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Jun-8-07 Hartford, CT The benefits of Worker's Compensation far outweigh the costs, even in the face of some employers crying foul over legislated benefit improvements in some states that will result in premium increases. Still, with 450 deaths attributed to workplace accidents each year in the state of Texas alone, the need for compensation funding to support... - OxyContin Canada: Hillbilly Heroin in the Great White North
Jun-6-07 Toronto, ON: The arrest of actress Lindsay Lohan and the various reports of her addiction to OxyContin have thrust the prescription painkiller back into the news. It has been suggested that OxyContin is quickly becoming the most coveted drug on the street. And Canada's Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) pulls no punches when it comes to OxyCon... - Avandia Maker Tried to Silence Doctor who had Concerns
Jun-5-07 Washington, DC: A noted diabetes specialist who first raised the red flag on the diabetic drug Avandia in 2000, claims that the drug manufacturer attempted to gag his criticism and quash his findings, to the point where a colleague refused to write prescriptions for Avandia because GlaxoSmithKline was giving his friend such a hard time. Worse, alleged... - Glaxo Stuck in Damage Control Mode Over Avandia
Jun-4-07 Washington, DC: On May 23, 2007, the Associated Press reported that more than 6 million people worldwide have taken Avandia (rosiglitazone), made by GlaxoSmithKline, to control blood sugar since it came on the market in 1999, and about 1 million patients in the US currently use the drug. However, studies recently analyzed at the Cleveland Clinic shows A... - Ortho Evra Patch: How Safe are the Clinical Trials?
May-30-07 Las Vegas, NV: On its website, Novum Pharmaceutical Research Services states that "Your participation in a clinical research study provides quality information to pharmaceutical companies" and it also states that the "Novum experience is healthy because you receive a free screening physical." One such study it recently conducted with the drug company was o... - High Anxiety over Avandia Report
May-30-07 Washington, DC Even the United States Senate is getting involved in the worried reaction to the report published last Monday claiming the popular diabetes drug Avandia raises the risk and severity of heart attacks. On May 21 the New England Journal of Medicine reported that an analysis of 42 separate studies on the drug concluded that Avandia rais... - Avandia: Heart Attack risk Revealed
May-22-07 Avandia, (known generically as rosiglitazone) a widely used diabetes drug, raises the risk of heart attacks and possibly death, as published in [ The New England Journal of Medicine ] on May 21, 2007. The analysis was based on a review of about 28,000 patients involved in 42 previously conducted clinical studies. The Journal concluded that: Rosiglitazo... - Feds Investigate Profits From Off-Label Heart Stent Procedures - Part I
May-21-07 Washington DC The stenting for profit industry may soon be history. On March 1, 2007, the chairman of the US House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, Henry Waxman (D-CA), ordered Johnson & Johnson and Boston Scientific to turn over documents as part of an investigation into the off-label marketing of drug-eluting stents. Boston's Taxus, and... - Investigations Focus on Illegal Marketing by Medical Device and Supply Companies
May-18-07 Washington, DC Government law enforcement agencies have made it known that illegal marketing and promotional practices of medical device and supply companies are now the targets of investigations basically because lawmakers who oversee spending by public health care programs say the booming business in this field of medicine is a little too good to be true... - Asbestos Lawsuits keep Rolling On
May-14-07 Redondo Beach, CA Ready for some more bad news about asbestos ? Apparently, asbestos poisoning is starting to strike people down at an earlier age. Why this is happening is unclear. "An increasing number of patients suffering from asbestos-related diseases are now younger than in previous reports," reads a May 9/2007 press release from the Asbestos Dis... - Unum Group Unfair and Unjust
May-9-07 Chattanooga, TN Unum Group CEO Tom Watjen knew he had his work cut out for him in 2003, when he took over a company that came with a fair amount of baggage. Over the years, the enterprise known as Unum Provident had lost marks for being arrogant, given to undisciplined pricing, and a not-so-great reputation for delivering on benefits. Part of the fix... - Lilly's Worst Zyprexa Nightmare comes True
May-7-07 Washington, DC: Eli Lilly is not all that worried about personal injury lawsuits related to Zyprexa because the company has enough money to pay the relatively small pay-outs that arise from such actions, according to Attorney Barry Turner, a professor of law and ethics in the UK and a leading authority on consumer fraud litigation involving the pharmac... - Insurance Law Reforms: Putting Pressure on State Farm
May-6-07 Sacramento, CA It has been one year since the State of California Insurance Commission began its push for major insurance industry reform, charging that auto insurers such as State Farm Auto Insurance have been enjoying burgeoning profits, thanks to lower pay-outs and higher premiums. While drivers are beginning to see the benefit of these reforms, St... - Zyprexa Hole Gets Deeper
May-1-07 Washington, DC: On March 7, 2007, Montana's attorney general, Mike McGrath, filed the latest Medicaid fraud lawsuit against Eli Lilly, under the False Claims Act, for illegally promoting the sale of the atypical antipsychotic drug Zyprexa for off-label uses and concealing its link to serious health problems. Considered to be one of the most effecti... - An interview with Paxil Lawyer Karen Barth Menzies
Apr-15-07 Los Angeles, CA: Karen Barth Menzies is a partner of the Los Angeles based law firm of Baum, Hedlund, Aristei, Goldman & Menzies and heads the firm's Pharmaceutical Antidepressant Litigation Department. An activist and consumer advocate, she has been involved with SSRI-induced suicide/violence litigation involving Prozac, Paxil and Zoloft for 15 years and... - Lawsuits Claim FedEx Discriminates Based On Age
Apr-6-07 Memphis, TN: Federal Express (FedEx) is defending itself against two lawsuits that claim the company engages in age discrimination. Discrimination based on age is illegal and victims of the practice can file lawsuits to try to recover any money lost as a result of the discrimination. One of the lawsuits, Clausnitzer et. al. v. FedEx, claims that FedEx... - Prempro Likely Caused Breast Cancer
Apr-3-07 Raleigh, NC The year that Prempro's label warned of an increased risk of heart attacks, strokes, blood clots and breast cancer was the same year that Linda Jackson was diagnosed with breast cancer. She had taken Prempro for more than five years. "When he got the biopsy results back, my doctor told me to immediately stop Prempro," says Jackson. "He in... - Long Term Insurance: Many Customers Unreasonably Denied Claims
Apr-2-07 New York, NY: Reaction to a New York Times article (March 26, 2007) highlighting problems with the long term insurance has been widespread, with people across the US condemning the actions of companies like Conseco. From Hillary Rodham Clinton asking the Government Accountability Office (GAO) to look into the matter, to individuals filing lawsuits aga... - IT Overtime California - Companies Make Money Off Employee Overtime
Apr-1-07 Los Angeles, CA: California is home to a large number of technology companies; however many Information Technology (IT) workers do not actually know their rights when it comes to overtime pay . Knowing their rights, especially relating to overtime, is vital because IT jobs often require overtime work, responding to technology emergencies and performing... - Kugel Mesh Infection: One Woman's Account
Mar-28-07 Chillicothe, MO Anne K. had a hernia repaired with Kugel Mesh in March 2006. "Two months ago my doctor told me about the recall; that explains why I have had this horrific infection," she says. Anne first discovered that she had an infection about one week after surgery, when she went to her doctor to have the staples removed. "When he took the staple...