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Oct-2-20 Sacramento, CA A nationwide flood of Covid-19-driven age discrimination lawsuits suggests that similar surge in California labor lawsuits is imminent. A New York case may be a harbinger of things to come. In Kanyuk v. Shearman & Sterling, LLP , a 62-year-old employee was the first to be fired in a wave of Covid-19-related layoffs. The e... - Toyota Recall: Possible Lives at Risk and Real Issue Still in Question
Feb-4-10 Detroit, MN Linda Hardy of Dallas took her 2008 Toyota Avalon to her dealership numerous times to complain of sudden and unexplained acceleration. "Please fix my car," she told them, recalling the events to Brian Ross in a report aired this morning on ABC's Good Morning America (GMA). Her car had raced out of control on three separate occasions between Tha... - Prius Brake Failure Might Mean More Toyota Recalls
Feb-3-10 Nagoya, JAPAN The government of Japan has asked Toyota to test the brakes of its popular Prius hybrid for possible failure. The announcement could not be more badly timed for Toyota, arriving as the automaker attempts to rebuild public confidence on the heels of several massive recalls . The Prius is fitted with a complex braking system that transfe... - Credit Card Abuse: a Debt that Never Ends
Jul-10-07 Dallas, TX: The average credit card debt in America stands at about $10,000 per household. That's the average. Some are a lot higher than that - especially when you take into account the many households that have many, many credit cards already, and are inundated with invitations to acquire many more. Stories that children, and even dogs receiving cre... - Concern over Denture Cream Zinc Poisoning Not Slipping
Jan-11-10 Fairfax, VA Before the medical journal Neurology printed a study alerting consumers to the high levels of zinc found in denture adhesives, there was not a lot of information available about the potential for denture cream zinc poisoning . Dr. Sharon P. Nations of the Department of Neurology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, worked wit... - Are Employers’ Facebook Recruiting Practices Exempt from Age Discrimination Laws?
Sep-16-20 San Francisco, CA Bradley et al v. T-Mobile US Inc. et al. , a long-running lawsuit first filed in 2017, alleges that T-Mobile’s Facebook recruitment practices violated the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA) . The nationwide, class action lawsuit also alleges violations of the California labor code and other state laws. But per... - Universal Life Insurance Lawsuit News & Legal Information
Some insurance companies are under scrutiny for their universal life insurance policies and practices that may violate US regulations. These companies are alleged to have made substantial changes to their universal life insurance policies , increasing premiums by drastic amounts and making it difficult for policyholders to continue with the policy or find... - Supreme Court Hands Down Ruling in California Overtime Lawsuit
Apr-18-07 Los Angeles, CA: The Los Angeles Times (April 17, 2007) reports that the California Supreme Court handed down a ruling that triples the amount of back pay that employees can seek if they were forced to work through their breaks . The decision affects many people who are considered managers or assistant managers but generally spend less than half their tim... - Our love-hate relationship with Uber and Lyft –Can we Compromise?
Aug-26-20 San Jose, CA The mayor of San Jose, Sam Liccardo, is a smart guy. He understands that the public have a love-hate relationship with “gig companies” like Uber and Lyft, and he also understands that there has to be a model of “give and take” from both sides, i.e., the California labor law regulators and leading gig companies. ... - Cymbalta and Birth Defects
Jan-30-07 New York, NY: Cymbalta , the brand name for duloxetine, has been recently linked to an increased risk of birth complications and serious birth defects including Persistent pulmonary hypertension of the newborn (PPHN), which occurs when a newborn's circulation system does not adapt to breathing outside the womb. Cymbalta is used to treat major depressiv... - When a Cruise Ship Accident Happens
Aug-17-09 Miami, FL A boating accident , whether it involves a small personal watercraft on a lake, or a cruise ship accident in international waters, can be both tragic and complicated. Cruise ships, for example might be owned by a US company and based in familiar American ports. However the vessels themselves are usually registered in different countries, prese... - 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... - Safeway 401k Plan to Settle ERISA lawsuit for $8.5 Million
Oct-9-19 San Francisco, CA Safeway and Aon Hewitt Investment Consulting Inc. have agreed to pay $8.5 million to settle a proposed class action ERISA lawsuit brought by participants in the Safeway 401k Plan. The workers claim that Safeway and Aon breached their fiduciary obligations by offering high cost investment options that benefitted the investment manager at... - Stress Testing the MOTHERS Act
May-26-09 Washington, DC: It seems these days that everything is a test. Yes, the powers that be have decided that taxpayer benevolence now is contingent upon passing a stress test. But much to the dismay of those being tested, the results may reveal, for example, that the nation's financial wizards and auto giants are actually bankrupt midgets and unworthy of Ame... - Peanut Salmonella Litigation Status
May-5-09 Washington, DC Increasingly, more individuals across the United States have reported that they contracted Salmonella Typhimurium from peanut butter and peanut products, namely from the Peanut Corporation of America (PCA), Kellogg Company, and Kanan Enterprises, Inc. Overview of the Peanut Butter Outbreak Officials at the Center for Disease Contr... - Spotlight Focused On Pfizer's Lipitor Follies
Aug-27-06 According to the book, "Health Myths Exposed," by former pharmaceutical chemist turned whistleblower, Shane Ellison, "When used as prescribed, pharmaceutical drugs kill more people than terrorism, car crashes, AIDS, and street drugs combined." Although many health care professionals have come forward in recent years with warnings that prescription drugs a... - Peanut Butter Recall - It's Deja Vu all Over Again
Apr-29-09 Blakely, GA The current Peanut Corporation of America (PCA) peanut butter / peanut product recall is eerily similar to the ConAgra / Peter Pan peanut butter recall of 2007. So why did the Peanut Corporation of America (PCA) fail to learn from the prior foodborne illness outbreak? Just look at the similarities: Both involve peanut manufacturing... - Mothers Act Fuels Multibillion Dollar Industry - Part 3 of 3
Apr-14-09 PART ONE - PART TWO The prescribing of seven drugs, including two antipsychotics and five antidepressants, to treat OCD is a typical example of the profit-driven drugging that women snagged by the Mother's Act will face, but it's a far cry from the description Katherine wrote about regarding the comparatively minor treatment she received, when she st... - Mosanto and Regulators vs. Consumers
Jul-3-20 Santa Clara, CA The herbicides dicamba and glyphosate have a lot in common. Both are made by Monsanto, both are associated with environmental problems such as chemical drift and both cause health problems, such as cancer. Nobody knows this more than investigative journalist Carey Gillam. And another similarity: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)... - Mothers Act Fuels Multibillion Dollar Industry - Part 1 of 3
Apr-7-09 Motherhood has fallen prey to the psycho-pharmaceutical complex. If new legislation known as the Mother's Act becomes law, the drugging of infants through pregnant and nursing mothers will no doubt increase. Congress has rightfully refused to pass this bill for eight years. The official title is currently the "Melanie Blocker Stokes Mom's Opportunity to...