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Aug-22-07 Baltimore, MD It took doctors nearly a week to diagnose Samantha G. with Stevens Johnson Syndrome (SJS), the potentially deadly skin disease. Because there is no official reporting structure for the syndrome in relation to drug interactions, many doctors initially miss (and misdiagnose) SJS, and may not even discontinue the medication, such as Dilantin,... - MRI Contrast Agents Can Cause Kidney Failure
Aug-21-07 Los Angeles, CA When Carol G was given an MRI contrast agent she had no idea that it would so quickly cause her kidney problems to escalate. However, her doctor should have known. Unfortunately, despite Carol having serious kidney problems, her doctor allowed her to have an MRI with a gadolinium-based contrast agent, which left her in total kidney failu... - Ciena Healthcare Management Inc. Nursing Home Insurance Fraud Settlement
Lansing, MI: (Aug-20-07) Attorney General Mike Cox's Office brought a lawsuit against Ciena Healthcare Management Inc., alleging that the facility improperly billed Medicaid and Medicare for care at four nursing homes. The joint probe focused on four of Ciena's 30 nursing homes, three in Detroit and one in Whitmore Lake. The lawsuit claimed that those faci... - Val Industrial Insulation Co. Employees' Prevailing Wages Settlement
Boston, MA: (Aug-17-07) Attorney General Martha Coakley's Office brought a lawsuit against Daniel Valdez, of Worcester, the owner of Val Industrial Insulation Co., alleging that he failed to pay two employees the prevailing wage rate. The suit was filed after a June 2007 routine site inspection at the Brookside Elementary School Renovations and Additions P... - Home Depot Toxic Sludge Settlement
Los Angeles, CA: (Aug-17-07) The state of California and Los Angeles County prosecutors brought a civil lawsuit against Home Depot, alleging that the retailer failed to properly store and transport hazardous sludge. The suit stemmed from an incident when a 55-gallon drum at Home Depot's Marina Del Rey store blew up in 2004, causing a fire and an evacuation... - University of Iowa Monster Stuttering Study Settlement
Iowa City, IA: (Aug-17-07) Six people filed suit against the University of Iowa in Johnson County District Court, alleging that they or their relatives were psychologically damaged by their participation in the "Monster Study." The research was directed to induce stuttering in normal-speaking children in order to prove that the speech disorder was not an i... - Ecomaine Trash Incinerator Pollution Settlement
Portland, ME: (Aug-16-07) The Department of Environmental Protection brought charges against Ecomaine, the operator of greater Portland's trash incinerator, alleging that it had air pollution violations at its facility, dating back seven years. The suit claimed that in some cases, the Portland incinerator violated smoke standards or exceeded the limit for... - Hartford Insurance Co. Town Hall Fire Insurance Settlement
Griswold, CT: (Aug-16-07) The town of Griswold brought a lawsuit against Hartford Insurance Co. over an insurance policy on the old town hall, which was destroyed by a fire in early 2006. A claim was filed after the old town hall, located at 32 School St., was gutted by a blaze on Jan. 3, 2006. It was later discovered that the building's insurance policy h... - Doctor Told Us Fen-Phen Caused PPH
Aug-18-07 Seattle, WA: Walter started taking fen-phen in 1995, but six months later he noticed a shortness of breath. Only this year his pulmonary doctor diagnosed PPH Primary pulmonary hypertension. "When the doctor found out Walter took fen-phen, he immediately said that was the cause," says wife Susie. "We thought we were hearing a death sentence." "When Wal... - Lansing Community College General Counsel Wrongful Termination Settlement
Lansing, MI: (Aug-15-07) The former general counsel of Lansing Community College, Tim Zeller, brought a lawsuit against the college, alleging that he was wrongfully fired after he accused Judith Cardenas, its president, of misspending thousands of dollars. The Michigan college admitted no wrongdoing in the settlement, and Cardenas, said in a written statem... - It's Time To Sue Doctors Who Prescribe Drugs Off-Label Part II
Aug-17-07 Washington, DC: Experts say the serious side effects associated with the use of the 3-drug cocktail of Seroquel, Depakote and Clonidine prescribed to Rebecca Riley when she was 2 and a half-years-old that resulted in her slow and torturous death two and a-half-years later should be known to all prescribing doctors by now. According to police reports, Re... - ETHEX Corporation Inflated Generic Drug Prices Settlement
Boston, MA: (Aug-15-07) Attorney General Martha Coakley's Office filed a lawsuit against Missouri-based ETHEX Corporation, a seller of generic pharmaceuticals, alleging that the company inflated the drug prices that they reported to national price reporting services. The Commonwealth's Medicaid program, like all other state Medicaid programs and many priva... - First Premier Bank Credit Card Deceptive Marketing Settlement
Albany, NY: (Aug-15-07) Attorney General Andrew Cuomo's office brought charges against South Dakota-based First Premier Bank, alleging that it used illegal and deceptive marketing and lending practices to lure in people with questionable or nonexistent credit records. The lawsuit began after several people filed complaints with the state, alleging that the... - Talerico Construction Inc. Excavation Damages State Penalty
Seattle, WA: (Aug-14-07) The state of Washington filed charges against Talerico Construction Inc., a Puyallup construction firm, alleging that it damaged Puget Sound Energy's natural gas pipelines and underground electricity wires 10 times between December 2004 and May 2006. The state Office of the Attorney General filed the complaint against Talerico at t... - Rocori School District Shootout Wrongful Death Settlement
Rocori, MN: (Aug-14-07) The families of Aaron Rollins and Seth Bartell, two students killed by John Jason McLaughlin in a September 2003 shooting at the high school, filed a lawsuit against the Rocori School District, former high school principal Douglas Standke and the parents of John Jason McLaughlin. The civil lawsuits had been dismissed by a judge earl... - It's Time To Sue Doctors Who Prescribe Drugs Off-Label Part I
Aug-15-07 Washington, DC: Critics say the tens of thousands of lawsuits filed against the drug giants have had little impact when it comes to dismantling the off-label drug marketing schemes and therefore, there needs to be an all out campaign of highly publicized lawsuits filed against the doctors serving as middle man pushers, one by one by one. It is illegal... - US Government DEA Employee Discrimination Settlement
Washington, DC: (Aug-13-07) Sandalio Gonzalez, a Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) field-office chief, brought a lawsuit against the US government, alleging that he faced discrimination at his workplace. Gonzalez filed suit against the government in federal court in Miami. That lawsuit stemmed, in part, from the treatment Gonzalez received from his emp... - Unlimited Restoration, Inc. Cleanup Laborers Pay Settlement
Washington, DC: (Aug-13-07) CASA of Maryland brought an employment lawsuit against Unlimited Restoration, Inc. (URI), a labor contracting company, alleging that it underpaid nearly 50 day laborers from Montgomery and Prince George counties who helped in the Gulf Coast cleanup after Hurricane Katrina. CASA spokespersons claimed that the laborers had been re... - Parkway Hospital, Inc. Medicaid Fraud Settlement
New York, NY: (Aug-13-07) The Health and Human Services Office (HHS) of the Inspector General and the Office of Investigations filed charges against Forest Hills's Parkway Hospital, Inc., following an investigation that revealed that Parkway defrauded the Medicare Program. The government's investigation established that for the years 1992 through 1998, Par... - More Scrutiny of Stenting for Profit Industry
Aug-13-07 Washington, DC: The stenting for profit industry hit a major snag on March 1, 2007, when the US House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, ordered Johnson & Johnson and Boston Scientific to turn over documents related to their sales and marketing activities for drug-eluting stents. Drug-eluting stents (DES) are mesh tubes used in patients with h...