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Sort by date 16,393 pages found matching <a href=""></a>- Healthcare Whistleblowers Protect Patients' Rights
Jan-20-17 Marion, NC: Patients rely on doctors, medical centers, and healthcare companies to ensure the treatment they receive is safe and lives up to strict regulations. But sometimes healthcare companies attempt to get around the rules, putting the health and lives of their patients at risk. In those cases, healthcare whistleblowers —the people who know o... - Taxotere Docetaxel Side Effects Not Limited to Permanent Hair Loss
Jan-22-17 Washington, DC: The Taxotere hair loss lawsuit file continues to move forward, with various Pretrial Orders issued in the early part of the New Year with proposed Plaintiff and Defendant fact sheets due to be filed Monday (January 23). Meanwhile, Taxotere patients continue to deal with the frustration, disappointment and emotional turmoil that are the... - DuPont to Pay $2M In Teflon Testicular Cancer Trial
Santa Clara, CA: A jury in Ohio has awarded $2 million in compensation against DuPont in the first of some 40 environmental toxin cases pending against the chemical company over allegations it dumped toxins into the air and drinking water of the Ohio River, causing illness to people in the surrounding area. This settlement resolves allegations br... - More Talc Litigation Coming in 2017
Jan-19-17 St. Louis, MO Expect more news on the talc litigation front in 2017 – lots of it. After three mega million dollar verdicts in 2016 there are several more high profile, high stakes trials coming in the legal war against Johnson & Johnson (J & J), the makers of a number of talc based bath and beauty products, which have been linked to o... - Johnson & Johnson Faces Another Hip Replacement Lawsuit
Jan-20-17 New Brunswick, NJ: Days after a Texas jury awarded $1 billion to six patients in a hip replacement lawsuit , another lawsuit has been filed against Johnson & Johnson. The pharmaceutical company is not the only to face allegations of problems with its hip replacement devices, however. In addition to J&J subsidiary DePuy Orthopaedics, Stryker and... - A Tangle of Hernia Mesh Complaints
Jan-15-17 Miami, FL: Knowing you have surgical abdominal mesh in your body that has been recalled is unnerving, to say the least. Even worse, and for many people, suffering pain and infection long after the mesh has been withdrawn or recalled from the market means mesh removal surgery followed by a possible hernia mesh lawsuit. Ethicon Physiomesh Lawsui... - Power Morcellator Patient Advocate Dies
Jan-19-17 Pittsburgh, PA Bonnie Davis, a patient who fought to ensure patients knew about the risks associated with power morcellation has died at age 57 from cancer. Davis had undergone power morcellation in 2012 and was diagnosed six days later with cancer. She worked to raise awareness of the serious risks reportedly linked to the use of power morcellators, t... - Goldman Sachs Reaches $56.5M Settlement in ISDAfix Antitrust Suit
Santa Clara, CA: A $56.5 million agreement has been reached potentially enabling Goldman Sachs to exit an antitrust class action in which it is accused of participating in price-fixing the ISDAfix benchmark rate, along with several other banks. The rate is used to set terms for interest rate derivative products. The total settlement amount agreed... - Restaurante pierde $3.2 millones en demandas laborales en California
Jan-18-17 5 de mayo de 2016, 13:45:00. Por Heidi Turner Los Ángeles, California - Una cadena de restaurantes de Los Ángeles ha sido sentenciada a pagar $3.2 millones en una demanda laboral de California presentada por un ex empleado que alegó discriminación racial y terminación ilícita de su contrato. La cadena Roscoe'... - Inside the $13 Million Pelvic Mesh Award: A Defendant Without Empathy
Jan-18-17 Philadelphia, PA: Following the refusal of a Pennsylvania state judge to strike down a $13.7 million transvaginal mesh lawsuit verdict, defendant Johnson & Johnson and its Ethicon unit immediately signaled they would appeal the award to the state Supreme Court, in spite of the judge’s admonitions that the plaintiff’s suffering was real... - Essure: Women Helping Women
Jan-13-17 Alameda County, CA: The announcement that Fidelma Fitzpatrick is lead counsel for Essure victims should have Bayer even more concerned that litigation may find in favor of plaintiffs. “In a case like [Essure] where we’re talking about birth control devices and women’s health issues it’s particularly important to have women repr... - Catheter Recalls Number into the Millions. Will Lawsuits Follow?
Jan-17-17 Washington, DC: With some four million allegedly defective catheters having been recalled from the market, such a number extrapolated across risk factors suggest defective catheters causing injury lawsuits will result, given the number of fairly common medical procedures for which catheters are routinely employed. The usefulness and benefit of cathe... - IVC Filters: Remove from Body and Market
Jan-12-17 Seattle, WA: The FDA recommended back in 2010 that IVC filters be removed as soon at the risk passed and in 2014 repeated this communication, adding that filter pieces could migrate within the body. And judging from the growing number of IVC Filter lawsuits, including two inferior vena cava (IVC) filter class actions in Canada, the device may soon be... - A Renewed Shot at Justice for Bravelle Infertility Plaintiffs
Jan-16-17 Chicago, IL: The most recent news on the Bravelle lawsuit front continues to be the capacity for Bravelle litigants to continue their actions, following a failed bid last year by Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc. to have the matter dismissed. Bravelle is a fertility drug intended to aid couples experiencing challenges with conception. Various costs assoc... - Attorney Anticipates Surgical Mesh and Transvaginal Mesh Lawsuits Similar in Volume
Jan-11-17 Dallas, TX: A number of complaints allege that Ethicon Physiomesh, a surgical mesh used to repair hernias, has done more harm than good. “I anticipate surgical mesh lawsuits, such as Ethicon Physiomesh, will see similar volume as transvaginal mesh lawsuits,” says attorney Shezad Malik. Surgical mesh came under fire several years ago, beg... - $100M Fraud Settlement Agreed Between DeVry University and the Federal Trade Commission
Santa Clara, CA: A $100 million settlement has been reached between DeVry University and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) over allegations of for-profit education fraud, specifically, that the for-profit university used false statistics about its graduates’ job placement rates in order to lure students and increase enrollment. Accordi... - Implanon Lawsuits Allege Serious Birth Control Side Effects
Jan-13-17 Boston, MA: Women are used to being given a long list of side effects linked to their birth control, so hearing about alleged Implanon side effects is likely nothing new. Some birth control comes with alleged risks such as blood clots, others may increase the chances of pseudotumor cerebri, still others can increase the risk of depression. For its par... - IT Workers Settle New York Labor Lawsuit with Citigroup
Jan-15-17 New York, NY: A New York overtime lawsuit that did not succeed as a class action nonetheless will culminate in a settlement $325,000, making it a happy new year for 18 plaintiffs in the New York employer lawsuit against Citigroup Inc. According to court records the dispute began in April, 2015 when the plaintiffs, IT workers, initiated litigation th... - California Supreme Court Weighs In on Intent of Rest Period
Jan-14-17 Los Angeles, CA: A revealing opinion issued at the end of last year by The California Supreme Court addressed, and clarified a heretofore murky area of California labor law , notably just what constitutes a true rest period, and what doesn’t. Specifically, the difference between rest periods whereby employees are relieved of all work tasks and... - Propecia Infertility: Kids Don’t Care if You’re Bald
Jan-7-17 Ottawa, ON: Infertility is typically considered a woman’s issue, but three out of 10 cases of infertility are due to problems deriving from the man, according to statistics from Canada’s federal government. Many factors can contribute to male infertility, including Propecia , which is known to affect sperm quality. “Sperm is on a th...