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Sort by relevance 16,386 pages found matching <a href=""></a>- Another Illegal Practices Lawsuit against Unum
Mar-2-16 New Orleans, LA : Although Unum, or First Unum was reprimanded more than a decade ago by the Department of Labor for its bad faith insurance practices, the largest health insurer in the United States still seems to deny long-term disability benefits as its mandate. Many Unum policyholders have consequently filed lawsuits, alleging that the company ha... - The Battle over Bair Hugger Is a Hot One
Mar-2-16 Houston, TX: Attorney David Hodges is just back from a trip to Minneapolis, Minnesota, where a total of 170 Bair Hugger Forced Air Warming (FAW) Blanket personal injury cases have been consolidated into a multidistrict litigation (MDL). Hodges will be among the 21 members of the legal leadership in a lawsuit against The 3M Company and Arizant Healthcar... - $835M Settlement Reached In Dow Polyurethane Antitrust Class Action Lawsuit
Santa Clara, CA: An $835 million settlement has been reached in an antitrust class action lawsuit against the Dow Chemical Company over allegations the chemical giant conspired to fix prices of polyurethane. The agreement, accepted by the US Supreme Court, will resolve a 2013 judgement against Dow for $1.06 billion. Though the company has agreed t... - Nail Salon Industry in New York Reportedly Filled with Wage Violations
Mar-1-16 New York, NY: Following up on a report from 2015, the New York Times (2/29/16) has once again investigated the New York nail salon industry, and has found widespread wage and hour violations . Workers in the nail salon industry, The Times reports, are frequently underpaid and overworked, and at risk of serious illness linked to the chemicals they ar... - More Lawsuits Filed Alleging Monster Energy Drink Injury
Mar-1-16 Riverside, CA: A product that is alleged to trigger heart attacks, strokes, brain damage and kidney failure in people as young as 14 is facing additional litigation following the filing of lawsuits against Monster Beverage Corp. Plaintiffs allege Monster Energy Drink Deaths and Hospitalizations . The lawsuits - four in number - were filed February 8... - California Plaintiff Alleges Violations of Overtime, Meal Breaks
Feb-29-16 Los Angeles, CA: The new year brought a resolution to right a wrong for one California plaintiff, who last month filed a California Labor Lawsuit alleging nonpayment of owed overtime pay, together with the lack of provision and allowance for uninterrupted meal breaks as required under California labor law and the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). The... - NBC Investigation: IVC Filter “Never Safe to Be Implanted”
Feb-29-16 Newark, NJ: Following two reports concerning inferior vena cava filters , NBC News has released a follow-up, examining why C.R. Bard continued to sell IVC filters despite reportedly knowing about problems with the filters soon after they were approved by the Food and Drug Administration. The NBC report , based on confidential records that included a... - Inventor of Bair Hugger “On a Mission” to Warn Public
Feb-29-16 Houston, TX: No doubt, the Bair Hugger warming blanket has made a valuable contribution to medicine. It is standard equipment in almost every operating room in the United States. An electric heater blows warm air through tubes in a disposable blanket draped over the patient during surgery. It prevents patients from slipping into a hypothermic state. ... - $4M HSBC Settlement Reached in Massachusetts Forced-Place Insurance Lawsuit
Santa Clara, CA: A settlement has been reached between HSBC and the office of the Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey for $4 million, ending allegations that HSBC took illegal commissions and kickbacks for forced-place insurance policies. Reportedly, thousands of borrowers were allegedly improperly charged force-placed insurance premiums, h... - Benicar Lawsuits Keep Climbing, Bellwether Trials Expected Later This Year
Feb-28-16 Parsippany, NJ: As we begin our progression into the new year, the parade of Benicar Lawsuits continues in kind. To that end, a report filed with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in the fall revealed that lawsuits at the time numbered over 1,000 and are probably well above that number in the weeks and months since November 6, when the Fo... - Risperdal Lawsuits beyond Statute of Limitations?
Feb-28-16 Philadelphia, PA: When Lucas was thirteen he was prescribed Risperdal to treat autism, but the antipsychotic drug was only approved for the treatment of schizophrenia in adults. “About a year or so after taking the drug, I got breast lumps and breast-like features,” he says. “I’m now 20 years old and only recently heard about th... - Talc Cancer Attorney Has a Message for Johnson & Johnson
Feb-27-16 Birmingham, AL: Veteran attorney Jere Beasley, from the Beasley Allen firm, publicly called upon Johnson & Johnson (J&J) to post on its corporate website all the evidence presented in the Jackie Fox wrongful death suit that linked J&J’s Baby Powder product to ovarian cancer. “This is important that the public see this informa... - California Overtime Lawsuit Alleges Restaurants Violate Pay Laws
Feb-27-16 Los Angeles, CA: A California overtime lawsuit alleges a company that owns IHOP and Applebee’s restaurants violates California overtime laws by not properly paying overtime and other earned wages. The lawsuit was filed on February 18, 2016, by Jewel Gardner against DineEquity Inc. in California court. Gardner argues in her lawsuit that she was mi... - Judge Denies GlaxoSmithKline’s Motion to Dismiss, Mothers Allege Birth Defects Linked to Zofran
Feb-26-16 Birmingham, AL : With more than 220 Zofran lawsuits consolidated for multidistrict litigation, a judge has denied GlaxoSmithKline’s motion to dismiss all lawsuits. Plaintiffs allege their infants were born with birth defects after being exposed to anti-nausea medications prior to birth. They further allege the harm was a result of GlaxoSmithKline... - Xarelto Lawsuits at 3,000 and Counting in Just Five Years
Feb-26-16 New Orleans, LA: It was in July 2011 that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved Xarelto (Rivaroxaban) as a long-awaited successor to the 50-year-old Coumadin (warfarin), the standard for blood thinning for a half-century. While warfarin is not infallible (no drug is), any litigation involving the latter over its tenure on the market pales in c... - 1% of Physicians Account for One-third of Paid Medical Malpractice Claims
Feb-25-16 The New England Journal of Medicine has analyzed some appalling data that 1% of physicians account for approximately 32% of paid medical malpractice claims. The data - which was pulled from the National Practitioner Data Bank - shows that over a recent 10-year period, a small number of physicians with distinctive characteristics accounted for a dispr... - Mammoth Asbestos Trial Scheduled This Month in Kentucky
Feb-25-16 Owensboro, KY: An asbestosis lawsuit brought by plaintiff Doris White and scheduled to go to trial this month underwent some changes in December of last year, although the case was preserved. The circumstances of the case, while not unique, are nonetheless a little different from the everyday fodder of the legal blotter. White, the plaintiff who suf... - Bair Hugger Lawsuits Heating Up
Feb-24-16 Minneapolis, MN: If the first few months of 2016 are anything to go by, Bair Hugger lawyers have a busy year ahead. As of mid-January, more than 100 Bair Hugger claims were pending in the District of Minnesota as part of a multidistrict litigation (MDL). All the product liability complaints involving the Bair Hugger surgical warming blanket claim th... - $75M in Damages Awarded in Talcum Powder Cancer Lawsuit
Feb-24-16 Santa Clara, CA: $75 million in damages has been awarded against Johnson & Johnson (J&J), in a suit alleging the talcum powder Jacqueline Fox used caused her to develop ovarian cancer. Fox's case was heard by a jury in St. Louis, Missouri, and is just one of more than 60 cases consolidated into a single suit alleging cancer caused by talcu... - $6.9M Awarded in Asbestos Mesothelioma Lawsuit
Santa Clara, CA: A retired boilermaker who sued his former employer, Southern Pacific Railroad and who died of asbestos mesothelioma in 2014, won his case, with $6,951,265 in damages being awarded to Union Pacific, which merged with Southern Pacific in 1997. The suit alleged Emerson was exposed to asbestos regularly, both directly in his job and...