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Aug-9-08 Willits, CA Linda's partner passed away in April 2008, just a few days before receiving notice of the Digitek recall. "Jackie went downhill about two weeks before she passed away and from the digitalis toxicity symptoms I was told about, she had them all," says Linda. Jackie had a heart attack 15 years ago; even though she suffered from congestive he... - Attorney Camilo Salas behind the Mississippi River Oil Spill Lawsuit
Jul-28-08 News Orleans, LA Just 30 hours after a huge oil spill at the Port of New Orleans on the Mississippi River, lawyer Camilo Salas was preparing a class action complaint on behalf of Stephen Garbarick, a jazz musician from the French Quarter, and taxi cab driver Bernard Attridge. They are the lead plaintiffs and just two of the thousands in similar circumstanc... - Howard Radner: Slip and Fall Cases Get The Shove In Michigan
Jul-24-08 Detroit, MI Howard Radner is not running the biggest firm in Michigan, but he has been practicing law for 34 years and he knows what he is doing. Dog bites, lead poisoning, auto accidents, slip and fall cases, Radner has seen them all, many times. The last few years though, he has become rather perturbed by some of the changes in Michigan state tort law th... - Brian Kabateck and Alfredo Torrijos: Going after Google
Jul-23-08 Los Angeles, CA There are plenty of ways to make money on the Internet, and some of them can be pretty shady. According to a recent class action filed in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California by Kabateck Brown Kellner LLP of Los Angeles (KBK), Google, the California information technology giant, is practicing one of those shady ways b... - Retirement Funds Tanked by Wachovia
Jul-22-08 Birmingham, AL George knows stocks; he works in the business and has kept a close eye on those stocks lining his retirement nest. Then Wachovia bought his company and the shares he accumulated plummeted, taking with them a million dollars worth of retirement funds . "I've worked for this company since 1981," George explains, "and have been accumulating... - Stockbroker Arbitration: "I Trusted a Man Who Was Dishonest"
Jul-21-08 Vancouver, WA Investors run the risk of losing money on investments or not getting as much of a return as they thought they would get. There is, obviously, a certain amount of risk that is involved in investing. However, problems occur when the risk comes not from the investment itself, but from unscrupulous investment advisors, who do not properly manage... - Wayne Cohen: Flying Golf Balls Can Cost You More Than an Extra Stroke on Your Game
Jul-11-08 Washington DC Lawyer and golfer Wayne Cohen readily admits to having hit a wild shot or two, that ended up on the wrong fairway, or went hurtling off in the wrong direction. "Yes, that does happen!" he confesses. A Washington, DC personal injury lawyer, from the firm Cohen and Cohen P.C., he says it was about six years ago that the firs... - Botox may have Caused Child's Death
Jul-8-08 Waterford, CT "My daughter was only 10 years old when she died," says Diane. "Kelsey's last set of Botox injections were given just one month before she passed away." Diane was never told of the adverse side effects from Botox that included difficulty swallowing (dysphagia), upper respiratory infection, neck pain and more… Kelsey was very handicappe... - Did MRI Contrast Agents Cause Kidney Failure?
Jul-3-08 Hollister, CA Albert was injected with a gadolinium-based contrast agent during two MRIs and he believes he also had a contrast agent with two angiograms. Now he wants to know if his kidneys shut down due to MRI health risks . Albert (not his real name pending a lawsuit) doesn't have any NFD/NFS symptoms so far, but he was diagnosed with kidney fail... - Ortho Evra Patch: A Close Encounter with Death
Jul-2-08 Washington CourtHouse, OH Chastity has been through hell and back, all because she wore the Ortho Evra Patch . She had no idea how dangerous this method of birth control was until her doctor said she almost died due to a huge blood clot caused by too much estrogen from the patch. Chastity was on the patch for more than two years. She was never warned... - Retailer Disregards California Labor Laws—Again
Jun-18-08 Escondido, CA Does Guitar Center figure it's more economical to settle one lawsuit after another regarding California labor law violations than follow the rules? Is the company saving that much money by treating its employees so abysmally? Benny J. is yet another disgruntled employee who has filed a complaint against the company. Benny has been worki... - VA Medical Malpractice: Preventable Mistakes?
Jun-15-08 Largo, FL Several years ago, a survey from the Institute of Medicine titled "To Err is Human" reported that 48,000 to 98,000 Americans die each year from preventable mistakes, mainly from drug mix-ups and inattentive treatment. And more medical errors occurred in the hospitals run by the Veterans Health Administration . Fast forward to 2008 and given th... - MRI Health Risk: Say NO to Contrast Agents
Jun-12-08 Detroit, MI Leon L. lives in a state of uncertainty: he has had six MRIs and each time, was injected with a gadolinium-based contrast agent. Nobody can give him a definite answer whether or not the side effects he has developed will lead to NSF—nephrogenic systemic fibrosis. But one thing he does know—he will never have another injection of contrast ag... - MRI Health Risk: Entombed by Your Own Skin
Jun-10-08 Pitman, NJ There isn't a man or woman alive who doesn't want to feel comfortable in his or her own skin. It's become a catch phrase for emotional well-being. However, beyond the metaphor nobody gives a thought to the skin we are in. It's there, it fits, it's soft and pliable. You can move in it. But what if you couldn't? What if your skin was so hard, it f... - PPH Diagnosis "Out of the Blue"
Jun-9-08 Mankato, MN Carolyn W. took Fen-Phen so long ago and for such a short time that she forgot about it. But she was recently diagnosed with PPH (also known as PAH—Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension) and the first question her doctor asked was if she had taken any diet drugs. Carolyn is now getting all her medical records so she can join a class action laws... - MRI Patient Fears he Has NSF/NFD
May-28-08 Boston, MA It is a horrible affliction: early warning signs are drying and cracking of skin in the joint areas followed by thickening of fingers, knuckles, elbows and knees. Eventually the exterior skin dries up and actually entombs the victim until they die in a terrible, painful husk of their skin. No, it isn't a horror movie. These are symptoms of pati... - SuperShuttle International Inc: Allegations that Drivers are Made to Pay the Freight
May-24-08 Sacramento, CA In a case that gets right down to where the rubber hits the road, employees of a California shuttle company are hoping that a class-action lawsuit will shift their case into overdrive, and force their employer to ante up millions of dollars in unpaid overtime . Employees of SuperShuttle International Inc. allege that their employer has... - Fen-phen PPH: "I Was Scared to Death"
May-17-08 Lawrenceburg, KY: W.L. Carter is one of the lucky ones. When he started taking Fen-phen in 1994, he took only half the recommended dose, given that the diet drug cocktail was expensive and his health insurance provider wouldn't pay for it. In hindsight, that strategy may have saved his life although, like thousands of others, he wound up with PPH (Prim... - "Chantix Put Me in a Psychiatric Hospital"
May-17-08 Longbranch, TX "If I wasn't at work that morning, surrounded with good people, I would have committed suicide because of Chantix ," says Darlene. Her boss took Darlene to a psychiatric hospital, where she stayed for two weeks. "In November of 2007 I went to my doctor for a regular checkup," says Darlene. "We talked about how I could quit smoking&mdas... - A Ray of Hope in Auction Rate Securities - An Interview with Diane Nygaard
May-10-08 Kansas City, MO Since our first interview with lawyer Diane Nygaard in April, there has been an overwhelming response to the information she provided on Auction Rate Securities. Here, she will bring us up to date on progress made and further insights into the ongoing securities fraud situation. Lawyers and Settlements (LAS): What difference has one m...