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Sort by date 1,862 pages found matching %3Cscript%3Ealert%28%27What_Security?%27%29%3C/script%3E- California Coronavirus Litigation—Amazon Evades Attorney General: A TimeLine
Jan-21-21 Sacramento, CA California's Attorney General slapped a lawsuit on Amazon, alleging the company refused to provide information about its coronavirus safety protocols and potential outbreaks, adding to the wave of coronavirus litigation nationwide and violating the California labor code . Amazon Won’t Comply with COVID-19 Information Califor... - Car Accident Data Released
Sep-15-08 Washington, DC The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has released its 2007 Annual Assessment of Motor Vehicle Traffic Crashes, in which fatality counts and estimates of injuries stemming from [ car accidents ] and other motor vehicle crashes are compared with the counts and estimates from 2006. Although the numbers are down from last... - Securities Fraud: Class Action Proposed Against Fifth Third Bankcorp
Jul-29-08 Cincinnati, OH Yet another company and its CEO have been called to the carpet for alleged securities fraud and other violations under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. Fifth Third Bankcorp and its President and Chief Executive Officer Kevin T. Kabat, is accused of issuing materially false and misleading statements with regard to the quality of Fift... - Medical Devices - April 2007 Litigation Update (Part I)
Apr-5-07 Washington, DC: There is certainly no shortage of lawsuits against medical device makers in the US these days and the future's not looking too bright as far as that situation changing anytime soon. The majority of lawsuits allege that the pharmaceutical companies promoted the devices off-label meaning they implanted the products in patients for uses no... - April 2007 Big Pharma Litigation Update - Drugs (Part II)
Apr-12-07 Washington, DC: The anti-epileptic drug, Depakote (valproate), marketed by Abbott Laboratories, is one of the most heavily prescribed medications for off-label use. Experts say the evidence of harm caused by Depakote is just beginning to emerge. According to Harrisburg, Pennsylvania psychiatrist, Dr Stefan Kruszewski, a recognized expert on psychotropic... - 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... - Trasylol: "This Shouldn't Have Happened"
May-3-08 Pasadena, TX Now that patients are learning about Trasylol more complaints are being aired about the use of the drug. However, patients and their families are still not positive about whether or not they received Trasylol during open heart surgery. Meanwhile, more people are joining a class action lawsuit against the maker of Trasylol, alleging they w... - More Trasylol Victims
Jan-18-07 St. Louis, MO Trasylol is an injectable drug made by Bayer. It is used to prevent excessive blood loss during heart surgery, mainly for patients undergoing coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG). Trasylol has been in the news lately - it has now been linked to increased risk of death, kidney or renal failure, heart attacks, strokes and encephalopathy... - New Trasylol Trial Halted Due to Deaths
Mar-29-08 Washington, DC: On March 27, 2008 Bayer AG said that a new trial on Trasylol had to be halted because the risk of death increased due to excessive bleeding. In addition to this new trial, previous studies have shown that Trasylol has a strong link to kidney failure in patients administered the drug when undergoing heart bypass surgery. In 1993, the FDA ap... - Consequences of Rampant Off-Label Prescribing of Depakote
Feb-7-07 Washington, DC: The antiepileptic drug, Depakote , is one of the most heavily prescribed medications for off-label use. The Epilepsy Foundation reports that there are an estimated 1 million women in the US with epilepsy, but the number of women being treated with antiepileptics is two to three times higher than the number of women with the disorder. Ex... - Public has Right to know Secrets revealed in Zyprexa Documents
Jan-15-07 Washington, DC In deciding whether to allow Eli Lilly to continue to use court orders to hide documents that show the company illegally marketed Zyprexa for unapproved uses and failed to warn the public about the serious health risks associated with the drug for a decade, the court needs to consider the harm done to the public by Lilly's conduct. Th... - What to Expect in Zantac Cancer Lawsuits for 2021 and Beyond
Dec-8-20 West Palm Beach, FL As 2020 draws to a close, the toll of death and injury from Zantac-related cancers continues to rise, as do the number of Zantac cancer lawsuits . Meanwhile, In Re: Zantac (Ranitidine) Products Liability Litigation , the multidistrict litigation into which many of the individual lawsuits have been consolidated, grinds on without muc... - Chicago Fire Settlement Reaches $100 Million
May-1-08 Chicago, IL: The settlement for victims of a fatal 2003 Chicago administration building fire has reached a combined amount of $100 million. The settlement comes after the City of Chicago and two other defendants avoided a trial by agreeing to the settlement amount. The city and the two defendants agreed to settle for an amount of approximately $75 million... - The Cost of PPH: $21,000 a Day...
Apr-28-08 Whittier, CA PPH, or Primary Pulmonary Hypertension , is a rare but debilitating lung disorder that is potentially life-threatening and has been linked to prior consumption of diet drugs such as Fen-phen and others now banned and no longer on the market. However, it can take upwards of 10 years for the symptoms of PPH, now known as Pulmonary Arterial Hyp... - Death Toll from Recalled Chinese Heparin Continues to Rise
Apr-28-08 Philadelphia, PA: The family of a Missouri man who died after suffering adverse reactions to contaminated Chinese Heparin is suing Tyco Healthcare, claiming that the company waited too long announce a recall of the drug. And the death toll due to tainted Heparin continues to rise, because this case has not been accounted for by the U.S. Food and Drug A... - Wrongful Death Knows No Bounds
Feb-17-08 Glendale, CA Wrongful death observes no boundaries, or carries no bias for economic or social status. Wrongful death can happen to the blue-collar worker, the poor, or the rich and famous. However, the one common denominator remains that wrongful death, no matter who is involved, is tragic and needless. For the late James Hizer of Ohio, his world had... - 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... - Asbestos: One Man's Story
Mar-26-08 Stainforth, UK He may live half a world away, but Dennis Beddoes is a classic example of not only the health hazards of asbestos , but also of the typical delay governing the onset of asbestos-related diseases such as cancer, asbestosis and asbestos mesothelioma. The 70-year-old retired shipbuilder from Stainforth, England suddenly developed a persiste... - FDA and Big Pharma Gang Up On Joe Citizen
Nov-6-06 Washington, DC: The botched safety processes at the FDA have had an extremely negative impact on the nation's public health and tens of thousands of people have died as a result of its negligent handling of the Vioxx debacle alone. Americans today can no more trust what's in their medicine cabinets than could the pioneers in the 1800s who filled their m... - Inadvertently Exposed to Asbestos
Mar-6-08 Lewisville, TX Nate's dad worked at General Motors (GM) for 42 years; he is now on disability and has been diagnosed with asbesteosis . Nate's mother died from lung cancer two years ago. "Is it possible that the whole family could have been exposed to asbestos , just from my dad's clothing, from doing the laundry together?" he asks. "Spots showed up...