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  • Insurance Companies Forcing Policyholders to File Lawsuits to Obtain Benefits
    Jul-16-16 Dallas, TX: When you're dealing with a disability or serious illness and are unable to work, the last thing you want to do is fight with your insurance company over denied disability benefits . But that's exactly what denied disability lawsuits allege has happened, over and over again. Policyholders say their insurance claims are improperly denied or de...
  • University of Texas Professors Fight for Gun-Free Classrooms
    Jul-15-16 Austin, TX: Three female professors at the University of Texas recently filed a lawsuit against the University of Texas and the state of Texas seeking to prevent students from carrying guns into their classrooms. Effective August 1, a new Texas law will allow people licensed to carry concealed handguns to wear those handguns on campus and inside classro...
  • Airbag Injuries Result in Settlement
    Jul-10-16 Salt Lake City, UT : An accident involving allegedly faulty airbags that caused serious injuries when a vehicle’s airbag deployed too forcefully has resulted in a settlement. The terms of the settlement, which resolves claims of negligence and gross negligence in the airbag injury lawsuit, have been kept confidential. According to the Salt Lak...
  • Toxic Chemical Birth Defects Lawsuit News & Legal Information
    If you have suffered the tragedy of having a child with birth defects or infant/childhood cancer, a child who is still under the age of twenty, and the birth mother worked with possible toxic chemicals and solvents during her pregnancy, the time to take action is now or your options could be severely limited. Cancer and Mutagenic Promoting Agen...
  • Transvaginal Mesh Warnings Added to Labels
    Jul-5-16 Los Angeles, CA: One transvaginal mesh manufacturer is adding new safety labels to its pelvic meshes and slings, saying they are considered permanent implants and that removal can be complicated or impossible. Transvaginal mesh products have been used worldwide for about 15 years, mostly to treat pelvic organ prolapse (POP) and stress urinary incont...
  • With No Settlement in Sight, Attorney Says, “We’re Going to Trial!”
    Jul-1-16 Sacramento, CA: It took four years for Roberto Davila and his attorney to prevail, but a California court recently awarded the 52-year-old construction worker $4.25 million for serious personal injuries suffered on the job in September of 2012. Roberto Davila was injured while working for Navajo Pipelines on a road-widening job near Roseville, Calif...
  • Robocall Lawsuits Spike, Business Calling for Relaxation of Rules
    Jun-29-16 Washington, DC: As the American Chamber of Commerce and other business interests lobby for an update and relaxation of guidelines governing robocalls and telemarketing, the Attorney General for the State of Indiana has launched a nuisance call lawsuit against a medical supplies company. Am-Med Diabetic Supplies Inc., which also does business as Beyo...
  • United States Victims of State Sponsored Terrorism Fund Establishment and Development
    Santa Clara:, CA In moving forward with the development of the United States Victims of State Sponsored Terrorism Fund (“the Fund”), the US Attorney General has appointed a Special Master, (codified at 42 U.S.C. § 10609 (2015). The Act mandates that the Special Master “publish in the Federal Register and on a website maintained by the Depar...
  • Volkswagen to Pay $14.7B to Settle US Emissions Allegations
    Washington, DC: In two related settlements, one with the United States and the State of California, and one with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC), German automaker Volkswagen AG and related entities have agreed to spend up to $14.7 billion to settle consumer fraud allegations of VW emissions and deceiving customers. The settlements do not...
  • Modern-Day Slavery Doesn’t Pay
    Jun-27-16 Sacramento, CA: Employers take note: It doesn’t pay to violate California labor laws and workers. That also applies to overseas Filipino workers and foreign contract laborers. The former owners of L’Amande bakeries have been handed a default judgment of $15.2 million in damages and fees for trafficking 11 Filipinos to the United States t...
  • Airbag Injury Lawsuit Information & Legal News
    In recent years, massive airbag recalls have been announced to address issues involving defective airbags . These recalls affect vehicles equipped with Takata airbags, which have reportedly been linked to 13 deaths and many injuries worldwide. Airbag failures have allegedly caused situations in which passenger vehicle occupants have either not survived...
  • On-Call Unpaid Wages Lawsuit Information and Legal News
    Unpaid wages lawsuits often involve work in which employees are not paid for overtime wages, or what's referred to as egress-regress time, such as logging on or off a computer at the start or end of the day. But sometimes unpaid wages claims might also involve situations where the employee is required to be on-call but is not being paid for that time. T...
  • Bravelle Fertility Drug Lawsuit Information & Legal News
    Ferring Pharmaceuticals faces allegations that its Bravelle fertility drug is ineffective following a fall 2015 recall of certain lots of the drug. The Bravelle recall reportedly concerned lots of the drug that were not as strong as specified, resulting in a lessened therapeutic effect. Bravelle lawsuits have been filed in the United States and Canada...
  • Zimmer Persona Knee: They Don’t Make ’em Like They Used To
    Jun-13-16 Warsaw, IN: It’s a common refrain in the modern age: things are not as they were. People don’t respect each other, or each other’s property like they used to. The politeness of old has vanished. “They don’t make ’em like they used to.” And for the most part, things aren’t built to last. One must forgive such...
  • Telemarketing & Robocall Lawsuit News and Legal Information
    Telemarketing lawsuits and robocall lawsuits are now being filed against companies accused of making continuous unwanted calls. These nuisance caller lawsuits allege consumers are being harassed by companies who make repeated and annoying phone calls, text messages, or faxes. A Supreme Court ruling on robocalls has opened the door for more lawsuits to...
  • Attorney Discusses IVC Blood Clot Filter Cases
    May-27-16 Houston, TX: Veteran litigator Howard Nations and his Houston, Texas firm are at the forefront of the litigation against the makers of a medical device known as an Inferior Vena Cava filter, or IVC filter . Intended to prevent strokes or pulmonary edema in patients at risk of deep vein thrombosis, the retrievable style devices are known to fail and resu...
  • Corning to Pay $66.5M in Price Fixing Settlement
    Santa Clara, CA: A $66.5 million settlement has been reached ending allegations of price fixing brought against Corning International Kabushiki Kaisha (Corning International K.K.) by The Justice Department. The antitrust charges included price-fixing, bid–rigging and allocation of markets for ceramic substrates sold in the United States. Accordi...
  • Unum Taketh and Giveth Away
    May-14-16 Chattanooga, TN: While Unum, or Unum Provident , gives with one hand, it takes away with the other. The giant insurer recently declared it contributed nearly $12.7 million and its employees volunteered more than 88,000 volunteer hours to charitable organizations in 2015. Perhaps Unum is so giving because it makes huge profits by denying it policyholders...
  • Data Breach Complaints on the Rise
    May-11-16 Washington, DC: A new report from the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) shows that data breach complaints are on the rise. In the report, Consumer Sentinel Network Data Book (2/16), the FTC notes that complaints about identity theft increased 47 percent in 2015, likely helped by a number of high-profile data breaches. Consumers have filed lawsuits again...
  • Force Placed Insurance Terms More Fact Than Allegation
    May-7-16 Toronto, ON: Many a Lender insurance lawsuit has been fought on the premise that not only is Force-Place Insurance sometimes foisted upon an unsuspecting homeowner unnecessarily, but the quality of the product is inferior to standard policies, at increased rates. This fact is even outlined by the Royal Bank of Canada (RBC), in an online information...
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