Ok - so there is no one answer to this question.  In fact, the answers will always depend upon the area of law you are asking about.  However, I'm PROUD to say that I and the members of my firm were recently featured in a pictorial in St. Louis Magazine's 2009 Best Lawyers in St. Louis Edition.

I limit my practice soley to injury law.  That means if you come to me asking for help with a divorce or will, I will send you to someone else (but I probably do know the right people to send you to).  As a St. Louis Injury Lawyer, I focus my practice specifically on workers compensation and other injury cases such as car accidents, semi-truck accidents, dog bites, slip-and-falls, etc.  Bottom line, if you were hurt because of someone else's stupidity or hurt at work, then I'm probably the guy to call. 

And I always get this question - but yes, I do handle cases throughout ALL of Missouri and Illinois. 

In any event, I had to brag a little as I'm awfully proud of our law firm that the lawyers I practice with.  We look forward to continue kicking the pants off the insurance companies throughout 2009!

On December 31, 2008, Ortho-McNeil-Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a unit of consumer and health care products company Johnson & Johnson, announced that its PriCara division had recalled two lots of 50 mcg Duragesic pain patches. The patches were recalled because of cuts in the products that could expose users directly to the product's powerful fentanyl gel, causing a potentially fatal overdose. This is the latest in a long line of product recalls and FDA Public Health Advisories that have plagued fentanyl pain patches over the last several years.

Over the past several years, there have been several multi-million dollar verdicts for families of patients who died while wearing the Fentanyl Pain Patch.  The types of cases are called product liability cases.  Generally, manufacturers of unreasonably dangerous products can be held liable for multiple reasons.  These can be:

• Defective Design - if there is something inherent in the design of a product that makes it unreasonably dangerous
• Defective Manufacture - if the design is theoretically fine, but there is something in the manufacturing process that renders the product unsafe.

Product liability cases against large conglomerates like Ortho-McNeil-Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc., can often be more than most attorneys can handle.  For one thing, the paper trail is riduculously complex in product liability cases.  But more importantly, the cost of handling a case against a corporation like this is often too costly for most attorneys to take on.  Many people don't realize that Plaintiff's attorneys pay the expenses out of their own pocket - and if they lose a case, they lose all of their money.  Spending $250,000 on a case is no big deal for a large these goliath corporations but it's often impossible for a Plaintiff's lawyer.  Luckily, through past successes and the organization of our business model, we can handle these tough and expensive product liability cases.

If you are looking for a Fentanyl Pain Patch Lawyer, call us at 888-956-2487.  We'll often even group other top-notch personal injury attorneys in your area so that we can all work on it together (and we pay them out of our attorney's fee).  By the way, our fee is always a percentage of what we recover - when we recover.  So there is never any fee to consult with us about your case - and if there is no recovery, you don't owe us anything. 

And even though we are St. Louis, Mo injury lawyers, we will investigate these cases from all over the country.