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Sort by date 16,507 pages found matching <a href=""></a>- FDA Reports Fatal Pneumothorax Events Linked to Two Enteral Feeding Tubes
Update, January 17: The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued an update to the information provided below. The previous letter issued on January 11, 2018 attributed an inaccurate number of adverse events and deaths to the Kangaroo Feeding Tube with IRIS Technology. Please see the highlighted text for updated information. Washington, DC: T... - Takata Reaches Settlement Deal with Injured Drivers
Feb-13-18 Santa Cruz,CA: Takata, the Japanese maker of airbags that contained defective inflators, which caused injuries and more than a dozen deaths of drivers and passengers, has reached a settlement to pay tort claimants. According to the terms of the deal, which was reached over the weekend, a trust would be established, from which tort claimants would... - Unum Sued for Denial of Disability Benefits
Feb-12-18 Atlanta, GA: There is little doubt that wrongly denied disability claims tend to make more noise than claims that are approved and duly paid. Such is the case with a denied disability claim that is the subject of a lawsuit against insurance provider Unum. According to Court documents the plaintiff in the case is identified as Leslie Onusic, a former... - Xarelto Verdict for the Plaintiff Overturned in Bellwether Case
Feb-11-18 Philadelphia, PA: A jury verdict in favor of the plaintiff in a bellwether Xarelto lawsuit that was in danger of being overturned was, indeed tossed - but not for reasons that had been previously speculated. The case is Hartman v. Janssen Pharmaceuticals Inc. et al. , Case no. 160503416, in the Court of Common Pleas of Philadelphia County, Pennsyl... - Long Term Disability Denial Letter from Insurer is Not the End of the Road
Feb-8-18 Minneapolis, MN Disability insurance is intended to help individuals through rough spots, providing them with income when health problems keep them off the job. However, insurance companies are big corporations concerned about their bottom line. Unless policy holders can stand up to the insurance company's strict requirements during the critical cross ove... - Mother of Tasered Teen Files First Responder Misconduct Lawsuit in Texas
Feb-5-18 Austin, TX: A first responder misconduct lawsuit alleging police abuse was filed last month against the City of Austin, Texas. The plaintiff, the mother of a teenaged boy, alleges an officer with the Austin Police Department used excessive force on her son and is seeking $1 million in punitive damages. According to CBS Austin (01/25/18) the first r... - St Jude Cardiac Defibrillator Lawsuit News & Legal Information
Chicago, IL: Abbott and its subsidiary, St. Jude Medical, are facing a defective products class action lawsuit over allegations the companies were aware of a battery-depletion defect in some of its cardiac defibrillators, as early as 2011. However, the lawsuit asserts, the defendants failed to adequately report the risk and waited almost five ye... - Risperdal Patient "Never asked for Gynecomastia or Weight Gain"
Feb-9-18 Albuquerque NM: When Daniel was 17 years old, life was good. He was the star of his high school baseball team, he was in top form. But within a few years his life went sideways and Daniel wound up in the psych ward, "forced" to take Risperdal . Daniel, age 32, says he started partying and getting into fights. He dropped out of school, hit the streets... - Social Worker and Mother in Recovery 30 years from Opioid Prescriptions, Son Died from Overdose
Feb-2-18 Cranston, RI: When Lori was hospitalized for a back injury 40 years ago, she was given Demerol injections and sent home with a host of opioid painkillers and sedatives. “I became physically dependent, with an unlimited supply of drugs prescribed mostly by one doctor,” Lori says. “For many years I was non-functional and depressed, and... - Medical Device Manufacturer Admits to Wrongdoing, Faces $14 Million Penalty
Feb-2-18 Washington, DC: It was a little over a year ago that the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) issued an official press release announcing that a Texas-based medical device company, Orthofix International (Orthofix), had agreed to pay $14 million to settle charges brought by the regulator with the help of two SEC fraud whistleblowers. Orthofix, w... - Will Monsanto-Sponsored Science Poison RoundUp Lawsuits?
Jan-15-18 San Francisco, CA: More than 300 Monsanto RoundUp lawsuits have been consolidated into multidistrict litigation in the US District Court for the Northern District of California . Expert testimony about whether glyphosate, the main ingredient in RoundUp, is carcinogenic will begin in early March. Sound like a snooze fest? Au contraire, mon ami... - Stockert 3T Heater-Cooler Case Awaits Consolidation Decision
Jan-29-18 Minneapolis, MN Lawyers and plaintiffs are awaiting an important decision in the Stockert 3T heater-cooler litigation process as the Judicial Panel Multidistrict Litigation (JPML) decides whether or not to consolidate 42 lawsuits into a single federal MDL. Plaintiffs allege the German manufactured operating room device infected some thoracic cardiovasc... - JPMorgan Agrees $16.7M Unpaid Overtime Settlement
New York, NY: A $16.7 million settlement has been agreed between JP Morgan Chase & Co., and plaintiffs in an unpaid overtime class action lawsuit. The settlement address claims made by assistant branch managers that Chase misclassified them as exempt from overtime, in violation of federal and state employment laws. There are four classes o... - And Now There Are 21 Takata Airbag Deaths
Feb-1-18 Holiday, FL: Airbags were originally designed to help prevent injury and death, not cause them. However, the debacle that is the Takata airbag recall – the largest automotive recall in US history – continues to cause sometimes horrific airbag injuries, and on occasion airbag deaths. And now, there are 21. The Associated Press (AP 01/... - DePuy Faces Yet Another Lawsuit Concerning its Attune Knee Replacement System
Jan-28-18 Jackson, MI: Whenever an individual files a defective knee implant lawsuit , the focus is normally – and correctly – on the failed component due to an alleged design, or manufacturing defect. But a companion issue just as devastating as the failure of the implant is, for the patient, a requirement for revision surgery to eradicate the proble... - Despite Recent Settlements, Banks Still Bilking Consumers Out of Billions
Jan-19-18 Washington, DC: When one looks back to 2017 and considers examples when banks have been called to account for excessive bank overdraft fees – including last November’s $66.6 million settlement to end a bank overdraft fees lawsuit against Bank of America – one would naturally assume progress is finally being made on an issue that... - State of Georgia Settles Medical Malpractice Lawsuit, Lone Defendant Resigns
Jan-30-18 Macon, GA: It was a Georgia medical malpractice lawsuit in its most basic form: written in longhand by a convicted murderer and filed from prison initially without an attorney. That was in 2014. However, lest one assume that plaintiff Michael Tarver, an inmate at the Macon State Prison would face an uphill battle in his lawsuit, in the end Tarver would... - Onglyza Litigation Ramps Up
Jan-27-18 Miami, FL: Yesterday, The U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation (JPML) heard from Onglyza and Kombiglyze patients regarding whether to consolidate all federally-filed cases before one court for pre-trial proceedings. Timothy Clark, one attorney representing the plaintiffs, said the 42 cases that are currently pending in federal courts ac... - Actemra Lawsuit News and Legal Information
Actemra (tocilizumab) lawsuits claim that Genentech, a subsidiary of Roche, failed to warn rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients about Actemra’s side effects, including heart attacks, heart failure and even death. According to Actemra attorneys, Genentech negligently advertised its arthritis drug to patients by claiming it was safer than the competitor m... - Tracking Systems in the U.K Key to Care for Hip Implant Patients, But Non-Existent in the U.S.
Jan-26-18 Santa Cruz, CA: The study, published in the Bone & Joint Journal , finds that the rate of metal-on-metal (MoM) hip implant patients undergoing revision has increased over time. Researchers at the Universities of Oxford and Bristol have suggested the observed differences are in part due to increased patient surveillance . In the U.S., patient sur...