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Sort by date 6,125 pages found matching male lawsuits- More Men Reporting Sexual Harassment in the Workplace
Mar-18-10 Washington, DC A growing number of men are reporting cases of sexual harassment in the workplace, according to a recent report from the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). In the 19-year period between 1990 and 2009, the percentage of men reporting sexual harassment to the EEOC has doubled from eight to 16 percent. Though women still fil... - ATV Rollovers: Summer Fun Takes a Tragic Turn
Jun-30-08 San Antonio, TX Most people think of summer as a great time to spend outdoors, enjoying life. For many people, that outdoor time involves riding their ATV. Unfortunately, every year people are killed when their ATV is involved in a rollover accident. Those that survive their accident are often left with serious, permanent injuries. People who have been... - Civil Rights Leader Settles Discrimination Lawsuit
Mar-8-08 Atlanta, GA: Rep. John Lewis has spent a large part of his life fighting discrimination . He has been a well-known civil rights leader for quite some time. However, he recently settled a discrimination lawsuit with a former employee who alleged that she suffered age, race, and gender discrimination while working in his Atlanta office. The plaintiff, an... - ATV Accidents - ATV Rollover - ATV Accident Lawsuit
Although All-Terrain Vehicles ( ATV ) were originally designed for work on farms and ranches, ATV accidents frequently involve people who use the vehicles for recreation. Despite the name All-Terrain Vehicle, however, most ATVs are not designed for all terrains, because certain terrains increase the possibility of an ATV rollover . Even though ATVs are s... - Hospital Infections - Medical Malpractice, Hospital Infection Lawsuits - LawyersAndSettlements.com
For numerous reasons, hospital infections are increasing, and so are medical malpractice lawsuits that claim hospital infections are to blame, from a staph infection causing kidney damage to a flesh-eating bacteria (from an infection) causing death. Alarmingly, and despite hospital arguments, most of these infections are preventable. All too frequently p... - Taser Death Lawsuits - Wrongful Death, Taser Stun Guns - LawyersAndSettlements.com
Lawsuits have been filed against Taser International Inc., maker of the TASER Electronic Control Device (EDC) alleging people have suffered serious injury and, in some situations, death from Tasers . Although Tasers were designed to be a safe alternative to guns, wrongful death lawsuits have been filed claiming that there are still deaths caused by T... - Nashville Attorney Puts Southwest to the 'Text'
May-27-09 Nashville, TN Attorney Tim Hatton says he feels like he is living that ancient Chinese proverb, "May you live in interesting times", since he took on a text messaging case against Southwest Airlines on behalf of 47-year-old woman from Saugus, California. An experienced attorney with a wide and varied practice, Hatton says, "This is definitely my first cas... - Employment - Verdict in favor of Defendant
Case Name : Sanders v. County of Los Angeles Case Number : BC514539 Verdict Date : 2015-06-25 Outcome Type : Jury Verdict Court : Plaintiff Deborah Sanders (African-American) was a temporary long term relief nurse at the Los Angeles County + USC Medical Center. Sanders began working at LAC+USC in 1993, and was terminated from... - Healthy Men on Paxil 'Lose the Juice'
Nov-15-08 San Fransisco, CA A study released during the second weekend in November (and yet to be published) provides new concern for couples hoping to conceive—especially if the prospective father happens to be on Paxil . Paroxetine (Paxil) is a member of the selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI) class of antidepressants, and has been found to increas... - Veteran Files Camp LeJeune Contaminated Water Lawsuit
Nov-7-22 Wilmington, NC On September 13, 2022, Victor Malafronte filed a toxic tort lawsuit in the Eastern District of North Carolina. His complaint alleges that his exposure to contaminated water at Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune from 1963 to 1967 led to stage 4 chronic kidney disease and severe chronic interstitial nephritis. His lifelong health problem... - Emergency Room Overcharges Lawsuit News & Legal Information
oth insured and uninsured emergency room patients claim they are charged too much because of emergency room overcharging practices. From surgery costs to administrative fees to equipment charges, ER’s routinely overcharge their patients for services. Help is available, though. Attorneys have filed successful lawsuits against hospitals on behalf of... - California Labor Law: Injury Led to Termination
Mar-14-08 Riverside, CA Since August of 2001, Jeana Cork worked as a nursing assistant for Riverside County. She worked in the mental health department and it was a tough job. "We are the emergency room for every kind of patient," says Cork. She got slammed against a wall by two male patients and suffered four ruptured discs. The County, on advice from their insuran... - Two Lawsuits Filed Against Catholic Priests and Dioceses Under New Child Sex Abuse Law
Mar-16-22 Baton Rouge, LA New child sexual abuse lawsuits alleging two Catholic priests sexually abused teens decades ago, along with coverup lawsuits against the Diocese of Baton Rouge and the Diocese of Alexandria in Louisiana, have been filed under a new law that temporarily eliminated the statute of limitations in childhood sexual abuse cases. Jessica Arbou... - SGLT2 Inhibitor Forxiga Safety Review Launched
Ottawa, Canada: Further to the US Food & Drug Administration' (FDA) warning regarding Invokana, a sodium-glucose cotransporter-2 (SGLT2 ) inhibitors, Health Canada has initiated a safety review for the prescription diabetes drug dapagliflozin (Forxiga) and the risk of ketoacidosis, a serious condition that leads to high levels of blood acids cal... - Discrimination: You Don't Have to Take It
May-15-07 Savannah, MO He stood at the dais and said those magic words: "I Have a Dream..." The late Martin Luther King Jr, felled in a hail of gunfire almost forty years ago, was setting the stage for his vision of equality amongst all races and all peoples: whites, African-American, Hispanic. Age. Gender. An end to discrimination. King was robbed of his visi... - $3.5 Million in Damages Awarded to Former UBS Stockbroker in Sex Bias Case
Apr-23-07 A federal jury awarded over $3.5 million in damages on April 13, 2007 to a former stockbroker who filed suit in 2003 against UBS Financial Services Inc. for sex discrimination. Of that $3.5 million, $3 million represented punitive damages. The case is entitled Roberta C Tse v. UBS Financial Services, Inc., 03 Civ. 6234 (GEL). Roberta Tse, a former Fin... - Hog and Poultry Farms Public Nuisance Lawsuit
Increasingly, urban and suburban areas encroach upon agricultural operations, specifically hog and chicken farms. Conversely, farmers have also expanded their operations and disgruntled neighbors have filed "nuisance lawsuits" against farmers and ranchers. Most U.S. states have enacted the "Right to Farm Act"â€"a statute that prot... - INSURANCE DENIALS – MENTAL HEALTH EATING DISORDERS
The California Mental Health Parity Act, enacted in 1999, required coverage of medically necessary treatment for nine enumerated severe mental illnesses as well as serious emotional disturbances of a child. The list was criticized as incomplete, out-of-date and failing to encompass the full range of mental health and substance use disorders. It required, amo... - New Roundup MDL Claimants Must Participate in Settlement Process
Aug-29-21 San Francisco, CA The Northern District of California has ordered current and future plaintiffs in the Monsanto glyphosate multidistrict litigation (MDL) who have not already reached a settlement with Monsanto to participate in a program that has been overseen by Special Master Ken Feinberg since 2019. The Order has apparently prompted Bayer AG, Mo... - DES Miscarriage Drug linked to more Cancer
Aug-20-06 Over the years, DES has been linked to various forms of cancer and reproductive problems in both male and female children born to women who took the drug. For years, it has been associated with cervical cancer and a rare vaginal cancer in younger women, but since 2002, studies have linked DES to breast cancer as well. Diethylstilbestrol (DES), a synthe...