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  • Do Medication Guides for PPI Kidney Disease and Prevacid Lack Consistency?
    Feb-6-17 Washington, DC: It would come as no surprise that a common scourge amongst Americans remains acid reflux, and similar maladies. For them, a common prescription for a Proton Pump Inhibitor (PPI) serves to provide relief, and minimize the effects of heartburn and related ailments such as gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD). However, PPI drugs have...
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • Eight-Year-Old California Unpaid Wages Lawsuit can go Forward
    Jan-9-17 Los Angeles, CA It’s been a long haul for California Donning and Doffing lawsuit plaintiff Pamela Silva, who filed her unpaid wages lawsuit against her employer See’s Candy Stores Inc. (See’s Candy) back in 2009. And it’s not over yet, as a three-judge appellate panel ruled that Silva’s claims related to unpaid wages for me...
  • Unfair Car Title Loans a Growing Trend
    Jan-8-17 Washington, DC: As consumers enter into loan agreements with the best of intentions, loan providers often don’t come to the party with equal good faith. To that end, The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) in June of last year included car title loans in new proposals aimed at tightening regulations, and preventing loan providers from fle...
  • Older Defendant to Younger Plaintiff: “You’re No Spring Chicken!”
    Dec-29-16 Santa Barbara, CA: Under California labor law , akin to generally-recognized statutes in force elsewhere, it remains unlawful to terminate an individual’s employment without just cause. In this California labor lawsuit, total damages exceeding a half million dollars were awarded to the plaintiff, resolving a complaint and accompanying circumstance...
  • La esclavitud moderna no paga
    Dec-28-16 Sacramento, CA: Los empleadores toman nota: No hay ganancia en violar las leyes laborales de California y los derechos de sus trabajadores. Esto también se aplica a los trabajadores filipinos en el extranjero y los trabajadores extranjeros en suelo americano. Los antiguos dueños de las panaderías de L'Amande han recibido un juicio por defecto de $ 15...
  • Hospital Overcharges Up in the Air
    Dec-8-16 Lubbock, NM: Not only do hospitals overcharge patients, mostly uninsured patients, for emergency room visits. One air ambulance company that provides emergency air medical service is facing several class action lawsuits alleging overpricing. The air transport company (it has several names including Rocky Mountain Holding Co., Native Air and Air Me...
  • Hope For Patients With IVC Filter?
    Dec-5-16 Chicago, IL: A team of radiologists say they have developed a way to remove inferior vena cava filters that is 100 percent successful, even in removing filters that were previously considered irretrievable. The news might provide hope to patients who worry they are stuck with a temporary filter that is causing permanent damage, similar to claims made i...
  • Pradaxa Bleeding Risk Increased With Certain Statins: Study
    Dec-4-16 Toronto, ON: In tandem with oft-cited Pradaxa bleeding associated with the frequently-prescribed blood thinner, a new concern has emerged from a Canadian study suggesting that Pradaxa use with certain statins can heighten the risk for bleeding for patients suffering from atrial fibrillation. The latter, characterized by an irregular and rapid heartb...
  • FDA Weighs in Alere Recall and Potential for Skewed Results
    Dec-3-16 Washington, DC: On the heels of a published report in BMJ with regard to the Alere INRatio device, the Alere Recall and its impact on the clinical trial that eventually led to the approval of a major indication for Xarelto, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has weighed in, defending its support for Xarelto and the study results that led to the...
  • Benicar Lawsuit Plaintiffs Attempt Motion for Summary Judgement
    Dec-2-16 Camden, NJ: A Benicar side effects lawsuit involving the manufacturers of Benicar olmesartan, identified as Daiichi Sankyo (Daiichi) and Forest Pharmaceuticals Inc. (Forest) may have ended on a motion of summary judgement put forward by the plaintiffs. However, a judge with the US District Court in New Jersey ruled that documents cited by the plaintiff...
  • CDC Warns of Infection Risk from Heater Cooler Devices Used in Heart Surgery
    Santa Clara, CA; A warning has been issued by The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) for healthcare providers and patients about the potential risk of infection from certain LivaNova PLC (formerly Sorin Group Deutschland GmbH) Stöckert 3T heater-cooler devices used during open heart (open-chest) surgery. Patients who have had...
  • Broadspectrum Downstream Settles California Labor Class Action for $3.45M
    Santa Clara, CA: A $3.45 million settlement has been reached in an unpaid overtime class action lawsuit brought against Texas-based Broadspectrum Downstream Services Inc. The workers alleged they were not compensated for the time it took to prep for shifts at California refineries, in violation of California labor law. Broadspectrum, formerly call...
  • Veterans Made to Repay Bonuses: Does this Jive with California Labor Law?
    Oct-26-16 Manteca, CA Imagine your surprise and elation when your Golden State boss presents you with a bonus for good work, or incentives for performing an unpopular task no one else wants. You do the work, and you get what’s coming to you. California labor code is a wonderful thing. Imagine your dismay when, after a period of time, your boss wants to...
  • Consolidation Granted for Monsanto Roundup Lawsuits
    Oct-25-16 Oakland, CA: Efforts to consolidate Monsanto Roundup lawsuits involving the well-known weed killer Roundup by Monsanto Co. (Monsanto) have resulted in centralization in California, a win for plaintiffs who had been pushing for the Golden State over other jurisdictions Monsanto fought centralization, but these efforts failed to sway the Court. Lawsui...
  • Airbag Injury Lawsuits Filed in North Carolina
    Oct-24-16 Guilford County, NC: There is little doubt that a host of airbag injury plaintiffs allege their airbag injuries to be catastrophic in nature. In the case of David Earl Ebron Jr., who does indeed allege catastrophic airbag injuries , the plaintiff alleges he suffered the indignity of being injured twice. According to an airbag failure lawsuit Ebron fi...
  • Force Placed Insurance is a Forced Relationship of the Worst Kind
    Oct-11-16 Los Angeles, CA: Anyone having trouble believing that their insurance company, or bank could collude in such woeful, self-interested activity as Lender insurance need only look to the alleged activities of State Farm, and Wells Fargo as an indication of behavior unbecoming to their clients, customers and American values. Last month, State Farm polic...
  • Implantes de Cadera Defectuosos
    Se han presentado demandas contra varias compañías que alegan que los pacientes han sido dañados por los implantes de cadera defectuosos. El implante de cadera defectuoso, en el que el dispositivo de cadera falla más rápidamente de lo esperado, puede causar una variedad de problemas para los pacientes, incluyendo dolor y movilidad limitada, y puede requ...
  • Many Talcum Powder Lawsuit Plaintiffs May Not Survive to See Their Day in
    Oct-5-16 Washington, DC: An effort to centralize body powder and cancer lawsuits to a federal court in Illinois is being met with opposition from body powder lawsuit attorneys representing plaintiffs who have just a few years to live and may not survive to see their day in court. One plaintiff associated with a Johnson & Johnson lawsuit, Tanashiska Lumas...
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