Pharmaceutical and Medical Device Lawsuits on The American Law Journal: Are Patients Winning in Court? View Video

PHILADELPHIA, April 6, 2015 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Online now and tonight at 7:00 p.m. (April 6, 2015) on the Philadelphia CNN-News affiliate WFMZ-TV, The American Law Journal presents "How Is Pharma Faring in the Courts?"  Host attorney Christopher Naughton welcomes plaintiff's attorneys Christopher Placitella of Cohen Placitella & Roth, Stephen Sheller of Sheller, P.C., corporate defense counsel Terry Henry of Blank Rome and Bloomberg News reporter Jef Feeley. 

View the program online at www.youtube.com/LawJournalTV or on the air tonight on WFMZ-TV. Find channel positions for Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware at bit.ly/WatchALJ.

The program looks at the status of today's most widely known mass tort lawsuits now in the courts, including vaginal mesh, hip implants, Risperdal and Actos to name a few and addresses the likelihood of jury verdicts or settlements in favor of patients. The panel also examines bellwhether cases, punitive damages and the latest legal status of generic drugs.

In an opening feature report, The Legal Intelligencer newspaper's senior staff writer Gina Passarella interviews Philadelphia-based plaintiffs lawyers Tom Kline of Kline & Specter, Esther Berezofsky of Williams Cuker Berezofsky and Brian McCormick of Ross Feller Casey. Passarella also interviews pharmaceutical and medical device company defense counsel Howard Scher of Buchanan Ingersoll Rooney and Raymond Williams of DLA Piper.

The American Law Journal is the weekly talk-feature program airing on the CNN-News affiliate for Philadelphia, WFMZ-TV 69 to the Philadelphia tri-state metro Monday evenings. 

Next Monday night on the program: "Social Security Disability: The Rise of Complex Cases."

Video - http://youtu.be/IDYTi5SmZ_c

SOURCE The American Law Journal