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Sort by relevance 1,834 pages found matching %3Cscript%3Ealert%28%27What_Security%3F%27%29%3C%2Fscript%3E- “Acid Reflux Drugs Caused my Type 2 Diabetes”
Nov-28-20 Phoenix, AZ Ten years ago Gary Phillips was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes. He had taken proton pump inhibitor (PPI) medications for acid reflux issues at least once a day for about 13 years but only knew that the medications were linked to diabetes when he read about PPI lawsuits. Unfortunately the meds worked— so he kept taking them. Now he takes... - Navy Federal to Settle Overdraft Fees Lawsuit for $16 Million
Nov-17-20 Alexandria, VA The Eastern District of Virginia appears poised to approve a proposed settlement in a class action bank overdraft fees lawsuit originally filed against Navy Federal Credit Union in 2019. Under the terms of the proposed settlement, checking account customers at Navy Federal who were overcharged will have a common fund of $16 mill... - PFAS & PFOA Water Contamination and Firefighter Lawsuits on the Rise
Nov-6-20 Santa Clara, CA Townships and municipalities nationwide are filing environmental lawsuits against manufacturers such as Raytheon Technologies, Chemours, DuPont and 3M Co. for adding PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances) into the water supply. These chemicals are allegedly toxic and have been linked to certain cancers. As well, former firefighters cont... - 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... - 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... - 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... - Injectafer Double Dose—Double Profit and Double Risk, and Dosage Discrepancy
Oct-14-20 Santa Clara, CA Hypophosphatemia, an abnormally low level of phosphate in the blood, may be due to longer term use or excess of certain drugs such as bisphosphonates, including Injectafer , but that may depend upon researchers conducting the clinical trials and the amount of the iron-deficiency drug treatment. The FDA approved Injectafer in July 2013 a... - IVC Filter FAQ
What is an IVC filter ? An IVC (Inferior Vena Cava) filter is a small, metal device implanted by vascular surgeons or interventional radiologists into a patient’s inferior vena cava vein to prevent blood clots from moving to the lungs - a health condition known as pulmonary embolism or PE. The inferior vena cava is the main vessel returning b... - Legal News and Information on Johnson & Johnson Gynecare Mesh
Johnson & Johnson has about 33,000 Gynecare lawsuits filed against its Ethicon division alleging Gynecare transvaginal mesh is defective. Rather than relieve women with Pelvic Organ Prolapse and Urinary Stress Incontinence, Gynecare Mesh side effects include severe pain, bleeding and infection. Some of the first transvaginal mesh or bladder... - Prevacid Complications Lawsuit News & Legal Information
Prevacid is a proton pump inhibitor, used to treat symptoms of acid reflux. According to reports, Prevacid side effects could include an increased risk acute kidney injury and chronic kidney disease. Studies suggest that the risk of Prevacid complications and the risk of proton pump inhibitor side effects increases as the length of use or the medicatio... - Inferior Vena Cava (IVC) Filter Lawsuit News & Legal Information
Patients implanted with Inferior Vena Cava (IVC) blood clot filters have suffered severe complications when the devices broke or fractured inside their body, allegedly due to a design flaw and/or the filters being implanted for too long. The majority of IVC filter lawsuits have been filed against manufacturers C.R. Bard and Cook Medical, alleging punctured v... - Paragard Problem with Breaking Leads to More Lawsuits
Sep-28-20 New York, NY Five more women have recently filed lawsuits against Cooper Surgical and Teva Pharmaceuticals claiming its ParaGard IUD broke while being removed. The ParaGard website warns consumers that its device sometimes gets stuck in the uterus, requiring surgical removal, but does not include a problem with it breaking apart. Do a... - ERISA Lawsuit Targets ESOP Scam
Sep-21-20 Wilmington, DE Set against the backdrop of California’s notorious water wars, the 1974 film “ Chinatown ,” focuses on the mysterious Evelyn, who must finally explain whether a young girl is her daughter or her sister. The awful truth unfolds. She is murdered – shot through the eye as her daughter or sister screams. Evelyn’s pr... - Biogen ERISA Lawsuit Slams 401k Fiduciaries for Poor Investments, High Costs
Sep-10-20 Boston, MA On August 31, participants in the Biogen, Inc. 401(k) Savings Plan filed a class-action ERISA lawsuit , alleging that plan administrators mismanaged employees’ retirement savings in ways that will leave them poorer in retirement. More specifically, the lawsuit charges that the plan’s administrative committee and other fiduciari... - Retaliation Lawsuit Against Elon Musk’s Rocket Company Following Sexual harassment Complaints
Sep-6-20 Los Angeles, CA Over the course of three summers, former SpaceX intern Julia Crowley-Farenga claims that she was sexually harassed. In her California labor lawsuit , the (now) NASA engineer claims she was retaliated against for filing a sexual harassment complaint to human resources of Elon Musk’s rocket company. The lawsuit , filed August 21, c... - Zantac Cancer Lawsuit Accuses Pharmaceutical Giants of Racketeering
Sep-2-20 West Palm Beach, FL In re: Zantac (Ranitidine) Products Liability Litigation , a class action lawsuit filed in the Southern District of Florida, is mammoth – the most exhaustive yet of all complaints consolidated in the multidistrict litigation (MDL) . The 1361-page Zantac cancer lawsuit was filed on behalf of 230 plaintiffs, names 5... - USB Checking Accountholders to get their Day in Court
Aug-17-20 San Diego, CA On August 10, the Southern District of California agreed to reconsider its own ruling in an overdraft fees lawsuit that forced the dispute into arbitration. On reconsideration, it reversed itself. This breathes new life into Reyna McGovern’s contention that U.S. Bank charged bank overdraft fees that were not permitted under the term... - New Lawsuits Describe Serious Paragard IUD Complications
Aug-14-20 East St. Louis, IL Paragard IUD defective medical device lawsuits are popping up in courts throughout the country. Huitt v. Teva Pharmaceuticals was filed in the Eastern District of California on May 11. Lewis v. Teva Pharmaceuticals was filed in the Southern District of New York on May 26, followed on July 30 by Harnish v. Teva Pharmaceutic... - 3 Lessons for Plaintiffs in 401k Fiduciary Mismanagement Lawsuits
Aug-10-20 Green Bay, WI Albert v. Oshkosh Corp. , a class action ERISA lawsuit filed in the Eastern District of Wisconsin, alleges that participants in the Oshkosh Corporation and Affiliates Tax Deferred Investment Plan (the “Plan”) were harmed when Plan fiduciaries chose imprudent investments and authorized unreasonably high fees. In a nut... - Meat Packing Giant JBS Souderton under Fire for Covid-19 Death
Jul-16-20 Philadelphia, PA Enock Benjamin, a meat packer at JBS Souderton Inc., died of Covid-19 on April 3, four days after the plant shut down to stop the spread of the virus. His family has filed a wrongful death and survivor lawsuit , claiming that his death was the predictable and preventable result of the JBS’s decisions to ignore worker safety. In fact...