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If you have a mortgage on your home, your bank may be charging you for hazard insurance that you already have and do not need. Some banks are deducting money from escrow accounts to pay for duplicate insurance on their customers' homes. They do this without properly checking the records of insurance that the homeowners have given them. Many homeowners do... - gold jewellery fraud
If you have purchased gold jewellery and later found it was not the quality claimed, fill out the form below. If your injustice does not match the complaint described above, please use this form to register your complaint. Thank you... - Settlements and Verdicts: SkyBiz.
Victims have less than two months to apply for their share of THE $20 million USD settlement between SkyBiz and the US Federal Trade Commission. (Jun-01-04) [ NEW ZEALAND HERALD ] [ SETTLEMENT WEBSITE ] Legal Help If you have a similar problem and would like to be contacted by a lawyer at no obligation, please click the link below to submit your co... - Settlements and Verdicts: Pennsylvania State Police Dept.
A $5 million settlement has been reached in the lawsuit filed by four women who allege that the department failed to act on allegations that former trooper Michael Evans was sexually assaulting women. In 2000, Evans pled guilty to corruption of minors, indecent assault, solicitation to promote prostitution, official oppression and indecent exposure, and... - Settlements and Verdicts: Pueblo Country Club.
A $1.5 million verdict has been reached in the age discrimination lawsuit filed by Arcenio "Steve" Garcia, who was the golf course's superintendent. The suit alleged that the club violated the federal age discrimination law in 1998 when they replaced Garcia, then 58, with a 41-year-old man. (Sep-02-04) [ BILLINGS GAZETTE ] Legal Help If you have... - Settlements and Verdicts: Verizon Wireless.
San Diego Superior Court Judge William Pate has approved the settlement of a class-action lawsuit that accused the company of failing to disclose billing practices and service restrictions. The suit represented customers of Verizon Wireless on Nov. 2, 2003 and former customers of Verizon Wireless and its predecessors and subsidiaries from Jan. 1, 1991 to... - Settlements and Verdicts: Royal Dutch/Shell.
A settlement has been reached with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and the UK's Financial Services Authority. The company will pay a $120 million fine to the SEC, and another $30 million to the FSA to end the probe into allegations that the company misled the market. (Aug-25-04) [ NEWS FACTOR ] Legal Help If you have a similar proble... - Settlements and Verdicts: Eric Robert Rudolph.
A $115 million verdict has been upheld in the lawsuit filed on behalf of Emily Lyons, a nurse who was injured in a 1998 blast at a Birmingham abortion clinic that Rudolph, an accused serial bomber, had caused. (Aug-29-04) [ WAFF ] Legal Help If you have a similar problem and would like to be contacted by a lawyer at no obligation, please click th... - Settlements and Verdicts: Parkway Hospital and Leben Home for Adults.
A $7 million settlement has been reached in the lawsuit filed on behalf of 24 mentally ill residents. The suit alleged that the plaintiffs were coerced into unnecessary prostate operations in 1998. (Aug-12-04) [ QUEENS CHRONICLE ] Legal Help If you have a similar problem and would like to be contacted by a lawyer at no obligation, please click th... - Settlements and Verdicts: GlaxoSmithKline PLC.
A $2.5 million settlement has been reached with the State of New York. The lawsuit alleged that the company had misrepresented data on prescribing its antidepressant drug Paxil to children. (Aug-28-04) Legal Help If you have a similar problem and would like to be contacted by a lawyer at no obligation, please click the link below to sub... - Settlements and Verdicts: Donaldson Co. Inc.
Donaldson Co. Inc. A $15.8 million verdict has been reached in the patent infringement lawsuit filed on behalf of Engineered Products Co. The suit alleged that Donaldson had infringing on Engineered Products' patent of its Filter Minder air restriction indicator. (Aug-09-04) [ BUSINESS JOURNAL ] Legal Help If you have a similar problem an... - Settlements and Verdicts: California fertility specialist Dr. Steven Katz.
A $1 million settlement has been reached in the lawsuit filed by Susan Buchweitz, a California woman who was implanted with the wrong embryos. (Aug-04-04) Legal Help If you have a similar problem and would like to be contacted by a lawyer at no obligation, please click the link below to submit your complaint. ... - Settlements and Verdicts: U.S. Surgical Corp.
A $43.5 million verdict has been reached in the suit filed by Applied Medical Services. The suit alleged that U.S. Surgical had willfully violated Applied Medical's patent on a sealing mechanism for a trocar, a tube that surgeons insert in patients to handle instruments during laparoscopic surgeries. (Jul-31-04) Legal Help If you have a sim... - Settlements and Verdicts: Yale University.
Yale University. A $5.5 million verdict has been reached in the lawsuit filed by three Yale radiologists who alleged that the school retaliated against them for criticizing policies they said had "the potential to cause serious harm to patients." (Jul-28-04) [ POST GAZETTE ] Legal Help If you have a similar problem and would like to be contacte... - Settlements and Verdicts: The University of California.
A $1.3 million settlement has been reached in the discrimination lawsuit filed by former medical intern David Dixon who alleged that he was dismissed from UCLA's family medicine residency program in 1994 because he is black. (Jul-15-04) Legal Help If you have a similar problem and would like to be contacted by a lawyer at no obligation, plea... - Microsoft Corp. trademark settlement.
A $20 million settlement has been reached in the dispute with Lindows Inc. in reference to the company's use of the name Lindows. Microsoft claimed that Lindows was infringing on its trademarked Windows brand. (Jul-19-04) [ SAN DIEGO ] Legal Help If you have a similar problem and would like to be contacted by a lawyer at no obligation, please c... - Settlements and Verdicts: Yellow Book USA.
Yellow Book USA. A verdict has been reached in the class acton lawsuit filed on behalf of 400 former and current Long Island workers. The suit alleged that the company had illegally deducted several million dollars from the paychecks of employees who sold ads over a six year period. A State Supreme Court Judge ruled in favor of the workers, stating... - Settlements and Verdicts: Bridgestone-Firestone.
A $149 million settlement has been approved in 30 class-action lawsuits filed on behalf of tire owners. The suit was filed in regards to the 2000 recall of 14.4 million Firestone tires amid safety concerns. (Mar-16-04) [ CBS ] [ EMAIL LAW FIRM ] Legal Help If you have a similar problem and would like to be contacted by a lawyer at no obligation,... - Spironolactone
Used for congestive heart failure that was supposed to save lives, Spironolactone also caused dozens of deaths from a side effect when doctors began prescribing it more widely. A major study five years ago found that adding spironolactone to the standard treatments cut the death rate by 30 percent in people with serious heart failure. However, whe... - Settlements and Verdicts: East Chicago Judge Lonnie Randolph.
A $4.5 million verdict has been reached in the lawsuit filed by former public defender Tula Kavadias. The suit alleged that Kavadias had been fired because of her race and political affiliation. (Jul-24-04) [ NWI TIMES ] Legal Help If you have a similar problem and would like to be contacted by a lawyer at no obligation, please click the link bel...