December 2020

MichieHamlett Attorneys at Law is proud to announce that twelve of its attorneys have been named to the 2020 Super Lawyers list. The attorneys identified as either Rising Stars or Super Lawyers include Ed Lowry, Ron Tweel,Jim Cox, Bryan Slaughter, Greg Webb, David Thomas, Kyle McNew, Les Bowers, Jason Seiden

The US Food and Drug Administration is requesting that manufacturers pull all prescription and over-the-counter ranitidine drugs, known by the brand name Zantac, from the market immediately, the agency announced on Wednesday, April 1st, 2020. CNN reports that the FDA noted that an ongoing investigation has determined that levels of a

Press Release We are releasing this information as a response to the numerous inquiries from the press about this case. This is a case in which multiple physicians – individuals who had devoted their lives to helping sick children, who were among the most vulnerable members of our society

By Greg Webb, March 20, 2015 Mandatory arbitration—you may not know what it is, but you have mostly likely signed a contract agreeing to accept arbitration as an alternative to a lawsuit in the case of a grievance. A Consumer Financial Protection Bureau study, released this week, found that among consumers

MichieHamlett vehicle defect attorneys have filed cases in federal court involving Volkswagen cars with emission systems defeat devices. The news broke on Friday, Sept. 18, 2015, that German automaker Volkswagen has been programming more than 11 million vehicles worldwide, nearly 500,000 of those vehicles in the United States, to cheat

By Greg Webb, November 10, 2014 Car windows rolling down, radios coming on, headlights flashing on in an unoccupied car, or going off while driving at night—it sounds more like Halloween pranks than a serious problem that Chrysler has been ignoring, or denying.  For several years now, Chrysler, Dodge and Jeep

We are talk about e-cigarettes again—this is going to be an ongoing topic in health, regulatory, and marketing news until we’re able to fully understand the long-range implications of vaping, which involves the inhaling of liquid nicotine. The latest story to catch my attention states that e-cigarettes are 95% less

By Greg Webb, October 10, 2014 Airbags are in the news as both GM and Japanese manufacturer Takata deal with defective airbags. GM has ordered a halt in sales of 2015 Chevrolet Colorado and GMC Canyon midsize pickup trucks. And there is renewed attention on Takata airbags, used primarily in Honda

Thanks to a 1998 lawsuit, the internal documents from the tobacco industry are available to the public.  Those documents are astounding in their scope, and are a convincing indictment of the Tobacco Industry.  A group of researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health, led by Hillel R. Alpert, ScD,

The story of AT&T’s manipulation of internet speeds reeks of greed and arrogance, not to mention a blatant disregard of the rules.  Let this be a wake-up call for all the other broadband providers out there that seek to play fast and loose with consumers. The FCC is [now] paying