Settlement announced in a broker lawsuit.  Article

In asbestos news, the Billings Gazette in Montana has a story about how the state is trying to set up an asbestos fund.  Story

- Montana failed Libby area residents by ignoring the dangerous health
risks associated with exposure to asbestos, and now the state should
pay for its neglect, said supporters of a bill to fund asbestos-related
disease programs in Lincoln County.

Bextra, Vioxx and Celebrex.  These drugs were all approved by the panel put together to provide a recommendation on them.  Vioxx was only narrowing approved.    Celebrex and Bextra had wider margins. 

Who do you trust?

Vioxx recall hurt Americans confidence in FDA

Medical Malpractice Reform:  It will probably never end…  It will be like the tide.  The insurance companies will not go away until they can say that they have taken every right you have away and still collect premiums.

        In Minnesota a house bill is progressing to limits awards against OB/Gyn providers and Emergency Room Doctors.  Article

         Here’s a good one. An insurance company in Illinois wants to have a law passed that fines $50,000 if you release information about how it sets its rates.  We certainly wouldn’t want them to have to tell us this information we might see the actual payouts that occur in cases.  And I guess that would be bad.  Read about it here

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