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From 2003 to 2015, 3M Company manufactured and sold Combat Arms Earplugs to all four branches of the U.S. military. The earplugs were meant to block or cancel loud noises that could lead to hearing loss and tinnitus, a serious medical condition that causes a person to hear a constant roar/buzz noise. Unfortunately, the earplugs 3M sold were too short for proper insertion into many users’ ears and the earplugs gradually and subtly loosened until they were no longer effective. . . . Continue Reading

Following a jury trial in the Circuit Court for Baltimore City against The Baltimore Hotel Corporation, Bekman, Marder, Hopper, Moore & Quinn, LLC lawyer, Jeff Quinn, obtained a $584,643.00 verdict. The plaintiff in the case was a thirty-nine year old woman, who attended a Women’s Business Enterprise National Council (WBENC) convention in Baltimore City in 2013.  After the convention had concluded for the day, she was networking in the lobby bar of the Hilton Baltimore Hotel on Pratt Street.  While . . . Continue Reading

After a two-week jury trial, Bekman Marder Lawyers Aaron Moore and Jeff Quinn obtained a $2,596,589 verdict in Fairfax County, Virginia. The case involved a 33-year-old woman diagnosed with an enlarged lymph node and Lyme’s disease. In fact, both diagnoses were incorrect.  A general surgeon in 2011 found that the patient did not have an enlarged lymph node In March 2011 and a subsequent CT scan confirmed that finding.  The patient was referred to an ENT surgeon who, nevertheless, recommended a lymph node biopsy in . . . Continue Reading

In an 82-page opinion yesterday, a federal judge permitted the claims of more than 800 Guatemalan victims of non-consensual human experimentation, represented by Bekman, Marder, Hopper, Moore & Quinn , to proceed against Defendants, Johns Hopkins, The Rockefeller Foundation, and Bristol-Myers Squibb. The Plaintiffs’ class action claims arise from human experiments conducted in Guatemala in the 1940s.  The victims, including children, soldiers, prisoners, and individuals in asylums, among others, were intentionally infected with syphilis and other venereal diseases in order to study how those diseases were . . . Continue Reading

Bekman, Marder, & Adkins and pharmacist-attorney, Aaron L. Moore have filed one of the first lawsuits in the country against Insys Therapeutics, Inc.  Bekman Marder is also investigating additional similar lawsuits. If you or someone you know has been prescribed the powerful narcotic Subsys, also known as oral Fentanyl spray, call us now at 410-539-6633. Subsys is a medication that is 100 times more potent than morphine.  It is a fentanyl-based opioid mouth spray intended to treat cancer patients suffering intense episodes of . . . Continue Reading

In the last two weeks, Volkswagen has admitted that it sold 11 million cars with so-called “Clean Diesel” engines worldwide that were equipped with software allowing them to cheat emissions tests.  Below are five things you need to know: What did Volkswagen do? Independent automobile researchers report that Volkswagen sold 11 million diesel cars that produced as much as 40 times the E.P.A. allowed limit of nitrogen oxide, a pollutant that contributes to respiratory problems including asthma, bronchitis, and emphysema. . . . Continue Reading

Following a four-week jury trial, SCBekman Marder Partners Paul D. Bekman and Wendy L. Shiff obtained a verdict on behalf of their clients in a medical malpractice case tried in the Supreme Court of Dutchess County in Poughkeepskie, New York. Bekman and Shiff represented  a resident of Dutchess County who underwent a cardiac catheterization and stent placement at a Dutchess County Hospital.  Following the procedure, nurses at the hospital failed to recognize that the patient was exhibiting signs and symptoms of a stent . . . Continue Reading

Today, on behalf of over 750 victims and family members, SCBekman Marder filed a lawsuit against The Rockefeller Foundation, the Johns Hopkins Hospital, the Johns Hopkins University, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and the Johns Hopkins Health System Corporation, alleging that they were the primary driving force behind illegal and immoral human experiments in which vulnerable populations of Guatemalans were deceived, and intentionally exposed to syphilis, gonorrhea and other venereal . . . Continue Reading

Bekman, Marder, Hopper, Moore & Quinn, L.L.C. is proud to announce that it has been named to the U.S. News and World Report “Best Law Firms” list.  Nationally, SCBekman Marder was named to the Third Tier of the Best Law Firms in the are of Admiralty and Maritime Law.  In Maryland, SCBekman Marder was named to the First Tier in the areas of Admiralty & Maritime Law , Arbitration, Mediation, Plaintiffs’ Medical Malpractice , Plaintiffs’ Personal Injury , and Plaintiffs’ Product Liability Litigation . For the 2015 “Best Law Firms” list, U.S. News and World Report . . . Continue Reading

Last week, a federal jury in West Virginia awarded an Illinois couple $3.27 million in a transvaginal mesh case.  The plaintiff suffered from stress urinary incontinence, and, in 2011, underwent surgery to implant Johnson & Johnson’s transvaginal mesh sling.  Within a year, the sling had to be removed because it was causing her pelvic pain and pain during sexual intercourse.  The couple filed suit alleging that the mesh was defectively designed and that Johnson & Johnson had failed to warn . . . Continue Reading