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Aug-15-07 Benicia, CA Elisabeth Ingram was fired from her job as a server with the Black Angus restaurant in Pleasant Hill, California. The reason? The restaurant claims she violated their policy with regard to explicit language in the workplace. What she can't figure out is why all the other employees were not fired too. California labor laws also have policies... - SSRIs and Birth Defects: More Data Urgently Needed
Jun-1-07 Atlanta, GA There is a problem out there for prospective mothers and fathers. The problem is that instead of being able to find good information on the interplay between SSRIs (a group of antidepressants including Zoloft, Paxil and Prozac) and safe pregnancy, there is a big black void. In its information on medication use during pregnancy and breastfe... - Harassment: A Form of Discrimination
May-14-07 Harassment is a form of discrimination. It is defined as any form of unsolicited, deliberately offensive behavior that has been requested to be stopped. This behavior can be physically violent or psychologically damaging. If someone says or does something to make you feel uncomfortable, or if you are put at risk in any way, that constitutes harassment. Ev... - Railroad Injuries: What to Do When Life Goes Off the Rails
May-14-07 Cleveland, OH In spite of the overall decline of rail travel in recent times, as goods are increasingly shipped by truck, and human cargo travel by air or commute by cyberspace, the railroad continues to be one of the most dangerous industries in the nation, if recent litigated settlements are any indication. And the dollars can be fairly substantial... - Maytag Recall Leaves Consumers Frustrated
Feb-26-07 Denver, CO: A recent Maytag dishwasher recall left customers upset and frustrated after it became apparent that Maytag was not properly equipped to handle the call volume generated by the recall. The recall was announced by Maytag on February 1 and involved 2.3 million dishwashers. The appliances were recalled because of a potential fire hazard disco... - Kugel Mesh Patch Messed Up
Feb-21-07 Bothell, WA: When Mike Laurance went to the hospital for hernia surgery in March 2006, he thought his health problems would be over. Mike's doctor used a Kugel Mesh Patch to fix the hernia, but Mike says that even as he was leaving the hospital he knew something was not right. "My girlfriend came to pick me up from the hospital and I just told her th... - UnumProvident Tells Customer to Work Despite Internal Bleeding
Feb-17-07 Bethpage, NY: Thomas Villani paid his UnumProvident premiums for years while he worked at Verizon. According to the terms of his policy, in case of illness lasting for more than a year he would receive 65 percent of his income and Verizon would hold his job for another year. Unfortunately, UnumProvident refused to hold up their end of the contract. In... - Whirlpool and Maytag Recall
Feb-15-07 Benton Harbor, MI: Whirlpool is in the middle of another appliance recall, this one involving 2.3 million Maytag and Jenn-Air dishwashers. The recall was announced February 1, after the company learned of 135 reports of dishwasher fires which resulted in some property damage. There were also four reports of personal injury including smoke inhalation... - Actiq Lollipop Abuse
Jan-17-07 San Diego, CA Actiq is a powerful narcotic painkiller containing fentanyl, a man-made opiate. It is designed for cancer patients whose pain cannot be relieved by other drugs, specifically morphine. But Cephalon Inc. has marketed this version of fentanyl to doctors other than oncologists; furthermore, the company admittedly marketed prescription drugs for... - Ortho Evra Blood Clots may Cause Nerve Damage
Jan-8-07 Marshall, WI When Kristin Gruber was prescribed the Ortho Evra patch , its direct link to blood clots, strokes and other serious side effects were unknown, at least by the medical community and women who wore the patch. "Thank God I had the wherewithal to take the patch off when I did," says Kristin. "If not, I would probably have wound up in the emerg... - Inkjet Printers and Cartridge Garbage
Dec-7-06 There's no getting around it: Ink means liquid gold to the inkjet printer cartel (that includes HP, Epson and Canon, to name a few). Take a few minutes to add up how much money you spent on replacement inkjet cartridges since purchasing that deal-of-the-century inkjet printer and chances are, it wasn't such a deal after all. In fact, your printer is mo... - Inkjet Printers Defraud Customers
Nov-29-06 San Diego, CA "I feel like I have been conned," says David Shields. "If these inkjet printer manufacturers had disclosed or made any reference in their advertising or marketing that inkjet cartridges are designed to be replaced yearly, I wouldn't have bought one because I don't do nearly enough printing to justify replacing four cartridges every year." ... - Protopic ointment linked to Lymphoma Cancer
Nov-23-06 Woburn, Mass. I just woke up one morning and found a large lymph node under my right arm," said Daniel Sabbatelli. "I didn't think much of it at the time and neither did my doctor." Back in 2003, not even the characters in "House" would think of linking Protopic Ointment to a lymphoma . Lymphoma is a broad term encompassing a variety of cancers of... - Printer Cartridges Expire before their Time
Oct-26-06 Round Rock, TX Increasingly, inkjet and laser printers are a constant source of frustration for consumers. Companies such as Hewlett Packard (HP), Dell, Lexmark, Epson and Brother, just to name a few, are manufacturing their printers to shut down before the ink cartridge is empty. In other words, they make you throw away something for absolutely no re... - Big Pharma Research Racket Is Killing People
Jun-23-06 Over the past six years, ten FDA approved drugs have been withdrawn from the market due to deaths and injuries, leading lawmakers to accuse the FDA of not doing its job in protecting the public from unsafe drugs and to call for measures of improvement. On June 20, 2006, the New York Times reported that "two influential senators are expected within weeks t... - Beverly Enterprises - Poster Child Of Fraud And Neglect In Nursing Home Industry
Jun-1-06 Nowhere in the nursing home industry is the corruption, patient neglect and abuse and Medicare and Medicaid fraud more blatant than within the giant nursing home chain of Beverly Enterprises. Based in Fort Smith, it reportedly operates more than 400 nursing facilities, assisted living centers and hospices in 23 states and the District of Columbia. The cha... - Asbestos: the Silent Killer
May-2-06 Nathan Starling, from Orlando, Florida has never smoked a day in his life." What got me thinking about the asbestos was when the doctors saw me after my triple by-pass surgery and told the wife that I should quit smoking." For Nathan, there is no such thing as the golden years. "I think I've got copper instead." "I was fine until a few years ago. I was a... - Drip Drip Drip - Paxil Info Leaks Out
Apr-25-06 Secrecy agreements in litigation hide information about defective products or a company's negligence, and sometimes go so far as to prohibit the parties from discussing that there ever was a lawsuit. Such is the case with Paxil and as a result, unwitting patients continued to take the drug long after its dangers were known to GlaxoSmithKline. Many lawsuit... - Car accidents: No Witness, No Recourse
Mar-30-06 Jodi Cornelius, from Oneida Wisconsin, stopped at an intersection. When she regained consciousness in the ambulance, Jodi remembered getting hit by a Mac truck. "If anybody was to get a ticket, it should have been him," she says. "On Dec 12, 2005, I was driving west to east and came to a stop at the crossroad. The truck driver was barreling down the road,... - California Overtime benefits Employers
Mar-20-06 Terri Reese from Vista, California was classified as an exempt manager. Her contract stated that she wouldn't perform the duties of hourly employees except in an emergency. As it turned out, every day was an emergency. She was hired to manage the mess hall for the Marine Corps base at Camp Pendleton. Because Reese wasn't paid hourly, she wasn't paid overt...