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Sort by date 1,836 pages found matching %3Cscript%3Ealert%28%27What_Security%3F%27%29%3C%2Fscript%3E- SAG-AFTRA Health Plan Dumps Oldest Participants
Jan-8-21 Los Angeles, CA On December 1, 91-year-old actor Ed Asner and nine other participants in the Screen Actors Guild-Producers Health Plan filed a class action ERISA lawsuit against the SAG-AFTRA Health Fund and Trustees of the Plan. The early coverage of the lawsuit focuses on what appears to be age discrimination against veteran actors, many of whom s... - Lilly's Legal Battle over Zyprexa Documents Continues
Jan-8-07 On January 3, 2007, a hearing was held before Judge Jack Weinstein, in a US District Court in New York, on a motion by Eli Lilly to extend an injunction to conceal company documents that show Lilly hid the lethal side effects of Zyprexa for a decade and engaged in an illegal off-label marketing scheme to promote the drug for unapproved uses. Zyprexa... - Ending FDA's Love Affair With Big Pharma
Nov-22-06 Washington, DC: With the Democrats back in power, critics say officials at the FDA and representatives of Big Pharma had better plan on spending much of their time testifying on Capital Hill in Congressional hearings in 2007. Democrats have spelled out their plans to change how the administration chooses experts to sit on FDA advisory panels and put a... - Lilly Faces Mounting Legal Battles Over Zyprexa - Part I
Nov-8-07 Washington, DC: Since August 2006, as part of an on-going, multistate investigative effort by approximately 30 states, Eli Lilly has received civil investigative demands or subpoenas seeking a broad range of documents relating to the company's marketing and promotion of the antipsychotic drug Zyprexa , and more states are expected to join the effort. ... - Ninth Circuit Reverses $102 Million Wage Penalty against Walmart
Jun-24-21 San Francisco, CA On May 28, the Ninth Circuit reversed a decision by the Northern District of California that had required Walmart to pay $102 million in penalties for violations of the California Labor Code. The Ninth Circuit’s decision in Roderick Magadia v. Wal-Mart Associates was a blow to thousands of Walmart workers. It may also have sig... - Lubbock National Bank to Settle ERISA Lawsuit for $2 Million
Nov-5-20 Raleigh, NC The Eastern District of North Carolina seems poised to approve a $2 million settlement that will end an ERISA lawsuit against Lubbock National Bank as trustee of the TBM Consulting Group, Inc. Employee Stock Ownership Plan. It’s an unfortunately familiar story of a major shareholder/officer who unloads overpriced company stock on employ... - Court Greenlights Class Action Status for Home Depot 401k ERISA Lawsuit
Oct-22-20 Atlanta, GA On September 21, the District Court for the Northern District of Georgia ruled that an ERISA lawsuit brought by participants in the Home Depot FutureBuilder 401(k) Plan against plan fiduciaries could proceed as a class action lawsuit. Pizarro v. The Home Depot is particularly notable for the number of participant who may be affected &ndas... - California Poultry Processor Slapped with TRO
Jan-26-21 Merced County, CA On December 23, the Superior Court of California, Merced County ordered Foster Poultry Farms, a chicken processing plant, to comply with federal and California workplace safety protocols at its Livingston facility. The California labor lawsuit , brought by the United Farm Workers and two workers at the plant, details a persist... - FDA Finally Yanks Permax Off the US Market
Apr-6-07 Washington, DC: On March 29, 2007, the FDA withdrew Permax (pergolide) from the market because it increases the risk of valvular heart disease. Permax belongs to a class of drugs known as dopamine agonists that help regulate balance and movement in Parkinson's patients who suffer from a lack of dopamine. When Permax was FDA approved in 1988, Eli Lilly... - Police Officer Restored to Position after being Let Go in Whistleblower Incident
Apr-24-08 Cheswold, DE A police officer that was let go for a whistleblower incident, Elliot Rosario has been reinstated to his former position earlier this month on the Cheswold Police Force. Officer Rosario was let go from the Cheswold Police Force in December, 2005 regarding a legal situation that arose over a whistleblower incident with his superior officer at... - Ketek Fraud Investigation Derails Confirmation of New FDA Commissioner
Dec-6-06 Washington, DC: When the Democrats won control of Congress, Senator Charles Grassley may have lost the chairmanship of the Senate Finance Committee, but the current acting FDA commissioner had better not get too settled in because the Senator is apparently not ready to throw in the towel in the on-going battle with him. In a recent press release accompa... - “Abysmal” or “Too Conservative”? Supermarket ERISA Lawsuit to Settle for $17.5 Million
Dec-14-20 Boston, MA Toomey v. DeMoulas Super Markets, Inc. , a class action ERISA lawsuit filed in the Massachusetts District Court in 2019, will settle for $17.5 million and prospective changes to the plan’s investment strategy, pending the court’s final approval in April 2021. While ERISA industry advisors have characterized the DeMoul... - Rothenberg Ventures Management Employees Sue for Back Wages
Dec-11-20 San Francisco, CA In 2016, Katie Fanelli filed a lawsuit in the Superior Court of California for the County of San Francisco alleging that her employer, Rothenberg Ventures Management Co., violated California state labor law by failing to pay workers overtime and stiffing them of their final paychecks when the company laid them off. As of November,... - Psychotropic Drug Makers Bankroll Prescribing Shrinks Part II
Sep-2-07 Washington, DC: Influence peddling in the field of psychiatry is out of control. An analysis of Minnesota disclosure records by the Pioneer Press and the consumer watchdog group Public Citizen shows that, between 2002 and 2006, 187 Minnesota doctors received payments from drug companies worth a grand total of $7.38 million. No other field of medicine ev... - San Diego to Pay $3.4 Million to Settle Firefighters’ Overtime Claims
Feb-26-21 San Diego, CA On February 8, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California approved a proposed settlement of Kelley v. City of San Diego . The settlement ends a class action California labor lawsuit brought by San Diego firefighters who claim that their overtime payments were miscalculated under the provisions of the Fair Labor Stand... - Mother's Act Promotes Pregnancy as New Cottage Industry
Dec-5-08 Women of childbearing years represent the most lucrative market for the makers of psychiatric drugs. The knowledge that infants were being born with birth defects and suffering a withdrawal syndrome when these drugs were used during pregnancy was hidden for decades. Knowledge of these terrible risks would have caused a major drop in sales to this customer b... - IUD Breakage an Increasing ParaGard Problem
Oct-23-20 New Jersey When NJ gynecologist Carolyn Delucia, MD suggests to NewBeauty readers that “you can go back to your gynecologist any time to get [Paragard IUD] removed,” it makes you wonder what bubble she is living in. Since 2010, the FDA has received more than 1,600 reports of ParaGard breakage , with more than 700 classified as serious... - Another Sufferer from Contaminated Heparin?
Jul-23-08 Merrillville, IN Len was scheduled for minor surgery and complained to the doctor that he had some pain in his left calf—they found a blood clot. He was admitted to hospital in August 2006 and was given an IV with Heparin . Instead of recovering, Len says his health deteriorated, and he believes it had to do with contaminated Heparin. "I was in hosp... - Cases of Fen-Phen and SSRI-Related Lung Disorder Rise
Apr-16-07 Washington, DC: In the fall of 1997, American Home Products Corporation, which became Wyeth in 2002, withdrew the drugs Pondimin (fenfluramine), and Redux (dexfenfluramine), which were prescribed together with phentermine for weight loss, in a combination called "fen-phen," for short. Fen-phen causes the life-threatening lung disorder known as primary p... - 44 Million Americans Drink PFAS-Contaminated Water, Says New Study
Mar-4-24 Washington, DC Data released by the Environmental Protection Agency shows that 44 million people in the U.S. have toxic “ forever chemicals ” known as PFAS in their drinking water, but that could be just the tip of the iceberg as the full scale of PFAS contamination is likely much more widespread. However, scientists at the Environmental Work...