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Mar-14-08 Riverside, CA Since August of 2001, Jeana Cork worked as a nursing assistant for Riverside County. She worked in the mental health department and it was a tough job. "We are the emergency room for every kind of patient," says Cork. She got slammed against a wall by two male patients and suffered four ruptured discs. The County, on advice from their insuran... - Go Figure: Your Wireless Implantable Defibrillator Can be Hacked
Mar-13-08 Washington, DC Taking a page right out of James Bond, a soon-to-be-published research paper analyzing the sophistication of implantable medical devices (IMD) and cardiac defibrillators (ICD) sheds new light on the capacity of such devices to be programmed and adjusted from outside the body by a medical professional, presumably your doctor. The bad n... - IT Overtime: It's All About Controlling Costs
Mar-13-08 Los Angeles, CA If there is one thing that companies hate, it is the uncontrolled cost. In other words, overtime. However, this should not be the reason why a company reneges on paying IT overtime to qualified workers. Various States, including California, the Mecca of all things IT, have statutes in place that protect workers from being taken advantage... - Credit Card Abuse Takes on Many Forms
Mar-13-08 Freeland, MI Credit card abuse can take on many forms—including the personal data you entrust the credit card company to hold safe on your behalf. However, that is not always the case, as witnessed in January when data from 650,000 credit cards was at risk of being compromised after a computer tape went missing. GE Money handles credit card oper... - Home seller settles misrepresentation lawsuit.
Dubuque, IA: (Mar-10-08) A lawsuit was filed against a Dubuque woman Rita Russow and her realtor Dominic Goodmann Real Estate, by a couple Chad and Michelle Miller who claimed they were not told of problems with a house they bought at 2801 Summer Drive, including the suicide of the previous owner's husband. The Millers who bought the Dubuque home f... - Duragesic: This Patch Could Stop Your Heart
Mar-11-08 Toronto, ON The active ingredient contained in the recalled Duragesic pain patch is a synthetic opioid analgesic that is considered to be several times more potent than heroin. The makers of the Duragesic patch containing fentanyl have recalled the patches over concern that a breach in the patch reservoir could pose an overdose hazard to both patient,... - Medtronic: No Human Testing of the Failed Sprint Fidelis Lead
Mar-10-08 Stamford, CT In a blockbuster revelation published in the March 6th, 2008 edition of the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM), we learn that Medtronic was allowed to take the defective Sprint Fidelis lead to market with only bench testing, without the need for a human trial. Medtronic halted sales of the ultra-thin leads after a spate of adverse... - Ezetrol: Canadian Version of Zetia Questioned
Mar-9-08 Toronto, ON As if the Zetia and Vytorin issue wasn't enough of a frustration on its own, north of the border in Canada the Canadian equivalent of Zetia— Ezetrol —is proving just as mystifying. At issue: does the cholesterol drug work? Is it harmful? And did the manufacturer, as it was accused of doing in the US, withhold important safety a... - Zyprexa on Trial in Alaska: Lilly Accused of Putting Profit Before Patients
Mar-9-08 Anchorage, AK Spectators in a courtroom in Anchorage are getting an earful about how Zyprexa maker Eli Lilly waited, according to a witness, almost nine years to add warnings to Zyprexa with regard to a risk for diabetes, elevated blood sugar levels and weight gain. Instead, Lilly is alleged to have hid data that cast Zyprexa in a bad light, and ins... - Hidden Car Accidents
Mar-8-08 Salt Lake City, UT Jonathan had no reason to double-check the clean title on a vehicle he was about to purchase. That clean and clear designation guaranteed the car had no record of accidents, falsified odometer, theft or other incidents that could affect its viability and selling price. But less than a week after laying down his money, Jonathan discovered... - World-renowned Dermatologist Warns Public of Botox Dangers
Mar-8-08 Beverly Hills, CA: Dr. Arnold Klein, a world-renowned dermatologist is making it his mission to tell the public about the dangers of Botox , one of the most popular cosmetic treatments that almost everyone is familiar with in some form. Behind Viagra, Botox is the second-most popular prescription drug in the world and has served as a more cost-effective a... - Getting Totaled by State Farm
Mar-7-08 Redlands, CA Over the past several years, State Farm Insurance has taken public steps to shine up its image of fair dealings with its policyholders. Yet it revealed quite a darker face to Rachel when she tried to obtain a State Farm totaled vehicle title for an unfit car. "In 2003 I had an accident," say Rachel, "and reported it to State Farm. My ag... - Ascendant pays Kevin Costner undisclosed settlement.
Los Angeles, CA: (Mar-05-08) Kevin Costner brought a breach of contract lawsuit against Ascendant Pictures, over a deal to star in a romantic comedy whose financing fell apart. Costner stated in his suit that he was to be paid $8 million for the movie "Taming Ben Taylor," which was never made. Records show that Costner sued the Beverly Hills-based company... - Abogados de Comercio, contrato y negocios
Leyes de negocios se compone de normas, leyes, códigos y reglamentos que governan las relaciones comerciales. Abogados de negocios pueden ayudarle a conducir y la manejar de su empresa dentro de este marco jurídico. Litigacion de negocios puede incluir pleitos entre socios, colecciones, la mediación, el cumplimiento de los contratos,... - Sheldon Bradshaw - Bush Administration Preemption Gang
Mar-4-08 Washington, DC: Sheldon Bradshaw stepped in to replace the pharmaceutical industry's inside guy, Daniel Troy, in the Office of Chief Counsel at the FDA in April 2005, and the Bush Administration's steadfast protection of the industry did not miss a beat. On September 20, 2005, an article by Lily Henning entitled, "Is FDA's New Chief Counsel a Change in... - Faulty Railing Results in Crib Recall
Mar-1-08 Washington, DC: A massive crib recall was issued on Thursday by safety officials and they warned parents that they should not put their babies in their beds with soft bedding such as pillows due to the risk of suffocation. A total of 24,000 cribs made in Indonesia were recalled due to a high risk of children falling out . Imported by Munire Furniture... - Ezetrol: America's Problems are Canada's Problems... and You're Paying for Them
Feb-28-08 Ottawa, ON Nowadays, Canada's neighbors include the likes of pharmaceutical giants Merck/Schering Plough ; they also include the US federal Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Merck/Schering and its Canadian subsidiary Merck Frosst is the big pharma consortium that manufactures and sells Ezetrol (Zetia in the US market), the anti-cholesterol drug that i... - Windows Software, Microsoft fined $1.3 billion for failing to comply with the European Union's antitrust order
Brussels, Belgium: (Feb-27-08) Microsoft Corp. has been embroiled in a legal battle with the European Union since Sun Microsystems Inc. brought a complaint against it in 1998. The suit alleged that Microsoft was refusing to supply information that servers need to work with its market dominating Windows operating system. Following the complaint, sources s... - Loan Offices, Indymac Bancorp Inc. pays American Home Mortgage Investment Corp. $1 million breach of contract settlement
Philadelphia, PA: (Feb-25-08) American Home Mortgage Investment Corp. brought charges against Indymac Bancorp Inc., alleging that the company breached contract terms, putting a deal that was supposed to take over 83 loan offices idled by American Home's collapse into bankruptcy in 2007, in jeopardy. Company officials recently revealed that American Home Mo... - Nadar's Public Citizen Seeking Black Box Warning for Botox
Feb-26-08 Los Angeles, CA: Many are willing to go great lengths to achieve beauty, which even means gambling with their lives. With new evidence that Botox allegedly causes paralysis and even death in some of those who swear by the toxic boost, those who religiously receive the injections are said to be risking their lives to look good. Such public figures as...