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Lawyers are investigating potential lawsuits alleging first responder misconduct in their handling of issues involving the public. Among concerns regarding first responders is that a lack of proper training of police and other first responders can result in injury or harm to the public and that some members of the police commit acts that amount to abuse... - First Responder Injury Lawsuit News and Legal Information
First Responders are the people who attend emergency situations and put their lives on the line to protect the public. Police, firefighters, and EMTs all face serious hazards to their safety while they care for others. Unfortunately, doing so puts their lives on the line, and puts first responders at risk of long lasting injuries. First responders lawsuit... - FDA Recall for Fresenius Naturalyte Liquid Acid Concentrate and Naturalyte GranuFlo
Granuflo and NaturaLyte lawsuits have been filed against Fresenius Medical Care North America, the manufacturer and distributor of dialysis products Granuflo and NaturaLyte; and DaVita Healthcare Partners , alleging their actions, i.e., Alkali Dosing Errors led to the wrongful deaths of dialysis patients. Both Fresenius and Davita operate dialysis cen... - Taser Abuse Legal News & Lawsuit Information
Taser International Inc. faces lawsuits alleging that the company's Taser Electronic Control Devices (ECDs) have resulted in serious injury and even death. Furthermore, allegations have been made that victims are subjected to Taser abuse at the hands of people who use Taser stun guns . Taser Abuse Injury Taser stun guns are pow... - ETHICON SURGICAL STAPLERS RECALLED AFTER REPORTS OF SERIOUS MEDICAL HARM
Sep-25-20 Somerville, NJ In mid-October 2019, the FDA recalled Ethicon Echelon Flex surgical staplers because of a dangerous manufacturing failure that could cause serious health damage or even death. This followed, by only a few months, a recall of Ethicon Endo-Surgery curved intraluminal staplers, a defective medical product that posed similar dangers to pat... - California Refinery Workers Clinch $4.4 Settlement in Rest Break Lawsuit
Sep-24-20 Los Angeles, CA On August 24, the District Court for the Central District of California gave final approval to a settlement under which ExxonMobil, PBF Energy Limited and Torrance Refining Company, LLC will pay a total of nearly $4.4 million to settle a class action lawsuit in which refinery workers claim that they were denied the paid rest breaks requir... - ERISA Lawsuit Targets ESOP Scam
Sep-21-20 Wilmington, DE Set against the backdrop of California’s notorious water wars, the 1974 film “ Chinatown ,” focuses on the mysterious Evelyn, who must finally explain whether a young girl is her daughter or her sister. The awful truth unfolds. She is murdered – shot through the eye as her daughter or sister screams. Evelyn’s pr... - Are Employers’ Facebook Recruiting Practices Exempt from Age Discrimination Laws?
Sep-16-20 San Francisco, CA Bradley et al v. T-Mobile US Inc. et al. , a long-running lawsuit first filed in 2017, alleges that T-Mobile’s Facebook recruitment practices violated the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA) . The nationwide, class action lawsuit also alleges violations of the California labor code and other state laws. But per... - Farmers Insurance Overtime Pay Settlement – Over and Over Again
Sep-23-20 Los Angeles, CA Farmers Insurance has agreed to settle a California wage and hour lawsuit brought by Famers special investigators alleging failure to pay overtime, including meal breaks and rest periods. The settlement includes anyone who worked in California for Farmers as a special investigator between 2013 and 2018. And this is not the first time Fame... - Two Circuit Courts to Decide whether Drivers-for-Hire Can Get their Day in Court
Sep-13-20 San Francisco, CA Two federal appeals courts have or will consider whether Lyft and GrubHub drivers are engaged in interstate commerce , and so exempt from the requirements of the Federal Arbitration Act (FAA). The California labor lawsuit . Rogers v. Lyft, Inc ., began as a dispute about the drivers’ lack of paid sick leave. The drivers&rs... - FDA Update on BIA-ALCL Finds More Cases, More Deaths
Sep-15-20 Silver Spring, MD On August 20, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration provided an update on adverse events relating to breast implants, including breast implant-associated anaplastic large cell lymphoma . The new FDA update on BIA-ALCL reports a total of 733 cases and 36 patient deaths globally, an increase of 160 new cases and 3 deaths... - Alere INRatio2 Test Strips Lawsuit News & Legal Information
Washington, DC: Alere is recalling its INRatio2 PT/INR Professional Test Strips due to complaints of patients who had a therapeutic or near therapeutic INR with the Alere INRatio2 PT/INR Professional Test Strip but a significantly higher INR (outside of therapeutic range) when performed by a central laboratory. Alere has received nine serious adverse e... - Medtronic Insulin Pump Lawsuit News and Legal Information
Medtronic has so far faced at least two lawsuits alleging the Medtronic MiniMed Paradigm insulin pumps are defective and have caused the death of patients relying on the pumps to monitor blood glucose levels. There have been at least two Medtronic recalls of the devices, linked to problems with the pumps providing too much or too little insulin. Attor... - AngioSculpt Percutaneous Transluminal Angioplasty (PTA) Scoring Balloon Catheter Recall
Washington, DC: AngioScore Inc is recalling AngioSculpt Percutaneous Transluminal Angioplasty (PTA) Scoring Balloon CatheterOTW 0.018" Platform (multiple sizes). The device recall has been initiated because a design defect causing unintended fracture and peeling, and has resulted in peeling of the bond and/or detachment of the distal end of the sc... - Fifth Third Bancorp Excessive Overdraft Fees Lawsuit Information
Fifth Third Bank and other financial institutions have faced allegations that they used deceptive practices in charging customers excessive overdraft fees. In 2011, Fifth Third Bank settled a class action filed on behalf of customers claiming they were charged excessive overdraft fees due to "reordering" of transactions in order to create overdraft... - TD Bank Faces Overdraft Fees Class Action Lawsuit
New York, NY: A consumer banking class action lawsuit has been filed against TD Bank NA alleging the financial institution continues to manipulate the order of debit card transactions so that it can profit through the maximization of overdraft fees. The lawsuit comes less than a year after the bank paid $62 million to settle a multidistrict litigatio... - Bounced Check Recovery Lawsuit Legal News & Lawsuit Information
Electronic check re-presentment, or check recovery, is a method by which merchants process bad checks or NSF items. One option available for merchants to recover bounced checks is by hiring a re-presentment agency . Some banks contract with re-presentment firms and automatically enroll their commercial checking customers (i.e., businesses that accept chec... - People's United Bank Excessive Overdraft Fees
Santa Clara, CA: In 2017, an excessive overdraft fees class action lawsuit was filed against People's United Bank (Case 3:17-cv-00304, Terriann Walker v. People's United Bank, US District Court for the District of Connecticut), over allegations it systematically assesses overdraft fees on transactions when there is enough money in the checkin... - Wells Fargo Excessive Overdraft Fees Legal News & Lawsuit Information
Wells Fargo Bank and other financial institutions have faced allegations that they used deceptive practices in charging customers excessive overdraft fees. Federal rules that took effect in 2010 no longer allow banks and credit unions to charge overdraft fees on ATM or debit card transactions unless the bank customer agrees to "opt-in" to overdraft... - Bank of Hawaii Excessive Overdraft Fees
Santa Clara, CA: In 2016, Bank of Hawaii was accused of unfairly assessing overdraft fees in an excessive overdraft fees class action lawsuit. The complaint, Smith v. Bank of Hawaii , Case No. 1:16-cv-00513, in the U.S. District Court for the District of Hawaii, alleged that the Bank of Hawaii charged overdraft fees on accounts that had enough...