This expert is an established specialist on marketing and global supply chain practices within global impact areas, including the fast moving consumer goods and IT industry. He has held a number of executive and senior management roles, including appointments at Proctor & Gamble and TELUS Communications, Inc. He earned his BS in computer science from the University of Windsor, his MBA from Wayne State University, and a PhD in supply chain management from the University ...
A 17-year veteran of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), this expert served as the Regulatory Counsel to the Associate Commissioner for Regulatory Affairs, and previously, in scientific, inspectional, compliance and criminal and civil enforcement capacities as an FDA Consumer Safety Officer (CSO), Compliance Officer (CO), a Senior Special Agent (SA) with the Office of Criminal Investigations (OCI) and as an analytical regulatory microbiologist. During his last ...
This expert's research career has been focused in the area of drug safety. As a clinical epidemiologist and pharmacologist, he uses large administrative databases in Canada and the United States as the main data source for his research. In the last ten years he has made significant contributions to this area quantifying rare drug adverse events with popular prescription drugs. His research has been used by the FDA, Health Canada and European Medicines Agency...
Tobacco manufacturer Altria and e-cigarette company JUUL recently sought to delay the April 2021 start of a virtual Federal Trade Commission (FTC) evidentiary hearing, arguing that a three-month delay might further reduce the risk of COVID-19 exposure. The trial in…
The regulation of electronic cigarettes—often called e-cigarettes—has yet again come before the federal appeals court. Last week, a unanimous panel of the D.C. Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals ruled that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration had the authority to…
There appears to be no slowing down for litigation surrounding JUUL, the electronic cigarette company named in a flurry of lawsuits in the past few years. Most recently, a derivate shareholder lawsuit was filed against Altria Group, a major investor…
A man who was walking outside in August with his E-cigarette in his back pocket began to feel a burning sensation on his leg. Suddenly, the E-cigarette exploded causing a hole in the plaintiff’s leg and severe burns to the…
This case involves an individual who was severely injured by an e-cigarette. The individual just finished smoking the e-cigarette outside of a local mall and placed the device into his front left pocket. After 10 minutes of walking in the mall, the e-cigarette…
This case involves a smoker who purchased an e-cigarette that exploded in their mouth. The smoker went to a shop that sold e-cigarette materials and purchased a mod that the shop assembled for them with a specific type of battery.…
This case involves a middle aged female ex-smoker who purchased extra lithium ion batteries for an e-cigarette. The batteries were manufactured by a company in China, and were specifically marketed as being compatible with the Plaintiff’s electronic cigarette. The individual…
This case involves a woman in South Carolina who suffered severe burns on her leg when an e-cigarette lithium battery exploded. The woman had recently purchased a new battery for her electronic cigarette, which was marketed and sold specifically as…
This case involves a plaintiff in Illinois who was injured when e-cigarette batteries in the pocket of his pants exploded. On the date of the incident in question, the plaintiff had been driving for several hours to meet a friend…
This case involves a young man in Nevada who was seriously injured when an electronic cigarette he was using exploded in his face. At the time of the incident in question, the man was driving to work while using the e-cigarette,…
This case involves a woman who was carrying an e-cigarette that was operated by two lithium ion batteries, which underwent an explosive failure while in close contact with the Plaintiff’s leg. The cigarette, manufactured by a popular maker of electronic cigarettes…
