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New Orleans - The Southern Poverty Law Center filed a lawsuit on behalf a group of migrant workers against the construction company specializing in disaster recovery. The workers were allegedly denied overtime even though they often worked long hours cleaning up wreckage left by Hurricane Katrina. Hundreds of workers who were hired by Belfor subcontra... - Morgan Crucible, Carbone of America Industries, Schunk GmBH and SGL Carbon Antitrust Class Action Settlement
New Jersey - A class action lawsuit was filed against the four companies for allegedly conspiring to fix the prices of a range of electrical carbon products. The products included carbon brushes used in consumer products, carbon brushes and current collectors for automotive and traction-transit applications, carbon brushes used in battery-operated vehic... - Credit Card Rate Hikes: a Lose-Lose Outcome
Aug-30-06 Credit card companies only hurt themselves by raising the rates so high that many customers can't even make minimum payments. "When our interest rates were increased from 2 percent to 35 percent, we had no choice but to claim bankruptcy." "My husband and I are both 57 years old and we both had credit cards since I was 21 -- in 36 years we had never missed... - Big Pharma Bankrupting US Health Care System
Aug-29-06 ig Pharma is bankrupting the nation's health care system by convincing prescribing doctors to over-medicate patients with expensive psychiatric drugs and then send the bills to government programs like Medicaid and Medicare. The peddling of the new generation of psychiatric drugs that include the selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors antidepressants (S... - 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... - Trucking Accidents becoming More Severe
Aug-25-06 Large trucks and passenger vehicles have been sharing the road for quite some time now. Unfortunately, the situation is not ideal and there are many instances in which the two collide, often with tragic results for people in the passenger vehicles. Some organizations are trying their best to minimize tragedy on America's roads, but it seems the problem wo... - U.S. Bank City Tax Embezzlement Settlement
The city of Bowling Green filed a lawsuit against the bank related to embezzlement by the city's former Chief Financial Officer Davis Cooper. Two private accounts were set up by Cooper over 23 years and thousands of transactions were placed into these official sounding accounts. Cooper is serving eight years in a federal prison, after pleading guilty to... - DES Miscarriage Drug linked to more Cancer
Aug-20-06 Over the years, DES has been linked to various forms of cancer and reproductive problems in both male and female children born to women who took the drug. For years, it has been associated with cervical cancer and a rare vaginal cancer in younger women, but since 2002, studies have linked DES to breast cancer as well. Diethylstilbestrol (DES), a synthe... - Secretary of Labor called on to protect Microwave Popcorn Factory Workers
Aug-18-06 Finally, warnings have been issued regarding the link between microwave popcorn and lung disease. In an effort to protect microwave popcorn factory workers from the "grave danger" of lung disease associated with diacetyl, an artificial butter flavoring used in popcorn, the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union (UFCW) and the International... - Lawmakers say FDA better Clean Up its Act
Aug-18-06 For six years, the Bush administration has placed pharmaceutical industry interests ahead of public interest by appointing persons with strong ties to drug companies to high level positions at the FDA. As a result, Congressional investigations and a recent survey indicate that the health and safety of all Americans is being compromised. On July 20, 200... - Rabobank King City Deposit Interest Settlement
King City filed a lawsuit against the new owner of the former Community Bank of Central California regarding a financial dispute. The city deposited $4.4 million into the bank as a deposit, but Rabobank maintained the city put the money up as collateral for loans on a city downtown redevelopment project called Town Square. In a settlement agreement, the... - $2 Million Fine Small Potatoes For Kaiser Transplant Disaster
Aug-13-06 Although the $2 million fine levied against Kaiser Permanente was the largest ever imposed by the California Department of Managed Health Care, it seems like small potatoes considering the damage caused by the HMO's failed kidney transplant program. The second largest fine ever levied against an HMO was $1 million back in 2002, following the death of a pa... - Talk may be cheap but not for Skype customers
Aug-10-06 Skype users claim that SkypeOut has changed its credit renewal policy without giving them notification. Consumers are complaining about expiring credits for SkypeOut, the internet phone service's "low cost way to make international calls from Skype to friends who still use traditional landlines or mobile phones". Go to the Skype website and the first t... - Toyota Motor Corporation Female Employee Gender Harassment Settlement
Sayaka Kobayashi worked as an assistant to Hideaki Otaka, who served as president and chief executive of Toyota Motor North America. Kobayashi filed a sexual harassment lawsuit against the top executive claiming he made repeated unwanted sexual advances. She claimed Otaka arranged travel and office schedules so that they would be alone together, require... - Banca Popolare Italiana Parmalat Bankruptcy Settlement
Talk to a local bankruptcy lawyer right away! Parmalat SpA and Banca had filed lawsuits against one another related to the dairy company's corporate fraud scandal collapse in December 2003. Parmalat was seeking money in revocatory claims, which allow a company to recover money paid to creditors shortly before bankruptcy. Under the terms of the settl... - Class Action Suit Filed Against Hyundai
Aug-8-06 They may claim to have "America's Best Warranty," but those involved in a class-action lawsuit filed in California disagree. At issue is Hyundai's failure to replace or repair clutches in Tiburons that had low-mileage on them. The suit covers 2003 Tiburon GTs that have six-speed manual transmissions and 2.7-liter engines. However, the suit may expand to i... - Zyprexa Lawsuits - Eli Lilly May Lose Insurance Coverage
Aug-3-06 In the company's first quarter report for 2006, Eli Lilly says it is having problems with insurance coverage. "We have experienced difficulties in obtaining product liability insurance due to a very restrictive insurance market," the report says, "and therefore will be largely self-insured for future product liability losses." Although Lilly has cover... - RenaissanceRe Holdings Ltd. Securities Fraud Settlement
RenaissanceRe Holdings Ltd. (RenRe) was being investigated by the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York for restating three years of earnings from 2001 to 2003, particularly transactions with reinsurer Inter-Ocean Holdings Inc., which failed to meet accounting standards. RenRe is still under investigation, initiated by its shareholders. Th... - BP America natural gas royalty Settlement
BP America, formerly Amoco Production Co., was accused of not correctly calculating royalty payments. The case revolved around an underpayment of royalties for natural gas production in La Plata and Archuleta counties that was filed in May 1994 against Amoco Production Ltd. In 2003, a lawsuit ruled that BP couldn't deduct costs tied to getting the gas r... - Merrill Lynch fraud Settlement
Following Enron's implosion, several Merrill Lynch bankers allegedly aided Enron in falsifying its financial results, a claim the Wall Street bank denied. Merrill, which helped Enron structure complex deals before its bankruptcy, agreed to pay Enron 29.5 million dollars to settle so-called "Megaclaims" litigation. Merrill Lynch did not admit any wrongdo...