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  • Kmart settles healthcare fraud lawsuit for $32.3 million
    Jan-20-18 Washington, DC The Department of Justice announced that Kmart Corporation has agreed to pay $32.3 million ($59 million including state law issues) to settle a lawsuit that claims in-store pharmacies overbilled Medicare Part D, Medicaid, and TRICARE. The healthcare fraud scheme, which a Kmart pharmacist stumbled upon only when he had his own presc...
  • Emergency Room Charges and What to Do About Them
    Jan-14-18 Washington, DC: A study into medical bills, treatment costs at hospitals and emergency room charges undertaken last year and published in May by the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine confirmed what we already know: charges for medical care can be excessive when compared to what Medicare and Medicaid interprets as the true value for services...
  • Denied Disability Claimant Wins when Administrator Blows Deadline
    Jan-10-18 San Jose, CA Employers can change the terms of their long-term disability plans whenever they want. Those changes often affect what employees must show to make a disability claim , and they rarely make it easy to collect. Plans usually apply changed provisions even to employees who are already receiving benefits. They often lose those payments. But when...
  • Demanda colectiva contra Tesla por discriminación racial
    Jan-8-18 Oakland,CA: La presentada, denuncia el 13 de noviembre de 2017 en el Tribunal Superior para el Estado de California, el Condado de Alameda, describe a Tesla Motors, Inc. como un "hervidero" de racismo y alega múltiples violaciones de la legislación laboral de California . Esta es la tercera demanda por discriminación racial que s...
  • PHH Mortgage to Pay $45M In Mortgage Servicing Fraud Lawsuit
    Washington, DC: A $45 million settlement has been reached by PHH Mortgage Corp and 49 state attorneys general who sued the company alleging the mortgage servicer committed financial fraud by failing to properly apply payments from borrowers and other loan service deficiencies. While mortgage servicers do not directly issue home loans, they do co...
  • Opioid Epidemic Biggest News Story in 2017, Opioid Litigation May be Biggest Legal News in 2018
    Jan-1-18 Cleveland, OH: Across the U.S., city and county newspapers looking back on 2017 say the top news story was the opioid crisis. And opioid litigation already looks like it will dominate legal news in 2018. Early in December, the U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation (MDL) ordered city and county cases to join more than five dozen similar civil ac...
  • “I want this Mirena IUD out, over and done with.”
    Dec-30-17 Toronto, ON. Nickey followed her doctor’s orders, and the Mirena manufacturer’s orders: five years after the IUD was implanted, she made an appointment to have it removed. But it wasn’t that easy. Next month will be the fourth, and she hopes final, attempt to have all of the birth control device removed from her uterus. “O...
  • Conductor de Turno demanda a Starbucks por Robo de Salario
    Dec-21-17 Santa Cruz, CA: El señor Walter Savinovich, un conductor de Evolution Fresh, presentó una demanda al Tribunal Superior del condado de Santa Cruz el 7 de agosto de 2017. Savinovich alegó que Evolution Fresh y su empresa matriz, la Corporación Starbucks, violó las disposiciones de salario y horas de la legislación...
  • Pier 1 Employees Win $3.5M Settlement in Flex Shift Class Action Lawsuit
    San Francisco, CA: A preliminary $3.5 million settlement has been reached potentially ending a California labor law class action lawsuit pending against Pier 1 Imports. The lawsuit, filed by Lauren Mathein and Christine Sabas, alleged Pier 1 failed to reimburse the class for hours spent working without pay while checking in to find out if they had...
  • The Talcum Powder Cases Heading for Massive Trials Next Year
    Dec-12-17 Ridgeland, MO: Next year and the year after, St. Louis, Missouri will be the venue for a massive showdown in the courts between Johnson & Johnson and the hundreds of women who have filed lawsuits alleging there is a direct relationship between their ovarian cancer and the use of talcum powder-based products manufactured and sold by Johnson and John...
  • Uber Hit with Proposed Class Action in California
    Dec-7-17 Los Angeles, CA: A California labor lawsuit brought by a Uber driver likens a pricing model observed by Uber to stiffing drivers of proper wages as required under California labor law. For its part, co-defendant Uber Technologies Inc. disagrees with plaintiff Sophano Van’s allegations and is trying to have the lawsuit tossed. As outlined in L...
  • Tesla Hit with Racial Discrimination Class Action Lawsuit
    Nov-29-17 Oakland, CA: The complaint , filed on November 13, 2017 in the Superior Court for the State of California, Alameda County describes Tesla Motors, Inc. as a “hotbed” of racism and alleges multiple violations of California labor law . This is the third racial discrimination lawsuit to be filed against Tesla this year and the first to seek c...
  • Study Suggests IVC Filter Use is on the Decline, But Problems Remain
    Nov-25-17 St. Louis, MO: Does a win by Cook Medical in a recent bellwether IVC filter lawsuit , together with the release of a study suggesting that IVC filter use is beginning to trend downwards after thirty years of growth, point to the beginning of a sea change for the inferior vena cava filter industry, and IVC filter patients? Earlier this month MedPage...
  • Toddler Loses Leg and all her Fingers in Pressure Cooker Explosion
    Nov-22-17 Miami, FL Two-year old Samantha Gonzalez was grievously burned in 2015, when her grandmother’s Tristar “As Seen on TV” pressure cooker malfunctioned. The damage will last as long as Samantha lives. Exploding pressure cooker injuries have been the source of many lawsuits. But this is not the kind of case that leads to a tidy l...
  • Empleados de un Resort Vacacional de Lujo en California lanzan una demanda
    Nov-21-17 Los Ángeles, California: Expertos de la industria en el estado de California opinan que a pesar de que las actuales leyes de trabajo del estado de California pueden considerarse como muy protectoras del trabajo, y en algunos casos hasta más protectoras que las leyes de trabajo a nivel Federal, existen empleadores que están al riesgo de...
  • Transvaginal Mesh Victim calls Implant the “Alien Thing”
    Nov-18-17 Anniston, MO: : Since Jane had her first transvaginal mesh implant she has dealt with pain and incontinence (she didn’t even have this issue before the implant), two rounds of Botox, self-catheterization, and infections and if it can’t get any worse, she and her husband can no longer have sexual intercourse. Jane (not her real name) and J...
  • Georgia Widow Sues Hospital for Bedsores
    Nov-17-17 Atlanta, GA: A Georgia widow has filed a Medical Malpractice lawsuit against an Atlanta hospital group. She is charging that negligent care caused her husband to endure fourth-degree bedsores during his stay at the facility and resulted in unnecessary suffering that ultimately lead to his death. William S. Mays was admitted to the hospital on Dece...
  • Did FDA Fast-Track Contribute to IVC Filter Injuries?
    Nov-10-17 Washington, DC: While we wait for the bellwether trials to proceed in the Cook IVC Filter Litigation MDL and the Bard IVC Filters MDL , maybe it’s time to have a conversation about root causes. How did we end up in late 2017 with more than 2,000 pending IVC filter lawsuits ? One thing these IVC filter injury cases have in common is this:...
  • When Deceased Donations to Alleged Medical Science Become Trafficking in Body Parts
    Chicago, IL: Illegal trafficking of body parts may be closer to home than many people want to believe. A mother in Chicago, who lost her 23-year old son to spindle cell sarcoma and subsequently donated his body to science, as he had instructed her, found out that several medical businesses had harvested and mishandled her son’s remains, possibly fo...
  • Bayer Reports Spike in Essure Lawsuits and Congress Questions FDA
    Nov-8-17 Decatur, IL: Litigation involving Essure is taking its toll on Bayer. In less than a year, the permanent birth control device manufacturer has seen lawsuits more than double, and it has been removed from every global market, except in the U.S. At the beginning of the year, the pharma giant in its financial statement reported it was facing 3,700...
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