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The Federal Trade Commission says lawyers and legal advertisers looking for plaintiffs to sue drug companies are making false claims in their TV ads, as well as possibly scaring viewers into stopping taking their medications.

At least 103 out of the 254 counties in the state of Texas have retained counsel to represent them in opioid litigation, according to records obtained by The Record.

A federal appeals court has turned away an attempt to halt the first federal opioid trial by ruling Thursday against Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost, who is concerned cities and counties in his state have usurped his authority. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit complained that Yost waited too long to make his move, noting he didn’t object to the lawsuits filed by Cuyahoga and Summit counties when they were first transferred to the federal multidistrict litigation in Cleveland.

Millions have been poured into television advertising by lawyers and the referral services they rely on, a trend that could result in an explosion of lawsuits against Bayer AG – the company that acquired Roundup-maker Monsanto last year for $63 billion.

A Florida woman is suing a weight loss company over an email it sent to her that she alleges was misleading and wasted 60 seconds of her time.

For more than a decade now, attorneys have been using scare tactics to scare up clients taking beneficial drugs prescribed by their physicians, and this ongoing phenomenon has had an adverse effect on as many as 100,000 diabetics in America.

The Texans for Lawsuit Reform Foundation has released its latest paper, “Evaluating Judicial Selection in Texas: A Comparative Study of State Judicial Selection Methods,” an in-depth study comparing the methods used by various states to select their judges.

Louisiana is known as the Sportsman’s Paradise, but it is also rapidly developing a reputation as a paradise for trial lawyers that use Louisiana’s lawsuit system like their own sport, using job-killing litigation to go after small and large businesses for massive paydays.

Plaintiffs’ attorneys are spending billions of dollars saturating the airwaves with advertisements that target prescription drugs and medical devices for lawsuits. Many of these ads are misleading and alarmist; some have led to the deaths of frightened consumers who stopped taking their medications after seeing such commercials.

The Federal Trade Commission staff has sent letters to seven legal practitioners and lead generators expressing concerns that some television advertisements that solicit clients for personal injury lawsuits against drug manufacturers may be deceptive or unfair under the FTC Act.