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Sort by date 16,392 pages found matching <a href=""></a>- Androgel Heart Attack Victim Awarded $140M
Oct-11-17 Chicago, IL: AbbiVie, maker of the testosterone replacement therapy AndroGel, has been ordered to pay over $140 million to a man who alleges he suffered a heart attack as a result of using the drug. The case involves Tennessee resident Jeffrey Konrad, who filed the lawsuit, with his wife, in 2015. Konrad was awarded $140 million in punitive dama... - ‘Groundbreaking’ First Responder Negligence Verdict in New Jersey worth $6 Million
Oct-11-17 Trenton, NJ: In the first verdict of its kind in the State of New Jersey, a jury awarded the estate of a young mother $6 million after finding that first responders were negligent in treating a patient who was in distress. The 20-year-old patient did not survive, leaving an infant without a mother. The verdict in the first responder negligence lawsuit... - Macy's TCPA Violations
Santa Clara, CA: During the past five years, Macy’s has faced allegations that it violates the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) by making automated calls for debt collection purposes. Specifically, the allegations stated that customers with Macy’s credit card account received automated calls to their cell phones from Department... - New Invokana Research (Funded by Manufacturer) Disputes Earlier Studies Showing Amputation Risk
Oct-2-17 Washington, DC: Despite exhaustive studies that found an increased risk of amputation among Invokana diabetes patients, Janssen Pharmaceuticals has published its own version of research. In this new “real-world” study published in Diabetes, Obesity and Metabolism (Sept 12, 2017) Janssen researchers claim that they were... - Whistleblower Nets $2.9 Million in Healthcare Fraud Lawsuit
Oct-4-17 Columbus, OH: The Department of Justice has announced that Olympia Therapy, Inc. (Olympia), an Ohio nursing home, and its management service provider, Provider Services, Inc. (Provider) have agreed to settle a healthcare fraud lawsuit brought by Vladimir Trakhter, a former Olympia employee. The case puts a uniquely human face on the damage done... - Monsanto’s Roundup Cancer Lawsuits Reveal Cover-Up and the Monsanto Plot Thickens…
Oct-7-17 San Francisco, CA: Over 250 Monsanto Roundup lawsuits are pending in U.S. District Court in San Francisco, and about 1,100 complaints filed in state courts, all filed by people claiming that they, or their loved ones, developed non-Hodgkin lymphoma and that Monsanto covered up the risks. And court documents do indeed indicate a Monsanto cover-up. Th... - Second Testosterone Bellwether Lawsuit Wraps in Illinois
Oct-9-17 Chicago, IL: The second bellwether testosterone lawsuit in testosterone multidistrict litigation ended in similar fashion to the first: a sizeable punitive damages award, together with a jury finding that defendant AbbVie Inc. was not liable for heart issues suffered by the plaintiffs in the respective trials. There was, however one major difference... - Long-Suffering Homeowners Hoping to Pursue Home Warranty Lawsuit
Oct-8-17 Wilmington, DE: It’s been a long wait for prospective plaintiffs with home defect issues dating back to as far back as 1999. With a formal request Wednesday to a Delaware bankruptcy court to lift a litigation stay in a long-running Chapter 7 bankruptcy involving builder WL Homes LLC (WL), the plaintiffs hope to launch a home warranty lawsuit and... - $12M Victoria's Secret Unpaid Overtime Class Action Settlement Reached
Santa Clara, CA: A $12 million settlement deal has received preliminary approval potentially ending an employment class action lawsuit pending against Victoria’s Secret Stores. About 40,000 Victoria's Secret employees are represented in the lawsuit. They allege the lingerie retailer shortchanged its clerks’ pay by scheduling "call-in" shifts, and... - SEC Fraud Whistleblower Lawsuits Fly under the Radar
Sep-20-17 Washington, DC: . Insiders with information about securities fraud should know three important things before filing an SEC fraud whistleblower lawsuit : (1) They can only proceed through the Securities and Exchange Commission; there is no right of individual action as there is with other whistleblower protection laws; (2) The SEC protects whist... - J&J Seeks Judgment Notwithstanding the Verdict in Talcum Powder Lawsuit
Sep-30-17 Los Angeles, CA: On September 15, 2017, Johnson & Johnson (J&J) filed a Motion for Judgment Notwithstanding the Verdict (JNOV) in the Echeverria talcum powder lawsuit . This is in addition to a motion for a new trial. With its jaw-dropping $417 million jury award, Echeverria et al v. Johnson & Johnson is... - Mesothelioma Lawsuit Jury Verdict Goes to Plaintiff for $12.9 Million
Sep-30-17 Oakland, CA: No one conversant with environmental law remains so without a full understanding of the risks associated with asbestos, a substance once widely-used for its insulating properties in spite of growing evidence that asbestos is a carcinogen. While asbestos is still employed in some industrial applications, its use is tightly regulated. This, unli... - Defendant Attempts to Quash TCPA Lawsuit through Unique Interpretation of Law
Sep-30-17 Atlanta, GA: A nuisance call lawsuit that alleges violations under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) against defendant Comenity Bank has taken an interesting detour over revocation of consent. Illegal robocalls – or calls that are made to consumers with the aid of automated telephone dialing technology – have become a scour... - California Class Action Labor Lawsuit Filed Against Marriott Subsidiary
Oct-1-17 Los Angeles, CA: A California labor lawsuit against a subsidiary of hotelier Marriott has been put forward as a class action by a former sales executive who claims she was not properly compensated for hourly work. Stacy McComack also asserts that consent forms associated with background checks included a liability waiver that is alleged to be in violat... - California Seeks $6.3 Million for Overtime Pay Law Violations
Sep-28-17 Los Angeles, CA: The California Labor Commissioners Office has filed a lawsuit against Calcrete Construction. Inc. seeking $6,300,338 for unpaid overtime and sick leave as well as the company’s failure to provide proper wage statements. The complaint alleges that Calcrete forced workers to sign contracts stating they were independen... - Class I Recall Issued for Datascope Intra-Aortic Balloon Pumps
Washington, DC: Datascope Corp./MAQUET is recalling 5,049 defective CS100i, CS100, and CS300 Intra-Aortic Balloon Pumps made from July 1, 2003 to June 16, 2017 due to False Blood Detection Alarm and Ingress of Fluid into the Intra-Aortic Balloon Pump. Datascope Corp./MAQUET's CS100i, CS100, and CS300 Intra-Aortic Balloon Pumps are cardiac assist... - Late CFL Player, 27, Exhibited CTE Symptoms of Someone Three Times His Age
Sep-25-17 Springfield, MA: The estate of late NFL player Aaron Hernandez on Thursday filed a federal lawsuit against the National Football League (NFL) and the New England Patriots, alleging that defendants failed to protect Hernandez from traumatic brain injury within the context of active play in football games, all the while knowing that repeated blows to... - Burn Pit Lawsuit Shows How Hard it is to Sue Military Contractors
Sep-25-17 Baltimore, MD: The US District Court’s dismissal of the multidistrict litigation, In re: KBR, Inc., Burn Pit Litigation is about more than Iraq and Afghanistan burn pits . The exhaustive opinion demonstrates why it is so hard for veterans and their families to sue military contractors when they are hurt because contractors fail to exercise ap... - Is Fired Executive’s Case an SEC Whistleblower Lawsuit? Supreme Court to Decide
Sep-29-17 Washington, DC: A former executive with a real estate investment trust who brought an SEC whistleblower lawsuit against his former employer has seen his case mushroom into a debate over protections for whistleblowers couched in the Dodd-Frank Act and the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. Also debated within the lawsuit, which has since been elevated to the US Suprem... - Smith & Nephew Defective Knee Replacements
Santa Cruz, CA: Allegations of knee replacement failure are being made against device manufacturer Smith & Nephew. In some cases people have filed personal injury and defective knee replacement lawsuits. Claims against Smith & Nephew knee replacements state early failure and failure at an unacceptable failure rates. Specifically, the knee r...