Burke & Eisner Law Blog

Will New Study Find Cancer Cure??
Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center scientists will be conducting a trial to test a new cancer treatment which has promise of eradicating cancer in humans. The treatment involves getting specific white cells from select donors and infusing the white cells into patients who have advanced forms of cancer. This new trial, approved by the Food [...]
July 2nd, 2008 05:44 AM

Salmonella in New Hampshire
Health officials in New Hampshire have identified two more cases of Salmonella poisoning. This brings the total New Hampshire cases to three but fortunately none have required hospitalization and no deaths were reported. Public Health Director, Dr. Jose Montero, said the patients were from one to forty-three years old and got sick between May 31st [...]
June 29th, 2008 10:50 AM

Alaskan Sorrow Over Court Decision
Is it any surprise that all across Alaska plaintiffs are reacting to the Supreme Court’s decision reducing the punitive damages from the Exxon Valdez accident to about 500 million dollars for all plaintiffs to share? Lives and businesses were destroyed and plaintiffs get practically nothing. Andrew Wills lost his fishing business when the herring [...]
June 28th, 2008 01:49 PM

Supreme Court Slashes Exxon Damages Verdict!
On Wednesday the U.S. Supreme Court, by a 5-3 vote, slashed a punitive punishments award against Exxon Mobil from two and a half billion dollars to about 500 million dollars. It is no surprise that this decision was applauded by business and decried by Alaskans and environmentalists. This means that victims of the [...]
June 26th, 2008 03:35 PM