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Sort by relevance 6,125 pages found matching male lawsuits- Last Dance, Last Chance for the Texas Two-Step in J&J Talc Litigation
Feb-28-24 Trenton, NJ Until mid-2023, the Johnson & Johnson talcum powder cancer lawsuits consolidated in the District Court of New Jersey have been essentially frozen in place, while the Third Circuit Court of Appeals evaluated J&J’s bankruptcy petitions. The stay involved a complicated bankruptcy scheme, commonly known as the “Texas two-ste... - PAGA To Face Critical Test on November 2024 Ballot
Feb-20-24 Sacramento, CA On November 5, 2024, Californians will choose whether to preserve the Private Attorneys General Act (PAGA) in its present form or replace it with the proposed California Fair Pay and Employer Accountability Act (FPEAA). Since it became law in 2003, PAGA has been an important element of many California labor lawsuits , and is often un... - Suboxone maker Indivior in Trouble with the Law Again
Feb-16-24 Santa Clara, CA Suboxone (buprenorphine and naloxone) was first introduced in 2002 for recovering opioid addicts. The dissolvable tablet was helping people on their road to recovery, but the problems began when a Suboxone film version was introduced in 2013, and it took the drugmakers almost a decade to warn consumers of its side effect: decayed teeth. Man... - Defective Catheter Lawsuit News and Legal Information
Millions of catheters have been recalled over the past few years by medical device manufacturers and the FDA after receiving reports of serious health complications linked to catheter device failure. Subsequently, lawyers have been investigating complaints and defective catheter lawsuits have been filed. Among issues cited in the recalls are catheter separa... - Chemical Exposure Lawsuits
Feb-15-24 Santa Rosa, CA Toxic chemicals at the workplace, at home, or in the environment can cause severe damage to the human body. Unlike other accidents, the harm caused by chemical exposure is immediate, like when toxic substances are mistakenly splashed on someone's skin, leading to serious burn injury . Alternatively, the damage might accumulate over ye... - Suboxone Tooth Decay Legal News and Lawsuit Information
Suboxone is prescribed to treat opioid use disorder in conjunction with other treatments. Patients, however, have experienced dental problems during or after taking the drug and they are filing lawsuits against Indivior, the manufacturer. Indivior has profited from the opioid crisis but by doing so it created medical, financial and emotional problems for Sub... - 3M Sending Payments for Faulty Combat Earplugs
Feb-12-24 Santa Clara, CA As part of its $6 billion faulty combat earplug settlement, 3M began sending payments last month to military veterans who suffered hearing loss and other significant injuries. The payments will resolve about 300,000 lawsuits claiming the manufacturing company knowingly sold defective earplugs that caused hearing loss and tinnitus. Those a... - New York MDL Consolidates Growing Number of Exactech Defective Hip Implant Lawsuits
Feb-9-24 Brooklyn, NY As of February 2024, more than 1,600 defective hip implant lawsuits were pending in multidistrict litigation before the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York. A status conference has been set for March 13, 2024, at which time the parties will discuss the status of the litigation, unresolved discovery matters and the select... - Walmart Workers ask California Judge to OK $2.25M settlement
Feb-8-24 Santa Clara, CA Over 1,700 Walmart employees last month asked a California federal judge to approved a revamped $2.25 million unpaid overtime settlement. The proposed California labor class action was revised to base the class members' payouts on total earnings rather than weeks worked. In a motion for preliminary approval, the Walmart workers sai... - Another Option for Workers Who Cannot Save through an ERISA Retirement Plan
Feb-8-24 San Francisco, CA In February 2022, the United States Supreme Court denied the petition for certiorari filed by the petitioner in Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association v. The California Secure Choice Retirement Savings Program (CalSavers) . The denial kept in place a decision of the Ninth Circuit that permitted a California-sponsored and adminis... - Two Popular California Bakeries Slammed with Wage Theft Lawsuits
Feb-1-24 Los Angeles, CA Two famous bakeries, Firebrand Artisan Breads in the Bay Area, and Sweet Lady Jane in the L.A. area, are both accused of withholding the dough from their employees, and now face California wage theft lawsuits . Filed in Alameda County Superior Court under California’s Private Attorneys General Act, the lawsuit allows employees to see... - Another Monsanto Roundup Loss for Bayer
Jan-31-24 Philadelphia, PA A Pennsylvania man was awarded a massive $2.25 billion after a Pennsylvania jury unanimously ruled that Bayer’s Roundup caused his non-Hodgkins lymphoma. The jury’s verdict on January 26 included $2 billion in punitive damages and jury members determined that Monsanto was negligent in warning customers about the dangers of it... - Ozempic and Mounjaro Weight Loss Lawsuit News and Legal Information
Ozempic lawsuits allege Novo Nordisk failed to warn consumers that its diabetes and weight loss drug carries dangerous side effects, including severe gastroparesis (known as stomach paralysis), gastroenteritis, gallbladder disease and other serious health issues. Eli Lilly’s weight loss drug Mounjaro—and Ozempic’s competitor-- is also accus... - Weight Loss Drugmakers Face Stomach Paralysis Lawsuits
Jan-27-24 Santa Clara, CA A drugmaker’s dream is a patient continuing treatment and forever refilling prescriptions--and that spells profit. Such is the case with the weight loss drugs because discontinuing them leads to regaining lost weight. Ozempic, Mounjaro and Wegovy are star performers, but a drugmaker’s nightmare is the serious side effect... - Johnson & Johnson to Pay $700 Million to Settle State AG Lawsuits
Jan-23-24 Trenton, NJ Johnson & Johnson has reportedly agreed to pay $700 million to settle talcum powder lawsuits brought by 42 states. These state lawsuits allege that the company wrongfully marketed a product that it either knew or had reason to know was dangerous to human health. This settlement affects only this subset of talcum powder lawsuits... - Race Bias Lawsuit: Tesla v. EEOC
Jan-13-24 San Francisco, CA At a San Francisco federal court yesterday, Tesla Inc. said an Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) lawsuit claiming widespread race-based harassment at the company’s Fremont, California facility is short on details and, thereford, the lawsuit should be dismissed. The EEOC sued Tesla in September 2023... - Disney’s Gender Wage Complaint Now Class Action
Jan-5-24 Los Angeles, CA Mickey and Minnie are not on the same page when it comes to wages. A California labor lawsuit initially filed in 2019 and now turned into a class action, alleges that Disney has been systematically paying women employees in California less than men for substantially similar jobs. Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Elihu Berle certifi... - California car accidents | California auto accidents | Lawyersandsettlements.com
Auto accidents are one of the leading causes of injury and death in the United States, causing 3 million injuries and killing over 40,000 people per year. California car accidents are higher than the national average: thousands of auto accident fatalities occur each year in California for numerous reasons. California Car Accidents Nationwid... - Unum Denied Disability Claims Legal Information and Lawsuit News
Unum (formerly known as Unum Provident and First Unum ) has systematically denied Unum disability insurance to thousands of policy holders in the past two decades. Unum and its subsidiaries, including Provident Life, The Paul Revere Life Insurance Company and Colonial Life & Accident Insurance Company have been subject to numerous lawsuits for il... - Unum FAQ
What is Unum? Unum insurance company is a Fortune 500 company that provides long term and short term disability, group life and long term care insurance for more than 100,000 companies and insures more than 25 million people worldwide. Unum is the world’s largest individual disability insurance carrier. Unum’s pre...