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For our latest installment of Legal Lotto, we highlight the monthly “Injury Alert” newsletter from New York-based Parker & Waichman. It’s billed as “your source for top-notch, valuable and current information about issues related to personal injury law. It also includes a list of current product recalls.” Recent topics include: over-medicating children and risks associated with the unapproved (“off-label”) use of atypical anti-psychotic drugs in elderly patients. While consumers should be informed about product and drug recalls and malpractice issues, something just doesn’t sit right about an “Injury Alert.” Maybe we’re wrong, but stoking the lawsuit monster makes us sick.  And who signs up for this? Are people just sitting around looking for a way to cash in?  Post your thoughts.