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Sort by date 16,385 pages found matching <a href=""></a>- Court Greenlights Class Action Status for Home Depot 401k ERISA Lawsuit
Oct-22-20 Atlanta, GA On September 21, the District Court for the Northern District of Georgia ruled that an ERISA lawsuit brought by participants in the Home Depot FutureBuilder 401(k) Plan against plan fiduciaries could proceed as a class action lawsuit. Pizarro v. The Home Depot is particularly notable for the number of participant who may be affected &ndas... - California Wage Lawsuit Argues Mortgage Company's Pay Practices
Oct-26-20 Berkeley, CA A former loans officer with Draper and Kramer Mortgage Corporation has filed a California wage lawsuit alleging the company stiffed him and other loan officers out of commissions and other payments, including overtime compensation. Jose Vasquez filed the lawsuit in September 2020 in the U.S. District Court Northern District of Cali... - Liberty Mutual Denied Disability Lawsuit News & Legal Information
Denied disability lawsuits have been filed against Liberty Mutual insurance company. The Boston-based Liberty Mutual Holding Company, through its subsidiaries and affiliated companies, is one of the largest disability insurance providers and the fourth largest property and casualty insurer in the US. Liberty Mutual, which has over 800 offices worldwide, has... - Lincoln Financial Long-term Disability Lawsuit Information & Legal News
Lincoln Financial Group offers short and long term disability insurance policies to protect policyholders in the event that they are injured or fall ill and are unable to work. Some policyholders, however, have filed insurance lawsuits alleging they have been unfairly or unreasonably denied their claims. For example, they allege they have been denied b... - MetLife Long-term Disability Lawsuit Information & Legal News
MetLife (Metropolitan Life Insurance Company) faces long term disability lawsuits alleging the company unjustly or improperly denied, delayed, or canceled long term disability benefits . Insurance lawsuits filed against MetLife allege the company has breached its contract with policyholders by cancelling insurance benefits or by unreasonably denying... - Hartford Long-term Disability Lawsuit Information & Legal News
Lawsuits have been filed against The Hartford insurance company alleging policyholders had their claims unreasonably delayed or denied, breaching the insurance company' contract with its customers. Insurance companies such as The Hartford (sometimes called Hartford Life Insurance Company ) who are found to have delayed or denied legitimate claims... - CIGNA Denied Disability Lawsuit News and Legal Information
Consumers who have CIGNA insurance may have been victims of CIGNA denied disability claims, in which CIGNA is accused of violating consumer protection laws. Recently, a regulatory settlement was announced with five states, settling claims that CIGNA' claims-handling procedures did not conform to required standards. CIGNA Insurance Cla... - Negligence Lawsuit in California Wildfires - Lawsuit News & Legal Information
Santa Rosa, CA: Amid allegations of negligence in its mitigation of the risk and spread of the deadly Coffey Park and Sonoma County wildfires California power supplier PG&E finds itself facing the possibility of lawsuits. Thousands of residents of Santa Rosa, CA, have been made homeless by the fires, while others remain missing. Claims are bei... - Prilosec PPI Side Effects Lawsuit News and Legal Information
The heartburn medication Prilosec (Omeprazole), which is one of nine proton pump inhibitor (PPI) medications, has been linked to bone fractures, heart attacks, cardiac birth defects and severe kidney disease, including Prilosec kidney failure and Prilosec renal failure . Long-term use of Prilosec has been associated with a tripled risk of kidney infla... - Proton Pump Inhibitors Gastric Cancer Legal News
Santa Cruz, CA: A new study on the use of proton pump inhibitors (PPI) in patients who have been treated successfully for Helicobacter pylori shows that the drugs more than double the risk for gastric cancer. Proton Pump Inhibitors Gastric Cancer Risk The study does have several limitations, including the fact that it is observational and w... - Sun Life Faces Potential Class Action Over Disability Contracts
Detroit, MI: An occupationally disabled woman suffering from severe back injury has filed a lawsuit alleging that Sun Life Assurance Company of Canada violated insurance reforms issued by the State of Michigan's Insurance Commissioner and applicable to disability insurance contracts delivered within the state. The lawsuit seeks class action st... - Google Worker Secrecy Agreements to face California Labor Lawsuit
Oct-19-20 San Francisco, CA On September 21 the California Court of Appeals ruled that Google and Adecco USA, Inc., a staffing company, must face allegations that the confidentiality agreements required of all Google employees violate the California Labor Code . Among other remedies, Doe v. Google seeks penalties under the California Private Attorneys Gene... - Volkswagen Salespeople Claim Lost Income due to VW’s Deceptive Practices
Oct-27-20 Santa Clara, CA A dispute over whether Volkswagen is a joint employer stems from a California labor lawsuit that has dragged on since 2016. VW sales representatives in California claim the German automaker is liable for wage and hour violations and the commissions they lost over the emissions-cheating scandal that blew up in 2015. Plaintiff... - Regular Acid-reflux Drug Use Linked to Higher Risk of type 2 Diabetes
Oct-25-20 Santa Clara, CA During this Pandemic there is also an epidemic that has been growing for decades and it is just as dangerous, perhaps even more so, than COVID 19. And drugs known as proton pump inhibitors or PPIs are feeding this epidemic: type 2 diabetes. Health experts call type 2 diabetes a global health crisis because its rapid increase contr... - IUD Breakage an Increasing ParaGard Problem
Oct-23-20 New Jersey When NJ gynecologist Carolyn Delucia, MD suggests to NewBeauty readers that “you can go back to your gynecologist any time to get [Paragard IUD] removed,” it makes you wonder what bubble she is living in. Since 2010, the FDA has received more than 1,600 reports of ParaGard breakage , with more than 700 classified as serious... - Injectafer Double Dose—Double Profit and Double Risk, and Dosage Discrepancy
Oct-14-20 Santa Clara, CA Hypophosphatemia, an abnormally low level of phosphate in the blood, may be due to longer term use or excess of certain drugs such as bisphosphonates, including Injectafer , but that may depend upon researchers conducting the clinical trials and the amount of the iron-deficiency drug treatment. The FDA approved Injectafer in July 2013 a... - Lead Attorney for 3M Earplug Plaintiffs is Proceeding to Trial
Oct-21-20 Pensacola, FL Attorney Bryan Aylstock and his law firm is representing over 10,000 current and former U.S. military service members who have suffered hearing loss and tinnitus allegedly caused by 3M defective military earplugs . “We hold 3M accountable for what they did to our military brothers and sisters and what they did not tell them,” say... - Looks like New Jersey hosts Elmiron MDL
Oct-20-20 Newark, NJ It’s a toss-up: whether to send 80 Elmiron vision loss lawsuits to Pennsylvania or New Jersey. Currently the latter seems to be the best bet. Lawyers have so far filed 80 Elmiron lawsuits and they anticipate hundreds more. Plaintiffs are rooting for the Garden State. On September 23, plaintiffs urged the Judicial Panel on Multidistric... - C.R. Bard Hernia Mesh Trial Gets the Green Light
Oct-18-20 Santa Clara, CA Federal hernia mesh lawsuits filed against C.R. Bard are proceeding with the first bellwhether trial scheduled for January 2021 (it was postponed due to COVID), despite numerous efforts by the medical device maker to have the case dismissed. This trial may well indicate the future of hernia mesh litigation and significantly impact up... - Bayer’s Bumps over Mosanto’s Roundup Litigation
Oct-12-20 Santa Clara, CA Bayer stated on its website in June 2020 that it will make a total payment of $10.1 billion to $10.9 billion to resolve current and address potential future Roundup Litigation. The $10.1 billion figure will settle about 75 percent of Monsanto’s Roundup lawsuits by an estimated 125,000 people who claim exposure to its weed killer and...