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Sort by date 16,391 pages found matching <a href=""></a>- File Mirena Lawsuits Sooner than Later
Feb-19-16 Bergen County, NJ: Four Mirena lawsuits against Bayer were thrown out last month - the judge ruling that the women had filed too late. There are several reasons why the lawsuits weren’t filed within the statute of limitations (SOL). One reason is that the SOL varies by state . Another reason could be the attorney’s fault. For example... - Xarelto Lawsuits at 3,000 and Counting in Just Five Years
Feb-26-16 New Orleans, LA: It was in July 2011 that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved Xarelto (Rivaroxaban) as a long-awaited successor to the 50-year-old Coumadin (warfarin), the standard for blood thinning for a half-century. While warfarin is not infallible (no drug is), any litigation involving the latter over its tenure on the market pales in c... - Transvaginal Mesh—The Past Five Years
Feb-21-16 Washington, DC: From 2011, the FDA has warned health professionals and the public that transvaginal mesh was associated with serious complications that were not rare, and recommended the mesh be bumped up from moderate to high risk. Almost five years later, the agency has reclassified mesh products designed and marketed for transvaginal treatment o... - 1% of Physicians Account for One-third of Paid Medical Malpractice Claims
Feb-25-16 The New England Journal of Medicine has analyzed some appalling data that 1% of physicians account for approximately 32% of paid medical malpractice claims. The data - which was pulled from the National Practitioner Data Bank - shows that over a recent 10-year period, a small number of physicians with distinctive characteristics accounted for a dispr... - Mammoth Asbestos Trial Scheduled This Month in Kentucky
Feb-25-16 Owensboro, KY: An asbestosis lawsuit brought by plaintiff Doris White and scheduled to go to trial this month underwent some changes in December of last year, although the case was preserved. The circumstances of the case, while not unique, are nonetheless a little different from the everyday fodder of the legal blotter. White, the plaintiff who suf... - Stryker OP-1 Bone Filler Anything but Putty in a Surgeon’s Hands
Feb-22-16 Washington, DC: In 2012, Online Legal Media senior writer Jane Mundy first recounted the story of April Cabana, who underwent what she thought to be routine back surgery in 2008. However, the procedure left her permanently disabled. Why? Allegedly due to the use of Stryker OP-1 Putty Linked to Adverse Events , in tandem with another product, Calstru... - Plaintiff Launches $1Billion Class-Action Invokana Lawsuit, Others Follow
Feb-23-16 Washington, DC: The headlines have been screaming of late, and not just from the United States, but around the world in Europe and Canada: “ Invokana Linked with Cardiovascular Injuries and Kidney Failure .” Just this month a new lawsuit was filed in the United States, and the European Medicines Agency issued two safety warnings to Invokana p... - Investigation Reveals Cause of Exploding Takata Airbags
Feb-23-16 Santa Clara, CA: An investigation into exploding Takata airbags has determined that there are a number of contributing factors, all of which must act in combination to cause an explosion, the Associated Press (AP) reports. Those factors include but are not limited to the presence of moisture that degrades the ammonium nitrate, a source wishing to... - California Overtime Lawsuit Settlement Awards Restaurant Workers
Feb-18-16 Los Angeles, CA: Contrary to how some restaurant employers choose to conduct business, it doesn’t pay to cheat employees out of California overtime pay. For example, a recent overtime complaint resulted in the owners of a number of sushi and ramen eateries, namely Gatten Sushi and Yushoken Ramen, paying their sushi chefs and other workers $621,00... - Wrongful Death Lawsuit Filed against Southern California Gas Company
Feb-20-16 Porter Ranch, CA: The family of a 79-year-old woman who died after the Southern California Gas Company (SoCalGas) leak in October has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the gas company. Although the victim suffered breathing problems prior to the gas leak, the wrongful death claim alleges the gas leak made the woman’s health problems worse an... - CDC: Lumber Liquidators Flooring Cancer Risk 3 Times Higher than Previously Predicted
Feb-22-16 Santa Clara, CA: People exposed to certain types of toxic Lumber Liquidators' laminate flooring are potentially three times more likely to develop cancer than previously predicted, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The CDC and the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry was notified February 13 of an error i... - MLB, Fans Settle TV Antitrust Class Action
Philadelphia, PA: A proposed settlement agreement has been reached between major league baseball (MLB) fans and broadcasters, staving off an antitrust class action over how out-of-market game broadcasts are sold. Under the agreement, MLB will offer an unbundled MLB.TV Internet package for the next five years, allowing for the purchase of single-te... - Illinois Plaintiff Sues Insurance Carrier Over Denial of Benefits
Feb-21-16 Benton, IL: A Long term denied disability lawsuit has been filed in the Southern District of Illinois by a woman who claims her LTD provider abruptly stopped her long-term disability benefits without just cause. The plaintiff in the Wrongly Denied Disability Claims lawsuit is Kathy L. Moore. According to the Madison County Record (2/3/16), Moore h... - Dr. Oz Faces Herbal Supplement Lawsuit
Feb-20-16 New York, NY: It's not just herbal supplement companies that face the wrath of consumers who allege they’ve been misled into buying herbal supplements. Celebrities that are seen as endorsing the supplements are also on the receiving end of lawsuits. Dr. Oz has faced congressional hearings and now faces a lawsuit over fat-burning supplements, with p... - Did Your Insurer Deal with You in Bad Faith?
Feb-20-16 Los Angeles, CA: Bad things happen to good people, right? Absolutely. And sometimes those bad things involve making an insurance claim so you can put things right again. “That’s why I have a job,” says attorney Denise Hsu Sze with a warm and engaging smile as we sit down to talk at a legal conference in Las Vegas. She’s a long-ti... - FINRA Bars Two Stockbrokers
Feb-17-16 Washington, DC: The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) has barred two brokers from the securities industry after finding the brokers guilty of fraud related to their sale of the Prestige Wealth Management Fund, LP. The brokers reportedly consented to the entry of FINRA’s findings but neither admitted nor denied the claims of stockbro... - $200M Settlement Imposed on Takata for Defective Air Bags
Washington, DC: The Department of Transportation' National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has issued two orders regarding defective Takata air bag inflators. The orders impose the largest civil penalty in NHTSA' history for Takata' violations of the Motor Vehicle Safety Act, and for the first time use NHTSA' authority to accelerate recall rep... - New Jersey Court Upholds $10.6M Verdict After Second Trial for Man Injured in Falling Elevator
Feb-19-16 A New Jersey superior court has denied an elevator company’s motion for a new trial, instead affirming a $10.3 million jury verdict that was awarded in the second trial for a man who suffered permanent spinal injuries after a malfunctioning elevator fell two stories with the man inside. While working as a union master carpenter at Headquarters Plaza... - Uber Lawsuit Alleges Driver Made $80 per Week
Feb-15-16 Sacramento, CA: Although the Lyft California labor lawsuit has been settled, the Uber lawsuit has so far not slowed down, with more drivers joining lawsuits filed in more than 10 states. A federal labor lawsuit filed in California has already been certified a class action, and a new lawsuit filed in Philadelphia illustrates some of the complaints alleg... - Can Xarelto Trial Data Be Trusted? It Depends Who You Ask
Feb-10-16 Boston, MA: As more Xarelto lawsuits are added to the multidistrict litigation, concerns have been raised that a medical device used in Xarelto’s clinical trial was faulty, which may have affected test results. Now critics are asking for an investigation, while Janssen Pharmaceuticals and the study’s authors maintain the study’s concl...