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Sort by date 16,381 pages found matching <a href=""></a>- 3M Sending Payments for Faulty Combat Earplugs
Feb-12-24 Santa Clara, CA As part of its $6 billion faulty combat earplug settlement, 3M began sending payments last month to military veterans who suffered hearing loss and other significant injuries. The payments will resolve about 300,000 lawsuits claiming the manufacturing company knowingly sold defective earplugs that caused hearing loss and tinnitus. Those a... - Walmart Workers ask California Judge to OK $2.25M settlement
Feb-8-24 Santa Clara, CA Over 1,700 Walmart employees last month asked a California federal judge to approved a revamped $2.25 million unpaid overtime settlement. The proposed California labor class action was revised to base the class members' payouts on total earnings rather than weeks worked. In a motion for preliminary approval, the Walmart workers sai... - Another Option for Workers Who Cannot Save through an ERISA Retirement Plan
Feb-8-24 San Francisco, CA In February 2022, the United States Supreme Court denied the petition for certiorari filed by the petitioner in Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association v. The California Secure Choice Retirement Savings Program (CalSavers) . The denial kept in place a decision of the Ninth Circuit that permitted a California-sponsored and adminis... - New York MDL Consolidates Growing Number of Exactech Defective Hip Implant Lawsuits
Feb-9-24 Brooklyn, NY As of February 2024, more than 1,600 defective hip implant lawsuits were pending in multidistrict litigation before the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York. A status conference has been set for March 13, 2024, at which time the parties will discuss the status of the litigation, unresolved discovery matters and the select... - Delta Slammed with Lawsuit over Personal Cellphone Use
Feb-5-24 Los Angeles, CA Delta Air Lines employees required to use their personal cell phones and computers for work-related tasks without being reimbursed is a California labor law violation, according to a PAGA complaint filed by an aggrieved employee. In November 2023, a former Delta employee filed a seven-page PAGA lawsuit in the Superior Court of the Stat... - Two Popular California Bakeries Slammed with Wage Theft Lawsuits
Feb-1-24 Los Angeles, CA Two famous bakeries, Firebrand Artisan Breads in the Bay Area, and Sweet Lady Jane in the L.A. area, are both accused of withholding the dough from their employees, and now face California wage theft lawsuits . Filed in Alameda County Superior Court under California’s Private Attorneys General Act, the lawsuit allows employees to see... - Another Monsanto Roundup Loss for Bayer
Jan-31-24 Philadelphia, PA A Pennsylvania man was awarded a massive $2.25 billion after a Pennsylvania jury unanimously ruled that Bayer’s Roundup caused his non-Hodgkins lymphoma. The jury’s verdict on January 26 included $2 billion in punitive damages and jury members determined that Monsanto was negligent in warning customers about the dangers of it... - The Cheesecake Factory Settles California Janitors Wage Theft Lawsuit
Jan-29-24 Santa Clara, CA If you worked as a janitor at any of eight Cheesecake Factory restaurants in Orange and San Diego counties and were forced to work overtime and/or worked through breaks between 2014 and 2017 without being compensated, the California’s Labor Commissioner’s Office is handing out checks to ex-employees of the restaurant chain and w... - Weight Loss Drugmakers Face Stomach Paralysis Lawsuits
Jan-27-24 Santa Clara, CA A drugmaker’s dream is a patient continuing treatment and forever refilling prescriptions--and that spells profit. Such is the case with the weight loss drugs because discontinuing them leads to regaining lost weight. Ozempic, Mounjaro and Wegovy are star performers, but a drugmaker’s nightmare is the serious side effect... - Nurses Filed Unpaid Wages Lawsuit Against U.S. Nursing Corp
Jan-25-24 Denver, CO Two nurses last month filed a proposed class action against U.S. Nursing Corp, claiming they were underpaid while filling in for workers on strike at Kaiser Permanente South Bay Medical Center last October. And it’s not the first class action facing U.S. Nursing. Plaintiffs Rayshawnda Gilmore and Taneisha McClymont filed their complai... - Johnson & Johnson to Pay $700 Million to Settle State AG Lawsuits
Jan-23-24 Trenton, NJ Johnson & Johnson has reportedly agreed to pay $700 million to settle talcum powder lawsuits brought by 42 states. These state lawsuits allege that the company wrongfully marketed a product that it either knew or had reason to know was dangerous to human health. This settlement affects only this subset of talcum powder lawsuits... - More Long-Term Part Timers May Now Save Through 401k ERISA Plans
Jan-22-24 Washington, DC Beginning on January 1, 2024, an expanded group of long-term part-time employees may be able to participate in their employer’s 401k ERISA retirement plan . It’s a small tweak in the 2019 Setting Every Community Up for Retirement Enhancement Act ( SECURE Act ) that could have major implications for young and underemployed worker... - Defective Hip Implant Lawsuit News and Legal Information
Hip replacement lawsuits have been filed due to early failure of certain hip implants used in the procedure. Metal-on-metal hip replacement systems have reportedly caused pain and other side effects, often requiring revision surgery. Defective hip implant lawsuits have been filed against various manufacturers and distributors by patients alleging hip replac... - $120M awarded in Westchester Medical Center Medical Malpractice Lawsuit
Jan-21-24 Westchester County, NY – A state Supreme Court jury last November awarded $120 million in a medical malpractice lawsuit against Westchester Medical Center. In 2018 the plaintiff was rushed to hospital and because doctors failed to diagnose a stroke, he suffered extensive brain damage. The hospital argued that brain damage had already occurred before... - Hair Relaxers – Read the Label
Jan-16-24 Chicago, IL Black women who have used hair relaxers for most of their lives have been “shocked” and “horrified” to discover that studies have linked formaldehyde—the chemical found in most hair relaxers —to cancer and fibroids. A recent Boston University report highlights an increased risk for Black women to develop ute... - UNITE HERE Dispute with Sky Chefs Back on the Plate
Jan-18-24 Los Angeles, CA UNITE HERE International Union's California labor lawsuit against Sky Chefs Inc. is back on the plate. The Ninth Circuit ruling in December reversed U.S. District Judge Percy Anderson's dismissal in May 2022 of the Union's lawsuit which challenged unilateral wage and benefits changes made by the airline catering company on its... - Race Bias Lawsuit: Tesla v. EEOC
Jan-13-24 San Francisco, CA At a San Francisco federal court yesterday, Tesla Inc. said an Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) lawsuit claiming widespread race-based harassment at the company’s Fremont, California facility is short on details and, thereford, the lawsuit should be dismissed. The EEOC sued Tesla in September 2023... - Problems with Philips CPAP Replacement Machines
Jan-10-24 Pittsburgh, PA Nearly two years after Philips Respironics recalled millions of CPAP machines , including ventilators for the sick and dying and DreamStation for sleep apnea patients--including children, consumers are still having problems. A recent investigation has found that the new replacement breathing machines might also be emitting dangerous chemica... - Sexual Abuse by Priests Legal News and Lawsuit Information
A survey commissioned by the US Conference of Catholic Bishops has found that children have made more than 11,000 allegations of sexual abuse by priests dating back to 1950. According to the survey, 61 percent (6,700 claims), have been substantiated and although most of the children abused were between 11-17 years of age, 6 percent of the abused childr... - Unum Denied Disability Claims Legal Information and Lawsuit News
Unum (formerly known as Unum Provident and First Unum ) has systematically denied Unum disability insurance to thousands of policy holders in the past two decades. Unum and its subsidiaries, including Provident Life, The Paul Revere Life Insurance Company and Colonial Life & Accident Insurance Company have been subject to numerous lawsuits for il...