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Sep-20-17 Washington, DC: . Insiders with information about securities fraud should know three important things before filing an SEC fraud whistleblower lawsuit : (1) They can only proceed through the Securities and Exchange Commission; there is no right of individual action as there is with other whistleblower protection laws; (2) The SEC protects whist... - J&J Seeks Judgment Notwithstanding the Verdict in Talcum Powder Lawsuit
Sep-30-17 Los Angeles, CA: On September 15, 2017, Johnson & Johnson (J&J) filed a Motion for Judgment Notwithstanding the Verdict (JNOV) in the Echeverria talcum powder lawsuit . This is in addition to a motion for a new trial. With its jaw-dropping $417 million jury award, Echeverria et al v. Johnson & Johnson is... - Mesothelioma Lawsuit Jury Verdict Goes to Plaintiff for $12.9 Million
Sep-30-17 Oakland, CA: No one conversant with environmental law remains so without a full understanding of the risks associated with asbestos, a substance once widely-used for its insulating properties in spite of growing evidence that asbestos is a carcinogen. While asbestos is still employed in some industrial applications, its use is tightly regulated. This, unli... - Defendant Attempts to Quash TCPA Lawsuit through Unique Interpretation of Law
Sep-30-17 Atlanta, GA: A nuisance call lawsuit that alleges violations under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) against defendant Comenity Bank has taken an interesting detour over revocation of consent. Illegal robocalls – or calls that are made to consumers with the aid of automated telephone dialing technology – have become a scour... - California Class Action Labor Lawsuit Filed Against Marriott Subsidiary
Oct-1-17 Los Angeles, CA: A California labor lawsuit against a subsidiary of hotelier Marriott has been put forward as a class action by a former sales executive who claims she was not properly compensated for hourly work. Stacy McComack also asserts that consent forms associated with background checks included a liability waiver that is alleged to be in violat... - California Seeks $6.3 Million for Overtime Pay Law Violations
Sep-28-17 Los Angeles, CA: The California Labor Commissioners Office has filed a lawsuit against Calcrete Construction. Inc. seeking $6,300,338 for unpaid overtime and sick leave as well as the company’s failure to provide proper wage statements. The complaint alleges that Calcrete forced workers to sign contracts stating they were independen... - Class I Recall Issued for Datascope Intra-Aortic Balloon Pumps
Washington, DC: Datascope Corp./MAQUET is recalling 5,049 defective CS100i, CS100, and CS300 Intra-Aortic Balloon Pumps made from July 1, 2003 to June 16, 2017 due to False Blood Detection Alarm and Ingress of Fluid into the Intra-Aortic Balloon Pump. Datascope Corp./MAQUET's CS100i, CS100, and CS300 Intra-Aortic Balloon Pumps are cardiac assist... - Burn Pit Lawsuit Shows How Hard it is to Sue Military Contractors
Sep-25-17 Baltimore, MD: The US District Court’s dismissal of the multidistrict litigation, In re: KBR, Inc., Burn Pit Litigation is about more than Iraq and Afghanistan burn pits . The exhaustive opinion demonstrates why it is so hard for veterans and their families to sue military contractors when they are hurt because contractors fail to exercise ap... - Is Fired Executive’s Case an SEC Whistleblower Lawsuit? Supreme Court to Decide
Sep-29-17 Washington, DC: A former executive with a real estate investment trust who brought an SEC whistleblower lawsuit against his former employer has seen his case mushroom into a debate over protections for whistleblowers couched in the Dodd-Frank Act and the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. Also debated within the lawsuit, which has since been elevated to the US Suprem... - Smith & Nephew Defective Knee Replacements
Santa Cruz, CA: Allegations of knee replacement failure are being made against device manufacturer Smith & Nephew. In some cases people have filed personal injury and defective knee replacement lawsuits. Claims against Smith & Nephew knee replacements state early failure and failure at an unacceptable failure rates. Specifically, the knee r... - Opioid Epidemic Lawsuits Filed Nationwide while Big Pharma Makes Big Profits
Sep-28-17 Miami, FL: In the wake of the Opioid Epidemic now declared a national emergency, big Pharma faces a tsunami of litigation. Miami has just announced it may file a prescription opioid lawsuit against the manufacturers, adding to the long list of cities and municipalities that have declared an opioid crisis. This June, the New York Times wrote that... - St. Jude Battery Failure, Delayed Recall and it all comes down to Money
Sep-28-17 Santa Cruz, CA: The battery seems to have run out, so to speak, on St. Jude’s recall process. The company made a change to its battery design back in 2015 but didn’t acknowledge the reasoning behind the design—until the lithium battery defects were confirmed internally. The FDA finally initiated a Class I recall (the most seri... - Actos Bladder Cancer Lawsuits Consolidated
Jan-14-12 Lafayette, LA Actos lawsuits , alleging patients were exposed to an increased risk of Actos side effects, have been consolidated before one judge in federal court in Louisiana. Plaintiffs in the lawsuit claim they were exposed to an increased risk of Actos bladder cancer and were not adequately warned about the link between Actos and bladder cancer. A... - Honda Pays $605M To Exit Takata Air Bag Litigation
Miami, FL: Honda has agreed to pay $603 million to exit the defective Takata air bag multidistrict litigation. This will hasten the removal of the exploding airbags from about 16.5 million Honda vehicles. According to Honda, a $200 million fund will be established to expand the Takata air bag inflator recall in an effort to reach owners of affect... - $28M Settlement Reached in Monitronics TCPA Multidistrict Litigation
Charleston, WV: Monitronics has agreed to pay $28 million to settle multidistrict litigation alleging it violated the Telephone Consumer protection Act (TCPA) by autodialing consumers regarding their home security systems. Class members alleged Monitronics, which sells security alarm monitoring equipment, and several alarm manufacturers, of violati... - Why so many Catheters Recalled?
Sep-27-17 Santa Cruz, CA: Another catheter was recalled last week, and this one got a Class 1 recall category, meaning the most serious kind. The FDA recalled a bridge occlusion balloon catheter “due to the possibility of blocked guidewire lumen in select device units”. The Bridge Occlusion Balloon Catheter, made by Spectranetics, is design... - Safeway Inc. Faces Series of California Labor Code Trials
Sep-29-17 Los Angeles, CA: Attorney and trial lawyer Mike Arias is taking a tough approach with supermarket giant Safeway Inc. on behalf of 1st and 2nd class managers that have been battling the omnipresent grocery store over alleged California labor and employment wage and hour violations for 15 years. Starting October 10, 2017 Arias, who has two decades of... - Bayer Pulls Essure Birth Control Device From All Countries Except US
Sep-26-17 Washington, DC: Bayer has announced that it is taking its female sterilization device, Essure, off the market in all countries where it is currently marketed and sold, except the US. The company said it was taking this action due to commercial reasons, and not because of allegations of side effects associated with the device. Bayer said it... - Attorney Explains Difference between Definition of Disability
Sep-28-17 Minneapolis, MN: Chances are, if you are asked to define disability, it won’t be the same definition as written in your disability insurance policy. Attorney Kristen Gyolai with Fields Law Firm wants you to know that there is a discrepancy between policy holders and how that policy defines disability. Gyolai says the most important component t... - Despite Paxil Side Effects, Eleven Percent of Americans Use Antidepressants
Jan-10-12 Washington, DC The number of people in the US who used antidepressants is twice as many as those who go to movie theaters once per week, as 11 percent of Americans take the medication, despite potential dangers like Paxil side effects , according to Scripps Howard News Service. Data released by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC...