Beasley Allen firm, attorneys top Chambers USA list of best lawyers in America

They are all different ages and come from a variety of backgrounds, but they share two things in common: they or someone they love has been injured or killed because they were passengers in Chrysler vehicles -- cars with known design defects or faulty components. They have also lost their ability to hold Chrysler legally accountable for all of the injuries and deaths that could have been avoided.

A new medical procedure to find polyps in the colon may hold promise, but kinks still need to be worked out, according to a report in MedPage Today. The new procedure, called a capsule colonoscopy, offers an alternative to the traditional colonoscopy in which a patient undergoes a bowel cleansing process before going under local anesthesia and having a flexible telescopic camera passed through the rectum and bowel.

Beasley Allen attorney J. Cole Portis has filed a lawsuit for an Alabama woman whose husband was killed in a vehicular rollover accident while driving his 1993 Geo Tracker. The lawsuit was filed in U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama Northern Division, and names as Defendants Suzuki Motor Corporation; American Suzuki Motor Corporation; General Motors; General Motors of Canada, Ltd.; Cami Automotive Inc.; Takata Inc.; Takata-Fischer Corporation; Takata Fabrication Corporation; and Key Safety Restraint Sysytems, Inc.

Memorial Day marks the beginning of summer fun and activities for people throughout the country. For millions of Americans, summer fun involves cleaning the back yard pool for the season's first use or heading to the community pool with the kids, which is why the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission released its latest pool and spa safety report just before the Memorial Day weekend.

Medical device maker Medtronic sent a letter to doctors worldwide earlier this month warning that nearly 37,000 of its Sigma and Kappa pacemakers, most manufactured between November 2000 and November 2002, could have faulty wiring that can cause the pacemakers to work improperly or not at all. This defect can be deadly for the estimated 1.7 million people who have the pacemakers implanted in their chests.

Today Alabama's Attorney General Troy King announced an additional $89 million in settlements in ongoing litigation against a total of 72 pharmaceutical companies accused of defrauding the state's Medicaid system by overcharging for drugs. Beasley Allen is representing the state in the Average Wholesale Price (AWP) litigation, and has already secured settlements totaling $34.75 million and jury verdicts of more than $352.4 million against pharmaceutical company defendants.

The makers of Remicade, a biologic treatment for various inflammatory disorders involving the immune system, have updated information on the medication to include a Boxed Warning of an invasive fungal infection and a rare type of T-cell Lymphoma. Some of the infections and diseases that resulted from use of Remicade have been fatal.

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and AS Medications Solutions LLC announced a nationwide recall of all lots of the 0.25 mg. heart medication digoxin manufactured by Caraco Pharmaceuticals Laboratories distributed prior to March 31, 2009 because they may differ in size and therefore may contain more or less of the active ingredient.

Salix Pharmaceuticals, makers of gastrointestinal drugs, is reporting a first-quarter loss, however sales of the company's products used to clean the bowel prior to colonoscopies enjoyed a 23 percent increase compared to first quarter 2008, according to The News & Observer.