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Talk to a local bankruptcy lawyer right away! Washington, DC: (Jun-18-07) Parmalat SPA filed suit against Merrill Lynch, ING Bank, and Italy's Banca Monte Parma SPA, related to the dairy group's 2003 failure. The dairy company, which emerged from bankruptcy protection in 2005, reached settlements with the three financial institutions making that a c... - California Overtime: To Be or Not To Be Exempt
Jun-18-07 Los Angeles, CA "I've been employed as an IT developer at a bank for 19 years," says Andrew. "During those years, and in response to California law, most of our titles were changed so we would be exempt," he says. The way Andrew sees it, and increasingly, the way California overtime law sees it, Andrew and his co-workers are owed a whole lot of unpaid ov... - New Congressional Hearings on "Deadly, Devastating" Effects of Asbestos
Jun-15-07 Washington, DC Senator Patricia Murray (D-WA) testified Wednesday at a hearing of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, arguing for the ban the importation and use of asbestos in the US. Senator Murray, supported by Senator Barbara Boxer and other leading Democrats stated: "I've worked on this issue for six years, and I can tell you: asb... - Whistleblowers Uncover a Flood of Wrongdoing
Jun-13-07 New Orleans, LA Whistleblowers can take on many forms - from the tough-talking advocate to the quietly courageous, both seeing a wrong and, come hell or high water, just has to say something about it. Dara Fresco falls into the latter category. On the day in early June that she launched her Cdn. $600 million class action lawsuit against CIBC Bank in C... - Truck Accidents: It's Bound to Get Worse
Jun-12-07 Lake Station, IN The dump truck crested the hill travelling way too fast. Yes, it's a truck accident. And the truck, too big and too fast, could not avoid colliding with the line of cars stopped along the interstate at the behest of a road crew. The Lincoln at the end of the line took the brunt of the damage, and drove it into the car in front carryin... - Environmental Law: Whistle-blowers Have the Wind at Their Back
Jun-11-07 Topeka, KA Sarah and Ray Dean are proof positive that you can take the environment into your own hands, and make a difference for the benefit of all. The Lawrence, Kansas couple has filed an environmental lawsuit demanding that the state limit carbon dioxide emissions. In doing so, the two environmentalists are testing the strength and tenacity of env... - Stockbroker Arbitration: Investors Can Recover Their Losses
Jun-8-07 Minneapolis, MN Investors who lose money as the result of improper actions on the part of their stockbroker can get legal help through stockbroker arbitration to recover their losses. Simply losing money on an investment does not mean that an investor has a complaint against a broker. However, if a broker has not acted in the best interests of his cli... - Unfair Business: Are You Being Gouged?
Jun-7-07 Sacramento, CA Doing good business, for most, has a lot to do with trust and reputation. The latter can take a lifetime to build up and mere seconds to destroy. Little wonder that so many business owners spend so much effort protecting a valued reputation. To be branded as someone who does unfair business they would find abhorrent. But some people don... - CIBC Bank O.T. Class Action Could be Largest in Canadian History
Jun-6-07 Toronto, ON In a move that is sending shockwaves throughout Corporate Canada, a diminutive bank teller from Toronto took a day off from her job and launched a $600 million class action lawsuit against her employer. It also sends a message to the banking sector everywhere--including the U.S.-- that bankers should abide by labor laws and fair play when it co... - Volunteers of America Employee Wage and Hour Settlement
Baton Rouge, LA: (Jun-06-07) Carter Nash, the former residential manager of Shiloh Coordinating Ministries and a case aide at the Drop-In Center, filed a wage hour employment lawsuit against the Baton Rouge chapter of Volunteers of America, claiming that the Christian charity organization paid him 43 cents an hour. The suit, filed in 2004, alleged that fro... - First Indiana Bank NA Property Value Loan Discrimination Settlement
Indianapolis, IN: (Jun-05-07) The National Community Reinvestment Coalition (NCRC) filed a racial discrimination lawsuit against First Indiana Bank NA, claiming that the Indiana bank discriminated against minorities by refusing to make loans on row houses in Baltimore, Philadelphia and Washington, DC. NCRC alleged that First Indiana Bank refused to make lo... - Dying to be Thin: Fen-Phen's Continuing Legacy
Jun-6-07 New York, NY A new book by New York Times science writer Gina Kolata, which hit the bookstores last month, will come as a breath of sanity to lifetime dieters -- but not to the businesses feeding off them, including the big drug and food companies, and the weight loss industry. Rethinking Thin: The New Science of Weight Loss -- and the Myths and Reali... - Leadership Shake-ups fail to deter Consumer Product Safety Commission from its Mission
Jun-1-07 Washington, DC It has been a hectic spring for the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), the leading government organization tasked with rooting out defective products . The CPSC endured a tumultuous leadership hunt but still managed to remain focused on product safety issues. Founded in 1972, the CPSC's self-proclaimed mission is to "protect... - Barclays Bank Insider Trading Settlement
New York, NY: (May-30-07) The US Securities and Exchange Commission filed a securities fraud suit against Barclays Bank, alleging that the bank and a former trader for the bank engaged in securities fraud through a pattern of insider trading. The SEC alleged in a civil complaint filed in US District Court in Manhattan that Barclays and Steven Landzberg, a... - HSBC Bank USA Abandoned Chemical Facility Penalty
Wallkill, NY: (May-30-07) Attorney General Andrew Cuomo's office filed suit against HSBC Bank USA over environmental issues regarding an abandoned chemical manufacturing facility in the town of Wallkill. HSBC Bank agreed to pay $850,000 in civil penalties and reimburse the state of New York for approximately $68,000 in costs incurred as a result of the a... - Programmer Overtime: Time to Change the Law
May-29-07 Tampa, FL "I was employed by a major US supermarket chain and all the programmers worked a minimum 45 hour week," says Ray Hudson (not his real name pending a lawsuit). If we were based in California where overtime laws are more progressive, I likely would have been able to collect overtime." "In Florida, all of us are classified as salaried employee... - Harassment on the Job: It's no Longer Just the Women Complaining
May-25-07 St. Petersburg, FL Harassment in the workplace has been around for as long as the work environment itself, and unfortunately will probably never go away, so long as there are those who find some particular joy in causing someone else - usually a subordinate - to feel uncomfortable, or worse. But the environment has been slowly changing. As women have... - Feds Investigate Profits From Off-Label Stent Procedures - Part II
May-25-07 Washington, DC: In addition to the federal investigations into the off-label marketing of drug eluting stents by Boston Scientific and Johnson & Johnson, on May 10, 2007, Rep Maurice Hinchey (D-NY), who serves on the House Appropriations Subcommittee, announced the introduction of the FDA reform bill which addresses the issue of doctors using product... - Oxycontin Abuse in Canada
May-22-07 Oxycontin (also known as Oxycodone) is a powerful narcotic drug used for the treatment of moderate to severe pain. In Canada it is sold under various trade names, including OxyContin, Supeudol, Endocet and Oxycocet. And it's also known as "hillbilly heroin" due to its popularity in poor regions of the US, where overdoses have claimed more than 100 lives. ... - BFI Waste Systems $150,000 payout in superfund clean up initiative.
Tabernacle, GA: (May-21-07) The Department of Environmental Protection filed suit against ACR Inc. of South Jersey in Mount Laurel and US Steel Corp. in Pittsburgh in 2004, in an attempt to recover cleanup costs and damages incurred by the state and to compensate township residents for damage to their natural resources. The suit claimed that ACR Inc. US St...