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Sort by date 2,026 pages found matching Best Buy- J&J Can't Settle Ortho Evra Birth Control Patch Cases Fast Enough
Sep-18-06 Whitehouse, NJ: More than 500 claimants are seeking "substantial compensatory and, where available, punitive damages," from Johnson & Johnson for injuries and deaths related to the Ortho Evra birth control patch, according to the company's Second Quarter Report filed with the SEC. However, if legal analysts are correct, J&J ain't seen nothin... - 500 Ortho Evra Birth Control Patch Victims Sue Johnson & Johnson
Sep-17-06 New Brunswick, NJ According to Johnson & Johnson's latest SEC filing for the Second Quarter of 2006, the company is currently facing 500 claimants in lawsuits related to deaths and injuries caused by the Ortho Evra birth control patch . "These claimants," the filing notes, "seek substantial compensatory and, where available, punitive damages. ... - SUV Rollovers: Fatal More Often Than Not
Sep-9-06 Sport Utility Vehicles (SUVs) are a popular consumer vehicle. However, many people don't know that SUVs are prone to deadly rollover accidents. According to the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHF), rollover accidents are not common. In fact, they only make up three percent of vehicles in police-reported crashes. However, because they are s... - Copyright Theft -- Internet Highway Robbery
Sep-5-06 Columbus, Ohio Karri Hill learned the hard way not to trust a competitive web developer when it comes to copyright. She designed a proposal for a potential client and a few months later, saw her design online. Trouble was, she didn't receive any payment for it. "I designed and programmed a front page into html and sent it to my potential client as a li... - Pfizer Celebrex Lawsuits - 1500 and Counting
Sep-4-06 The first Celebrex trial, originally set for June 6, 2006, has been delayed indefinitely, reportedly to give attorneys more time to gather information. Although no new trial date has been set, legal analysts now predict that Celebrex trials will begin in early 2007. The delay was requested by a federal judge in San Francisco, where Pfizer is facing around... - Roche puts Accutane profits over Lives of Consumers
Aug-31-06 In 1985, Accutane's package insert directed at doctors first mentioned reports of depression in patients taking the acne drug, which means that more than 20 years ago, Hoffman-LaRoche at least suspected there might be a risk of depression and suicide by persons taking the drug. However, Roche's financial records show that the company is not about to let a... - False advertising for Pantene has upset People around the World
Aug-24-06 People from around the world have been upset by false advertising claims about Pantene Pro-V shampoo. Last year, Proctor & Gamble was accused two times of falsely advertising its products in China. In the case of Pantene Pro-V, an advertising standards agency ordered the commercial be taken off the air. Additionally, the Advertising Standards Authority... - Lawmakers say FDA better Clean Up its Act
Aug-18-06 For six years, the Bush administration has placed pharmaceutical industry interests ahead of public interest by appointing persons with strong ties to drug companies to high level positions at the FDA. As a result, Congressional investigations and a recent survey indicate that the health and safety of all Americans is being compromised. On July 20, 200... - $2 Million Fine Small Potatoes For Kaiser Transplant Disaster
Aug-13-06 Although the $2 million fine levied against Kaiser Permanente was the largest ever imposed by the California Department of Managed Health Care, it seems like small potatoes considering the damage caused by the HMO's failed kidney transplant program. The second largest fine ever levied against an HMO was $1 million back in 2002, following the death of a pa... - AOL likes you so much, they Bill you Twice!
Aug-11-06 Back in January Time Warner's American Online (AOL) agreed to pay customers as much as $25 million to settle claims that it wrongly billed customers for online services and products without consent. Consumers also complained that they were billed for accounts after they tried to cancel them. Well, AOL may have settled those lawsuits, but it appears it... - Class Action Suit Filed Against Hyundai
Aug-8-06 They may claim to have "America's Best Warranty," but those involved in a class-action lawsuit filed in California disagree. At issue is Hyundai's failure to replace or repair clutches in Tiburons that had low-mileage on them. The suit covers 2003 Tiburon GTs that have six-speed manual transmissions and 2.7-liter engines. However, the suit may expand to i... - Lawsuits Multiply For Johnson & Johnson's Charite Spine Disc
Aug-7-06 According to the Institute of Medicine, over a million Americans are severely injured each year by medical devices. In 2002 alone, the FDA received more than 111,000 reports of adverse events involving medical devices. That number has increased since the Charite artificial spinal disc was approved for use in the US in October 2004. As of July 2006,... - Credit Card Abuse: How Universal Default Affects You
Aug-6-06 You may not be aware of it, but the credit card companies are watching you. Even if you already knew this, they are probably watching more closely than you think. In addition to watching your every move on their product, they are also watching when you pay your bills, whether or not you apply for other credit cards, and whether or not your credit score ha... - Medtronic's Medical Device Legal Troubles far from Over
Jul-31-06 Minneapolis based Medtronic, Inc. is one of the nation's largest medical device makers. In mid-July 2006, the company agreed to pay a $40 million fine to settle charges that its Sofamor Danek division paid kickbacks to doctors to get them to use the company's spinal products, which accounted for 20% of the company's $11.3 billion in sales in 2005. On J... - No Medicaid for Charité Artificial Spinal Disc
Jul-22-06 On May 16 2006, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) denied Medicare coverage for Charité Artificial Spinal Discs in patients 60 years or older. The Wall Street Journal reported that there was a lack of evidence to indicate that surgery to implant the device was "reasonable and necessary", not to mention the cost: Charité comes with a pri... - Not Exempt from Overtime
Jul-13-06 "We negotiated a settlement for my unpaid overtime but I turned down their final offer - the college wanted me to resign. It's not my fault that I was misclassified as exempt. Why should I resign? This third offer wasn't even enough to cover the overtime they owed me. "I'm going to fight to the end, all the way to trial if need be," says Susan James (not... - Lawsuits - Only Weapon Available Against Giant Big Pharma Pushers
Jul-11-06 Over the past several years, new studies have shown the new generation of psychiatric drugs to be not only extremely dangerous but also ineffective, and the majority of these medications in fact now carry black box warnings about a number of life-threatening side effects associated with their use. The drugs include selective serotonin re-uptake inhibitor... - Bush's Mental Illness Screening Squad On the Move
Jul-9-06 The tax dollar funded mental health screening programs popping up in every corner of the nation represent an enormous gift to Big Pharma from the Bush administration. After all, drug companies can't push drugs without a lucrative customer base, so the screening programs are a great solution for that little problem. On April 29, 2002, Bush kicked off th... - Big Pharma Research Racket Is Killing People
Jun-23-06 Over the past six years, ten FDA approved drugs have been withdrawn from the market due to deaths and injuries, leading lawmakers to accuse the FDA of not doing its job in protecting the public from unsafe drugs and to call for measures of improvement. On June 20, 2006, the New York Times reported that "two influential senators are expected within weeks t... - Drug Companies Still Peddling Risperdal and Zyprexa For Off-Label Use
Jun-17-06 According to Kelly O'Meara, author of the newly released book, Psyched Out, America has a drug problem. "It's not as covert as those illicit and illegal "Just Say No" drugs," she says, "but, rather, Americans have become drug users by way of being diagnosed as suffering from one or a number of alleged mental disorders." "Sharing one's feelings with a doc...