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Sort by date 16,393 pages found matching <a href=""></a>- Counsel for US Airways Asks Judge to Reject Overtime Claims by Certified Class
Feb-6-17 San Francisco, CA: Attorneys for US Airways in a California labor class action lawsuit filed in 2012 asked a federal judge in a hearing last month to reject California overtime claims brought by a certified class of US Airways fleet service agents, claiming that the unionized workers' collective bargaining agreement (CBA) and the Railroad Labor Act (RL... - Federal Bair Hugger Lawsuits Climbing, Now Number 1105 in MDL
Feb-8-17 Minneapolis, MN: It’s little wonder the Bair Hugger lawsuit ledger continues to grow and swell, given the number of patients for whom the forced-air warming system has been utilized over the past 25 years: some 200 million procedures have used the system, originally designed and deployed to keep the patient warm and prevent hypothermia, amongst o... - Invokana Still Invoking Concerns
Feb-8-17 Trenton, NJ: It was about a year ago that the European Medicines Agency (EMA) raised the alarm over kidney problems associated with diabetes medication Invokana and other drugs in the SGLT2 class. This followed a warning the previous year from the Institute for Safe Medication Practices, which reported in 2015 its identification of some 457 serious adverse... - Monsanto Loses Labelling Battle in California – Tentatively
Feb-3-17 Fresno, CA: Opponents and families involved in lawsuits against the makers of the chemical herbicide known as Roundup are hailing a “tentative decision” by a California judge based on written arguments to allow glyphosate to be added to the “list of chemicals known to the state of California to cause cancer” under... - Hernia Mesh Implants: Risks Outweigh Benefits
Feb-5-17 Portland, OR: Given the amount of recent complaints following hernia repair surgery, abdominal mesh complications could soon equal, or even surpass, transvaginal mesh complaints, of which more than 100,000 lawsuits have been filed. Despite reports questioning the benefits of abdominal mesh, and studies indicating the risks may outweigh the benefits... - Benicar Side Effects Lawsuit Blocked from Remand to State Court
Feb-7-17 Camden, NJ: A Benicar side effects lawsuit has suffered a setback after a federal judge in New Jersey found issues with various aspects of the medical malpractice lawsuit, thereby refusing to send the lawsuit back to state court in Texas, where the action was originally filed. US District Judge Robert B. Kugler is overseeing Benicar Lawsuits in multid... - New Balance Hit with California Class Action
Feb-6-17 Los Angeles, CA: The day before the Trump Administration initiated its contentious travel ban against individuals hailing from seven predominantly-Muslim countries, a move in part in support of the Administration’s mandate to safeguard and promote America and American workers, New Balance Athletics Inc. (New Balance) was hit with a putative Califor... - $53M Settlement Reached In Milk Products Class Action Lawsuit
Santa Clara, CA: A $52 million settlement has been reached in an antitrust class action lawsuit pending against several milk producers alleging they conspired to fix milk prices. According to the complaint, the defendants, namely National Milk Producers Federation aka Cooperatives Working Together (CWT), Dairy Farmers of America Inc., Land O’Lake... - Smith & Nephew Hip Implant Lawsuits Headed to Multidistrict Litigation
Feb-4-17 Dallas Ft. Worth, Texas: Plaintiffs injured by Smith & Nephew Birmingham Hip Resurfacing (BHR) and R3 hip replacement implant failure filed a petition on February 1 with the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation to consolidate all pending federal BHR and R3 cases in a single venue or courthouse. "The plaintiffs have requested a Maryland fed... - A Victory for Pennsylvania Donning & Doffing Lawsuit Plaintiffs
Feb-4-17 Towanda, PA: A rather complex Pennsylvania Donning and Doffing lawsuit ended the year in 2016 with a partial victory for three Pennsylvania plaintiffs who took issue with their employer for attempting to offset off-the-clock work with payments for lunch breaks. The defendants in the putative class action are EI DuPont de Nemours & Co. (DuPont) a... - 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... - 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... - $19M Settlement Reached in Medical Malpractice Lawsuit
Santa Clara, CA: A $19 million settlement has been reached in a medical malpractice lawsuit brought by a pregnant woman against a Northeastern Pennsylvania hospital and obstetrician. Court documents reportedly show that in December 2012 Marissa Vaccaro was admitted to the labor and delivery unit at Scranton Quincy, which operates as Moses Taylor H... - Xarelto Bellwether Pushed Back by NBA All-Star Game
Feb-3-17 New Orleans, LA: The maiden bellwether Xarelto lawsuit was originally scheduled to commence this month, an important event given that the number of Xarelto Bleeding Issue cases now exceeds 10,000. However, the important work of establishing potential liability and proving, or disproving allegations of Xarelto side effects and other claims will have... - Abilify Addiction: Age no Barrier
Feb-3-17 Las Vegas, NV: While almost all Abilify lawsuits involve gambling addiction, Nancy’s teenage son became addicted to video games and it caused irreparable damage. If Nancy had known about Abilify side effects, she would have discussed with her son’s psychiatrist whether the risks outweighed the benefits. And he wouldn’t have taken the... - J&J Talcum Powder Lawsuit Claims Ovarian Cancer Risk Was Known
Feb-3-17 Santa Clara, CA: The fourth ovarian cancer trial brought against Talc maker Johnson & Johnson (J&J) and Imerys Talc America is set to go to court next week. It follows three previous trials, all of which saw multi-million dollar awards for plaintiffs who alleged they developed ovarian cancer from using J&J Talc-containing products. In 2... - Penske Admits No Wrongdoing in California Labor Code Class Action Settlement
Feb-2-17 After nearly nine years of litigation, Penske Logistics agreed in January to pay $750,000 to settle a long-running class action lawsuit for allegedly violating the California Labor Code and Unfair Competition Law by not paying wages to its California truck drivers for meal and rest breaks. According to Trucks.com (1/30/17), Penske released a statem... - NY Judge Won't Reassign Unum Disability Lawsuit Over Question of Impropriety
Feb-2-17 New York, NY: A New York magistrate judge presiding over an Unum disability lawsuit alleging that First Unum Life Insurance improperly terminated a woman's disability coverage refused to remove herself from the case after the plaintiff's attorney questioned whether that judge had represented the insurer six years ago while a partner at Proskauer Rose... - 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... - 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...