On March 18, 2013 the Attorney General’s office filed documents to suspend the licenses of William G. Terpstra, M.D., Robert A. Brewer, M.D., Donald Wagoner, M.D. and Marilyn Wagoner, M.D. allegedly due to inappropriate and dangerous prescribing habits that did not meet established standards of medical practice and posed substantial risk to the safety of [...]
Current Investigations
Notification on Settlement in Herbicide Lawsuit Coming Next Week Beginning next week, DuPont will begin notifying all plaintiffs who lost their trees to the herbicide Imprelis that a settlement has been reached in the federal class action lawsuit against the major chemical manufacturer. Starr Austen & Miller LLP filed a class action lawsuit against DuPont [...]
Andrew Miller, of Starr, Austen & Miller, LLP, announced today that the firm is investigating potential products liability claims related to 2011 Mazda CX-9 transfer case failures. A transfer case is found on all-wheel-drive vehicles. It connects to the transmission and the axles. The transmission sends power to the transfer case which transfers the power [...]
Scott Starr, of Starr, Austen & Miller, LLP, announced today that the firm is investigating potential products liability claims related to LG and Kenmore Elite gas dryers, which have been recalled due to a fire hazard. The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (USCPSC) announced on August 21, 2012, that approximately 21,000 LG and Kenmore Elite [...]
Scott Starr announced today that the firm is continuing to investigate potential products liability claims related to General Motor’s announced recall of approximately 250,000 sports utility vehicles which have a door electrical problem which can cause fires. The defect reported is a door electrical problem which occurs when fluid enters the driver’s door module, which [...]
Scott Starr, of the Indiana law firm of Starr Austen & Miller, announced today that the firm is investigating potential products liability claims related to certain General Electric (GE) dishwashers, which have been recalled because of the danger of potential fires. GE has voluntarily recalled approximately 1.3 million dishwashers, sold from March 2006 through August [...]
Starr Austen & Miller are investigating the death of 1-year-old Juan Cardenas who was found submerged in a baptismal pool Wednesday at a day-care center he attended located in Praise Fellowship Assembly of God, 6700 Michigan Road, on Indianapolis’ Northwest side. According to police, a therapist had arrived to begin a session with the boy, [...]