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  • 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...
  • New York MDL Consolidates Growing Number of Exactech Defective Hip Implant Lawsuits
    Feb-9-24 Brooklyn, NY As of February 2024, more than 1,600 defective hip implant lawsuits were pending in multidistrict litigation before the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York. A status conference has been set for March 13, 2024, at which time the parties will discuss the status of the litigation, unresolved discovery matters and the select...
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • Activision Blizzard Agrees to $54 million Gender Discrimination Settlement
    Dec-26-23 Los Angeles, CA Activision Blizzard has agreed to pay over $50 million to settle a gender discrimination lawsuit brought by California's civil rights agency. Female employees of the video game maker claimed they were constantly faced with sexual harassment, and the company employed few women in leadership roles. If they were in leadership roles, they e...
  • More Long-Term Part Timers May Now Save Through 401k ERISA Plans
    Jan-22-24 Washington, DC Beginning on January 1, 2024, an expanded group of long-term part-time employees may be able to participate in their employer’s 401k ERISA retirement plan . It’s a small tweak in the 2019 Setting Every Community Up for Retirement Enhancement Act ( SECURE Act ) that could have major implications for young and underemployed worker...
  • 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...
  • $120M awarded in Westchester Medical Center Medical Malpractice Lawsuit
    Jan-21-24 Westchester County, NY – A state Supreme Court jury last November awarded $120 million in a medical malpractice lawsuit against Westchester Medical Center. In 2018 the plaintiff was rushed to hospital and because doctors failed to diagnose a stroke, he suffered extensive brain damage. The hospital argued that brain damage had already occurred before...
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • UNITE HERE Dispute with Sky Chefs Back on the Plate
    Jan-18-24 Los Angeles, CA UNITE HERE International Union's California labor lawsuit against Sky Chefs Inc. is back on the plate. The Ninth Circuit ruling in December reversed U.S. District Judge Percy Anderson's dismissal in May 2022 of the Union's lawsuit which challenged unilateral wage and benefits changes made by the airline catering company on its...
  • MetLife to Settle ERISA Lawsuit for $4.5 Million
    Dec-15-23 New York, NY On November 20 MetLife Group and a group of participants in the MetLife 401(k) Plan agreed to settle an ERISA breach of fiduciary duty lawsuit for $4.5 million. In their amended class-action complaint , plan participants accused plan fiduciaries of failing to act solely in the interest of plan participants and beneficiaries by including pro...
  • Unum Conundrum
    Jul-18-08 Fort Myers, FL For 28 years, Carol entered information on a keyboard for a high school. For the last 12 of those years she suffered with arthritis and took chemo and other meds to get relief. She finally had to take early retirement and applied to Unum for long term disability benefits. Case denied. "I was 62 when I took early retirement," says Carol...
  • Three People Die in Arizona Plane Crash
    Apr-30-08 Mesa, AZ Last Wednesday morning three residents of Arizona took off in a light plane, not knowing that they would never see their families again, smell the spring air again, feel the warm sun again. Instead, their small plane crashed shortly after take-off, killing all three on board . Plane crashes are always horrific, even when passengers survive...
  • Boston Scientific and Guidant Off to Texas Slaughterhouse
    Sep-6-06 Corpus Christi, TX The first, but by no means the last, Guidant trial is scheduled to begin on September 18, 2006, in Neuces County District Court in Corpus Christi, Texas before Judge Jack Hunter. The two plaintiffs, Louis Motal, 63, and Bernice Hinojosa, 65, are surviving patients implanted with Guidant's Ventak Prizm 2 defibrillators in 2001. The law...
  • 500 Ortho Evra Birth Control Patch Victims Sue Johnson & Johnson
    Sep-17-06 New Brunswick, NJ According to Johnson & Johnson's latest SEC filing for the Second Quarter of 2006, the company is currently facing 500 claimants in lawsuits related to deaths and injuries caused by the Ortho Evra birth control patch . "These claimants," the filing notes, "seek substantial compensatory and, where available, punitive damages. ...
  • Abuse and Neglect of Elderly Rampant in Nursing Home Industry
    Sep-12-06 Little Rock, AR In 1987, Congress passed landmark legislation aimed at improving nursing home care for the nation's vulnerable elderly population. However, a recent investigation by Consumer Reports found poor care in nursing homes is still extremely common, especially in the for-profit chains that have become the dominant force in the industry. The...
  • Target Red Card Lawsuit Poised to Settle for $8.2 Million
    Jan-6-20 San Diego, CA On December 2, the Southern District of California granted preliminary approval to the settlement of a class action lawsuit that shone a light on the real cost of Target’s Red Card purchases for thousands of Target shoppers since 2012. The store-branded payment card permitted Target to charge Returned Payment Fees (RPFs) of $20 to $40 i...
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