Lawyer Interviews

MF Global Clients Can Still Recover Money through Arbitration

February 8, 2012. By Heidi Turner.

Kansas City, MO: A newly released trustee's report regarding the alleged MF Global securities fraud appears to dash hope of MF Global clients recovering their missing money, but Diane Nygaard (pictured), a securities and commodities attorney at Kenner Schmitt Nygaard, LLC, says clients can still recover their money through arbitration. Customer arbitrations, especially group arbitrations, are most likely to be successful in recovering customers' funds.

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Cardiologo y el Abogado de Agravios Masivos discute los decisiones del FDA Panel Asesor sobre Yasmin/YAZ

January 28, 2012. By Jane Mundy.

Southlake, TX: Un panel de asesores de la FDA convocó en Deciembre 2011 para investigar la seguridad y eficacia de los anticonceptivos orales con drospirenona, Yasmin y Yaz. Dr. Shezad Malik, un cardiólogo y un abogado, discutir los resultados.

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Proving Your Social Security Disability Insurance Case

January 27, 2012. By Jane Mundy.

Tulsa, OK: If you are applying for Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) or Social Security Insurance, you must prove that you are 100 percent unable to work, either in your past relevant work and even in less demanding work. SSDI attorney Eric B. Brown, Garrett Law Office, P.C explains that there are several ways to go about that.

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Attorney: MF Global Clients Unlikely to Recover Money without Arbitration

January 23, 2012. By Heidi Turner.

Kansas City, MO: Despite the efforts of the FBI, the Department of Justice attorneys and investigators from the SEC, CFTC and NFA, the $1.2 billion of customers' funds missing from MF Global securities have not been found. Recent reports indicate the funds have likely gone abroad, possibly indicating MF Global securities law violations. According to Diane Nygaard, a securities and commodities attorney at Kenner Schmitt Nygaard, LLC, customers of the MF Global securities firm have only three avenues to try to recover the 28 percent of their money that they have not yet received.

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Did JPMorgan Chase Have Anything to Do with Your Foreclosure Case?

January 20, 2012. By Brenda Craig.

Newport Beach, CA: The US home foreclosure crisis and the practice of bundling mortgage debt into securitized bonds seems to be a never-ending source of problems. Now, a consumer fraud class-action suit, filed in US District Court, claims that JPMorgan Chase routinely uses fake documents to misrepresent itself as having standing in bankruptcy cases. Rather than bare the cost of proving the chain of ownership, Chase simply manufactures documents. "We've been able to track the JPMorgan cases from Santa Barbara, down to Orange County, Riverside and Los Angeles," says attorney Joe Roberts, "and you see the same nonsense documents being filed, and you see the judges biting on it, and you see the attorneys lying down and letting JPMorgan assert itself."

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"Noticias Buenas para las Demandas de Yaz y Yasmin," Dice Abogado.

January 20, 2012. By Jane Mundy.

Dallas, TX: Cardiólogo y el abogado Dr. Shezad Malik dice que los litigos Yaz y Yasmin recientes, incluyendo otros anticonceptivos orales con drospirenona, es una buena noticia para miles de mujeres que han sufrido efectos secundarios, que van desde problemas de vesícula biliar a la trombosis venosa profunda a un accidente cerebrovascular. E incluso la muerte.

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Attorney Discusses Emergency Room Overcharges

January 17, 2012. By Jane Mundy.

Los Angeles, CA: Attorney Barry Kramer of the Law Offices of Barry Kramer is representing people nationwide who have either paid, or have been billed, excessive emergency room charges. Typically, it is uninsured patients who are victims of hospital overcharging, and to compound the issue, emergency room costs are increasing.

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AMS Transvaginal Mesh Lead Council Discusses Consortium Claim and More…

January 16, 2012. By Jane Mundy.

Minneapolis, MN: Attorney Stacy Hauer was recently appointed as interim co-lead council in the Minnesota State Court American Medical Systems (AMS) litigation. AMS is a major manufacturer of transvaginal mesh. "There is a legal claim called loss of consortium which relates to the marital relationship," says Hauer, "and this is one of the few cases in my career where there is a significant consortium claim to be brought against AMS and other transvaginal mesh manufacturers. The woman and their partners who have been injured have significant loss of intimacy in their relationships due to their injuries."

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Cardiologist and Mass Tort Attorney Discusses Recent Yasmin/Yaz FDA Advisory Panel Decision

January 12, 2012. By Jane Mundy.

Southlake, TX: An FDA advisory panel convened last December 2011 to look into the safety and efficacy of all oral contraceptives containing drospirenone, including Yasmin and Yaz. Dr. Shezad Malik, a cardiologist and attorney, discusses the outcome.

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UK MF Global Clients Get Money Back

January 9, 2012. By Heidi Turner.

New York, NY: Clients of MF Global may have let out a celebratory cheer when they read about the $1.2 billion being returned to the company's clients. Unfortunately, that money is going to MF Global securities clients in Europe, not those in the United States. That means that victims of alleged MF Global securities fraud will likely still have to file an arbitration to recover their missing money, according to Diane Nygaard, a securities and commodities attorney at Kenner Schmitt Nygaard, LLC.

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