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Sort by date 2,440 pages found matching data breach- Air France Plane Crash Still a Mystery, But Clues Remain
Jun-25-09 Paris, FR The Air France plane crash that took more than 200 lives and continues to mystify investigators sorting through bodies and debris from the airplane crash June 1st is no closer to being resolved. The black box has not been found. Investigations into plane crashes are complex, and can take years. However, there have been some clues. Of t... - Bloomingdale’s and Macy’s Slammed with California labor lawsuit
Mar-22-23 Santa Clara, CA Bloomingdale’s and Macy’s are accused of violating the Fair Labor Standards Act and several California labor codes, including minimum wage and overtime pay, and the state's unlawful business practices statute. This latest wage and hour complaint is at the least the third wage and hour class action lawsuit brought agai... - HIV Drug Abacavir May Increase Risk for Cardiac Events
Health Canada Issues Safety Information Health Canada in conjunction with GlaxoSmithKline warns that HIV-infected patients who are taking abacavir-containing products ZIAGEN, KIVEXA and TRIZIVIR may be at increased risk for myocardial infarction. GlaxoSmithKline has provided Health Canada with recent findings published in the April 26, 2008, issue... - Nurse Accuses Staffing Company of Illegal Contract
Oct-14-22 New York, NY A Filipino nurse has filed a complaint against his employer, Advanced Care Staffing LLC, which recruits foreign nurses for U.S. health care facilities. In his employment lawsuit filed in New York federal court, Benzor Shem Vidal claims that the staffing company forced him to sign an illegal, "predatory" arbitration agreement that t... - Compellent, Storage Engine, et. al. $10.5 million settlement reached in intellectual property dispute.
Houston, TX: (May-27-08) Data protection specialist Crossroads Systems has brought lawsuits against 10 vendors, including Compellent and Storage Engine, alleging that the companies infringed on its storage router and virtualization technologies. The suit, filed in US District Court for the Western District of Texas, has followed several such lawsuits fil... - USSearch.com to pay $250,000 settlement in information lawsuit.
New York, NY: (May-20-08) New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo's office brought charges against the online information company USSearch.com, alleging that it sold credit bureau data of US consumers. The suit, filed after a federal investigation, revealed that the company, which normally provides public information like court records, also illegally obt... - Oral HRT More Than Doubles the Risk of Blood Clots
Hormone replacement therapy (HRT) given in skin patches may cause fewer blood clots than HRT given orally, according to a report published on BMJ.com today. Furthermore, women who take the oral form of HRT more than double their risk of developing a blood clot, say the authors. HRT is regularly prescribed to women suffering from the effects of the menop... - Citrus Workers Unpaid Wages Lawsuit
Oct-10-22 Santa Clara, CA Two citrus workers asked a California federal court to keep their proposed California labor class action against a citrus company alive. They allege that Bee Sweet did fully pay wages and travel time pay and did not provide rest periods. Amaro and Barrera worked at Bee Sweet Citrus’ fields as non-exempt, seasonal employees in Cali... - Tenative Farmers Insurance Verdict of $130 Million in Class Action Settlement
A class action suit brought by 76,000 people against Farmers Insurance Co, has received a tentative settlement verdict of $130 million. The suit had alleged that the insurer had failed to pay for general contractors, claimed breach of contract, bad faith and fraud. The average cost per person for unpaid bills and for fixing damaged homes was $575. ... - Ladders Job Site a “Scam,” Say Subscribers
Apr-21-13 New York, NY: Documents in the class-action suit filed against TheLadders.com couldn’t be clearer. “From its inception until September 2011,” the complaint reads, “The Ladders job website scammed its customers into paying for its job board service by misrepresenting itself to be a ‘premium job site.’” Fo... - The Crash of Flight 3407: A Picture Emerges…
Feb-16-09 Clarence Center, NY When Continental Connection Flight 3407 made impact with the house in Clarence Center, New York late in the icy night of February 12th in a horrific plane crash , the Bombardier Dash 8 twin turboprop commuter plane was NOT on autopilot. But it WAS, just 26 seconds before impact. That's when the aircraft's sensors detected a looming... - imbee Data Collection, Industrious Kid, Inc. pays $130,000 civil penalty for violating the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act
New York, NY: (Jan-31-08) The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) brought charges against Industrious Kid, Inc., and owner Jeanette Symons, the operators of imbee.com, a social networking site specifically targeting kids and tweens, alleging that their data-collection practices violated federal law. The suit claimed that the imbee.com web site was promoted a... - Data Theft, Centers & Malls pays CoStar Group $1 million copyright infringement settlement
Baltimore, MD: (Jan-17-08) CoStar Group filed charges against Centers & Malls LLC, alleging that the Lake Forest, IL-based company had knowingly sold and distributed a property information product containing shopping center data that it had illegally obtained and copied from CoStar. Case records show that CoStar won a temporary restraining order against Ce... - Stryker Overtime Lawsuit Goes Ahead
Feb-26-24 Santa Clara, CA Last month Stryker sales associates won a series of procedural victories in their California labor overtime lawsuit. The complaint claims that the giant medical device company failed to pay its sale associates overtime wages, failed to provide meal and rest breaks, and failed to reimburse their business expenses. Stryker classified them a... - Three litigation theories of excessive bank overdraft fee lawsuits
Apr-10-20 Ft. Lauderdale, FL When people come to talk to Jonathan Streisfeld, a KO partner, about excessive bank overdraft fees and returned item fees, “they feel frustrated with the number of fees assessed on what should be a small dollar transaction. They are confused about their bank’s practices.” More than anything, they just want their money b... - Check 'N Go to pay $220,000 settlement in personal information lawsuit.
Dallas, TX: (May-09-08) Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott brought charges against Check 'n Go, alleging that the business disposed of sensitive customer information in publicly accessible dumpsters. The federal office stated that the records disposed by the company included financial records and bank statements that contained names, addresses, Social Se... - Water company to pay $9 million settlement in federal lawsuit.
Denver, CO: (May-05-08) The US Department of Justice and the National Park Service brought charges against Water Supply and Storage Co., alleging that the company caused damages to natural resources in Rocky Mountain National Park five years ago. The civil suit was filed by the Justice department, on behalf of the US Department of the Interior. It was br... - Possible Myfortic Pregnancy Risks Lawsuit
Novartis and the FDA informed healthcare professionals and patients that use of Myfortic Delayed-Release Tablets during pregnancy is associated with increased risks of pregnancy loss and congenital malformations. The pregnancy category for Myfortic has been changed to Category D (positive evidence of fetal risk). This change is a result of post marketing d... - Possible Maxipime Risk of Death Lawsuit
The FDA issued an early communication about the ongoing review of new safety data and the request for additional data to further evaluate the risk of death in patients treated with Cefepime. An article in the May 2007 issue of The Lancet Infectious Diseases (Efficacy and safety of Cefepime: a systematic review and meta analysis) raised the question about i... - Energy company to pay $4.8 million settlement in breach of contract lawsuit.
Houston, TX: (Apr-07-08) Eagle Domestic Drilling Operations, a unit of Houston-based Blast Energy Services Inc., brought a lawsuit against Dallas-based Hallwood Energy LP and it's subsidiary, Hallwood Petroleum LLC, alleging that it was owed money for a land rig drilling project. Court records reveal that the suit was one of two filed for breach of contr...