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  • Airbag Injury to Young Teen Caused by Reused defective Airbag
    Jun-23-17 Las Vegas, NV: An otherwise minor crash in a car with a recalled airbag not only caused the young female driver emotional trauma, pain and injuries to her neck and vocal cords, but also speaks to just how a defective airbag got into her car in the first place, together with the lack of effective oversight. Takata airbags that use ammonium nitrate as...
  • California Woman Sues Trump-Impersonating Boss For Race Discrimination
    Jun-23-17 Pleasanton, CA: A California woman has filed a lawsuit for California labor law violations against her manager because he allegedly impersonated President Donald Trump, made racist comments at work and gave her a purse emblazoned with the Confederate flag for Christmas. Tishay Wright, a former employee of Pleasanton-based Southland Construction Mana...
  • Permanent Taxotere Hair Loss for Cancer Patients a Particularly Cruel Fate
    Jun-19-17 New Orleans, LA: Understanding the choice that some women make in their selection of Taxotere for treatment of breast cancer, means understanding the busy lives and compelling responsibilities that modern women maintain. It is also easy to understand why plaintiffs embroiled in Taxotere hair loss lawsuits, may have been misled over the potential for pe...
  • $60M Settlement Reached in K-Dur 20 Pay-For-Delay MDL
    Santa Clara, CA: Preliminary approval of a $60.2 million settlement against Merck & Co. Inc., and Upsher-Smith Laboratories Inc., has been granted, potentially ending a long running multi-district litigation (MDL) alleging the companies engaged in a pay-for-delay scheme affecting direct purchasers of the potassium supplement K-Dur. The MDL, whi...
  • Costco Settles California Overtime Lawsuit for $9 Million
    Jun-22-17 San Diego, CA: Retail giant Costco has agreed to settle a Califronia overtime law putative class action in a settlement that is worth $9 million. The lawsuit was brought in April, 2014 and mediation began this past March. The overtime pay laws settlement was reached before the matter was due to go to trial. Plaintiffs in the putative overtime pay...
  • FDA Dresses Down St. Jude Medical over Faulty Lithium Defibrillator Batteries
    Jun-22-17 Washington, DC: When Chicago’s Abbott Laboratories acquired St. Jude Medical in a $25 billion acquisition this past January, it appears to have inherited a billion-dollars’ worth of headaches that pre-existed before the takeover happened. And now, Abbott is in receipt of a warning letter from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) with r...
  • Proton Pump Inhibitor Lawsuit Plaintiffs Try Again For Multidistrict Litigation
    Jun-10-17 Washington, DC: Plaintiffs who have filed lawsuits alleging that proton pump inhibitor (PPI) medications such as Nexium , Prilosec and Prevacid caused their kidney injuries have filed a motion to consolidate 172 pending federal lawsuits to a multidistrict litigation under one New Jersey judge. The 172 pending PPI lawsuits are currentl...
  • Wisconsin Plaintiff’s Lawsuit Revived on Appeal
    Jun-21-17 Chicago, IL: A Wisconsin employment lawsuit that may have been lost on a complex legal technicality will live on to see another day, following a ruling by a split panel of the Seventh Circuit in Chicago. The plaintiff in the Wisconsin labor case is Tracey Coleman. The defendant is the Wisconsin office of the Department of Labor Review Commission (DL...
  • Are Recalled Duodenoscopes Any Safer?
    Jun-21-17 Washington, DC: Any medical device plaintiff fighting an endoscope infection lawsuit appears to have a friend in Senator Patty Murray (D-Wash). The Democratic lawmaker noted back in April that she had become alarmed in the face of a superbug outbreak in Europe late last year, and thus had issued a request to medical device manufacturer Olympus Corp. (O...
  • Essure Banned in Another Country, Essure Victim in US wants it Banned Worldwide
    Jun-15-17 Cleveland, OH: Brazil found Essure such a risk that it’s national health agency banned the permanent sterilization device this past February. Finland is the second country to follow suit. Given the fact that thousands of women have been seriously injured by Essure, isn’t it time the U.S. followed these two forward-thinking countries? Wo...
  • Talcum Powder Cancer Trial Not Boding Well for Johnson & Johnson
    Jun-20-17 St. Louis, MO: The sixth talcum powder cancer trial hasn’t started well for deep-pocket defendant Johnson & Johnson. Jurors heard a pharmacology and toxicology expert—and former consultant to the pharmaceutical industry—testify that “talc is toxic.” Pharmacology and toxicology expert Dr Laura M. Plunkett has her Ph...
  • Olympus Settles Four Power Morcellator Lawsuits
    Jun-18-17 Upper Saucon Township, PA: Olympus Corp. of the Americas has settled four lawsuits for injuries and one death allegedly related to the company's power morcellator surgical device, according to The Morning Call . The lawsuits against Olympus Corp. and its Gyrus division alleged that women who underwent gynecological surgeries using the Olympus power...
  • Johnson & Johnson Asks For New Trial in $151 Million Hip Lawsuit Judgment
    Jun-14-17 Dallas, TX: Johnson & Johnson and its DePuy Orthopaedics unit have filed a brief asking an appeals court to reconsider denial of their motion for a new trial that resulted in a $151 million judgment against those manufacturers on a Pinnacle hip implant bellwether trial. Johnson & Johnson (J & J) and DePuy on April 18, 2017, filed the app...
  • Trio of Eliquis Blood Thinner Lawsuits Allege Defective Product
    Jun-19-17 New York, NY: Three separate Eliquis side effects lawsuits each make similar claims: that Eliquis is unnecessarily dangerous and defective, and was rushed to market without an available antidote capable of reversing Eliquis anticoagulant bleedouts. The clinical trial used to approve apixaban (Eliquis), known as ARISTOTLE, was carried out in China and w...
  • School District Attempts to Dismiss Lead Poisoning in Drinking Water Lawsuit
    Jun-15-17 Pittsburgh, PA: A school district north of Pittsburgh is doing what it can to stymie and stem a lead poisoning class action lawsuit , making claims of precedent and holding the view that plaintiffs do not have standing to represent their children. Undaunted, lead poisoning lawyers representing the plaintiffs in Tait et al v. Butler Area School District...
  • Woman Awarded $2.1M in Fourth Pelvic Mesh Trial
    Jun-15-17 Santa Clara, CA: A jury has awarded $2.1 million in damages in the fourth consecutive transvaginal mesh bellwether product liability lawsuit against Johnson & Johnson (J&J). The lawsuit is part of a massive multi-district litigation and was brought against J&J’s Prolift pelvic mesh. It was made and marketed by J&J’s subsid...
  • Hawaii Sues Three Automakers Over Defective Takata Airbags
    Jun-13-17 Honolulu, HI: The State of Hawaii is suing Ford, Nissan and Toyota for marketing and selling vehicles with Takata airbags that could potentially explode and cause injuries or death. On May 24, 2017, The Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs Office of Consumer Protection (CCA) on behalf of the State of Hawaii filed a lawsuit , State of Haw...
  • One Defendant Dismissed from Benicar Lawsuit, Daiichi Sankyo Remains
    Jun-16-17 Trenton, NJ: A Benicar lawsuit alleging Benicar side effects has been disentangled from one if its defendants after a doctor was summarily dismissed from the lawsuit on grounds that his inclusion in the lawsuit was without merit. The Benicar illness and weight loss lawsuit is Williamson, D.O. et al v. Daiichi Sankyo, Inc. et al , Case No. 1:16...
  • Seeking Help Difficult for Bipolar Man with Risperdal “Man Boobs”
    Jun-14-17 Plattsmouth, NE: Most of us don’t think twice to talk with our doctor if we think there is an issue—a side effect—associated with a prescribed medication. But many people with mental illness don’t have the wherewithal to seek help. Such is the case with Jared, who was prescribed Risperdal for bipolar disorder and schizophrenia...
  • Toyota, Subaru, Mazda and BMW Agree $553.6M Settlement in Takata Airbag MDL
    Santa Clara, CA: $553.6 million in settlements has been agreed in multi-district litigation (MDL) involving Toyota, Subaru, Mazda and BMW, which will see the automakers pay the sum to end claims brought by plaintiffs over alleged defective Takata airbags. To date, the airbags, which can explode, have been linked with 11 deaths in the US. According...
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