New Hampshire Lawyers Present Top 2016 Stories

Are you making all those lists and checking them twice? Gifts? Holiday cards? Party invitations? New Year’s resolutions? From the New Hampshire lawyers at the Law Office of Manning Zimmerman & Oliveira PLLC, here’s one more for you courtesy of the American civil justice system: safer products and services.

This past year we have been following several stories of dangerous products or unfair practices that threaten the health, safety and legal rights of all Americans. Think exploding batteries, lead-laced drinking water, forced arbitration or faulty medical devices, for example.

But thanks to the courage of citizens like you and the power of the civil justice system, New Hampshire lawyers are holding accountable many of those who put profit over public well-being. And that’s a list we can all be proud of, as these stories so richly illustrate.

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Recalls According to a recent study by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, medical device recalls doubled from 2003 to 2012. [Download report] 27,000
Children Nearly 27,000 children were exposed to lead poisoning from the contaminated water supply in Flint, Michigan.$1
Billion After years of denying any link between repeated concussions and brain injury, the NFL settled a lawsuit that sets aside almost $1 billion for players suffering from chronic traumatic encephalopathy.

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