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Sort by date 16,384 pages found matching <a href=""></a>- 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... - 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... - Unum’s Invasion of Privacy
Aug-3-16 Portland, MN: Drones and hidden cameras, phone calls from strangers secretly taping the conversation, men in black talking to your neighbors - it’s all part of Unum, or Unum Provident surveillance. Sure, it’s an invasion of privacy. It’s also a common disability denial tactic and often one of Unum’s bad faith practices. Unum... - Court Should Direct FEC to Investigate Karl Rove’s Crossroads GPS
Aug-3-16 WHAT: Today, Public Citizen will appear in court for the next step in Public Citizen v. FEC. Public Citizen will ask the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia to grant its request to declare that the Federal Election Commission (FEC) was wrong when it failed to investigate Crossroads GPS for not registering as a political committee and to direc... - Health Canada Knows All About Potential for Actos and Bladder Cancer
Aug-3-16 Ottawa, ON: The caseload in the Actos bladder cancer multi-district litigation continues to swell as Actos side effects lawsuits such as that filed by plaintiffs Matthew Gasparovic and Sumico Yamana are brought into the fold. In the meantime, we’re just beyond the 5-year anniversary of an investigation into Actos and bladder cancer by the Canadia... - Boston Scientific Transvaginal Mesh Settlements Could Take Time
Jul-28-16 Santa Clara, CA: Despite recent settlements, plaintiffs who have filed Boston Scientific transvaginal mesh lawsuits, which have been consolidated as a mass torte, have been told not to expect a global resolution in the near future. The medical device maker has established qualified settlement funds with five law firms across the country to cover... - Risperdal Plaintiffs Prevail
Aug-1-16 Philadelphia, PA: The latest and largest Risperdal award is the fifth instance where juries have found that Johnson & Johnson did not provide adequate warning of Risperdal risks to doctors and patients. Andrew Yount was awarded $70 million last week by a Philadelphia jury. The Tennessee boy started taking Risperdal in 2003 when he was just fiv... - IVC Filter Lawsuit Plaintiffs Continue to Hammer Manufactures over Defective Products
Jul-31-16 Paducah, KY: For some time now we have been writing about the IVC filter , its role in helping to prevent blood clots and the risks associated with device migration, or the failure of thin, metallic struts that can drift along the inferior vena cava and approach, or even penetrate vital organs, including the heart. But what is the inferior vena cava,... - United States Victims of State Sponsored Terrorism Fund Establishment and Development
Santa Clara:, CA In moving forward with the development of the United States Victims of State Sponsored Terrorism Fund (“the Fund”), the US Attorney General has appointed a Special Master, (codified at 42 U.S.C. § 10609 (2015). The Act mandates that the Special Master “publish in the Federal Register and on a website maintained by the Depar... - Plaintiffs Continue to Advance Benicar Lawsuits, Alleging Defective Product
Jul-30-16 Port Arthur, TX: Anyone who dismisses the seriousness of the sprue-like enteropathy associated with use of hypertension drug Benicar, need only reference the number of Benicar Lawsuits currently on the books on behalf of various plaintiffs: as of March 1 of this year no fewer than 1,242 complaints. Sixty-seven of those cases are housed within multi-dis...