- Jason Edward Ochs
- May 8, 2018
On May 8, 2018, Carbon County filed a 72-page complaint in US District Court naming more than fifteen opiate manufacturers and distributors across the country for alleged misrepresentation about the addictive properties of opiate medications. On August 10, 2017, President…
- Jason Edward Ochs
- May 8, 2018
If you have undergone heart surgery recently, chances are a Stockert 3T Heater/Cooler was used during their procedure. LivaNova PLC, the manufacturer of the 3T, controls roughly 60% of the market for such heating/cooling devices. During a cardiac surgery, the…
- Jason Edward Ochs
- April 15, 2018
Just within the past several months, new and staggering statistics have surfaced that really place into perspective the overall scope and devastation of the opioid epidemic that is currently ravaging just about each and every community in the country. To…
- Jason Edward Ochs
- March 27, 2018
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) distributed a warning letter to physicians concerning the risks of using Abbott Vascular’s Absorb GT1 Bioresorbable Vascular Scaffold (BVS) on March 18th, 2017. The BVS is a stent placed into one’s coronary artery…
- Jason Edward Ochs
- February 6, 2018
Recently reports have arisen linking the risk of vehicles with keyless ignition systems and carbon monoxide poisoning. Vehicles installed with the “on / off” button that automatically turns the vehicle on or off with a push of a button were…
- Jason Edward Ochs
- January 10, 2018
Last Month, the California Supreme Court issued a controversial ruling that will allow drug manufacturers to be held liable for generic versions of the same drug manufactured by another company, even if they have sold the rights to the drug…
- Jason Edward Ochs
- October 29, 2017
Across the world, people were fascinated and confused by Flight 370, the Malaysian Airlines Boeing 777 that seemingly vanished in October of 2014. The plane itself, all 239 passengers, the crew, and the piolet, Zaharie Ahmad Shah, disappeared when it…
- Jason Edward Ochs
- October 27, 2017
After nearly four weeks from the tragic events that left 59 people dead and scores of individuals scarred for life both physically and emotionally, the questions are beginning to surface about liability. At the center of this inquiry lies the…
- Jason Edward Ochs
- October 17, 2017
On September 27, 2017 I presented before the Wyoming County Attorney’s Association on the opioid crisis and the impact same was having on Wyoming. The opioid crisis is the worst public health crisis of our generation; far outpacing smoking. Since 2015 approximately 25…
- Jason Edward Ochs
- October 15, 2017
In a bombshell report early this October, the New York Times released an article exposing over three decades of sexual misconduct by Hollywood mega-producer, Harvey Weinstein. As a result, I am taking a brief detour from our usual “product safety”…
