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Un estudio de abogados investiga cargos por rescisión anticipada que se cobran en forma ilegítima en alguna de las siguientes dos circunstancias: Cuando el servicio hubiera sido cancelado dentro de los 30 días posteriores a su contratación. Cuando le hubieran cobrado cargos por rescisión anticipada a pesar de la... - Family of Las Vegas man denied cancer treatment awarded $200M verdict in insurance bad faith lawsuit
May-11-22 Las Vegas, NV (April 26, 2022) A jury awarded $40 million in compensatory damages and $160 million in punitive damages to the family of a Las Vegas man who died after being wrongfully denied a specific type of cancer treatment. Sierra Health and Life, a UnitedHealthCare Company, denied Bill Eskew’s claim for proton beam therapy (PBT). Sandy Eskew, th... - Alcoa Fights Retirees’ ERISA Lawsuit over Health Benefits Plan
May-10-22 Evansville, IN In December 2020, Alcoa USA Corp. retirees brought an ERISA lawsuit in the Southern District of Indiana to block Alcoa’s announced plan to change the way in which it provided collectively bargained retiree health benefits. The changes at issue in Kaiser v. Alcoa USA Corp. (originally captioned Simpkins v. Alcoa USA Corp. ) became... - Tesla Stock Lawsuits Legal News and Lawsuit Information
On August 8, 2018, Elon Musk, high flying CEO of Tesla, Inc. tweeted to the world that he was considering taking Tesla private at $420 per share. He said he had the money. The price of the stock skyrocketed, trading was temporarily suspended and the SEC launched an investigation into potential price manipulation. The financing later appeared to have depe... - Minor League Players “Chasing a Dream” Under Harsh Living Conditions
May-11-22 Santa Clara, CA If Major League Baseball and its teams have their way, minor leaguers will be prohibited from mentioning their purported poor living conditions at a California wage trial, arguing that the evidence is irrelevant and could unfairly sway jurors. Chasing the Dream Back in 2014, three minor league baseball players filed a class action i... - Uber’s Petition to Arbitrate Driver’s Misclassification Complaint Denied
May-9-22 Santa Clara, CA A state appeals court told Uber last month that it cannot force a former driver to arbitrate his misclassification lawsuit or even whether he is an employee and therefore entitled to bring a representative claim under California’s Private Attorneys General Act (PAGA). Erik Adolph, a former UberEats driver, (Uber's meal delivery... - Debtor-in-Possession Bankruptcy for MD Helicopters?
May-3-22 Wilmington, DE MD Helicopters Inc. appears to have secured financing that will allow the company to emerge from bankruptcy as an operating business. The company’s Chapter 11 bankruptcy petition was, however, only the latest twist in a case that began as a whistleblower lawsuit in 2013. The revolving door and the fraud that followed Th... - MLB Farm Team Players to Get Their Day in Court
May-6-22 San Francisco, CA The class and collective wage claims of minor league baseball players in the long running Senne v. Office of the Commissioner of Baseball will finally go to trial on June 1 in the Northern District of California. The only remaining questions for the California players, according to the plaintiffs’ trial plan, involve... - Burn Injury Lawsuit
Burn injuries are among the most painful of injuries and can take a long time for recuperation and rehabilitation. Although a burn injury can be non-life-threatening, depending on the severity of the injury, the damage caused by the burn accident can be permanent and require years for recovery. Unfortunately, not everyone involved in a burn accident, w... - Teamsters Sue UPS for Pension and Welfare Contributions
Apr-30-22 Newark, NJ On March 23, the Trustees of the Teamsters Pension Trust Fund of Philadelphia and Vicinity filed a lawsuit in federal court in New Jersey, alleging that UPS had failed to make required contributions to the pension and welfare funds for 2015. The ERISA lawsuit seeks nearly $300,000 in unpaid contributions to the two plans plus attorneys&rsquo... - Activision Blizzard To Settle for $18 million in Discrimination Lawsuit
Apr-30-22 Santa Monica, CA Activision Blizzard has agreed to pay $18 million to settle a workplace discrimination lawsuit filed by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). Workers employed by the video game giant after September 2016 and believe that they experienced harassment, discrimination or retaliation will be eligible to apply for a share of... - Two Open-Heart Surgery Outcomes Involving Stockert 3T Heater-Cooler System
Apr-29-22 Santa Clara, CA The chances of developing an infection after cardiac surgery is slim – an estimated 1 in 5,000 patients who had heart valve surgery and even lower for other types of surgery. But that percentage is higher if a Stockert 3T Heater-Cooler was used during surgery. Rod says he hasn’t recovered from his heart surgery and Carol&... - Two Brooklyn Health Care Agencies Settle Fraud Lawsuits
Apr-28-22 Brooklyn, NY Two Brooklyn Home Care Service agencies failed to cheat both the federal government and their health care aids and now they have to pay nearly $7 million in back wages and Medicaid payments following two settlement agreements with New York Attorney General Letitia James. In its news release (March 25, 2022), the Justice Department s... - Long-Term Disability Attorney Discusses Long-COVID Disability Claims
Apr-27-22 Northridge, CA It’s no surprise that some “long COVID-19” claims are denied by insurance companies: there was even a debate about whether it was real. But long-term disability attorney Brent Dorian Brehm, with Kantor & Kantor LLP has already won “post-COVID-19 syndrome” appeals for his clients. Brehm discu... - Mirena IUD Lawsuit News and Legal Information
Mirena pseudotumor cerebri lawsuits allege that Bayer, the company that makes Mirena IUD, did not warn consumers and the medical community of pseudotumor (PTC) risks—also known as intracranial hypertension (IIH)-- and other serious Mirena side effects such as mirena uterine perforation. From 2000 to 2013 the FDA received more than 70,000 reports of Mi... - Mirena IUD FAQ
What is Mirena? Mirena is a levonorgestrel-releasing intrauterine system. It is a small, T-shaped device placed in the uterus that releases a small amount of a progestin hormone to prevent pregnancy. Who uses Mirena? The IUD device has been marketed to women as a convenient method of birth control. The Mirena manufacturer also ad... - Long Beach City College Allegedly Violated Minimum Wage Laws
Apr-26-22 Long Beach, CA A proposed California labor class action lawsuit filed by part-time instructors at Long Beach City College claims the district violated minimum wage laws by not paying them all hours worked. Part-time instructors are often paid for the hours they spend in front of students and are not compensated for out-of-classroom work such as preparing... - Zumiez’s Proposed Settlement with Retail Employees
Apr-25-22 Santa Clara, CA If the Zumiez $2.8 million deal goes through, over 6,000 former and current Zumiez retail employees who worked in California from Aug. 1, 2012, to June 3, 2016 will each receive about $455 each and it will end the proposed class action filed in California federal court. The deal originates from a lawsuit filed back in 2016—workers dem... - Asistencia Legal por Suturas Panacryl
Las suturas Panacryl son un tipo de sutura o puntos absorbibles que se usan comúnmente para ayudar a la cicatrización de las heridas post-quirúrgicas. Estas suturas están diseñadas para ser absorbidas por el organismo de modo que no sea necesario quitarlas en el futuro. Lamentablemente, las suturas Panacryl pueden haber sid... - Industrial Accident - Industrial Accident News, Industrial Accident Lawyer
An industrial accident is any type of accident that occurs at work. An industrial accident injury is any bodily harm or disease caused by working. People injured in industrial accidents may be able to file an industrial accident claim to recover loss of income, pain and suffering and other economic and punitive damages. Industrial Ac...