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Jun-7-15 Camden, NJ If labor laws are anything, they are complicated. To that end, an employee could be forgiven for not having a good, working and fundamental knowledge of labor laws that govern their own particular jobs. And even then, the employee tends to trust management with the finer points of keeping everything sorted out. However, that is not always the ca... - Yahoo Email Scanning Class Action Lawsuit Gets Green Light
Jun-4-15 New York, NY An Internet privacy class action lawsuit pending against Yahoo has been granted approval and will move ahead, according to court documents. The decision was made by Judge Lucy Koh, who stated that all US residents who are not Yahoo Mail subscribers but who have sent emails to or received emails from a Yahoo Mail subscriber between O... - Is there a Viagra-Melanoma Link?
Jun-4-15 Miami, FL With some medications and their side effects, the link is clear: the side effect is caused by the medication. But the relationship between some medications and their supposed adverse effects is far less clear. Maybe the side effect is caused by the very factors the medication is treating. Maybe the people who take the medication also have lifesty... - Hospitals Raise ER Overcharges
Jun-6-15 Jacksonville, FL: The CEO of a Florida hospital recently admitted that the main source of funding for hospitals, without taxes, comes from overcharging commercially insured patients. And two months ago another hospital’s CEO announced an eight percent increase in emergency room overcharges , which will “largely impact patients with private... - Actos Cancer Victims Awarded $2.4B Settlement
Santa Clara, CA: A $2.4 billion settlement has been agreed between Takeda Pharmaceuticals USA Inc. and some 9,000 plaintiffs who filed personal injury lawsuits against the company, alleging it failed to warn of bladder cancer risks from taking its Type 2 diabetes drug Actos (pioglitazone hydrochloride). Under the terms of the agreement, Takeda w... - FINRA Orders Millions in Stockbroker Arbitration Rulings
Jun-5-15 Washington, DC Two recent FINRA (Financial Industry Regulatory Authority) stockbroker arbitration rulings have seen FINRA panels award millions of dollars to investors who complained about stockbroker fraud or unsuitable investments. One of the stockbroker arbitration complaints was decided against UBS, while the other was decided against Goldman Sachs... - Michigan and Palm Beach County Ban Transgender Discrimination
Nov-28-07 Lansing, MI Michigan's Governor, Jennifer M. Granholm, recently issued an order that bars discrimination against state workers based on their "gender identity or expression". The resolution states, "State employment practices and procedures that encourage nondiscriminatory and equal employment practices provide desirable models for the private sector and l... - Southern California Utilities Face Lawsuits of Transfer Payments
Santa Clara, CA: Southern California utility companies are coming under legal attack for the practice of transferring funds gathered from customers in their regular utility bills, to the City of Los Angeles, on the grounds that the transfers amount to a tax charged to consumers of power and water, which is essentially consumer fraud and illegal under... - Defendant Hit with Yet Another Force-Placed Insurance Lawsuit
Jun-4-15 Philadelphia, PA Less than a month after insurance giant Assurant Inc. and HSBC Bank settled a Lender insurance lawsuit for $1.8 million, a subsidiary of Assurant and PNC Bank were hit with another Force-placed insurance lawsuit alleging inflated premiums and kickbacks in violation of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act. The plain... - Pfizer Accused of Consumer Fraud over Advil Packaging
Brooklyn, NY: Pfizer is being accused of consumer fraud vis a vis misleading packaging of its highly popular over-the-counter pain reliever Advil. Among the allegations in a recently filed lawsuit by Matthew Fermin, Lichun Huo, Josefina Valdez and Adriana Sousa on April 14 are that the pharmaceutical company' Advil ibuprofen dry pills and Liqui-Gels l... - UK Amusement Park Accident Injures Four, Leaves 12 Hanging in Mid Air
Jun-3-15 London, UK A shocking amusement park accident has occurred in the UK, involving one of Britain’s biggest amusement park rides. Four teenagers are seriously injured and several other riders were left stranded 8 meters in the air, according to officials. Two cars on the Smiler ride at Alton Towers amusement park, collided, one empty and the othe... - Zofran Lawsuit Alleges Birth Defects Linked to Nausea Medication
May-31-15 Birmingham, AL A Zofran birth defects lawsuit has been filed against GlaxoSmithKline, maker of the anti-nausea medication, alleging the plaintiff’s use of Zofran while pregnant led to her son having birth defects. GlaxoSmithKline has reportedly responded to the Zofran lawsuit saying there is no proof Zofran is linked to birth defects. The company... - More Veterans Lawsuits Filed against VA Claims Process
May-31-15 Washington, DC More VA benefits lawsuits have reportedly been filed against the Department of Veterans Affairs. The most recent VA disability benefits lawsuits allege that new policies in filing claims forms will hurt veterans making benefits claims and will unnecessarily delay the date claims become effective. The veterans lawsuit was filed by The Dis... - Armored Car Drivers Unpaid Overtime Claims Allowed
Newark, NJ: A recent judgement in an unpaid wages and overtime collective action filed by an armored car driver against Eastern Armored Services Inc, has resulted in a victory not only for the plaintiff, but possibly for thousands of other drivers similarly situated across the US. The complaint claimed that Easter Armored Services Inc was in viola... - Defense by Testosterone Manufacturer Cold Comfort for Plaintiff
Jun-2-15 New York, NY One of the latest litigation cases in the testosterone lawsuit file reads like a classic case of a manufacturer making various promises in advertisements and an unsuspecting plaintiff having taken those claims at face value. That plaintiff, according to a testosterone side effects lawsuit, claims to have been healthy at the time he began t... - Viagra Skin Cancer Side Effects News and Information
Viagra (sildenafil citrate), prescribed for the treatment of erectile dysfunction, has been linked to serious Viagra side effects including melanoma, which is an aggressive form of cancer. As of December 2014, the Viagra label fails to warn about melanoma, but it does warn of sudden vision loss. The famous "little blue pill"has also been linked to viagr... - “A Truck Crash Is Not a Car Crash,” Says Florida Litigation Lawyer
May-30-15 Jacksonville, FL Attorney Joseph Camerlengo rarely let’s a week go by without tapping into Transport Topics, a website Camerlengo describes as “The Wall Street Journal” of the transportation industry. He’s a fastidious reader of trending transport issues because the entire focus of his practice is on an increasing complex area of... - Indian National Launches Overtime Pay Laws Class Action against Wipro
May-30-15 Los Angeles, CA A former employee of IT juggernaut Wipro is taking his former employer to task for allegedly misclassifying him as exempt from overtime, even though overtime pay laws suggest he should have been paid overtime for additional hours worked, or so it is alleged. Plaintiff Suri Payala’s overtime pay lawsuit is proposed as a class actio... - $23 Million Verdict Awarded in First Depakote Birth Defects Lawsuit
May-29-15 St. Louis, MO A $23 million settlement has been awarded to a Minnesota girl ending a lawsuit against Abbott Laboratories in which the girl’s family alleged the epilepsy drug Depakote caused the girl’s birth defects. This is the first verdict against Abbott, the maker of Depakote. The jury hearing the case of Maddison Schmidt handed do... - Circuit Court Rules No Warrant Needed For Police to Get Cell Records
May-29-15 The 11th circuit court of appeals has ruled that cell phone records showing a suspected armed robber’s general location near the time and location of several robberies were admissible in court against him and did not violate his Fourth Amendment rights. “The reach of the majority opinion is breathtaking,” said Davis’s attorney David Markus. ...