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Sort by date 16,385 pages found matching <a href=""></a>- One Homeowner’s Forced-Placed Insurance Tale of Woe
Mar-7-16 Turners Falls, MA: The potential limitations of Force-Place Insurance and the added cost is reflected in the sad story of one homeowner from Turners Falls who experienced a fire in her home. Lender Insurance , as it has been widely reported, tends to be more expensive and offers less coverage than more traditional insurance products. According to Th... - Some Interesting Revelations Associated with Xarelto Side Effects Concerns
Mar-7-16 Washington, DC: Plaintiffs having filed a Xarelto lawsuit on behalf of themselves or family members whose health may have been compromised by the blockbuster drug, may have been handed a new angle against an anticoagulant that in five years has risen to the top of the blood thinner mountain in spite of criticisms, including lack of an antidote. It h... - Woman Survives Stevens Johnson Syndrome Ordeal
Mar-4-16 Miami, FL : Patients taking medications are aware there are side effects to watch out for, but they may not realize that some medications come with a risk of a life-threatening condition known as Stevens Johnson Syndrome. Lawsuits have been filed against drugmakers, doctors, and other health care providers, alleging patients were not adequately warned a... - Identity Theft Complaints on the Rise
Mar-4-16 Washington, DC: A report from the Federal Trade Commission indicates that complaints about identity theft increased 47 percent in 2015 over 2014. As more organizations become victims of data breaches , more consumers are exposed to a risk of identity theft. Consumers are fighting back, filing lawsuits against the companies and organizations they trust w... - Olympus Corp On the Hook for $646 Million, Endoscope Infections Still a Concern
Mar-6-16 Washington, DC: A damning report issued at the beginning of the year by Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee Ranking Member Patty Murray (D-Washington) paints a troubling picture reflective of the risks and realities inherent with endoscope infection , and specifically the increasing difficulties in keeping such complex medical... - Nail Salon Industry in New York Reportedly Filled with Wage Violations
Mar-1-16 New York, NY: Following up on a report from 2015, the New York Times (2/29/16) has once again investigated the New York nail salon industry, and has found widespread wage and hour violations . Workers in the nail salon industry, The Times reports, are frequently underpaid and overworked, and at risk of serious illness linked to the chemicals they ar... - NBC Investigation: IVC Filter “Never Safe to Be Implanted”
Feb-29-16 Newark, NJ: Following two reports concerning inferior vena cava filters , NBC News has released a follow-up, examining why C.R. Bard continued to sell IVC filters despite reportedly knowing about problems with the filters soon after they were approved by the Food and Drug Administration. The NBC report , based on confidential records that included a... - NLRB Orders Samsung to Stop Use of Employment Agreement Waiving Right to Sue
Mar-4-16 The National Labor Relations Board has ordered Samsung to refrain from coercively interrogating employees and to cease the use of an agreement to arbitrate claims. The mutual agreement required employees to waive their rights to pursue class or collective actions as a condition of employment. The ruling comes after an employee started speaking with... - Laparoscopic Power Morcellation Lawsuits Expected to Keep Growing
Mar-3-16 Topeka, KS: While the number of Laparoscopic Power Morcellation lawsuits are not as yet substantial, attorneys close to the file estimate that before too long there could be upwards of 300 or more filings going forward. Given that some 650,000 women undergo hysterectomies in the United States each year due to uterine fibroids, 300 lawsuits appear to be... - $3.5M Settlement Reached in Old Navy Employment Class Action Lawsuit
Los Angeles, CA: Preliminary approval has been granted for a $3.5 million settlement in an employment class action lawsuit brought by approximately 26,000 Old Navy employees in California. According to the lawsuit, filed by named plaintiff Andre Wells in 2012, Old Navy failed to properly compensate its retail workers, specifically citing that it sh... - Another Illegal Practices Lawsuit against Unum
Mar-2-16 New Orleans, LA : Although Unum, or First Unum was reprimanded more than a decade ago by the Department of Labor for its bad faith insurance practices, the largest health insurer in the United States still seems to deny long-term disability benefits as its mandate. Many Unum policyholders have consequently filed lawsuits, alleging that the company ha... - The Battle over Bair Hugger Is a Hot One
Mar-2-16 Houston, TX: Attorney David Hodges is just back from a trip to Minneapolis, Minnesota, where a total of 170 Bair Hugger Forced Air Warming (FAW) Blanket personal injury cases have been consolidated into a multidistrict litigation (MDL). Hodges will be among the 21 members of the legal leadership in a lawsuit against The 3M Company and Arizant Healthcar... - $1.5M Tentative Settlement Reached in Restoration Hardware Wage and Hour Class Action Lawsuit
Santa Clara, CA: Preliminary approval has been granted to a proposed $1.5 million settlement of a wage and hour class action filed on behalf of 2,200 Restoration Hardware employees who alleged the retailer failed to provide meal and rest breaks, in violation of the California labor law. Specifically, the class action alleged the California... - $5.75M Settlement Reached in Regis Salon Workers Employment Class Action Lawsuit
Santa Clara, CA: A $5.75 million settlement has been reached in an unpaid wages and overtime class action lawsuit pending against Regis Corp, filed by workers in the company' hair salons who allege they were shorted on overtime and minimum wage pay. The preliminary deal would end claims that Regis violated California labor law and the Fa... - Risperdal Lawsuits beyond Statute of Limitations?
Feb-28-16 Philadelphia, PA: When Lucas was thirteen he was prescribed Risperdal to treat autism, but the antipsychotic drug was only approved for the treatment of schizophrenia in adults. “About a year or so after taking the drug, I got breast lumps and breast-like features,” he says. “I’m now 20 years old and only recently heard about th... - More Lawsuits Filed Alleging Monster Energy Drink Injury
Mar-1-16 Riverside, CA: A product that is alleged to trigger heart attacks, strokes, brain damage and kidney failure in people as young as 14 is facing additional litigation following the filing of lawsuits against Monster Beverage Corp. Plaintiffs allege Monster Energy Drink Deaths and Hospitalizations . The lawsuits - four in number - were filed February 8... - $12M Settlement Reached in Lyft Driver Misclassification Class Action Lawsuit
Santa Clara, CA: A $12.25 million employment class action settlement has been reached between Lyft drivers and the ride share app, which would provide additional job security to a proposed class of drivers, both current and former workers for Lyft in California. However, Lyft refuses to classify its drivers as employees. Currently, drivers for Lyft... - California Plaintiff Alleges Violations of Overtime, Meal Breaks
Feb-29-16 Los Angeles, CA: The new year brought a resolution to right a wrong for one California plaintiff, who last month filed a California Labor Lawsuit alleging nonpayment of owed overtime pay, together with the lack of provision and allowance for uninterrupted meal breaks as required under California labor law and the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). The... - Inventor of Bair Hugger “On a Mission” to Warn Public
Feb-29-16 Houston, TX: No doubt, the Bair Hugger warming blanket has made a valuable contribution to medicine. It is standard equipment in almost every operating room in the United States. An electric heater blows warm air through tubes in a disposable blanket draped over the patient during surgery. It prevents patients from slipping into a hypothermic state. ... - Bair Hugger Lawsuits Heating Up
Feb-24-16 Minneapolis, MN: If the first few months of 2016 are anything to go by, Bair Hugger lawyers have a busy year ahead. As of mid-January, more than 100 Bair Hugger claims were pending in the District of Minnesota as part of a multidistrict litigation (MDL). All the product liability complaints involving the Bair Hugger surgical warming blanket claim th...