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Mar-3-09 San Francisco, CA You may not know it as antitrust , or you may not appreciate the antitrust laws that govern antitrust policy. But price-fixing you know. And when it costs you more of your hard-earned dollars due to the greed and unlawfulness of someone else, somebody should be made to pay. After all, you trust a vendor that you are getting fair value at... - Psychiatric Drugging of Children Intolerable--Part 2
Mar-2-09 Washington, DC December 13, 2006 was a major turning point in the Psychiatric Drugging of Children ; it will probably go down in history as the day the nation awoke to the unthinkable truth that children as young as toddlers were being labeled mentally ill and drugged for profit. On that day, a little 4-year-old girl named Rebecca Riley died of an ov... - Asbestos Mesothelioma – One Boilermaker's Story
Jan-19-09 New Port, RI: John worked as a boilermaker all his life, which involved working extensively with asbestos in the repair and fabrication of asbestos gaskets. When John became ill with the asbestos mesothelioma he had to have a lung removed. His case recently went to court and the jury awarded him a settlement of $4,390,000. A Terrible Price to Pay f... - Birds May have Brought Down Jet in Hudson River
Jan-16-09 New York, NY Anyone on board, or those watching the fate of US Airways Flight 1549 as it plunged into the Hudson River in New York yesterday might be forgiven for invoking memories of a similar plane crash almost 27 years ago to the day. That doomed plane hit a busy bridge before plunging into the Potomac on January 13th 1982. In all, 78 people died in... - Failure Rate of Medtronic Sprint Fidelis Lead Could Be Higher
Feb-24-09 Minneapolis, MN Patients with the Medtronic Fidelis Sprint lead , a medical device that connects to the heart and was expected to be effective in 95 percent of patients in spite of a recall two years ago, may be worse off than first thought. A new study suggests that three years after implantation the Sprint Fidelis lead is only expected to remain functio... - SUVs Susceptible to Rollovers, Regulations for Roof Integrity Lacking
Nov-3-07 Detroit, MI SUVs and other vehicles in which drivers ordinarily feel safe and secure can become a source for danger and personal injury when a traffic mishap combines with physics which govern a tall, top-heavy vehicle, resulting in a rollover. And far removed from the glamorous images of NASCAR, or Hollywood film where a vehicle rolls spectacularly a... - Asbestos Mesothelioma and New York City Firemen
Jan-6-09 New York, NY Carlos, his father, and his brother all worked for the New York City Board of Education for years. They were what are known as 'Firemen' – men who worked on and in the boilers of the schools in New York City. Now it seems the family business may include asbestos-related disease . Several years ago, Carlos' father became ill and was told... - Lawyer says Millions Owed to Netflix DVD and Wal-Mart DVD Customers
Feb-15-09 Charleston WV Attorney Danny Becnal Jr. is at home, packing for a trip to Florida, to take some depositions from expert witnesses. He recently filed a potentially dynamite antitrust class action suit against Wal-Mart and Netflix, alleging executives from the two competitors literally sat down to dinner, cooked up a plan to carve up the market for their m... - Attorney Bill Marler on Tainted Peanut Butter Outbreak
Feb-5-09 Seattle, WA Attorney Bill Marler is on the phone—he's arranging for two families with children affected by the salmonella tainted peanut butter outbreak to appear before a Congressional hearing later this year in Washington D.C. "Call me back in 5 minutes, I'm on another line," says Marler. An attorney with 15 years experience fighting for people injur... - One Tragic Car Accident, One Remarkable Oversight
Jan-30-09 Fontana, CA There is probably little that could save you from a car accident that sees a vehicle plunge into a brick wall at 90 miles an hour. Car crashes happen every minute of every day, and the crash that happened January 28 in California was horrific in of itself. But advocates of car crash safety are always mortified when safety mechanisms designed... - Man awarded $30 million in mesothelioma lawsuit
Dec-19-08 Newark, NJ Mark Buttitta finally got his day in court – but he had to die to do it. Mark contracted asbestos mesothelioma which caused his death. Mark's estate sued the companies that caused his asbestos exposure and won. His estate was just awarded $30.3 million. Mark was only 50 years old when he died from asbestos mesothelioma in 2002. He was a... - Are All Helicopter Medical Transports Really Necessary?
Dec-16-08 Baltimore, MD Helicopter accidents are never easy to hear at the best of times—but helicopter crashes involving medical helicopters are the worst, as they involve patients who have already suffered. Now, helicopter accident news has included the revelation that there have been so many downed aircraft, that medical personnel are starting to balk at flyi... - Mother with SJS put into a Coma
Dec-14-08 St. John's, NL On November 27, 2008 Kim Oake was put into an induced coma in the ICU unit because the pain of Stevens Johnson Syndrome (SJS) and toxic epidermal necrolysis, also known as TEN, is too excruciating to bear. Kim had an allergic reaction to a run-of-the-mill antibiotic. Adverse reactions to a drug, either prescribed or over-the-counter, is th... - Another Study Confirms Avandia Heart Failure Risks
Oct-1-07 Chicago, IL Yet another study has confirmed that the diabetes drug Avandia raises the risk of heart failure. The study adds fuel to the growing controversy about whether or not Avandia should still be available for diabetes patients. The most recent study was published in the journal [ Lancet ] (September 29, 2007) and found that patients with a histo... - FDA Officials Sued Over Conflicts of Interests Part I
Sep-30-07 Washington, DC A lawsuit recently filed in a federal court in Ohio against FDA officials on behalf of terminal cancer patients provides a rare window into the inner workings of an agency hijacked by pharmaceutical industry giants and stacked with insiders by President George Bush to guard against any threat to the profits of his top campaign contributors... - Unpaid Overtime Hitting All Sectors
Jan-19-09 New York, NY Although Sprint is not compelled or required to admit any wrongdoing, the communications company is nonetheless required to pay $8.8 million as part of an unpaid overtime settlement relating to a trio of lawsuits brought against the company by call center workers. The employees allege that Sprint failed to pay overtime, and other compensati... - Shouldering the Weight: Pain Pump Stories That Will Break Your Heart
Jan-19-09 Washington, DC The frustration associated with a shoulder pain pump injury , is that a seemingly routine outpatient procedure can turn into such a devastating, long-term issue characterized by chronic pain and loss of mobility. True, there is risk with every surgery—but shoulder surgery to repair a shoulder injury is considered fairly routine by today's... - Sympathetic Securities Litigation Attorney with Sharp Elbows
Jan-17-09 Philadelphia, PA An attorney with a stellar reputation at one of Pennsylvania's oldest and most reliable personal injury firms, Joel Feldman might be described as a lawyer with a lot of empathy for his clients, but little of the same for the targets of the investor relations litigation he pursues. It's a good combination for many of the people who come to... - FDA Writes Own Rules, Doesn't Follow Them
Jan-15-09 Washington, DC According to a blockbuster investigation, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) writes rules, but doesn't follow them. In this way the FDA puts patient health at risk . It has long been a practice whereby drug companies and major pharmaceuticals enlist the aid of doctors and physicians to educate their colleagues, and the public, wi... - Wrongful Death in Iowa Could Multiply
Nov-27-08 Glenwood, IA In a copyrighted story appearing yesterday in the Des Moines Register, an Iowa mother is accusing a State-run home for the disabled of wrongful death , and indicated that she will be seeking a wrongful death attorney to pursue a wrongful death lawsuit. For now, Georgette Alexander is grieving over the loss of her son. What complicates the...