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Sort by date 16,385 pages found matching <a href=""></a>- Airbag Injury Lawsuits Filed in North Carolina
Oct-24-16 Guilford County, NC: There is little doubt that a host of airbag injury plaintiffs allege their airbag injuries to be catastrophic in nature. In the case of David Earl Ebron Jr., who does indeed allege catastrophic airbag injuries , the plaintiff alleges he suffered the indignity of being injured twice. According to an airbag failure lawsuit Ebron fi... - Students Win $11.2M Settlement in Chicago School of Psychology Fraud Lawsuit
Santa Clara, CA: A $11.2 million settlement in a consumer fraud class action lawsuit pending against The Chicago School of Psychology has received final approval. The lawsuit was brought by students who alleged they were provided with misleading information regarding the school’s accreditation and their job prospects after completing their courses... - Alere Triage Products Lawsuit News and Legal Information
Washington, DC: The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has notified healthcare professionals of a Class I Recall of Alere Triage products. Identified lots may have significantly decreased precision relative to the package insert, which could result in an increased frequency of false positive or false negative results. These false positive and false neg... - Olympus Duodenoscopes: Failure to Warn “Disturbing”
Oct-23-16 Seattle, WA: Mere days after the Los Angeles Times detailed allegations that endoscope manufacturer Olympus Corp. instructed its US executives to keep mum about endoscope-related infections, Representative Ted Lieu (D-Torrance) was renewing his push for the US Congress to get tough with medical device warnings. Plaintiffs, in the meantime, remain embroiled... - Attorney: Ethicon Physiomesh Flexible Composite Mesh Withdrawn Due to High Revision Rates
Oct-22-16 Dallas, TX: Attorneys are investigating possible lawsuits against Johnson & Johnson subsidiary Ethicon concerning the Ethicon Physiomesh Flexible Composite Mesh . The Physiomesh, used in laparoscopic hernia surgeries, has reportedly been linked to higher than normal revision rates. In May 2016, the Ethicon Physiomesh Flexible Composite Mesh produc... - Canadian Study: Surgical Warming Blankets and Link to Infection
Oct-21-16 Kingston, ON: It’s been a little over a year since a landmark study in Canada revealed the striking number of door openings and closings that occur in an operating theatre during surgery. This potential for entry, migration and movement of pathogens and various bacteria may be exacerbated by the common practice of using warming blankets fed with warm... - IVC Filters a ‘Ticking Time Bomb’ for Canadian Patients
Oct-19-16 Courtice, ON: Retrievable inferior vena cava filters (IVC filter) are yet another example of an otherwise promising medical device with a definitive dark side: they can fail while implanted in the body with often disastrous consequences. Designed to be removed after a period of time, most can’t. It leaves the IVC filter patient dealing with so... - Taxotere Hair Loss: “It’s Devastating”
Oct-18-16 Montreal, PQ: With taxotere hair loss lawsuits now centralized and consolidated in Louisiana, it’s apparent the courts are viewing the Taxotere hair loss file as one that may be around for some time, given allegations of permanent hair loss by a growing number of plaintiffs. Taxotere (docetaxel) is a cancer drug used in association with chemot... - Patients Allege They Were Harmed by Actos
Oct-17-16 Shreveport, LA: It may have been a few years since Actos litigation first got underway, but lawsuits are still being transferred into the Actos multidistrict litigation, and plaintiffs are still filing lawsuits alleging they were harmed by the use of the drug. Meanwhile, allegations from a whistleblower that Takeda Pharmaceuticals paid kickbacks for pr... - Belgian AndroGel Manufacturer Attempts to Duck Testosterone Lawsuits
Oct-17-16 Chicago, IL: A manufacturer of a testosterone replacement therapy (TRT) based in Belgium recently petitioned to escape a testosterone lawsuit , given that the pharmaceutical company has little exposure, knowledge or influence over the US market. However, a federal judge in Illinois would have none of it. It appears that Besins Healthcare, the manufac... - Don’t Let Unpaid Hospital Bills Ruin Your Life
Oct-16-16 Los Angeles, CA It happens more than you might think. An uninsured patient comes into the hospital for medical treatment. It’s when they get the hospital bill that they really start to feel sick. The bill turns out to be so large it is impossible to pay. So, the uninsured patient doesn’t pay the bill because they don’t have the mo... - Congress Overrides Obama, Allows State Sponsored Terrorism Lawsuits Linked to 9/11
Oct-16-16 Washington, DC: Congress has vetoed President Barack Obama, opening the door for the families of people killed in the 9/11 terror attacks to file state-sponsored terrorism lawsuits against Saudi Arabia. Although an inquiry has not turned up evidence Saudi Arabia was involved in the 9/11 terrorist attacks, Congress voted to allow the families of the vic... - Attorney: Stryker LFIT V40 Femoral Head "Prone to Catastrophic Dislocation"
Oct-13-16 Dallas, TX: Lawsuits have been filed against the maker of the Stryker LFIT V40 femoral head, alleging patients were harmed by use of the hip implant component. Issues associated with the Stryker LFIT V40 femoral head reportedly result in failure of the device, requiring patients to undergo revision surgery to fix the problem. Dr. Shezad Malik, founder... - Lyrica Birth Defects Cause for Concern
Oct-10-16 Washington, DC: Is Lyrica safe? It depends who you ask. Studies indicate the risk of birth defects is high, but Pfizer, the manufacturer, disagrees. And perhaps the benefits outweigh the risks for an epileptic patient. Maybe not so much for women taking the anticonvulsant drug off-label… A study published earlier this year in Neurology fo... - Living with the Pain of Hip Replacement
Oct-14-16 Ashton, ML: Grant has been living with constant pain—and oxycontin—since getting a hip replacement in 2007. “In this day and age nobody should have to walk around in chronic pain,” he says. Thousands of people have filed lawsuits after their hip replacement began to fail. And most all metal-on-metal hip implants continue to fa... - Study: IVC Filters Don't Save Trauma Lives
Oct-12-16 Boston, MA: A new study suggests that not only do IVC filters not save the lives of trauma patients, but leaving the IVC filters in for too long could put patients at increased risk. The study, which examined the use of inferior vena cava (IVC) filters in trauma patients, was published online in the journal JAMA Surgery (9/28/16). Lawsuits have been... - Will Recalled Surgical Catheters Spark Lawsuits?
Oct-12-16 Marlborough, MA: While allegedly defective medical devices such as the IVC filter have commanded major play in the press of late, the relatively quiet recall of Defective Catheters Causing Injury back in the spring appears to have slipped under the radar. However the risk is no less compelling. Millions of the devices have been recalled, including 21,0... - Force Placed Insurance is a Forced Relationship of the Worst Kind
Oct-11-16 Los Angeles, CA: Anyone having trouble believing that their insurance company, or bank could collude in such woeful, self-interested activity as Lender insurance need only look to the alleged activities of State Farm, and Wells Fargo as an indication of behavior unbecoming to their clients, customers and American values. Last month, State Farm polic... - Thoratec Heartmate II Lawsuit News and Legal Information
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued a warning about potential adverse events linked to the Thoratec HeartMate II) and other left Ventricular Assist Devices (LVADs). Specifically, the FDA is concerned about Thoratec HeartMate II adverse events including bleeding complications and an increased risk of blood clots inside the Thoratec p... - Taxotere Canadian Hair Loss Lawsuit News & Legal Information
Taxotere (generic name docetaxel) is a chemotherapy drug used in the treatment of certain cancers, including breast cancer. One drug side effect includes permanent hair loss, called alopecia. Taxotere lawsuits have been filed against Sanofi-Aventis, the manufacturer, claiming the drug company failed to warn of Taxotere hair loss . Canadian women first...