California Personal Injury Law Case Notes

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• Can Traumatic Brain Injury Victims Develop PTSD?

  One would assume that if a TBI victim cannot remember the injury producing event, he cannot suffer flashbacks or nightmares re-experiencing the event. Right? Wrong. Indeed, a diagnosis of a TBI generally requires a loss of consciousness.…

• Accident Victims and PTSD

  Even after the physical injuries have healed, an accident victim may still suffer from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD).  She may continue to experience flashbacks, nightmares, or daydreams in which the traumatic event is replayed…

• Yaz and Yasmin Lawyers Team Up

  We're excited to report that The Danko Law Firm has teamed up with the Yaz lawyers at Girard Gibbs LLP in San Francisco to jointly represent the victims of Yaz and Yasmin in lawsuits against…

• FDA's Role In Approving Yaz and Yasmin Examined

  The legal talk show Lawyer2Lawyer invited Mike Danko and an FDA expert, Professor James T. O'Reilly from the University of Cincinnati College of Law, to discuss Yaz and the Yaz lawsuits.  Mike talked about the lawsuits…

• Yaz Lawsuits Pile Up

  The San Francisco Daily Journal has reported on the status of the Yaz litigation.  The paper interviewed a number of Yaz lawyers, including Mike Danko.   Susan Galinis spoke about her lawsuit: I'm hoping to get the…

• Yaz and Yasmin: Drug Company Places Profits over Safety

  The trendy Yaz and Yasmin birth control pills are unlike any others because they contain a new synthetic hormone, drospirenone. Bayer has aggressively marketed the drugs, especially to young women, as a cure for everything…

• One Yaz Victim's Story

  I admire clients who find the strength to tell their stories on television.  It takes guts. When Susan Galinis said she wanted to do just that, I warned her that it would be difficult and, well, embarassing. …

• FDA Determines Yasmin/Yaz Commercials Misleading

  Beginning in July 2003, the Food and Drug Adminstration warned Bayer (or more accurately, Bayer's predecessor, Berlex Laboratories ) that its television commercials for Yasmin were misleading and should be corrected.  The FDA warned Bayer again…

• Yaz and Yasmin Cause Blood Clots

  Yaz and Yasmin cause blood clots that often begin in the deep veins of the legs. A clot, called a Deep Vein Thrombosis (DVT), can break off and move to the brain, where it causes…

• Yaz/Yasmin Causes Gallbladder Disease Requiring Gall Bladder Removal

  Gallbladder disease includes inflammation and infection (cholecystitis), stones (chollithiasis) or other obstructions or narrowing of the ducts. It appears that Yaz increases the cholesterol level in a woman's bile while, at the same time, decreasing gallbladder…