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McGowan, Hood and Felder LLC has always supported local businesses in South Carolina, and as such we are members of the SC Small Business Chamber of Commerce and its BUYSC program. Check out the SC Small Business Chamber of Commerce BUYSC  Facebook and Twitter newsfeeds, where the McGowan, Hood & Felder LLC business logo will be displayed all next week. The SC Small Business Chamber of Commerce is a non-partisan and non-profit member advocacy organization that works with small businesses and local communities to make state government work better. The group also seeks to pursue legislative initiatives in the South Carolina General Assembly, including bills on health insurance, workers’ compensation, solar energy, recycling, community safety and more. McGowan, Hood & Felder LLC – South Carolina accident attorneys  

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The New York Times recently reported a bi-partisan sponsored bill was recently introduced in the Senate to allow the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to compel companies to better track their medical devices in light of public outcry of harm caused by defective products, including faulty hip replacements and transvaginal mesh implants. Such products are in a special FDA category, which does not require human testing prior to approval. In order to gain approval for these products, all the company has to do is demonstrate the new product is “substantially similar” to an already approved product or medical device. This was the case in the all-metal artificial hip, which has been making headlines lately for prematurely failing and causing severe pain in patients. Senator Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut told reporters that such legislation is to improve patient safety without slowing approval of new devices by the FDA. “There is clearly…
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Earlier this week, this blog reported on the lawsuit filed by McGowan, Hood and Felder, LLC against Florence School District One on behalf of schoolchildren who were sickened due to raw sewage in the soil on the playground which has been ignored by the school district. Parents have been speaking up and out about the school district’s lack of responsibility for this environmental tort and against the school district’s continued denials of the effects of the contaminated soil. There is currently yellow caution tape around the playground, warning children and others to stay away. Parents on the school improvement counsel allege crews who cleaned up the sewage backup two weeks ago dug deep holes around the playground, but failed to haul off the dirt that they dug up. While the school district released a statement alleging that the crews put lime down to kill surface bacteria, parents maintain this act,…
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