in this fight. A Paxil birth defects lawyer from Jim “the Texas Hammer” Adler can make sure of that.
Toyota stuck accelerator followed by Prius bad brakes defect
Will Toyota’s defective product failures ever stop? First it was SUV rollover calamities. Then it was stuck accelerator pedal catastrophes. Now it’s bad brakes on Toyota’s Prius, the world’s top-selling gas-electric hybrid vehicle.
The U.S. Department of Transportation has begun investigating flaws in the 2010 Prius’ brakes, after its safety arm, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, fielded 124 complaints from consumers. Four of those complaints concerned brake-related accidents in the Japanese automaker’s hybrids.
It seems some Prius brakes fail to function properly when the vehicle travels over potholes, bumpy roads or surfaces which are slippery or uneven. That’s not good, especially when you consider how common such surfaces are on streets and highways. On them, a Prius’ braking might pause when the car shifts from its traditional hydraulic brakes to an electronic braking system.
So far there’s been no Toyota recall of the Prius, unlike with millions of Toyota and Lexus vehicles (made by Toyota) suspected of potentially fatal accelerators. These either got stuck on floor mats or wouldn’t work due to mechanical failure, sending cars careening into high-speed crashes.
But at least the DOT, the NHTSA and the Japanese government are on top of the Prius problem, which so far hasn’t claimed lives. The stuck gas pedals have.
Sadly, such damning results of manufacturer negligence weren’t enough for Toyota to issue a recall in the U.S. — at least not before pressure by the U.S. government. The automaker continued to let its vehicles roll, even though their defective accelerators were killing people.
If you are a Toyota owner and you’ve been injured by a defect in your vehicle, you don’t have to take it lying down — in a hospital bed or elsewhere. Instead, you can fight back with legal action against a manufacturer whose negligence and betrayal are reaching monstrous proportions.
Alert a defective products attorney or a car accident lawyer with Jim S. Adler & Associates, and let them battle for you in the legal arena. The Texas Hammer’s personal injury attorneys can send a clear message to Toyota that Americans deserve better than defective vehicles which kill innocent people.
Toyota has made many billions of dollars from American consumers over the years. We have a right to expect more in return than a shiny new car which could be a death trap.
Hammer TV offers safety tips as ‘reality TV’ with meaning, message
Each day, Americans are “hammered” with visual messages on TV and the Internet. But how many are trite, and how many are truly useful? Do we really need to know whose kitty can play the piano? Or do we need to know which defective drugs or injury accidents threaten our loved ones?
At Jim S. Adler & Associates, we’re trying to close the information gap not only in our website’s written content, but in its videos. That’s why we’ve created “Hammer TV,” a video-only Web service filled with helpful safety tips and information for keeping your family whole and healthy.
Named after longtime Texas personal injury attorney Jim “the Texas Hammer” Adler, Hammer TV hosts a variety of “Top Stories” videos on the dangers and costs of SUVs, ATVs, distracted drivers, salmonella food poisoning, uninsured motorists, defective drugs such as Paxil and — one of our biggest threats, literally — the risks posed by big rig, tractor trailer, semi truck and 18 wheeler vehicles.
But don’t worry: There’s also a human touch. Among Hammer TV’s “Top Stories” and “News on JSA Charities,” it offers looks at small children in need getting free “snow parties” or holiday clothes, and even an “up close and personal” look at the Texas Hammer himself, Jim Adler.
Hammer TV also has a touching tribute to Kevin Hills, a Texan who was killed by an 18 wheeler, and a heartwarming dedication to the staff and volunteers of Safe Kids Greater Houston, whose mission is to keep our kids safe.
Or check out Hammer TV’s “PSAs” tab for tips on road rage, water safety, kid safety and the dangers of texting while driving. Heck, you even can watch Jim Adler’s famed “TV Commercials” all in one place — and with no interruptions by annoying TV shows.
It’s all there for you — and for free — on Hammer TV. Tune in, and learn more.
Beyond that, the Texas Hammer has hard-hitting videos for you on YouTube and on Facebook.
On Facebook, check out Jim Adler’s latest flipcam interviews about Toyota’s massive stuck accelerator recall and why the Japanese automaker can’t be trusted, as well as his take on the computer screens coming to car dashboards this fall. Crazy, right?
Also on YouTube as well as on Facebook, watch the emotional video Jim Adler’s firm created for Mothers Against Drunk Driving and MADD Victim Services. Drunk drivers take a terrible toll in human life and in the anguish of victims’ survivors. This video puts a powerful face on them and is a moving reminder that we all have a responsibility to protect each other.
Call it reality TV with meaning and a message. Or call it Hammer TV. Either way, it’s here for you.
New national ban on bus, truck texting fights distracted driving car crash crush
Like a car on freshly-inflated tires, the national momentum to outlaw texting while driving keeps on rolling. Today the U.S. Department of Transportation placed an immediate ban on interstate commercial bus and truck drivers fidgeting with texting gadgets when they should be paying full attention to the road.
After all, they’re getting paid to drive, aren’t they? And, oh yes: If they stop texting, they just might save lives.
In fact, they definitely will, since distracted drivers who text or talk by cell phones kill thousands of Americans each year. So far 19 states have put the brakes on such absurd behavior, with many more states mulling a texting-while-driving ban. And now the DOT has made it illegal — coast to coast — for truck and bus drivers, too.
As car crash accidents rise, more states ban distracted driving via texting, talking by cell phone
Jim S. Adler & Associates has campaigned for years against the cell phone accident dangers of talking or texting while driving. Now many state governments are seeing the light. Nineteen states already ban texting while driving, while 23 more are assessing such legislation. In fact, 34 states are considering proposed bills either to ban or widen bans on the causes of distracted driving.
Why? Because distracted driving kills. It’s that simple. The U.S. Department of Transportation reports that 515,000 persons were injured and 5,870 persons died in traffic accidents in 2008 due to distracted drivers. That’s 16 per cent of all U.S. traffic deaths — enough to help spark creation of FocusDriven, a national non-profit group dedicated to fighting distracted driving.
Toyota, Lexus stuck accelerator in a car crash merits a defective product lawsuit
Toyota and Lexus cars have a defect, and as a result, Americans are dying. It’s a stuck accelerator pedal, which gets snagged on a floor mat. Braking alone will not stop a car that’s in full and constant acceleration, which is why scores of Americans have been injured or killed.
Last October, four people died near San Diego due to a stuck Toyota accelerator pedal. They were a California Highway Patrol officer and his family of three. Almost four million such vehicles are on America’s roads.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration investigated and initially dismissed many incidents, though hundreds were reported. Yet the accidents, injuries and fatalities mounted. Finally, the NHTSA and Toyota — which also owns Lexus — asked drivers of the defective Toyota and Lexus vehicles to remove their driver’s side floor mat and not replace it. This safety measure pertains to models from 2004-2010.
Graco baby stroller defective product recall spurred by children’s fingertip amputations
American babies are being harmed by strollers which are supposed to protect them. Instead, certain model numbers of Alano, Passage, Travel Systems and Spree Strollers are causing fingertip amputations or cut fingers in infants who put their digits in canopy hinges as strollers open or close.
Graco Children’s Products Inc. of Atlanta, which produces the strollers sold at Target, Wal-Mart and other retailers, this week issued a recall of 1.5 million strollers, all made in China. Other retailers selling them between October 2004 and last December are Kmart, Sears, Fred Meyer, Burlington Coat Factory, AAFES, Navy Exchange, Meijer, Babies R Us and Toys R Us.
San Antonio car crash law would protect cyclists, pedestrians, ‘vulnerable road users’
In increasingly urban Texas, bicyclists and pedestrians are increasingly endangered. Yet Gov. Rick Perry last year vetoed a bill — passed overwhelmingly by the Senate and House — which would have offered more protection to cyclists and walkers on or near our roads.
Now some cities, such as Austin, are enacting the same law on a municipal basis. And San Antonio may get one, too. A city council committee voted unanimously this week to send a “safe passing” ordinance for “vulnerable road uses” to the full council for approval next month.
Why is this vital? Because Texans are dying, and every bit helps. In 2008 alone, 50 Texans on bicycles were killed and 274 suffered incapacitating injuries in car-bicycle accidents. And every year, about 400 Texas pedestrians are killed by vehicles in car-pedestrian accidents.
Red light cameras signal car accident controversy
The idea seemed good at first: Cities would install “red light cameras” at high-risk intersections, in hopes of slowing down traffic as a deterrent. Such cameras could capture irrefutable evidence that a car ran a red light, while displaying its license number. The drivers then could be ticketed by mail.
The only trouble was, traffic still didn’t tend to slow down until lights turned “yellow,” at which point some drivers began hitting their brakes instead of pressing through, for fear of getting a ticket via a red light camera, while other drivers — speeding and tailgating — hit them from behind.
FocusDriven to fight distracted driver car accident carnage
A woman in Grapevine, Texas, whose mother was killed by distracted driving has launched a national nonprofit group to fight distracted drivers and comfort their victims. Called FocusDriven, the organization was envisioned at last fall’s Distracted Driving Summit in Washington, D.C. sponsored by the U.S. Department of Transportation.
About 6,000 Americans died last year due to distracted drivers, many of whom were texting or calling by cell phone when they caused such tragedies. Longtime Texas personal injury law firm Jim S. Adler & Associates strongly supports measures to curb distracted driving and spare thousands of Americans and their families the wrenching loss of a distracted driver car accident.
