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Jul-11-09 Cincinnati, OH The Ohio Department of Public Safety and Bureau of Motor Vehicles has been hit with a potentially costly class action lawsuit alleging that two senior employees contravened federal privacy laws when they authorized the sale of information in the state's databanks. "At this point we don't know what motivated them to sell the data," says Char... - 14-Year Old Girl Survives Indian Ocean Crash
Jun-30-09 Paris, FR Earlier reports of a 5-year-old boy surviving the plane crash involving an Airbus A310-300 en route from Yemen to the African Island nation of Comoros, have been corrected. Officials now report that the survivor is a 14-year-old girl, Bahia Bariki. The girl, a citizen of both Comoros and France, was traveling to the city of Moroni, the capital... - Talcum Powder Timeframe: From Scientific Studies to Safety Concerns to Lawsuits
May-23-17 St. Louis, MO: A timeframe shows talcum powder--its origins, and later its link to ovarian cancer, from the late 1800s to the present fifth talcum powder lawsuit in St. Louis, and the fourth jury verdict for the plaintiff. The editorial staff at LawyersandSettlements.com were curious as to how a beloved, trusted personal care produc... - Attorney Weighs in on Reglan Investigation
Jun-25-09 Austin, TX If you thought the number of people who reported suffering Reglan side effects was small, you might have to think again. In fact, the number of people reporting Reglan adverse events, including tardive dyskinesia, has gone up drastically, according to Kathleen K. McGinn, attorney at Hissey Kientz, LLP. "We now have the fourth quarter dat... - DC Train Crash – Death Toll Climbs to Nine
Jun-23-09 Washington, DC: As rescue workers and fire crews struggle to dismantle the wreckage from what is being called the worst train crash in DC's history, the official number of fatalities continues to climb, with nine people now confirmed dead. More than 70 people have been hospitalized with injuries. Making matters worse came the startling revelation e... - Monsanto Hit with Yet Another Lawsuit Over Roundup
May-8-17 Washington, DC: As the manufacturers of Monsanto Roundup continue to grapple with Monsanto Roundup lawsuits alleging the active ingredient in the popular herbicide causes cancer, Monsanto has been hit with more litigation over an alleged labelling issue. According to court documents, two nonprofits combined last month to launch a Roundup lawsuit aga... - Avandia Heart Attack Risk, Questions Remain
May-25-09 Washington, DC Today is a milestone for GlaxoSmithKline's Avandia. According to various sources it was May 25, 1999 that Avandia received regulatory approval for the treatment of Type 2 diabetes. However, much has happened in the ten years since Avandia first surfaced with so much promise: various studies and other analyses pointing to heart attack and v... - Chantix Problems on a Number of Fronts: Tobacco Researcher
May-18-09 Boston, MA A leading tobacco researcher has some things to say about Chantix and Chantix side effects. Michael Siegel is a former practicing physician and today serves as a professor in Social and Behavioral Sciences with Boston University School of Public Health. In his blog Professor Siegel raises the specter of Chantix suicide , together with the pos... - Avandia Maker Faces More Lawsuits
May-15-09 Marshall, TX GlaxoSmithKline, maker of Avandia, faces more lawsuits alleging that patients suffered from serious Avandia side effects. Among the more severe side effects is the reported link between Avandia and heart attacks. Some critics say the risk of a heart problem is too high, while patients file lawsuits alleging they were harmed by the use of Ava... - Yet Another Risperdal Lawsuit Tossed in Philadelphia
Apr-30-17 Philadelphia, PA: A Risperdal lawsuit that had to be stopped and restarted after a juror suffered a health emergency, has been tossed by a Philadelphia judge after appearing to agree with defendant Janssen Pharmaceuticals that the plaintiff failed to provide sufficient evidence to fully support his claim of Risperdal gynecomastia, a condition character... - Plane Crashes: FAA Releases Bird Strike Data
Apr-27-09 Phoenix, AZ Following the media frenzy surrounding what could have been a tragic plane crash in New York in January, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has made its bird strike database available to the public. According to the database, some airports have reported hundreds of such collisions a year—and although the number of incidents that resu... - Misclassified Plaintiffs in Massachusetts Eyeing $2.9 Million Proposed Settlement
Apr-21-17 Boston, MA: Plaintiffs in a recent Massachusetts employment law collective action have asked a federal judge in Massachusetts to approve a settlement worth $2.9 million that would settle claims of improper classification allegedly costing employees overtime pay. Massachusetts labor law – together with the Fair Labor Standards Act, a federal st... - Power Morcellation Suits Wrap Up but Doctors Still Like Procedure
Apr-18-17 San Diego, CA The majority of the lawsuits brought by women who developed cancer after a power morcellator procedure to extract uterine fibroids are wrapping up usually via a settlement agreement with Johnson and Johnson. Charles (Andy) Childers from the firm of Childers, Schlueter & Smith in Atlanta, Georgia says, “We have one wrongful... - New Study Drops the Coffin Lid on Asbestos
Apr-17-09 Reno, NV Implausible as it may seem, if there was ever any doubt as to the danger of asbestos exposure, that doubt has been put to rest with the release of a new study appearing in Occupational and Environmental Medicine . Asbestos mesothelioma is but one deadly result in an environment that carried a whopping 95 percent risk of developing asbestos canc... - FDA Warns Against Off Label Angioplasty Treatment Known as TVAM
Apr-17-17 Dallas, TX The FDA is taking the unusual step of calling out a specific doctor and warning people to steer clear of the use of TVAM angioplasty as a treatment for serious illnesses such as Parkinson’s disease, Multiple Sclerosis and other autonomic disorders. According to the FDA safety communication issued on March 8, 2017 the procedu... - Airbag Lawsuits Dismissed as Parties Try to Work Out Settlement
Apr-17-17 Winston-Salem, NC: Two lawsuits filed in North Carolina last year against Takata Corp. over defective airbag injuries were voluntarily dismissed in January 2017 in favor of trying to work out a settlement, according to the Winston-Salem Journal . The Winston-Salem Journal article did not disclose settlement details. The lawsuits, one filed in... - Prilosec Kidney Damage Lawsuits
Apr-16-17 Washington, DC: The risks of taking popular heartburn medications such as Prilosec likely outweigh the benefits. According to a recent study, PPI users may be increasing their risk of serious kidney damage without having any symptoms of kidney problems. Given this latest research and previous studies, attorneys are currently investing complaints inv... - Allegations of Corruption: Monsanto Roundup Lawsuit Plaintiffs
Apr-7-17 San Francisco, CA: When evidence was ordered unsealed last month in the multidistrict litigation that houses Monsanto Roundup lawsuits , the resulting revelations read like a movie plot with allegations of corruption, suppressed data, ghostwritten articles of support, and a toxicological profile of Roundup’s active ingredient that was announced fo... - Defective Drugs: Are You Afraid of Your Medication?
Mar-15-09 Minneapolis, MN With the recent focus on defective drugs and drug recalls, you can be forgiven for hesitating for a moment before you take your medication. After all, lately it seems as though it is not a case of IF a drug will be recalled, but WHEN the recall will occur. Bad drugs have been in the news a lot—from overdoses of active ingredients to te... - Plaintiff Asserts Eliquis Side Effects Left her with Permanent Injuries
Mar-27-17 New York, NY: This August we’ll be coming up to the one-year anniversary of an Eliquis lawsuit filed by Rhonda and James Hancock against Bristol-Myers Squibb and Pfizer Inc. The New York couple alleges that apixaban (Eliquis) has been linked to excessive bleeding and other life-threatening conditions, and that the manufacturers failed to disclose...