http://www.lawyersandsettlements.com/ Articles on Emerging Legal News from www.LawyersandSettlements.com Sat, 04 Jul 2009 04:22:14 -0700 Copyright 2001-2009 Online Legal Marketing en-us Wed, 11 Jan 2006 06:24:52 GMT http://www.lawyersandsettlements.com/images/rss_logo.gif http://www.lawyersandsettlements.com/ http://www.lawyersandsettlements.com/features/mri-health-risks-kidney-failure-gadolinium-5.html?ref=rss Evansville, IN: Much has been written about MRI health risks, specifically MRI kidney failure. The usual suspect here is the gadolinium contrasting agent that is often used in concert with MRI. Gadolinium is considered safe if it can be quickly eradicated from the body. However if it can't—as some patients with chronic kidney disease or kidney failure have discovered—the end result, dubbed by some as gadolinium kidney failure, can be devastating. http://www.lawyersandsettlements.com/features/mri-health-risks-kidney-failure-gadolinium-5.html?ref=rss Fri, 03 Jul 2009 14:00:00 -0700 http://www.lawyersandsettlements.com/articles/12480/lawyer-interview-kaplan.html?ref=rss Miami, FL: Lawyers at Dimond, Kaplan & Rothstein have seen a lot of hurt investors over the years—many of them victims of ponzi schemes less elaborate than the one Bernie Madoff ran, but ponzi schemes all the same. “The moral compass of people who commit those kinds of crimes is something that my partners and I will never understand,” says Jeffrey Kaplan. “You either have a moral compass, or you don’t. We’ll never be able to understand what goes through the head of someone who can commit such a heinous fraud.” http://www.lawyersandsettlements.com/articles/12480/lawyer-interview-kaplan.html?ref=rss Fri, 03 Jul 2009 11:15:00 -0700 http://www.lawyersandsettlements.com/articles/12470/lawyer-interview-Mantese.html?ref=rss Troy MI: Attorney Gerard Mantese appears to have struck a very substantial blow to bad faith health insurance companies that routinely deny claims for treatment of autistic children. In a groundbreaking case, Mantese forced Blue Cross Blue Shield to concede that it was wrong to categorize behavioral therapy for autistic children as experimental treatment and use that argument to deny claims. http://www.lawyersandsettlements.com/articles/12470/lawyer-interview-Mantese.html?ref=rss Fri, 03 Jul 2009 09:00:00 -0700 http://www.lawyersandsettlements.com/features/environment-law-environmental-issues-8.html?ref=rss Rockford, IL: Compared with other laws and statutes that have been around since the dawn of time, environmental law is a relative newcomer and arrived in step with recent revelations that not protecting the environment is, in the end not very good for you. Thus, the need for environmental law when modern-day environmental issues such as chemical spills threaten citizens and the environment in which they live. http://www.lawyersandsettlements.com/features/environment-law-environmental-issues-8.html?ref=rss Fri, 03 Jul 2009 06:00:00 -0700 http://www.lawyersandsettlements.com/features/overtime-pay-laws-rules-car-wash.html?ref=rss Pelham Manor, NY: Employees who have not been given adequate overtime pay can take heart. A recent lawsuit, alleging, among other things, that a carwash chain violated overtime laws, has been settled for $3.4 million. http://www.lawyersandsettlements.com/features/overtime-pay-laws-rules-car-wash.html?ref=rss Thu, 02 Jul 2009 18:00:00 -0700 http://www.lawyersandsettlements.com/articles/12482/fixodent-denture-adhesive-zinc-poisoning-3.html?ref=rss Wilmington, NC: People who regularly use denture cream, including Fixodent, PoliGrip and Super PoliGrip adhesives might be surprised to learn that the products have been linked to a risk of health problems including neurological issues. In fact, a study published in the journal Neurology, in 2008, has found a link between overuse of denture creams and a risk of zinc toxicity. That has prompted lawsuits against the makers of denture creams, alleging consumers should have been warned about the risks of these products. http://www.lawyersandsettlements.com/articles/12482/fixodent-denture-adhesive-zinc-poisoning-3.html?ref=rss Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:15:00 -0700 http://www.lawyersandsettlements.com/articles/12460/lawyer-interview-dean-swartz.html?ref=rss Washington, D.C. If Attorney and former Navy lawyer Dean Swartz gets what he wants for his client Colonel Adele Connell, Swartz will have succeeded in shutting down a 59-year-old law known as the Feres Doctrine that makes it almost impossible for military personnel to sue for medical malpractice . “I never knew just how unfair this law was until I got on the other side of the issue," says Swartz. http://www.lawyersandsettlements.com/articles/12460/lawyer-interview-dean-swartz.html?ref=rss Thu, 02 Jul 2009 08:15:00 -0700 http://www.lawyersandsettlements.com/features/hydroxycut-supplements-diet-5.html?ref=rss San Francisco, CA: The recall of various versions of Hydroxycut supplements has evolved into the launching of a class-action lawsuit, together with a pow-wow scheduled for San Francisco later this month to discuss and update potential plaintiffs and legal eagles regarding Hydroxycut diet supplements and their adverse health effects. A total of 14 hydroxycut products , manufactured and distributed by Iovate Health Sciences, have been banned over concern for hydroxycut liver damage—including one that allegedly took the life of a 19-year-old Hydroxycut user in 2007. http://www.lawyersandsettlements.com/features/hydroxycut-supplements-diet-5.html?ref=rss Thu, 02 Jul 2009 08:00:00 -0700 http://www.lawyersandsettlements.com/features/defective-product-personal-injury-3.html?ref=rss Washington, DC: While there have been no injuries cited, the potential for personal injury from a collection of defective products sold by OKK Trading of Commerce, California might have been enormous. This month the company agreed to pay a civil penalty in the amount of $665,000 for failure to comply with the long-standing federal ban on lead paint in toys, together with violations of other federal child safety standards. The fine was the result of defective products personal injury investigations conducted by the US Consumer Products Safety Commission (CPSC). http://www.lawyersandsettlements.com/features/defective-product-personal-injury-3.html?ref=rss Wed, 01 Jul 2009 11:45:00 -0700 http://www.lawyersandsettlements.com/features/car-accident-auto-injury.html?ref=rss Boulder, CO: A car accident that allegedly left a college student with permanent brain injuries has been settled after the employer of a deputy sheriff whose squad car allegedly crashed into the student paid out $125,000. http://www.lawyersandsettlements.com/features/car-accident-auto-injury.html?ref=rss Wed, 01 Jul 2009 09:45:00 -0700 http://www.lawyersandsettlements.com/features/heparin-contamination-injection-28.html?ref=rss Toledo, OH: It has been over a year since the massive Heparin recall was announced in the wake of numerous deaths and reports of serious illness following exposure to Heparin syringes. In that year, patients have learned a lot about Heparin contamination and the factors that can result in their being exposed to contaminated medications. http://www.lawyersandsettlements.com/features/heparin-contamination-injection-28.html?ref=rss Wed, 01 Jul 2009 06:00:00 -0700 http://www.lawyersandsettlements.com/articles/12471/plane-crash-Yeman.html?ref=rss Paris, FR: Earlier reports of a 5-year-old boy surviving the plane crash involving an Airbus A310-300 en route from Yemen to the African Island nation of Comoros, have been corrected. Officials now report that the survivor is a 14-year-old girl, Bahia Bariki. The girl, a citizen of both Comoros and France, was traveling to the city of Moroni, the capital of Comoros, for her summer holiday. http://www.lawyersandsettlements.com/articles/12471/plane-crash-Yeman.html?ref=rss Tue, 30 Jun 2009 17:00:00 -0700 http://www.lawyersandsettlements.com/articles/12459/lawyer-interview-Don-Singleton.html?ref=rss Cumming, GA: Attorney Donald Singleton was recently contacted by a woman who believes she was the victim of pharmaceutical malpractice. The potent prescription painkillers she got from her pharmacist for her chronic pain condition turned out to be a heavy dose of anti-inflammatory steroid. “After a few days, the pain she could usually control with her prescription was still there, she was feeling sick and realized the pills in the bottle were the wrong ones,” says Singleton, who is currently investigating the “mis-prescription” as a potential case of pharmaceutical malpractice. http://www.lawyersandsettlements.com/articles/12459/lawyer-interview-Don-Singleton.html?ref=rss Tue, 30 Jun 2009 15:45:00 -0700 http://www.lawyersandsettlements.com/features/pph-fen-phen-primary-pulmonary-hypertension.html?ref=rss Washington, DC: Fen-phen may have disappeared from store shelves back in 1997, but it hasn't disappeared entirely. Neither has PPH and Fen-phen—and Fen-phen side effects that cause primary pulmonary hypertension (PPH). The adverse health issue has fostered a number of PPH class action lawsuits. http://www.lawyersandsettlements.com/features/pph-fen-phen-primary-pulmonary-hypertension.html?ref=rss Tue, 30 Jun 2009 13:15:00 -0700 http://www.lawyersandsettlements.com/articles/12469/train-explosion-Italy.html?ref=rss Pisa, Italy: A gas explosion on a freight train in western Italy late Monday has claimed the life of a child and at least 11 others, officials close to the scene have said in a report carried today by CNN. The number of injured in what has been described as a horrific train crash has risen to 36, with 16 in critical condition. http://www.lawyersandsettlements.com/articles/12469/train-explosion-Italy.html?ref=rss Tue, 30 Jun 2009 12:00:00 -0700 http://www.lawyersandsettlements.com/articles/12466/Garage-collapse.html?ref=rss Atlanta, GA: A multi-level parking garage no more than 7 years old has collapsed in Atlanta, destroying numerous vehicles. So far, officials on the scene combing through the debris have not found any bodies or survivors. There have been no reports of missing persons thus far in the building collapse, according to reports from the Associated Press (AP). http://www.lawyersandsettlements.com/articles/12466/Garage-collapse.html?ref=rss Tue, 30 Jun 2009 09:45:00 -0700 http://www.lawyersandsettlements.com/articles/12465/Yemenia-plane-crash.html?ref=rss Paris, FR: A plane crash early this morning of a Yeminia Airways flight from the Yemeni capital of Sana to Moroni, situated on the main island of Grand Comore, may have claimed as many as 152 lives. According to a report this morning in the New York Times of the 142 passengers and 11 crewmembers, the only known survivor is a five-year-old boy. He was taken to hospital and his condition is unknown. http://www.lawyersandsettlements.com/articles/12465/Yemenia-plane-crash.html?ref=rss Tue, 30 Jun 2009 09:30:00 -0700 http://www.lawyersandsettlements.com/features/rite-aid-overtime-eckerd-pharmacy-2.html?ref=rss New York, NY: A Rite Aid annual shareholder meeting became the site of a worker's rally, denouncing forced Rite Aid overtime and other practices employees say are "abusive, disrespectful and illegal" according to a June 26 article by the American Federation of Labor (AFL). Although Rite Aid faces allegations of unpaid overtime regarding its assistant managers, it is alleged that union-busting tactics have employees asking shareholders to change how the company is run. http://www.lawyersandsettlements.com/features/rite-aid-overtime-eckerd-pharmacy-2.html?ref=rss Tue, 30 Jun 2009 08:45:00 -0700 http://www.lawyersandsettlements.com/articles/12462/chantix-suicide-side-effects-12.html?ref=rss Lansing, MI: "I went to the doctor for a chest cold and I told him I wanted to quit smoking, obviously cigarettes were making me worse," says Diane (not her real name). "He said I could not get a prescription for Chantix because I suffer from bi-polar disease. He didn't have to tell me that because his father (also a doctor) put me on Chantix last year and I almost committed suicide". http://www.lawyersandsettlements.com/articles/12462/chantix-suicide-side-effects-12.html?ref=rss Tue, 30 Jun 2009 06:30:00 -0700 http://www.lawyersandsettlements.com/articles/12458/Lawyer-interview-Sean-Burke.html?ref=rss Irvine, CA: You might say that a young California woman who went to court seeking damages as a result of a hip surgery that went terribly wrong, won the battle but lost the war. Her attorney, Sean M. Burke, an experienced personal injury lawyer who has fought many a battle on behalf of people injured through medical malpractice, presented the facts of case, the jury understood and awarded Erica Rockabrand $2.9 million dollars for the botched surgeries that left the young woman to face a life of chronic pain. http://www.lawyersandsettlements.com/articles/12458/Lawyer-interview-Sean-Burke.html?ref=rss Mon, 29 Jun 2009 17:30:00 -0700 http://www.lawyersandsettlements.com/features/foodborne-illness-food-poisoning-salmonella-2.html?ref=rss Washington, DC: According to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), rates of foodborne illnesses have been holding steady for five years and have even been declining from the mid-1990s until the beginning of this decade, due mainly to improvements in the meat and poultry industry. And one report says that frequent outbreaks of foodborne illness have been increasing the awareness of food safety. So why has the US recently been plagued by food poisoning outbreaks? http://www.lawyersandsettlements.com/features/foodborne-illness-food-poisoning-salmonella-2.html?ref=rss Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:30:00 -0700 http://www.lawyersandsettlements.com/features/bad-faith-insurance-claim-8.html?ref=rss St. Louis, MO: The proof will come out not in the pudding but in the lawsuit. However, allegations stemming from a bad faith insurance lawsuit and the accompanying bad faith insurance claim filed by a Missouri woman gives one pause to wonder why anyone ever bothers with insurance. That said, there is little doubt as to why the insurance bad faith attorney has so much grist for his mill. http://www.lawyersandsettlements.com/features/bad-faith-insurance-claim-8.html?ref=rss Mon, 29 Jun 2009 11:30:00 -0700 http://www.lawyersandsettlements.com/articles/12456/foodborne-JBS-Swift.html?ref=rss Greeley, CO: It might have been Sunday, but a weekend never appears to deter the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) from pulling the trigger on the recall revolver—especially when it comes to bad beef. And a recall announced last week of beef potentially contaminated with E. coli was expanded yesterday to about ten times the size of the initial E. coli beef recall--yet another possible outbreak of foodborne illness. http://www.lawyersandsettlements.com/articles/12456/foodborne-JBS-Swift.html?ref=rss Mon, 29 Jun 2009 09:30:00 -0700 http://www.lawyersandsettlements.com/articles/12455/levaquin-antibiotic-side-effects-25.html?ref=rss Silsbee, TX: Alice N. says she was given the Levaquin antibiotic two separate times in a few months. Although she is not certain, she believes she has suffered from Levaquin side effects, which include tendonitis. Alice says that since she took the Levaquin medicine for the second time, she has had difficulty walking because of the pain in her legs. http://www.lawyersandsettlements.com/articles/12455/levaquin-antibiotic-side-effects-25.html?ref=rss Mon, 29 Jun 2009 06:00:00 -0700 http://www.lawyersandsettlements.com/features/personal-injury-law.html?ref=rss St. Louis, MO: Unless you happen to be a personal injury attorney, involvement in personal injury law usually comes as the result of personal injury. Such is the case for a woman in Missouri who alleges that a hair relaxer did a lot more than simply relax her hair. http://www.lawyersandsettlements.com/features/personal-injury-law.html?ref=rss Sun, 28 Jun 2009 13:00:00 -0700