The recent news about the Food & Drug Administration’s (FDA) actions in connection with hip implant manufacturers demands the question: why wasn’t the action being ordered required before the hip implants were placed on the market? The answer is that the FDA’s order to 20 device makers to study the […]
May 9, 2011, WEST PALM BEACH — Sia Baker-Barnes, an attorney with Searcy Denney Scarola Barnhart & Shipley in West Palm Beach, FL, has been elected by her peers to serve on the Board of Directors of the Palm Beach County Bar Association. Baker-Barnes has been active in the Palm […]
The legislature passed and failed to pass a number of bills during this legislative session. Some have said that the session demonstrated a great deal of work on the part of legislators, while others have said it amounted to a session about cutting business deals. Some bills of importance: Bike […]
Consumers are clearly not the focus of the current group that was elected to the legislature. Insurance companies and large corporations seem to be the acknowledged constituents for them. The Sun Sentinel just reported on some of the bills that look like they could pass and how they stack up […]
Our Firm had fun yesterday by welcoming the children of our employees to share “Bring Your Kids to Work” day. Our Human Resources Director, Renee Govig, organized an educational and fun experience for all our future leaders. She was joined by her assistant, Lindsay Radziwon, and many others here at […]
What was Bayer thinking when they came out with the birth control pill Yaz? Based on another study, this one published in the British Medical Journal, demonstrates that the key ingredient in Yaz (also in Yasmin and Ocella) causes a six times increase for the incidence of clots in users. […]
April 21, 2011, West Palm Beach – Attorney Chris Searcy has become a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers, one of the premier legal associations in America. The induction ceremony took place recently before an audience of 700 attendees at the 2011 Spring Meeting of the College in […]
I am saddened that all too often I turn on the television or pick up the local newspaper only to read about another horrific incident of animal abuse; once again it has happened, this time in my own back yard. A Lantana, FL pet shop owner who had 26 cats, […]
What do you want from the people you elect to public office? Honesty? Candor? Fairness? Intelligence? Independent thinking? To listen to you, the people who voted them into office? If only things were that simple. The problem is the noise. At least in Florida, legislators have a great many interests […]
In days of old when knights were bold and gentlemen believed in honor… In those days of old, if you were to wrong me and failed to pay proper recompense, we dueled…often to the death. Today, in our democracy, we have access to the courts for redress of our differences […]
