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Sort by date 223 pages found matching Wal-Mart- Avandia and heart failure: Did Avandia pave the way to this woman's heart attack?
Aug-16-07 Edmonton, AB Karen Trelford was stunned to see a report on television this summer that the diabetes drug Avandia exposed its users to a 43% higher risk of heart failure and heart attack. The Edmonton woman had good reason to react to the news. In the late spring of 2006, Karen's doctor prescribed Avandia for her. She took it for several months before... - Fire Accidents Can Happen to You
Jun-10-07 Bellingham, WA A campfire represents the perfect end to a perfect day in the wilderness. We look forward to them. And yet how we fear fire, and fire accidents. The thought of losing a child, one's home, health, a job - are all tied to the fear of starting, living through, or dying from a fire. Disfigurement from burns, beyond the sheer pain and discom... - Credit Card Theft: An "Inside Job"
May-14-07 Ann Arbor, MI A Michigan State University study has shown that as much as 70 per cent of all identity theft -- including credit card theft -- is the work of "insiders" such as store clerks and other employees. Michigan State professor Judith Collins, director of an identity theft program at the university, randomly selected thousands of cases from aro... - ConAgra Responding to Peanut Butter Recall and Lawsuits
Apr-23-07 Rome, GA: More and more lawsuits are being filed against ConAgra Foods, Inc., makers of Peter Pan and Great Value peanut butter , which was involved in a massive recall earlier this year. Thirty-two consumers from a number of states are already involved in a lawsuit filed in Rome. The plaintiffs include the parents of nine children who became sick afte... - Peanut Butter Contamination Leads to Lawsuits
Feb-22-07 Pittsburgh, PA: More and more lawsuits are piling up in the aftermath of salmonella-contaminated peanut butter . So far, one class action suit and numerous individual suits have already been filed, with more expected to be announced. One lawsuit, filed February 21 in Pennsylvania, claims that contaminated peanut butter killed one woman and made her hu... - Slip-and-fall case: Negligence costs store owners more than $12.2 million
May-17-07 Williamsburg, VA A woman who slipped and fell while entering a corner gas and convenience store was awarded more than $12.2 million in damages for negligence by a jury in Hampton last month...her world changed forever. In 2003, Annette Ritzmann, a master cosmetologist, was running European Beauty Concepts, a spa with more than 25 employees. Her world... - InkJet Printer Frustration
Dec-13-06 Oklahoma Rich McCafferty isn't the only one fed up with his inkjet printer ; he recently noticed an Epson printer chucked into a shopping cart and abandoned in a Wal-Mart parking lot. Guess someone else didn't have any luck repairing or returning it either. "I had a few Epson inkjet printers and got rid of them too," says McCafferty. "The cartridges f... - Bausch & Lomb Fails to Warn About Dangers of ReNu Contact Lens Solution
Nov-8-06 Greenville, SC: ReNu with MoistureLoc solution has been widely used for the storing, wetting and cleaning of soft contact lenses. But here once again, a drug company has left a product on the market, with no warning to consumers, long after it was aware that serious side effects were developing in people using the product. According to the FDA, cluste... - ReNu Recall: Not Effective Enough
Oct-27-06 San Diego, CA "My eyes were inflamed and irritated and my family doctor told me to rinse my eyes and contacts more often," says Heather Jones. So I increased the use of ReNu with MoistureLoc ." That was in March 2006. Only one month later, the first lawsuit against Bausch & Lomb claiming injuries from its recalled ReNu was filed in federal court. ... - Working 9 to 5 and Then Some...
Oct-24-06 Long Pond, PA Working Off the Clock simply means not getting paid for the time worked. And this is illegal. Increasingly, employees are faced with a choice in the workplace: either work "off the clock", quit or get fired. They are often promised advancement by showing up early and staying late. Or being on call like Dan McGuinness, and threatened with... - Settlements and Verdicts: Wal-Mart.
A $750,000 settlement has been reached in the lawsuit filed against Wal-Mart by the Consumer Product Safety Commission and the Justice Department over the company's failure to report safety hazards that were found in defective Weider and Weslo brand exercise gliders. The suit alleged that the company was aware that at least 29 people had been injured by t... - Add Triaminic Vapor Patch To List Of Dangerous Patches
Jun-25-06 On June 19, 2006, Novartis Consumer Health issued a recall for the cough-suppressing Triaminic Vapor Patches in the US, about three weeks after Health Canada issued a warning after a Canadian child who chewed on a patch suffered a seizure. There have been eight adverse events with the patch, all involving ingestion, Navartis spokesperson, Julie Masow, tol... - Is Shelf Life Of Zicam Nasal Spray In Jeopardy?
Apr-17-06 On January 20, 2006, Matrixx Initiatives, Inc, the maker of Zicam cold remedy products , agreed to settle a class action lawsuit by paying out $12 million to 340 plaintiffs, who claim Zicam nasal spray permanently damaged their sense of smell, a condition known as anosmia. In the summer of 2005, Matrixx also settled the only lawsuit that has gone to trial,... - Fentanyl Deaths - Severe Math Problems at FDA
Mar-27-06 Describing fentanyl as a "very strong narcotic," on July 15, 2005, the FDA issued a Public Health Advisory regarding the safe use of transdermal fentanyl patches in response to reports of 120 deaths in patients using the patch for pain management, stating that some patients and doctors might not be fully aware of its dangers. A cursory investigation of dr... - Zantac – Buyer Beware, but from Whom?
Dec-9-19 Santa Clara, CA Since the small pharmacy Valisure waved the red flag over Zantac cancer risk , over 40 countries worldwide have stopped sales and/or began investigating the possible health risks of the heartburn drug. And Zantac lawsuits have followed. Now the FDA says it is “investigating”. Zantac Cancer Lawsuit Zantac complaints want t... - ExxonMobil to Pay $10.75 Million for New York State Oil Spill Clean Up
Santa Clara, CA: A $10.75 million fine has been levied against ExxonMobil Corp. and ExxonMobil Oil Corp., in an environmental action brought by New York State. The fine will be paid into the New York Environmental Protection and Spill Compensation Fund (Oil Spill Fund) for oil cleanup at eight locations in New York. The spill sites involved in th... - Pharmacist Warns Patient about Januvia
Jan-4-15 La Crosse, WI Robert believes that he wouldn’t be alive today if not for his pharmacist and wife intervening when he was prescribed Januvia during a hospital stay. Robert, 78 years old, was admitted to the hospital two years ago with pneumonia and at that time, doctors determined he was diabetic. “One doctor prescribed Januvia; I remembe... - Labor Attorney Q&A: Impact of Class Action vs Arbitration Decision for California Employees
May-17-11 San Diego, CA California employees take note: California labor law and Wage and Hour Attorney Derek Emge discusses how the recent Supreme Court ruling (Apr 27, 2011)—where companies and/or employers can require employees to arbitrate disputes individually rather than joining forces in a class action—can impact you. Q: LawyersandSettlem... - Fall and Choking Hazards Prompt Envision High Chairs Recall
About 643,000 Evenflo Envision High Chairs are being recalled because the recline fasteners and metal screws on both sides of the high chair can loosen and fall out, allowing the seatback to detach or recline unexpectedly. Children can fall backwards or fall out of the high chair and suffer bumps and bruises to the head, abrasions, cuts and bruises. Detached... - Toro Electric Blowers Recalled
Defect with Impeller Poses Risk of Injury About 900,000 Toro Power Sweep Electric Blowers are being recalled because the blower's impeller, which is a rotating component on the blower, can break, resulting in pieces of plastic flying out of the blower. This poses a risk of serious injury to the user or a bystander. To date, Toro has received 162 re...