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Sort by date 16,391 pages found matching <a href=""></a>- Will 2015 See Benicar Lawsuits Moving Forward?
Jan-7-15 Cleveland, OH With a motion for consolidation of Benicar lawsuits before the courts and new Benicar side effects lawsuits being filed, 2015 could be an important year in Benicar litigation. Lawsuits filed against the company that makes Benicar allege the blood pressure medication is linked to a severe gastrointestinal condition. Late in 2014, a moti... - Pharmacist Warns Patient about Januvia
Jan-4-15 La Crosse, WI Robert believes that he wouldn’t be alive today if not for his pharmacist and wife intervening when he was prescribed Januvia during a hospital stay. Robert, 78 years old, was admitted to the hospital two years ago with pneumonia and at that time, doctors determined he was diabetic. “One doctor prescribed Januvia; I remembe... - Will 2015 Be Another Huge Year in Actos Litigation?
Jan-9-15 New Orleans, LA 2014 was a huge year in Actos side effects lawsuits, especially for the plaintiffs in one lawsuit. That Actos bladder cancer lawsuit saw a Louisiana jury award over $9 billion - most of it in punitive damages - to the plaintiffs. Although the award was lowered in October, it was not thrown out, and the jury was allowed to hear informati... - California Overtime: Is There a Grinch in UPS Upper Management?
Jan-9-15 Sacramento, CA United Parcel Service (UPS) is back to its usual tricks: Not paying its employees California overtime . Is there a Grinch or several in upper management? Back in 2002, part-time supervisors at UPS in California won an $18 million settlement over back pay, and five years ago, the delivery giant got slapped with a class-action overtime s... - Forced-Placed Insurance Lawsuits Close to Settling
Jan-9-15 New York, NY Two major players in the mortgage and insurance business are close to settling a putative Force-placed insurance lawsuit , after documents related to the class action and details of an ongoing settlement were filed with the courts this week. There are actually two Forced-Placed Insurance Lawsuits at play - one in New York and another bas... - Yasmin Lawsuits Far-Reaching
Jan-6-15 Toronto, ON Bayer has been hit with a class-action Yasmin lawsuit in Ontario and an attorney in Israel has applied to set in motion a class-action suit against the drug company for failing to update the birth control’s risks. The Ontario Yasmin class action was certified in April 2013. Residents in Ontario who were prescribed the drospirenon... - Tylenol/Acetaminophen Side Effects
Tylenol is one of the most popular painkillers in the world, yet it has been linked to a number of serious Tylenol side effects . Attorneys are investigating Tylenol overdose and Tylenol liver damage claims stemming from acetaminophen toxicity , and are subsequently filing Tylenol lawsuits . Tylenol Side Effects Tylenol overdose is no... - Three Courts Find for Plaintiffs, Wal-Mart May Again Appeal Unpaid Wages Claim
Jan-8-15 Philadelphia, PA It was about as big an Unpaid Wages lawsuit as one would find, brought against two of the biggest retail juggernauts of them all: Wal-Mart and Sam’s Club. Lower courts found for the plaintiffs. And while the defendants appealed their case through state appellate and supreme courts in Philadelphia, in the end the original findings... - “Unum Believes It Trumps Doctors - Lawsuit Filed”
Jan-2-15 Clinton, NY Mary will be following an Unum, or Unum Provident denied disability lawsuit recently filed. Unum had “threatened” to terminate her benefits for several months and she too might have her day in court with the behemoth insurance company. A New York man - who worked for an insurance company - filed a lawsuit against Unum last Oc... - Viagra Melanoma Plaintiffs May Have a Valid Point
Jan-2-15 Cook County, IL It may not have the legal community jumping in the morning quite yet. However, all eyes are on the emergence of a relatively recent issue putting a new spin on the subject of erectile dysfunction (ED) and the various byproducts that may come into play resulting from the treatment and management of ED: Viagra melanoma . With apologies... - Emergency Room Charges: A Popsicle, Exam & Quick Fix for $10,000
Jan-7-15 Houston, TX Excessive emergency room charges are not restricted to the emergency rooms you find in actual hospital facilities. In the state of Texas, for example, you can find a collection of free-standing emergency rooms that offer excellent care with expert medical staff and top-notch equipment. There is no disputing the expertise. What a lot of p... - Stevens Johnson Syndrome: Just One Little Pill…
Jan-6-15 Los Angeles, CA It’s one of the strangest Stevens Johnson Syndrome stories yet, but one that is no less compelling. The tragedy is that an antibiotic administered to a 19-year-old woman from California wasn’t even prescribed to her. Yaasmeen Castanada had been complaining of a sore throat. A friend sought to help by giving Yaasmeen a pill t... - Examining the IMPROVE-IT Vytorin Results
Dec-29-14 Chicago, IL Last month’s release of the Vytorin IMPROVE-IT study brought positive attention to Merck, whose drug has been under fire thanks to reported Vytorin side effects and concerns that Vytorin was no more effective than a statin on its own. But there are still concerns about Vytorin, and it should be noted that previous studies have not alw... - ER Overcharges Bill Warrants Heart Attack
Dec-28-14 Seattle, WA If you or a loved one find yourself in an emergency room, be careful about describing your symptoms: you might wind up facing unwarranted emergency room overcharges like Patrick and his wife recently did. One month ago, the couple were getting ready for a trip overseas when Patrick’s wife, let’s call her Ann, felt a nasty pin... - $38M Settlement Reached in Extendicare Health Services Fraud Whistleblower Lawsuit
Los Angeles, CA: Extendicare Health Services Inc. (Extendicare) and its subsidiary Progressive Step Corporation (ProStep) have agreed to pay $38 million to the United States and eight states to resolve allegations that Extendicare billed Medicare and Medicaid for materially substandard elder care nursing services that were so deficient that they w... - Pregnant Woman’s Insurance Denial a Lesson
Jan-1-15 Maui, HI The tale of a Canadian woman who gave birth in Hawaii and had her insurance claim denied is a cautionary tale for all insurance policyholders. Despite the woman and her husband thinking they were following the rules and properly covered, they reportedly wound up with a bill of $950,000, a bill their insurance company - Blue Cross - has so far... - Propecia Sexual Dysfunction, and No End in Sight
Dec-31-14 San Diego, CA While it has been two years since the watershed year of 2012 when studies and concern surfaced in a big way over Propecia finasteride , the issue has since been quietly bubbling at a slow boil, with the Propecia lawsuit ledger continuing to escalate. As of June 30, according to Q2 summaries filed by Propecia manufacturer Merck & Co. wi... - Oregon Requires Insurers to Cover Autism Therapy
Dec-22-14 Salem, OR Oregon has become the latest state to require insurers to include autism and other mental health conditions, rather than denying claims for such conditions. Insurance lawsuits have been filed in other states regarding insurers’ refusal to cover applied behavior analysis (ABA) therapy and other treatments linked to autism. According t... - $1.1M Punitive Award Against Walgreens for Firing Medicare Fraud Whistleblower
Dec-30-14 A $1.1 million dollar punitive damage award was reinstated against Walgreens for firing a pharmacist who reported the Medicare billing fraud practices occurring in 12 out of 30 stores investigated, according to court documents. Pharmacist Sami Mitri worked for Walgreens for more than 10 years. After making several complaints regarding the Medicare fra... - ICM Settlement with Interns Has California Labor Law Underpinnings
Dec-29-14 New York, NY There were a number of stories that dominated the California labor law portfolio over the course of this past year, not the least of which was the implementation of new laws supporting overtime and other labor statutes heretofore not available to in-home and personal service workers. Other laws inject a level of liability for primary contr...