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"The researchers wanted to see whether a tendency to file lawsuits played a role in FM, since they were concerned that the prospect of large financial rewards might coax patients into claiming severe, widespread pain where lesser pain existed. lawsuits are rare in the Amish community, making it a good control group for such a study. But the answer proved to be a huge surprise: Rates of FM in Amish women and men were nearly double what they had been in the city. And when FM accompanied a rheumatological disease like SLE, rates more than doubled again. Why would this happen?" - Benjamin H. Natelson, M.D., Your Symptoms Are Real: What to Do When Your Doctor Says Nothing Is Wrong (Get the book.)

"Unfortunately, it appears that drug companies often see any backlash or lawsuits as simply part of their "research and development" expenses of their drugs. Bloomberg News reported in December 2006: Nationwide, several lawsuits accuse drug companies of engaging in deceptive marketing by overstating the effectiveness and understating the risks of newer anti-psychotics. The suits also claim companies promoted the drugs for unapproved uses. Mississippi, Louisiana, Alaska and West Virginia sued Eli Lilly & Co. this year on behalf of their Medicaid health programs for the poor." - Mark Hyman MD, The UltraMind Solution: Fix Your Broken Brain by Healing Your Body First (Get the book.)

"Indeed, "[c]ivil lawsuits . . . allege[d] that Redux caused the poten- • 77 tially fatal respiratory disorder that had worried Lutwak." The drug was implicated in 123 deaths. Wyeth-Ayerst Laboratories, maker of the drug, is a subsidiary of American Home Products. American Home Products ultimately paid approximately $4.83 billion to settle over 11,000 lawsuits involving the drug.79 Rezulin In 1996 Lutwak (still at FDA) resurfaced as one of several agency medical reviewers who objected to FDA approval of the Warner-Lambert type-2 diabetes drug, Rezulin (troglitazone)." - Jonathan W. Emord, The Rise of Tyranny (Get the book.)

"Paxil has lawsuits against it claiming it to be the cause of suicide and self inflicted harm, not to mention harm to others. In one case, a man killed his wife and children as well as himself after taking Paxil for only two days!208 Zoloft also has been blamed for causing suicidal behavior, and there are over 200 lawsuits filed against Pfizer, Eli Lilly and GlaxoKlineSmith because of this drug.209 Two hundred! And still the pharmaceutical companies adamantly insisted it was not the fault of the drug. Effexor XR has other side effects as well as hostility, agitation and restlessness." - Kenneth W Thomas, Ron Gilbert, Gerd Schaller, Side Effects: The Hidden Agenda of the Pharmaceutical Drug Cartel (Get the book.)

"In Justinian's own words: "We have decided to grant now to the world, with the help of Almighty God, and to cut short the prolixity of lawsuits by pruning the multitude of enactments contained in the three Codes of Gregorius, Hermogenes and Theodosius, as well as those promulgated after the publication of his Code by Theodosius of divine memory ... by compiling a single Code which shall bear Our own name . . ."9 He wrote truly, for while the first attempt at a new codex was an important work, it was concerned with (mostly) the minutiae of lawsuits, with guidance in litigation." - William Rosen, Justinian's Flea: The First Great Plague and the End of the Roman Empire (Get the book.)

"The researchers wanted to see whether a tendency to file lawsuits played a role in FM, since they were concerned that the prospect of large financial rewards might coax patients into claiming severe, widespread pain where lesser pain existed. lawsuits are rare in the Amish community, making it a good control group for such a study. But the answer proved to be a huge surprise: Rates of FM in Amish women and men were nearly double what they had been in the city. And when FM accompanied a rheumatological disease like SLE, rates more than doubled again. Why would this happen?" - Benjamin H. Natelson, M.D., Your Symptoms Are Real: What to Do When Your Doctor Says Nothing Is Wrong (Get the book.)

"The Societas Fraterna eventually disbanded after child-malnutrition lawsuits and the suicide of one of the group's young female members. In the 1960s, nudist fruit-growing communes started popping up across America, as followers of the "back to the land" movement shed their clothes and inhibitions and banded together in Utopian groups. In Paradise Fever, Ptolemy Tompkins writes of his own father's clothing-optional orchard community: "A key aspect of getting the garden going turned around one's being naked, or at least topless, while working inside its walls." - Adam Leith Gollne, The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession (Get the book.)

"The panel's endorsement of both drugs will definitely help Merck and Pfizer fend off the hundreds of lawsuits already filed by patients and their survivors." The panel's chairman, trying to put the whole debacle in perspective, made the unfortunate comment: "It would be a brave man or woman [physician] who started a patient with a clear history of heart disease on these drugs."48 "That's not brave," complained Fran. "It's either incompetent or negligent.!" What are the lessons of COX-2 Inhibitors for our book? We live in a hypermodern society. Everything happens at breakneck speed." - Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea, What If Medicine Disappeared? (Get the book.)

"Howard, author of The Collapse of the Common Good: How America's Lawsuit Culture Undermines Our Freedom, commented that most of the doctors who do commit malpractice are not sued, and most of the lawsuits brought against doctors are about situations in which malpractice was not committed. Nonetheless, the current medical malpractice system consistently distorts our medical care. Doctors are aware of the risk of a malpractice suit lurking in every patient visit." - John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.)

"Hundreds of lawsuits were being brought against Eli Lilly and Company, the manufacturer of Prozac, and I would become the one medical and scientific expert responsible for doing the background scientific research for all of the combined cases. Today the published cases are fewer and further between. Indeed, my 1994 book Talking Back to Prozac, written with my wife Ginger, garnered far more attention than would similar publications today. Why?" - Peter Breggin, Medication Madness: A Psychiatrist Exposes the Dangers of Mood-Altering Medications (Get the book.) "The drugmaker already had squeezed most of the public relations value out of the 1994 jury verdict, and Prozac lawsuits were on the wane. According to Swiatek, one Eli Lilly executive credited the company's overall defense strategy in the Prozac suits with defusing a "deadly serious" threat to the company and its star drug. Swiatek's report also cited outrage aimed at Paul Smith by other attorneys involved in litigation against Eli Lilly, including one lawsuit that labeled Smith as "Lilly's puppet." - Peter Breggin, Medication Madness: A Psychiatrist Exposes the Dangers of Mood-Altering Medications (Get the book.) "Despite the company's best efforts, by 1994, there were already so many lawsuits against Eli Lilly that a federal judge in Indianapolis combined an initial 160 cases into a consortium called the multidistrict litigation or MDL. This enabled one lead attorney to manage the overall investigation called discovery, including gathering documents and taking depositions from Eli Lilly." - Peter Breggin, Medication Madness: A Psychiatrist Exposes the Dangers of Mood-Altering Medications (Get the book.) "The family's attorney asked me to read the medical records and to give an opinion concerning potential lawsuits against the doctors and the drug companies. With the exception of the pediatrician, I concluded that all of the health practitioners had been negligent in their treatment of Andy. As a result, malpractice suits were brought against the psychologist at the clinic who initiated the medication phone call to the pediatrician, the psychiatrists at the clinic and at the partial hospitalization, and the facilities where Andy was treated." - Peter Breggin, Medication Madness: A Psychiatrist Exposes the Dangers of Mood-Altering Medications (Get the book.)

"He wrote truly, for while the first attempt at a new codex was an important work, it was concerned with (mostly) the minutiae of lawsuits, with guidance in litigation. The Second Law Commission was established in December of 530 with the stated objective of revising the way in which lawyers were educated. But with Tribonian leading the commission, a "different spirit"10 took over, that of a scholar concerned with the resolution of legal questions left unanswered by previous jurists." - William Rosen, Justinian's Flea: The First Great Plague and the End of the Roman Empire (Get the book.)

"Only after injured consumers filed lawsuits against the manufacturer was the cream removed from the market in 1932, though in some areas of the U.S. the product continued to be sold for another year. Exposes began to appear in the media showing how widespread the dangers to health and safety had become. A book called American Chamber of Horrors revealed how the rush to create new chemical concoctions for cosmetics had maimed and even killed women. But the book caused barely a ripple in the demand for these beauty enhancers." - Samuel S. Epstein, Randall Fitzgerald, Toxic Beauty: How Cosmetics and Personal Care Products Endanger Your Health . . . And What You Can Do about It (Get the book.)

"The justification for the law was that if Eli Lilly were put out of business by lawsuits, it could not protect America from biological attacks by terrorists. Although such institutional denial of the right of families to seek a remedy for the harm they have suffered may seem self-serving, it is understandable public policy that government and health care business would work in concert to protect themselves from what could prove to be devastating consequences. Even so, I am not anti-vaccination. I am pro-safe vaccination." - Kenneth Bock, Healing the New Childhood Epidemics: Autism, ADHD, Asthma, and Allergies: The Groundbreaking Program for the 4-A Disorders (Get the book.)

"In similar cases in Nicaraguan courts, Dole and other companies have been ordered to pay more than 600 million dollars to workers allegedly affected by the use of the pesticide, although the companies maintain that the judgment is unenforceable because the law that allowed the workers to bring the lawsuits is unconstitutional. In Europe, new regulations concerning the Registration, Evaluation, Authorization and Restriction of Chemicals (REACH) are forcing companies to provide data proving the safety of their products. They face stiff resistance from chemical manufacturers." - Adam Leith Gollne, The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession (Get the book.)

"Rosen mentioned earlier—which I always signed when Wyatt was vaccinated—will protect doctors against most lawsuits, but that isn't the real issue. The real issue is that some mainstream health-care practitioners are failing to put their patients'—and our children's—welfare first. This physician's attitude is all too common even today, when weknow more about the dangers of mercury toxicity and other vaccine additives. Parents still feel too intimidated to ask legitimate questions about vaccinations." - Deirdre Imus, Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care: Volume 2 in the Bestselling Green This! Series (Green This!) (Get the book.)

"Besides, the most fail-safe way to avoid lawsuits is to have a good relationship with your patients and their families, and I work hard to develop my relationships, and to serve as a model for doctors in our struggling health-care system. I encourage physicians who are sympathetic to the ideas in this book to fill in the insurance forms according to the standard Alzheimer's scheme so that patients can be reimbursed. However, this is an entirely separate act from your dealings with the patient and her family." - Peter J. Whitehouse and Daniel George, The Myth of Alzheimer's: What You Aren't Being Told About Today's Most Dreaded Diagnosis (Get the book.)

"Peter Breggin, a leading critic of Ritalin and Prozac, and medical consultant in several lawsuits brought against the pharmaceutical companies that manufacture these and other drugs, calls Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder "a disease of the professionals rather than of the children." The "professionals" remind him of the authorities in Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, except "actually, in Brave New World the children did not get drugs. We have reached a level of obscenity in the way we treat our kids that was not even imagined in that fantasy." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.) "Unfortunately, as we are becoming all too aware by the growing number of lawsuits, governmental warnings, and media attention, these medications often end up causing more harm than good. Zyprexa is just one case in point. Approved in 1996 by the FDA to treat bipolar disorder and schizophrenia, it has been associated with increased risk of hyperglycemia and diabetes to such an extent that its manufacturer Eli Lilly agreed in 2005 to pay nearly $700 million to settle thousands of claims. When treating patients with bipolar disorder, Dr. Vickar recommends tryptophan or lithium. " - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.)

"Litigants were winning lawsuits against physicians for surgical procedures that were deemed by a jury to be needless. In a series of three JAMA editorials from 1970 to 1975,37 the AMA's General Council fretted about capricious juries ("a jury is likely to conclude that the pain and anguish of any surgery is worth substantial recompense"), and concluded that unnecessary surgery, "is almost always dealt with as an ordinary case of professional liability based on negligent diagnosis." The offending physician was now characterized (for better or worse) as careless or ignorant, rather than criminal." - Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea, What If Medicine Disappeared? (Get the book.)

"The fact that Vioxx increases the risk of adverse cardiovascular events has not gone unnoticed by the plaintiff's bar. lawsuits are ongoing and will be for some time. The "discovery" process has revealed a zeal for marketing for which the schemes mentioned above are but symptoms. Furthermore, there is no honor among thieves. Eric Topol is a prominent cardiologist who was recruited from the University of Michigan to be chief of cardiology at the Cleveland Clinic." - Nortin M. Hadler MD, Worried Sick: A Prescription for Health in an Overtreated America (Get the book.)

"This had been the same argument made by other pharmaceutical companies in dozens of similar lawsuits, and in most cases the corporate lawyers had succeeded in quickly sealing the records to keep them from scrutiny The documents detailing what may have been fraud or another crime were boxed up and sent back to the company's warehouse, never to be seen by anyone outside the company again. This has allowed some companies to continue the same practices while patients are left in the dark about the harm a drug or another product has already caused." - Melody Petersen, Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs (Get the book.) "Congress designed the False Claims Act to encourage citizens with knowledge of a fraud against the government to file lawsuits disclosing the criminal acts. As a reward, the whistle-blowers are entitled to a percentage of the financial damages the government ultimately collects from those committing the fraud. The law was based on qui tarn actions, which were first used in thirteenth-century England. The name comes from the Latin phrase qui tarn pro domino rege quam pro sic ipso in hoc parte sequitur, which means "he who sues for the king in this matter sues for himself as well." - Melody Petersen, Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs (Get the book.) "The public would have never learned about these secret corporate studies if it had not been for whistle-blowers or lawsuits filed after people were harmed. In the case of Paxil, Americans learned in 2004 that it had not just been Study 377 that SmithKline had kept under lock and key. The New York State attorney general, Eliot Spitzer, said in June of that year that the company had failed to publish four of five studies it had done to test the antidepressant's effectiveness in teenagers. Taken together, the five studies showed that Paxil did not ease the children's depression." - Melody Petersen, Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs (Get the book.) "Corporate whistle-blowers and lawsuits against the tobacco industry unearthed hundreds of internal documents that detailed the industry's covert efforts to get articles into the scientific literature that advanced its agenda. For example, after a Japanese study in 1981 showed that secondhand smoke raised the risk of lung cancer, the tobacco companies secretly began working on their own study. They hoped to use the study to raise doubts about the original article's findings." - Melody Petersen, Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs (Get the book.)

"In 2003, two lawsuits against the PCB manufacturer and its spinoff companies resulted in a close to three-quarter-million-dollar settlement that was split, after lawyers' fees, among twenty thousand residents. Many of these residents were from socioeconomically underprivileged families who formerly sharecropped near the plant when it was dumping factory waste from PCB production. And in Libby, Montana, a town polluted by asbestos, recent studies conducted by the University of Montana's Center for Environmental Health Sciences show that local residents are 28." - Donna Jackson Nakazawa, The Autoimmune Epidemic (Get the book.)

"Antidepressants are a multi-billion dollar business as well; despite a plethora of lawsuits that exist against Prozac, for example. But who cares? If you earn $10 billion and spend $1 for defense it is still big business, isn't it? Psychiatrist Breggin describes those side effects: "blurred vision, dry mouth, and suppressed function of gut, bladder and sexual organs as well as low blood pressure, weight gain, sleep disturbance, seizures, and impaired cardiac function" (Breggin, pg. 154). Sometimes 201 Peter R. Breggin, Toxic Psychiatry, (New York: St. Martins Press, 1991), p." - Kenneth W Thomas, Ron Gilbert, Gerd Schaller, Side Effects: The Hidden Agenda of the Pharmaceutical Drug Cartel (Get the book.)

"These researchers also estimated that the number of deaths due to errors is actually 20 times greater since many go unreported or misreported due to fear of lawsuits and confusion about the actual cause of death. Often doctors mistakenly list the cause of death as the disease, when many times it is actually the toxicity of the drug treatment itself, as with the use of chemo-"therapy." The study puts the blame for these needless deaths on the medical industry." - Susan E. Schenck, The Live Food Factor: The Comprehensive Guide to the Ultimate Diet for Body, Mind, Spirit & Planet (Get the book.)

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