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  • Advice to Employers: Pay workers now rather than Later
    Aug-12-06 "Employers would be well advised to compensate their employees before they are taken to court," says Tom Emmitt, head litigation attorney at United Employees Law Group, PC. "Employer's biggest fears are class action and individual lawsuits. We will take the employer to court and collect not only back wages and overtime owed, but a variety of penalties and...
  • GlaxoSmithKline Antitrust Class Action Settlement
    Europe's top drug maker agreed to pay more than $70 million to settle lawsuits filed by New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer and other state attorneys general as well as consumers who claimed they had been overcharged for drugs by hundreds of millions of dollars as part of a class action. The attorney general's lawsuits claimed GlaxoSmithKline was in...
  • Merck keeps right on pushing Fosamax
    Aug-11-06 New York, NY Merck's second-best selling drug, Fosamax , has been linked to jaw bone death, although sales of the drug remain steady with no decrease whatsoever. Jaw bone deth is a condition that can involve severe pain, infection, loose teeth, exposed bone, loss of function and disfigurement, according to the American Association of Oral and Maxillofa...
  • Zyprexa Lawsuits - Eli Lilly May Lose Insurance Coverage
    Aug-3-06 In the company's first quarter report for 2006, Eli Lilly says it is having problems with insurance coverage. "We have experienced difficulties in obtaining product liability insurance due to a very restrictive insurance market," the report says, "and therefore will be largely self-insured for future product liability losses." Although Lilly has cover...
  • St. Paul Travelers Cos. Inc. Insurance Settlement
    The St. Paul Travelers Companies, Inc. was under investigation regarding its producer compensation, insurance placement practices and "non-traditional" insurance products. The company has settled regulatory charges and awarded $42 million to The Attorneys General of New York, Connecticut and Illinois and the New York State Dept. of Insurance. The compan...
  • Wyndham International Inc. Hotel Surcharges Settlement
    An investigation by the Attorney General, which began in 2001, accused Wyndham International Inc. of improperly imposing undisclosed automatic surcharges at hotels run by the company. The investigation focused on adding charges to guest bills without proper disclosure. Four Florida Wyndham hotels allegedly tagged on automatic hotel charges - such as r...
  • Eli Lilly and Co. under fire for Zyprexa
    Aug-1-06 On July 24, 2006, Mississippi became the fifth state to file a lawsuit against Eli Lilly and Co. for its sales and marketing of Zyprexa (olanzapine). The lawsuit was filed in Lafayette County Circuit Court. According to a special attorney general who is handling the case, the lawsuit was filed to recover money the state of Mississippi spent purchasin...
  • Boston Scientific inherits Guidant Heart Device Lawsuits
    Aug-1-06 According to the FDA, the reason there are not more deaths reported in patients implanted with Guidant's defective defibrillators is because most patients die outside the clinic or hospital and the devices are not sent back to the manufacturer to be checked. On June 23, 2006, Bloomberg News reported that Guidant's Contak Renewal devices might fail about 1...
  • Medtronic's Medical Device Legal Troubles far from Over
    Jul-31-06 Minneapolis based Medtronic, Inc. is one of the nation's largest medical device makers. In mid-July 2006, the company agreed to pay a $40 million fine to settle charges that its Sofamor Danek division paid kickbacks to doctors to get them to use the company's spinal products, which accounted for 20% of the company's $11.3 billion in sales in 2005. On J...
  • GlaxoSmithKline Sued Over Paxil Birth Defects
    Jul-29-06 A lawsuit was filed against GlaxoSmithKline on July 28, 2006, in Philadelphia on behalf of Adrian Vasquez, who was born on April 19, 2004, with birth defects as a result of his mother having been prescribed Paxil during pregnancy. Paxil belongs to the class of antidepressant drugs known as selective serotonin re-uptake inhibitors (SSRIs). At birth, Ad...
  • Advocate Lutheran General Hospital and Dr. George Melnyk wrongful death Settlement
    Three months after the birth of her daughter in 2001, Melanie Stokes was treated for depression by Dr. George Melnyk at Advocate Lutheran General Hospital in Park Ridge. Four days after being released from the hospital, Melanie jumped to her death from the 12th floor window of a hotel room. Her husband filed a wrongful death lawsuit alleging that Melani...
  • General Electric Co. false claims Settlement
    In October 2000, two General Electric (GE) employees filed a lawsuit claiming that GE sold defective turbine parts, and five more employees joined the suit in January 2002, alleging the company covered up defects in turbine blades and vanes during production. The federal government joined the suit after investigating the allegations and negotiated the s...
  • Boston Scientific Won Guidant - What A Prize
    Jul-24-06 In the second quarter of 2006, Boston Scientific may have lost 27% of its value, but in the first quarter, it did win a nearly two month bidding war with Johnson and Johnson over the heart device maker, Guidant, with a bid of $27.5 billion for the grand prize. It probably seemed like a great deal when the bidding started. Guidant's heart device division...
  • TeenScreen - Prescription Drug Pusher In Schools
    Jul-17-06 Whenever a TeenScreen article appears in the mainstream media, it never discusses the fact that the survey is being used to label children with any number of mental illnesses. The point needs to be made that this so-called "suicide prevention tool" has a lofty purpose alright, but caring about whether or not kids commit suicide ain't it. According to atto...
  • Not Exempt from Overtime
    Jul-13-06 "We negotiated a settlement for my unpaid overtime but I turned down their final offer - the college wanted me to resign. It's not my fault that I was misclassified as exempt. Why should I resign? This third offer wasn't even enough to cover the overtime they owed me. "I'm going to fight to the end, all the way to trial if need be," says Susan James (not...
  • Wachovia Corp. research Settlement
    A 28-month investigation into the Wachovia Capital Markets division of the North Carolina-based bank company began when New York State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer released e-mails from analysts at Merrill Lynch & Co., in which they denigrated stocks they had endorsed in their research reports. The state securities regulators claimed that Wachovia fai...
  • Bush's Mental Illness Screening Squad On the Move
    Jul-9-06 The tax dollar funded mental health screening programs popping up in every corner of the nation represent an enormous gift to Big Pharma from the Bush administration. After all, drug companies can't push drugs without a lucrative customer base, so the screening programs are a great solution for that little problem. On April 29, 2002, Bush kicked off th...
  • Deloitte & Touche trust funds Settlement
    A lawsuit filed against Deloitte & Touche alleging accounting fraud involving Symbol Technologies Inc. has reached an understanding. A settlement agreement of $24 million is proposed with the $1 billion Louisiana Sheriffs' Pension & Relief Fund, $550 million Louisiana Municipal Police Employees' Retirement System and City of Miami General Employees' and...
  • Risk of Harm from Motrin, Aleve, Advil - Better Odds in a Crap Shoot
    Jun-30-06 Complications from non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, or NSAID, have been linked to 103,000 hospitalizations and more than 16,000 deaths per year in the US, according to a study published in the American Journal of Therapeutics. A lack of information, experts say, is the root cause of the lack of concern over the health risks associated with NSAIDs. A...
  • Drug Companies Still Peddling Risperdal and Zyprexa For Off-Label Use
    Jun-17-06 According to Kelly O'Meara, author of the newly released book, Psyched Out, America has a drug problem. "It's not as covert as those illicit and illegal "Just Say No" drugs," she says, "but, rather, Americans have become drug users by way of being diagnosed as suffering from one or a number of alleged mental disorders." "Sharing one's feelings with a doc...
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