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May-25-06 The off-label prescribing of drugs has become a serious problem over the past decade. Doctors are adjusting dosage levels and prescribing drugs for medical indications and treatment durations for which the drugs were never approved or intended. When the FDA approves a drug, it also approves the labeling for the drug, which explains the manner in which the... - Understanding Class Action Settlement Administration
May-23-06 Understanding Class Action Settlement Administration In an effort to look for ways that will benefit our subscribers with new interests, www.lawyersandsettlements.com recently spoke with the president of an up-and-coming firm, Class Action Administration (CAA), Inc. CAA specializes in assisting attorneys with all phases of class action cases. CAA'... - Calpine Corp. Breach of Energy Contract Settlement
Reading Municipal Light Co. filed a lawsuit against their former energy supplier for breach of contract. Calpine channeled electricity to the Reading distribution center at rates established in a 2002 contract that was scheduled to run through October 2007, but Calpine went bankrupt. Reading has 28,000 customers in Reading, North Reading, Wilmington, an... - Ex-Pfizer VP Peter Rost Takes On Goliath
May-9-06 Beginning in 1997, Pharmacia, currently a subsidiary of Pfizer, sought to boost its sales of the drug Genotropin. To that end, the company illegally marketed the drug to spur growth in short children and as an anti-aging drug for adults looking for the fountain of youth. In a nutshell, the off-label marketing scheme included: (1) direct payments to doct... - Kids Dying From Off-Label Use Of Antipsychotics
May-5-06 A recent USA Today sponsored review of the FDA database from 2000 to 2004 found at least 45 deaths in children under 18 with atypical antipsychotics listed as the "primary suspect," and 1,328 reports of other serious side effects, some life-threatening. Atypical antipsychotics are a relatively new class of drugs approved by the FDA for the treatment of a... - QuadraMed� Corp. MedCath Contract Breach Settlement
MedCath Incorporated and QuadraMed were in a legal battle with one anther. In 2004, MedCath filed a breach of contract lawsuit against QuadraMed in relation to a software license and service agreement. The complaint alleged QuadraMed's software products failed to perform in accordance with a 2002 contract. The two companies have jointly reached an out o... - Tequin's Serious Injuries - Bristol-Myers Feigns Ignorance
May-1-06 On April 27, 2006, Dow Jones reported that Bristol-Myers Squibb had decided to stop selling Tequin, an antibiotic found to increase the risk of blood-sugar problems. BMS made a "recent decision to stop all our commercialization efforts" for Tequin and to return the rights to Kyorin, Dow quoted Chief Financial Officer, Andrew Bonfield, as saying. BMS licen... - 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... - Lethal Defects Of Bjork-Shiley Heart Valve
Apr-24-06 An estimated 25 million Americans have one kind of medical implant or another. However an analysis of implant recalls over 10 years show that the average number of recalls per year was 40 and by 2001, the number rose to 117. The FDA regulates the implant industry, but many products reach the market with insufficient clinical testing, followed by very litt... - Autism - Worst Welfare Disaster In History
Apr-20-06 Scientist and medical experts say that unless the government forces the pharmaceutical industry to pay for the damage caused by mercury-laced vaccines, in the not too distant future, Americans will experience the worst welfare disaster in the history of this country. No doubt with that in mind, eight members of Congress are calling for a new investigation... - Massachusetts Casualty Insurance Company Bad Faith Settlement
A Judgment, which is ultimately expected to be worth over $6 Million dollars, was entered on Friday, March 17, 2006, in the case of David Jay v. Massachusetts Casualty Insurance Company (nka Centre Life Insurance Company)("MCIC"), a subsidiary of Zurich Insurance, in the Stark County Court of Common Pleas, Stark County, Ohio (Case No. 2004 cv 00843) ... - Fosamax Does More Harm than Good
Apr-14-06 Dayton, OH The osteoporosis drug Fosamax has been on the market for a little over ten years now. Drug maker Merck promoted it heavily by selling women the fear of a disabling hip fracture and the necessity of regular bone-density tests. Merck's initial TV advertising campaign featured a slim woman in her mid-40s, conveying the notion that testing was app... - Gateway Inc. Software Patent Infringement Settlement
Phillip Adams, a 51-year-old engineer, sued Gateway computers for $150 million for allegedly infringing a patent he held that solved a problem that corrupted or destroyed software or data downloaded from old floppy disks onto personal computers. This same technology is used in CD-ROMs. Adams contended that Gateway asked for demonstrations of his prog... - Fentanyl Deaths - Severe Math Problems at FDA
Mar-27-06 Describing fentanyl as a "very strong narcotic," on July 15, 2005, the FDA issued a Public Health Advisory regarding the safe use of transdermal fentanyl patches in response to reports of 120 deaths in patients using the patch for pain management, stating that some patients and doctors might not be fully aware of its dangers. A cursory investigation of dr... - Legal ADHD Speed - Becoming Drug Of Choice For Americans
Mar-21-06 A study published online in the February 2006, Journal of Drug and Alcohol Dependence, that examined data from a 2002 survey of about 67,000 households, estimates that more than 7 million Americans have misused stimulant drugs meant to treat ADHD, and "substantial numbers of teenagers and young adults appear to show signs of addiction, according to a compreh... - Sparlon: Just What Kids Need - Another ADHD Drug
Mar-20-06 The pharmaceutical company, Cephalon Inc, is going through the motions of legitimizing the sale of Sparlon for the treatment of ADHD even though its active ingredient, modafinil, has been heavily promoted and sold under the name Provigil, for off-label treatment of ADHD by Cephalon for years. Last October, the FDA sent an "approvable" letter to Cephalon f... - Trasylol Patients and Clinical Trial Subjects Beware
Mar-15-06 Thirteen years ago, the FDA approved Trasylol (aprotinin) for use in patients undergoing heart bypass surgery. In January 2006, doctors, consumer advocates and a medical research group called for the removal of the drug from the market after a study found it to have deadly side effects. Heart bypass surgery is performed to redirect blood around clogged ar... - Dow Jones & Co. Contract Dispute Settlement
Market Data Corp. and Cantor Fitzgerald Securities have been in a longstanding contract dispute regarding guaranteed obligations. In 1998, Dow Jones sold Telerate to Bridge Information Systems. Telerate had used data supplied from Cantor Fitzgerald and Market Data and Dow Jones had retained its guarantee of payments under certain circumstances. Dow Jone... - Pfizer Makes List of Worst Corporate Evildoers
Mar-13-06 On January 3, 2006 the Global Exchange Report named the top fourteen "Worst Corporate Evildoers" in the world for 2005. Pfizer, one of the most profitable drug companies on earth, with sales over $52 billion in 2004, made the list of Evildoers. Pfizer's participation in the cover-up of the deadly side effects of Bextra surely contributed to its membership... - Datran Media Corp. Spamming Settlement
The New York Attorney General filed charges against the leading e-mail marketer for allegedly misusing e-mail addresses and other personal data it obtained from several companies. Datran allegedly spammed consumers with unsolicited e-mails, advertising discount drugs, diet pills and other products. The New York based company has agreed to change its pra...