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Apr-15-08 Washington, DC In what appears to be an epidemic amongst drug manufacturers, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has taken Avandia maker GlaxoSmithKline to task for withholding information about the drug long suspected of harboring a higher risk of heart attack than patients on other diabetes drugs. A stern warning letter was forwarded to Glax... - The Trasylol-BART Connection
Apr-8-08 San Bruno, CA The Trasylol debacle, and the anti-bleeding drug's impact on the lives of cardiac surgery patients, is the stuff of moviedom. One can just imagine the Keystone Cops-like scurrying on the part of expert panels convened at the behest of the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), which twice reviewed and twice re-asserted the wisdom of keeping... - The Trasylol Tragedy: No Reprisals for Bayer
Mar-31-08 Sarasota, FL If there is a lesson that could be taken from the Trasylol tragedy, it might be that drug makers who hide, avoid, or mistakenly withhold important safety data from public, or even medical consumption would face certain censure in some fashion as an inducement not to ever allow such an oversight to happen again. That lesson, however, has eit... - Excessive Overdraft Fees Lawsuit against DFCU Survives Motion to Dismiss
Nov-23-18 Boston, MA Brandi Salls’ excessive overdraft fees lawsuit against Digital Federal Credit Union (DFCU) has survived the credit union’s Motion to Dismiss. This is good news, but it was a near thing , at least with respect to some of the counts. Claimants in similar credit union lawsuits should take away five important lessons. Excessive Overdra... - Digital Federal Credit Union Snared in Excessive Overdraft Fees Lawsuit
Oct-3-18 Boston, MA The allegations in the latest excessive overdraft fees lawsuit against Digital Federal Credit Union (DFCU) may seem familiar by now. It is about two different ways of calculating an account balance – one which the consumer saw, and the other, lower number, which DFCU kept much closer to the vest. Similar lawsuits have been filed against L... - Paxil Violence and Suicide Lawsuit News and Legal Information
Paxil , specifically regarding the risk for paxil suicide behavior amongst youth, is shedding light on the veracity of a well-known Paxil study. In 2001 "Study 329" led to the antidepressant being prescribed to millions of adolescents. And for more than a decade, reported paxil side effects have resulted in paxil violence lawsuits and paxil suicid... - Optical Drive Makers Agree $37M Settlement in Price-Fixing Class Action Lawsuit
Santa Clara, CA: A proposed $37 million settlement has been filed in an antitrust class action alleging multiple electronics makers, colluded to fix prices of optical disc drives, which read or write data on CDs, DVDs and Blu-rays and are found in computers, video game consoles and other devices. The settlement, if approved, would end the claims o... - $200M Settlement Imposed on Takata for Defective Air Bags
Washington, DC: The Department of Transportation' National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has issued two orders regarding defective Takata air bag inflators. The orders impose the largest civil penalty in NHTSA' history for Takata' violations of the Motor Vehicle Safety Act, and for the first time use NHTSA' authority to accelerate recall rep... - 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... - Avandia Concerns Known Since 2000
May-24-07 Chapel Hill, NC The diabetes drug Avandia , which has been in the news this week following a report in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) over concerns of a link to heart problems, continues to percolate throughout the prescription drug world - and telling information, lurking beneath the surface almost since the drug fist came onto the market, is... - The White Knight of the Wired World
May-22-14 Seattle, WA Danger lurks in the wired world and consumers have only a vague notion of just how treacherous the Internet has become, according to Craig Spiezle, a former Microsoft executive turned white knight of the wired world determined to protect consumers and the integrity of the Internet and the viability of the “wired economy.” Banks a... - Save Porter Ranch and 24 Residents File Class Action Claim
Apr-20-16 Los Angeles, April 19, 2016 (Press Release): - Save Porter Ranch discovered public records showing the Division of Oil, Gas and Geothermal Resources (DOGGR) knew of leaking wells and yet DOGGR repeatedly issued permits to SoCalGas without the proper data showing gas would be confined underground. One example is API 03721313 (32F). Well 32F had a patch ins... - More Long-Term Part Timers May Now Save Through 401k ERISA Plans
Jan-22-24 Washington, DC Beginning on January 1, 2024, an expanded group of long-term part-time employees may be able to participate in their employer’s 401k ERISA retirement plan . It’s a small tweak in the 2019 Setting Every Community Up for Retirement Enhancement Act ( SECURE Act ) that could have major implications for young and underemployed worker... - 1% of Physicians Account for One-third of Paid Medical Malpractice Claims
Feb-25-16 The New England Journal of Medicine has analyzed some appalling data that 1% of physicians account for approximately 32% of paid medical malpractice claims. The data - which was pulled from the National Practitioner Data Bank - shows that over a recent 10-year period, a small number of physicians with distinctive characteristics accounted for a dispr... - FDA Advisory Committee Schedules Hearing on SSRIs and Suicide
Dec-5-06 Washington DC: The FDA's Psychopharmacologic Drugs Advisory Committee will hold a public hearing on December 13, 2006, to review the adult selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI) studies on the increased risk of suicide associated with the antidepressants. The panel is expected to vote on whether the risk of suicidality in adults should be inclu... - Biggest Off-Label Drug Marketing Scheme in History - Part II
Dec-1-06 [ Read Part I ] Washington DC: In fairness to off-label prescribing doctors, until recently, studies that showed SSRIs were ineffective and dangerous when used by children were kept hidden and thus, the data made available to physicians painted a rosy, but false, picture of success with SSRIs. And up until recently, many doctors were not even awar... - Invesco Accused of Treating ERISA Plan Participants as Captive Investors
Jun-13-18 Atlanta, GA On May 24,2018, participants in the Invesco 401(k) Plan filed an ERISA lawsuit in the Northern District of Georgia. The ERISA lawsuit contends that Invesco, Ltd. profited from the ERISA plan it offered to employees. The situation is rife with potential conflicts of interest because the employer, a plan fiduciary, is also an investment ma... - Construction Laborers Pension Plan Sues Investment Manager for ERISA Breach
Oct-17-23 Los Angeles, CA On September 15, the Construction Laborers Pension Plan for Southern California and the Board of Trustees for that fund filed an ERISA lawsuit against Meketa Investment Group and Judy Chambers. The lawsuit alleges that Meketa breached its fiduciary duty to the Pension Fund by advising it to invest $30 million in participants’... - Levaquin Lawsuit Seeks Unspecified Damages
Jul-29-11 St. Clair County, OH When Timothy Gilley was prescribed the antibiotic levaquin , he had no idea that the fluoroquinolone would have such a devastating impact on his tendons. It's for that reason that the Ohio man has launched a lawsuit against the manufacturers of Levaquin, claiming various allegations in a filing June 3 in St. Clair County Circuit Cou... - 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...