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Sort by relevance 16,386 pages found matching <a href=""></a>- Florida Workers' Compensation Lawsuit News & Legal Information
Workers' Compensation is insurance coverage purchased by the employer/business that provides workers' benefits for job-related employee injuries. Florida law requires all employers to purchase Florida workers' compensation coverage (with a few exceptions). Some workers may have unreasonably been denied their Florida workers' compensation benefits or... - Despite $1B Penalty by the Feds, It’s Not Over Yet for Takata: Airbag Injuries
Feb-1-17 Washington, DC: The massive $1 Billion criminal penalty announced by the US Department of Justice earlier this month surrounding defective Takata airbags is not, in reality, an end to the troubles for the beleaguered Japanese manufacturer. Just one day after the Christmas holiday this past December, German automotive manufacturer BMW announced a recall of... - $2.85M Settlement Proposed in Lowe's Employment Class Action Lawsuit
Santa Clara, CA: A $2.85 million settlement has been reached in an employment class action lawsuit pending against Lowe’s Home Centers LLC. Filed by installation workers for the DIY retailer, the lawsuit alleges that those installation workers were misclassified as independent contractors rather than employees eligible for benefits. Lead plain... - New Study Suggests IVC Filters are Overused
Jan-30-17 Boston, MA: IVC filters are typically considered life-saving devices that can prevent a patient from suffering a pulmonary embolism in cases where the patient cannot take an anticoagulant. Concerns have been raised, however, that patients who have an inferior vena cava filter implanted are at an increased risk of serious complications, including device... - Nine-Year California Labor Code Class Action is Settled
Jan-30-17 San Diego, CA: A California labor lawsuit that’s been litigated for nine years and was finally scheduled for trial on February 6, was suddenly settled through an agreement between plaintiffs in the class action and defendant Penske Logistics LLC. The deal is worth $750,000 at face value, but will be trimmed once approved costs and fees are deduct... - Why Take Lyrica and Other Anticonvulsant Drugs Associated with Birth Defects?
Jan-30-17 Washington, DC: Not all anti-epileptic drugs (AEDs) are made equal. Some AEDs, including Lyrica , are known to be associated with more birth defects than others. So why are they prescribed to pregnant women and/or women who may get pregnant? The latter question is raised because some women don’t realize they are pregnant until late in their fir... - $61M Settlement Reached in Sanofi Vaccine Antitrust Class Action Lawsuit
Santa Clara, CA: A $61.5 million settlement has been reached in an antitrust class action lawsuit pending against Sanofi Pasteur Inc., alleging the pharmaceutical company violated antitrust laws with contracts for its pediatric vaccines. The lawsuit, which has been going on for five years, was filed by a group of health care providers who alleged... - Risperdal Litigation Second Largest
Jan-29-17 Philadelphia, PA : Litigation over the antipsychotic drug Risperdal was the second largest mass tort (just behind Reglan) in 2016 and believed to be mainly responsible for the pharmaceutical inventory in Philadelphia’s Complex Litigation Center to be “at its highest level in recent years.” The Legal Intelligencer (Jan 27, 2017) re... - Something Fishy Allegedly Going on with Atrium C-QUR Mesh
Jan-28-17 Concord, NH: A lesser-known hernia mesh that is beginning to attain some traction in legal circles is Atrium C-QUR Hernia Mesh , a product approved by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in 2006. Akin to other mesh products made by competing manufacturers for hernia repair, plaintiffs are filing lawsuits alleging complications. One such C-QUR s... - Problems with Implantable Birth Control Removal Known Since 1994
Jan-27-17 Washington, DC: It’s been 10 years since Implanon birth control , the implantable device that lasts up to four years (three years on-label), was given formal approval by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Twelve years before that, a research paper described the difficulty in extracting the six capsules inherent to a Norplant implantable bi... - More Warnings Sent Out About Stockert Heater-Coolers
Jan-27-17 Pittsburgh, PA: As additional Stockert heater-cooler lawsuits are filed, more warnings are being sent out about the devices, warning patients that they may have been exposed to contaminants thanks to the use of the Stockert 3T devices. Hospitals across the US are sending out letters concerning the potential risk of infection in patients who underwent o... - $25M Accutane Settlement Reinstated
Jan-26-17 Santa Clara, CA A $25.16 million award in favor of a man who alleges he developed Crohn’s disease as a result of taking Accutane has been reinstated by the New Jersey Supreme Court. The issue of alleged association between the acne drug and Crohn’s disease has been the subject of a decade long mass torte. Plaintiff Andrew McCarrell&rsqu... - After a Decade of Litigation, FedEx Drivers Settle for $15.45 Million
Jan-26-17 Portland, OR: An ongoing dispute on the books for some ten years was resolved late last year in federal court in Oregon by way of a $15.45 Million settlement laying to rest claims by defendant FedEx their drivers were working as independent contractors when, in the view of the plaintiffs, they were bone fide employees of the company. The class action Ore... - A Tale of Two Billion-Dollar Settlements
Jan-25-17 Houston, TX: The end of 2016 saw a flurry of activity on the litigation front just before the Christmas break, with the headlines of December 19 and 20 dealing with Hip Replacement Implant Failure and the billion-dollar settlements that emerged to close out the year. On December 19 Stryker Corp. and its subsidiary Howmedica Osteonics Corp. issued a... - McDonald's resuelve la demanda laboral de California por $3.75 millones
Jan-25-17 San Francisco, CA - McDonald's ha acordado resolver una demanda laboral californiana presentada en su contra por empleados que alegaron que la compañía era responsable por no pagar adecuadamente las horas extras, a pesar de que trabajaban en una franquicia. McDonald's había argumentado anteriormente que no se podía someter a... - Premature Insulation Failure in Recalled St. Jude Medical Riata Defibrillator (ICD) Leads
Washington, DC: In January, 2013, the FDA posted a statement concerning people with implanted St. Jude Riata or Riata ST Silicone Endocardial Defibrillation Leads. Riata and Riata ST leads connect an implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) to the heart in order to monitor heart rhythms. ICD's can detect life-threatening heart rhythms and deli... - California Overtime: Changes with New Presidency?
Jan-24-17 Washington, DC: At least one labor law attorney predicts that no California overtime changes will occur anytime soon with the new presidency, although there is some speculation of abolishing the “final overtime rule”. Labor law experts indicate that significant changes to overtime law, if any, would happen at a federal level. But in all... - Testosterone Defendant Attempts to Limit Scope of Expert Witness
Jan-24-17 Chicago, IL: Plaintiffs in testosterone lawsuits against defendant AbbVie Inc. found themselves momentarily distracted from the allegations at hand earlier this month when the Illinois federal judge overseeing multidistrict litigation over testosterone side effects needed to rule on a motion submitted by the defendant to trim a report from an expert wi... - Johnson & Johnson Loses Bid to Delay Talcum Powder Cancer Trials
Jan-23-17 St. Louis, MI: Facing thousands of lawsuits alleging its talcum powder is linked to an increased risk of cancer, Johnson & Johnson filed a bid to delay the trials, arguing the talcum powder cancer lawsuits were filed out of jurisdiction. In early January, however, the Missouri Court of Appeals rejected Johnson & Johnson's motion, allowing the l... - The IVC Filter: Longer is not Always Better
Jan-23-17 Washington, DC: It remains a truism that for certain things in life, the longer you stick at something the better off you are, such as developing an exercise regimen or working to eradicate an unsavory habit, such as smoking. However with an IVC filter the opposite is true: longer is not always better. Early iterations of the IVC filter were primari...