All the headlines from our Drugs Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Aug 24 2009 // A federal appeals panel on Aug. 20 upheld a ruling that jailers in Garland County, Ark., can be sued personally for allegedly ignoring a suspected intoxicated driver who didn’t move for hours in his cell and suffered...
Aug 3 2009 // Hundreds of tractor-trailer and bus companies ordered to shut down because of federal safety violations ranging from suspended licenses to possible drug use have stayed on the road by using different names, investigators...
Jul 20 2009 // The survey showed a decline in the percentage of legally intoxicated drivers, but for the first time used screening techniques that detected other substances as well.My husband and I recently bought ourselves a new car for...
Jul 13 2009 // A new roadside survey by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration confirms a continuing decline in the percentage of legally intoxicated drivers.In 1973, 7.5 percent of drivers had a blood alcohol concentration...
Jul 6 2009 // The Louisiana Supreme Court recently reversed the decision of trial and appeals courts, which had ruled in favor of an insurer in a case involving an uninsured/underinsured motorist.In Marco Demma, III v. Automobile Club...
Jun 29 2009 // Union General Insurance Services Inc. of Concord, Calif., has an alcohol and drug abuse treatment facility market available to California agents. An “A+” rated carrier is offering coverage for facilities...
Jun 22 2009 // Federal prosecutors may seize $30 million and three bank accounts from a pair of Kentucky lawyers convicted of bilking clients in a diet-drug settlement, a judge says.U.S. District Judge Danny Reeves on Thursday granted...
May 22 2009 // The Obama White House this week undid a Bush administration policy that used federal regulations to undermine various state health, safety and environmental laws.Many of the federal regulations limited the ability of...
Apr 13 2009 // A Pennsylvania law that empowers hundreds of nurse-midwives to prescribe drugs finally is in effect, ending the Keystone State’s distinction as the only state that barred the practice.Gov. Ed Rendell signed the bill...
Mar 20 2009 // Michigan House Democrats again are trying to change Michigan’s law shielding prescription drug makers from legal liability if their product was approved by the Food and Drug Administration. A House committee approved...
Mar 9 2009 // A Supreme Court ruling this week that federal approval of a drug is no protection from lawsuits in state courts could make drugmakers more cautious about safety issues and may lead them to halt development of some...
Mar 9 2009 // With the downtrodden economy rumbling through the West, momentous and game-changing fraud bills will be in short supply this year. Lawmakers’ time and patience will be soaked up by efforts to shore-up sagging...
Mar 4 2009 // The Supreme Court Wednesday ruled against the drugmaker Wyeth, holding that pharmaceutical companies can be held liable for harm from medicines which carry warnings approved by federal regulators.By a 6-3 vote, the high...
Feb 20 2009 // An insurance agent and prominent supporter of public schools in the northern Idaho city of Coeur d’Alene has been charged with felony cocaine possession.Idaho State Police say Jerry Carlson could face more charges as...
Jan 29 2009 // When the question was posed — ever worry that the sport you love could ruin your brain? — Hines Ward shrugged it off as though it was nothing more than one of those pesky cornerbacks trying to keep him from...
Jan 28 2009 // Georgia Governor Sonny Perdue is proposing tort reform legislation intended to protect Georgia-based biotech companies from product liability claims.The proposed legislation would provide that Federal Drug Administration...
Jan 16 2009 // Companies are increasingly wanting to avoid embarrassing internal emails containing concerns that an important product may be harmful, or documents that could attract the attention of an ambitious prosecutor.The Medical...
Dec 9 2008 // North Carolina’s largest health insurance company is providing free generic prescription drugs to about 1 million members. The News & Observer of Raleigh reported Monday that Blue Cross and Blue Shield plans to...
Nov 25 2008 // The University of Kansas Center for Research has filed a federal lawsuit claiming that two of its researchers should be listed on patents for a cancer drug.The research center sued the National Institutes of Health because...
Nov 3 2008 // The Supreme Court hears arguments Monday in a closely watched case that could limit liability claims against drugmakers if one of their medicines causes harm.The case pits drug giant Wyeth against a guitarist who lost part...