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Oct-9-14 Mount Airy, NC The woes recently affecting General Motors (GM) over ignition switches and, in a related issue, the relationship those defective switches have to airbag failure continue to mount. And while a steady stream of recalls appears to reflect the manufacturer’s pledge that no stone will be left unturned in its quest to stand behind its pr... - Feds Hoping to Recover Hundreds of Millions in Forced Place Insurance Overpayments
Oct-7-14 Washington, DC The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) is considering a Force-placed insurance lawsuit against major banks and lenders alleged to have participated in kickback schemes since the housing bust of 2008, in an effort to recover what has been described as hundreds of millions of dollars in losses. There is little doubt that insurance is... - Philadelphia Plaintiff Awarded $2 Million in Actos Bladder Cancer Lawsuit
Oct-6-14 Philadelphia, PA A Philadelphia plaintiff who faces “a life of bladder cancer” was awarded over $2 million in damages in an Actos lawsuit . While the nine-member jury decided not to award punitive damages due to their belief that defendant Takeda Pharmaceuticals had not shown wanton or conscious disregard for patients, the jury nonetheless s... - Supreme Court Agrees to Hear Stock Options Case
Oct-4-14 Washington, DC The US Supreme Court will hear an ERISA lawsuit alleging a company provided imprudent investments for an ERISA plan. The case was taken to the Supreme Court after lower courts found that employees at Edison International could not file suit because the statute of limitations on the employee benefits claim had run out. According to CF... - Mesothelioma Award Considered Highest in New York State
Oct-3-14 Long Island, NY When Ralph P. North got up in the morning and went to work at a job site that would eventually become the Long Island Lighting Company (LILCO) power station in Northport, Long Island, more than 40 years ago, little did he know that he would be setting up his future with a lifetime sentence of pain and suffering brought on by asbestos meso... - Inside a Battle for Life from Stevens Johnson Syndrome
Oct-2-14 Winton, Bournemouth, UK It’s been little over a year since a five-year-old boy from the UK found himself in the hospital, near death. The reason? Stevens Johnson Syndrome , a rare condition that results in severe rash, blistering and expulsion of large swaths of skin not unlike a serious burn. Patients can be left with permanent scarring, both emo... - What You Should Know About Denied Disability: Washington Disability Attorney Weighs In
Sep-30-14 Seattle, WA Disability attorney Chris Roy has won a lot more Washington denied disability cases than he has lost because he evaluates individual cases and only takes those he believes the client will win. Long term disability: DIY? Most of Roy’s clients seek his help after they have been denied long term disability. “I think it is m... - Attorney David Koon on Possible Xarelto Side Effects and the Lack of an Antidote for Uncontrollable Bleeding
Sep-25-14 The introduction of newer generation anticoagulants Xarelto and Pradaxa beyond Coumadin (warfarin) was deemed as a breakthrough due to less need for ongoing patient monitoring. However, unlike warfarin, Xarelto and Pradaxa do not have an effective a way to stop the bleeding if a hemorrhage starts. Louisville, KY (PRWEB) September 25, 2014: There is an ag... - Is Pfizer Forthcoming to Consumers About Zithromax Stevens Johnson Syndrome?
Sep-23-14 Washington, DC Stevens Johnson Syndrome (SJS) is one of those rare reactions to medication that few understand. Why does skin erupt into a rash, then into blisters, then a progression toward the loss of massive amounts of skin that equates to a serious burn? And this, all happening practically overnight. Many questions, and even less understanding. But one... - AIG Escapes Defense Bill in Force-Placed Insurance Litigation
Sep-20-14 New York, NY It may be a legal drop in the bucket, but a New York judge has ruled in QBE Americas Inc. et al. v. Ace American Insurance Co. et al., that American International Group Inc. (AIG) escapes from having to pay defense costs for individual and proposed Force-Placed insurance class action lawsuits against QBE Holdings Inc. as the AIG policy l... - Oregon and Oracle Trading Lawsuits Over Cover Oregon Website
Sep-19-14 Salem, OR It may not be your average Oregon long term denied lawsuit , but the ugly spat that is brewing between the state of Oregon and software giant Oracle Corp. (Oracle) is mushrooming. At stake is a determination of just who is at fault over the allegedly failed Cover Oregon health care exchange website. The site, reported by the Bozeman Daily... - Days after Massive Home Depot Data Breach, Lawsuits Are Filed
Sep-16-14 Atlanta, GA The data breach that affected retail giant Home Depot, and revealed in recent days, is not only the latest example of a hacker accessing customers personal information amidst data storage systems that are generally assumed as secure, it could be the largest yet. The breach could eclipse that of Target, which affected about 40 million con... - Washington Settles Claims following Car Accident
Sep-11-14 Seattle, WA Washington state will pay $10 million to settle claims filed after a tree fell on a vehicle, killing two people and causing serious back injuries in three others. The three people who survived the accident suffered permanent injuries, including a back injury that has left one of the victims a quadriplegic. According to The Seattle Times... - Airbag Defect Leads to Recall
Sep-7-14 Detroit, MI An airbag defect has reportedly led to a recall of certain Honda vehicles. The recall, which affects approximately 63,000 vehicles, has so far not been linked to any airbag injuries. This is the latest in a string of issues with airbag failures, some of which have resulted in lawsuits. According to Reuters (8/28/14), Honda will recall... - Truckers Win $3.4M Settlement in Unpaid Overtime Class Action Lawsuit
Los Angeles, CA: A $3.4 million preliminary settlement has been reached in an unpaid overtime class action lawsuit pending against Old Dominion Freight Line Inc. The lawsuit, brought by over 500 drivers , alleged the shipping company failed to compensate its drivers for working more than 40 hours a week and failed to provide legal duty-free meal bre... - Could Mirena Birth Control Side Effects Include Breast Cancer?
Aug-29-14 Washington, DC It’s possible that the active ingredient in Mirena IUD birth control, levonorgestrel, could trigger breast cancer. That’s the conclusion of a new Finnish study, just published, which found a 19 percent higher incidence rate of breast cancer in women using Mirena and other birth control products containing levonorgestrel, than wom... - Online Legal Media Announces The Launch Of Onlinelegalmedia.com
Aug-27-14 Online Legal Media, parent company of LawyersandSettlements.com, BigClassAction.com, HealthEffectsofAsbestos.com and OnlineLegalMarketing.com, has launched its new website, OnlineLegalMedia.com, to provide an online gateway to the company’s publishing and marketing branches. The new OnlineLegalMedia.com website serves as a central point of access to the O... - Are Statins and Crestor Side Effects Worse Than Claimed?
Aug-22-14 Washington, DC When a patient is prescribed Crestor (rosuvastatin) as a means to regulate cholesterol levels in the blood and to minimize the presence of so-called “bad LDL cholesterol,” there are various Crestor side effects one has to consider; muscle pain, the potential for new-onset diabetes and other Crestor issues, some severe with th... - Multistate Forced-Placed Insurance Class Action to Go Ahead
Aug-15-14 San Francisco, CA A broad Lender insurance class action that spans 40 different states was given the go-ahead earlier this summer by a US Magistrate. The now-certified class-action lawsuit alleges US Bank benefited from kickbacks by placing lenders insurance through American Security Insurance Co. (ASIC). Plaintiffs claim the insurance was also expensi... - GM Recall: “I Drove a Rolling Death Trap”
Aug-12-14 Vancouver, BC “When I heard that my car was part of the GM recall, I felt like I was driving a rolling death trap,” says Joanne. Although she didn’t suffer an injury due to the General Motors faulty ignition switch , Joanne spent five stressful months worried that the ignition would turn off every time her car hit a bump in the road. ...