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Minnesota ArticlesReal-World Wrangling Surrounding St. Jude Heart Valve April 17, 2012. By Gordon Gibb.Minneapolis, MN: It has been the basis for many a night terror and many a movie plot: the ticking time bomb that is either in the throes of being diffused or the attempt to escape from one. The slow motion run as the potential victim tries to distance himself from the pending explosion the audience knows is about to happen, but when? In fact, the foregoing is a metaphor summarizing the lives of individuals implanted with the st jude heart valve.
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Medtronic Lawsuit Settled for $85 Million April 13, 2012. By Gordon Gibb.New York, NY: A Medtronic lawsuit brought by disgruntled shareholders has been settled with the decision by the defendant to pay $85 million. The Associated Press reports the manufacturer of medical devices agreed to the settlement in an effort to put behind them allegations surrounding the Medtronic infuse bone graft and Infuse bone repair protein.
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Shoulder Pain Pump Plaintiffs Settle with Stryker March 26, 2012. By Gordon Gibb.Salt Lake City, UT: The shoulder pain pump continues to be a scourge for many plaintiffs who willingly accepted a doctor's recommendation to feed pain medication directly to the shoulder joint without understanding the potential for serious ramifications. Shoulder pain pump manufacturers were never granted FDA approval to use the device directly to the shoulder joint (just the surrounding soft tissue), and doctors claim pain pump manufacturer representatives failed to apprise them of the risk.
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Thomas Produce Recalls Jalapeno Peppers
March 31, 2011. By Lucy Campbell.
Washington, DC: Thomas Produce of Boca Raton, FL, is recalling 320 boxes of Jalapeno Peppers because they have the potential to be contaminated with Salmonella, an organism which can cause serious and sometimes fatal infections in young children, frail or elderly people, and others with weakened immune systems.
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Will Levaquin Lawsuit Win for Plaintiff Signal a Trend? December 29, 2010. By Gordon Gibb.Minneapolis, MN: Given that Levaquin reaps billions of dollars in profit for Johnson & Johnson and its subsidiary, Ortho-McNeil-Janssen Pharmaceuticals, there should be no problem funding settlements stemming from Levaquin lawsuits—the first of which recently wrapped up with a $1 million-plus settlement for the plaintiff.
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Discover Accused of Misleading Tactics December 23, 2010. By Heidi Turner.Cottage Grove, MN: When it comes to credit card abuse, many customers may have thought the new credit card laws offered them greater protection from predatory credit card practices. In truth, there is some protection from credit card rate hikes and credit card fraud, but those restrictions have forced credit card companies to find new ways of generating profits—all at the consumer's expense.
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Johnson & Johnson Loses First Levaquin Side Effects Trial December 16, 2010. By Charles Benson.Minneapolis, MN: A Minnesota jury recently ruled that Johnson & Johnson must pay $1.1 million in punitive damages to an 82-year-old man who claimed the company failed to properly warn of Levaquin side effects, Bloomberg reports.
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That's When the Penny Dropped—'Koua Fong Lee's Lawyer Says Toyota Liable' October 28, 2010. By Brenda Craig.Eagan, MN: After spending three years in prison, Kuoa Fong Lee is now trying to reacquaint himself with his family and pull his life back together, says Brent Schafer, the attorney who realized last January that Lee was likely the victim of a wrongful conviction for vehicular homicide. "He can't forget about what happened to him," says Schafer, "every night when he goes to bed, he can't believe he is actually free."
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Contractor Sues Minnesota GOP Gubernatorial Candidate for Legal Malpractice October 23, 2010. By Charles Benson.McLeod County, MN: A Minnesota contractor is suing Republican gubernatorial candidate Tom Emmer for legal malpractice, alleging that he was inadequately represented in a case involving one of his suppliers.
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Imprisoned Toyota Driver Freed, Charges Dropped August 11, 2010. By Gordon Gibb.Ramsey County, MN: In a story that LawyersandSettlements.com has been following, a man originally convicted in 2007 for vehicular homicide has been freed. Koua Fong Lee had been driving a 1996 Toyota Camry carrying his family when the car, Lee claims, accelerated uncontrollably and slammed into the back of a car stopped at a red light at the end of an expressway off-ramp. It was estimated that Lee's car had been travelling up to 90 miles an hour when it hit the car in front, killing three people.
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