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  • Film Interns Win Employment Class Action Lawsuit against 21st Century Fox
    Santa Clara, CA: An employment class action lawsuit filed by interns who worked at 21st Century Fox Inc, has reached a preliminary settlement. The interns alleged they should have been paid for their work at the company, but where not. According to court papers, Fox Searchlight Pictures and Fox Entertainment Group will pay $495 to each claimant who...
  • Bank Faces $10 Million Fine Linked to Overdraft Fees
    Aug-11-16 Boston, MA: Santander Bank reportedly faces $10 million in fines after the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau found the company misled customers about its overdraft protection program . Banks and credit unions have faced increasing scrutiny in recent years over excessive overdraft fees and other unethical practices, and consumers have fought back, in...
  • The Machinations behind a Defective Airbag Settlement, Takata CEO Shielded
    Aug-13-16 Jacksonville, FL: When the airbag injuries lawsuit originally brought by airbag injury victim Patricia Mincey suddenly settled last month, all eyes had been focused on the possibility that Takata CEO Shigehisa Takada might have been called to testify in the case. There had been no expectation of a negotiated settlement, due to the circumstances surr...
  • Former NFL Player Files Insurance Lawsuit
    Aug-10-16 Charlotte, NC: It's not just the little guy who has his long term disability insurance claim denied by insurance companies. Even professional athletes who suffer debilitating injuries can fall victim to insurance company denials. Now, a former NFL player who had his career ended prematurely by a concussion has filed a lawsuit against an insurance compa...
  • Zofran Complaints Mounting with Increased Awareness of Birth Defects
    Aug-10-16 Birmingham, AL: Many women who took Zofran during their pregnancy had idea that it is prescribed “off-label”, meaning it wasn’t approved by the FDA to treat morning sickness. Most women who are prescribed Zofran only take it in their first trimester (50-90 percent of women experience some degree of nausea during early pregnancy) an...
  • Continued Fallout from Three-Year Delay to Recall Problematic Endoscopes
    Aug-12-16 Washington, DC: One distinct ‘added value’ of any lawsuit, regardless of genre or subject matter, is the unearthing of useful documentation during the discovery process. Such has been the case with an Endoscope lawsuit filed earlier this year in a Pennsylvania court against Olympus Corp. (Olympus), the manufacturer of an allegedly problemat...
  • Young Man Prescribed Risperdal for being a “Little Hellion”
    Aug-12-16 Jefferson City, MO: Of all the medications Christopher took for behavioral problems during most of his childhood and early teens, he was prescribed Risperdal for the longest time. As he did in school, “I try to keep my breast problem as secret as I can,” Christopher says. Christopher (last name withheld upon request) cares for and lives...
  • California Caregivers - Attorney Discusses Whether You Qualify for Overtime
    Aug-9-16 Woodland Hills, Under California law, most caregivers must be paid overtime when working 24-hours shifts. Judging from the number of inquiries to LawyersandSettlements from home care attendants, this law is confusing. Gyongyi, a caregiver in Los Angeles, wants to know how much overtime she is entitled during a 24-hour shift. “I have a live...
  • Feds Considering Exemptions to Illegal RoboCall Rules
    Aug-11-16 Washington, DC: You’ve heard it before: what the government giveth, the government taketh away. That’s the crux of a divergence of goals and protections that pit one arm of the federal government against the other in the name of collecting delinquent accounts. The result is a major crack in an armor intended to protect Americans already under s...
  • $175M Settlement Reached in BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Securities Lawsuit
    Houston, TX: BP has agreed to pay $175 million to settle a securities class-action lawsuit brought by investors following the disastrous 2010 BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. The lawsuit alleges that the oil company had deliberately mislead its investors as to the rate of oil spilling from the rig following the explosi...
  • Talcum Powder Lawsuits Increase
    Aug-8-16 Chicago, IL: As a motion to consolidated federal talcum powder lawsuits is filed, more plaintiffs are coming forward saying they were put at risk of ovarian and other cancers thanks to their use of Johnson & Johnson's product. Juries have sided with plaintiffs and awarded millions of dollars in awards, finding that Johnson & Johnson put consume...
  • Proposed Government Bill Aims to Increase Reporting of Defective Medical Devices
    Aug-9-16 Washington, DC: It was two years ago, in 2014 that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued its safety alert with regard to power morcellators, the medical devices once employed quite frequently for Laparoscopic Uterine Surgery for women. In the face of reports linking use of the device with cancer, the FDA took as its official position, discou...
  • Essure Good News and Bad News, from California to Connecticut
    Aug-5-16 Hartford, CT: Judging from the recent Essure dismissal in a Connecticut court, you might want to keep a journal to record details of your Essure injury. If you have an Essure complaint in California, however, such documentation may not be as crucial. Essure Claims: Good News On August 2, 2016, Judge Winifred Smith in Superior Court of California...
  • Zimmer Persona Knee Subjected to Yet another Recall in Early 2016
    Aug-7-16 Washington, DC: Most are familiar by now with the Zimmer Persona Recall of 2015, and in particular the Persona Trabecular Metal Plate that could loosen and cause pain and the ultimate failure of the knee. The voluntary recall was initiated by Zimmer in February of last year, with the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) endorsing the recall the follow...
  • Transvaginal Mesh POP v SUI Warning
    Aug-2-16 Dallas, TX : Margot has undergone three surgeries in an attempt to remove AMS transvaginal mesh she had implanted for stress urinary incontinence (SUI). She is outraged that the FDA reclassified transvaginal mesh as high risk only to repair pelvic organ prolapse (POP). And she is worried that her transvaginal mesh lawsuit may be delayed or reduced becau...
  • California Unpaid Overtime Lawsuit Moves to Settle
    Aug-6-16 Los Angeles, CA: An unpaid overtime lawsuit filed by an employee of Animal Behavior College, Inc. (ABC) over allegations of unpaid wages and off the clock work appears to be wrapping up with an application to the Court to grant preliminary approval of a negotiated settlement. The case is Samuel Barahona v. Animal Behavior College Inc., et al, Case N...
  • Health Canada Updates Invokana Warning Ahead of the FDA
    Aug-1-16 Ottawa, ON: While the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) came out with a health and safety warning about invokana side effects pertaining to kidney injury, the Canadian equivalent to the FDA appears to have headed off the FDA at the pass by jumping the gun by a month and posting its own safety warning about Invokana and other drugs in the SGLT2 clas...
  • Essure Cases Can Proceed in California
    Aug-5-16 Santa Clara, CA: A decision issued on the consolidated California Essure cases, on August 2nd, will allow the claims of 14 women who believe they were injured by Essure to proceed against the manufacturer, Bayer. This ruling will improve the prospects for recovery of thousands of women alleging they were seriously injured by their use of Essure. ...
  • Pfizer to Pay $486 Million to Settle Securities Lawsuit
    Aug-2-16 New York, NY: Pfizer will pay $486 million to settle a class action securities lawsuit alleging the drug maker misled investors about the safety of its drugs Celebrex and Bextra. Pfizer did not admit to wrongdoing in the securities fraud allegations, stating it agreed to the settlement to avoid the distraction of litigation. The securities fraud lawsui...
  • Testosterone’s Benefit is Reversed in Robust Marketing to the Wrong Patient
    Aug-4-16 Washington, DC: There has never been any debate as to the effectiveness and usefulness of testosterone supplementation for a small cohort of men, for whom supplements can be vitally important. And testosterone therapy isn’t new, having been around for some time (with full blessing from the US Food and Drug Administration) as a treatment for hypogonad...
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