Entries by Pete Burns

Child Safety Seats

Amity Insurance Company issued the following suggestions for child safety in vehicles. Thanks to them for this good advice. Infants should ride in rear-facing child safety seats for as long as possible, according to pediatricians and safety experts, and not be switched to a forward-facing seat until he or she is both one-year-old and weighs […]

Health Care Fraud

Bruce Moilan is $5.5 million richer because he blew the whistle on South Texas Health Systems in a qui tam suit. San Antonio Express-News (10/31, Brezovsky) The False Claim Act prohibits hospitals from paying doctors for patient referrals. Reason being the independent judgment of the doctor is compromised if he has a financial stake in […]

Legal Malpractice

Lawyers are busy. Sometimes we are busier than others. The efficient lawyer focuses on matters that that require the attention of a lawyer and delegates administrative work to non-lawyers in the office. Some client questions are administrative and do not need the lawyer to answer. Has the deposition been rescheduled? Have you received the settlement […]

Off-Label suit by drug manufacturer

The FDA rules prohibit manufacturers from advertizing drugs for conditions and in dosages for which the drugs have not been tested. Those rules protect the public by requiring that pharmaceutical companies do the clinical studies necessary to support that drugs are safe and effective before marketing the drugs. Allergan Inc., the maker of Botox has […]