Merck & Co. are battling lawsuits that involve their Zostavax shingles vaccine that allegedly caused blindness, paralysis, brain damage, liver failure, and even death.

Shingles are most common in adults over 50 years of age.  You must have previously had the chickenpox to contract shingles.  

The Zostavax lawsuits allege that Merck & Co. became aware that the vaccine could cause patients to contract the shingles during its premarket approval trials and did not list the possible side effect until December of 2014, seven years after the FDA approved it.

The National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program allows patients to recover millions for the harm they suffered.  There are no specific types of injuries that must be sustained in order to entitle a petitioner to compensation, however, the person bust have had side effects from the vaccine that lasted 6 months or more, resulted in a hospital stay or, resulted in death.

Currently, there more than 50 lawsuits in the United States against Merck & Co. for the Zostavax shingles vaccine.  We believe there are many more potential patients that have been affected by the vaccine.

If you or a loved one suffered from side effects from Merck & Co.’s Zostavax shingles vaccine, please call the experts at Inserra Kelley Sewell to see whether you might be entitled to compensation.  

General Motors cars, trucks and SUVs manufactured from 2000 until 2012 have a dangerous and deadly defect in their airbag system that can prevent the front airbags from deploying in certain frontal impacts. During this timeframe, General Motors installed a time limit calibration in the airbag system that depowers the frontal airbags after 45 milliseconds into a collision.

Frontal airbags are needed in collisions between 18 to 24 miles an hour. Despite knowing about the defect GM did nothing to fix the fatal flaw that has caused thousands of crashes and killed at least 125 people.

On February 6, 2014, GM recalled about 800,000 of its small cars with faulty ignition switches. The company continued to recall more of its cars over the next several months, resulting in nearly 30 million cars recalled worldwide.

In April 2016, GM reached a confidential settlement with a Pittsburgh-based law firm in a wrongful death lawsuit filed on behalf of James E. Yingling, III. He was killed in a one car crash and days before his widow, Nadia Yingling was to go to trial on behalf of her deceased husband, GM offered a closed-door settlement to her which her attorney, Victor Pribanic found acceptable.

If you currently drive a GM vehicle, please visit the safercar.gov for information about the GM ignition switch recall.

If you or a loved one has been injured in an accident involving a GM vehicle with a defective ignition switch, please call the experts at Inserra Kelley Sewell to see whether you might be entitled to compensation.

A California jury awarded former groundskeeper Dewayne Johnson 289 million.  He claimed the weed killer Roundup gave him terminal cancer. He was a groundskeeper at a school outside of San Francisco and estimated he used Roundup about 20-30 times a year.  He was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma in 2014. He contacted Monsanto, who makes Roundup, to find out if there was a correlation between the herbicide and his cancer. They told him no so he continued to use the product. The cancer spread, and lesions covered as much as 80% of his body at the time of trial.  In March of 2015, the World Health Organization said that the herbicide glyphosate in Roundup was probably carcinogenic to humans. It is one of the most commonly used herbicides in the United States. Monsanto, continues to deny that Roundup causes cancer. Mr. Johnson’s attorney estimated there are 5,0000 potential claims across the country.

If you or a loved one suffered from side effects or cancer from Roundup, please call the experts at Inserra Kelley Sewell to see whether you might be entitled to compensation.  

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What does this mean for your children?  You must use federally-approved child safety seats for children younger than 8 when they are riding in vehicles.  If your child meets the weight or height requirements listed by the manufacturer then you do not need to use the car seat anymore.  Safety belts are designed for a 165-pound male. Do not let your child ride in the front seat if they are younger than 8.

There is a case in Nebraska where a child was in the front seat of a van one time at age 6 and an adverse driver hit the van. The airbag deployed and paralyzed the child. He was a quadriplegic after the accident. His grandma was the driver of the van and she felt horrible guilt over the tragedy of the accident. The child lived through his teen age years and made it through high school.  He passed away shortly after high school from his injuries from the accident.

If you need to check on the car seat laws of Nebraska please go to the Nebraska Department of Transportation’s Highway Safety Office.  There have been hundreds of crashes a year with improperly restrained children. The fine for having your child in an improper car seat is $25.00 plus court costs.

If you or a loved one has been in a motor vehicle accident, please call the experts at Inserra Kelley Sewell to see whether you might be entitled to compensation.

In recent years, multiple metal-on-metal (MoM) hip implant manufacturers such as DePuy, Smith & Nephew, Stryker, and Zimmer have faced allegations arising from their defective MoM implants.  The FDA has warned that MoM implants “have unique risks in addition to the general risk of all implants.” The defective devices cause metal components to rub against one another, which can send small metal shards into the surrounding hip joint.  The defect can lead to sudden hip failure, hip dislocation, hip fracturing, metal poisoning, and pseudotumors. Sadly, the manufacturers didn’t properly test the safety of their own product. Treatment for these injuries can include invasive revision surgeries.  Often, these cases are misidentified as medical malpractice cases but they turn out to be product liability cases.

If you or a loved one received Metal-on-Metal Hip Implant and have experienced side effects, please call the experts at Inserra Kelley Sewell to see whether you might be entitled to compensation.