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Santa Clara, CA: A $212.5M settlement has been reached ending a consumer banking fraud lawsuit brought by the US Attorney General an First Tennessee Bank NA, in which the federal government alleged the bank approved loans that failed to meet the government' requirements. The lawsuit also alleged violation of the False Claims Act. According to... - Denture Cream Zinc Poisoning: The Difficulty with Diagnosis
Dec-12-10 Oklahoma City, OK For patients suffering from denture cream zinc poisoning , the difficulty might not only be in the pain of denture adhesive zinc poisoning but also in actually getting a diagnosis. That is because it can take a long time between first using a product such as Fixodent denture adhesive and developing the symptoms of zinc poisoning and co... - Thousands of DePuy Lawsuits Expected
Dec-11-10 Toledo, OH Patients stricken with the now-recalled DePuy hip replacement system will be cheered by the announcement that a single judge will oversee all pretrial proceedings with regard to defective DePuy hip lawsuits. Bloomberg News noted December 4 that US District Judge David A Katz has been assigned the task by the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict... - Mixed Results in Recent Paxil Lawsuits
Dec-8-10 Philadelphia, PA When it comes to a potential Paxil lawsuit , each case must be judged on its own merits. Although some lawsuits alleging serious Paxil side effects, such as Paxil birth defects, have been settled, others have been dismissed from court. In July 2010, GlaxoSmithKline, maker of Paxil, reportedly settled approximately 800 lawsuits allegi... - French Court Finds Continental Airlines and Mechanic Guilty In 2000 Concord Crash
Dec-6-10 Paris, France Continental Airlines and one of its mechanics have been found guilty of involuntary homicide relating to their roles in the crash of an Air France Concorde in 2000. The plane crash, which killed all 109 passengers and crew members and four people on the ground, helped bring to an end the era of commercial supersonic passenger travel. ... - Paxil Birth Defect Trial Tossed Out of Court
Dec-1-10 Summerville, SC It was a heartbreaking end to a Paxil birth defects trial in Philadelphia, after a judge ended the proceedings at about the midway point, finding for GlaxoSmithKline (Glaxo), the defendant. The lawsuit, the first Paxil trial to be undertaken since Glaxo agreed in July to settle 800 cases by paying out more than $1 billion, attempted to... - Seven California HMOs Fined Following Investigation
Nov-30-10 Los Angeles, CA On one hand, the fines appear pretty impressive: $5 million in total fines levied against seven of the largest health insurance plans operating in the state of California, in reference to the failure of the organizations to pay medical claims submitted by doctors and hospitals. What's more, the offending insurers will be required to pay... - Proposed Partial Settlement in Hurricane Flooding Class Action
A notification program about a proposed partial settlement began today to alert those affected by flooding due to any failures or overtopping of levees that occurred within the Parishes of Jefferson, Orleans, Plaquemines and St. Bernard, Louisiana resulting from Hurricane Katrina and/or Hurricane Rita. Under the settlement, a settlement fund worth appr... - Taco Bell Still Not Shelling Out Overtime
Nov-19-10 Sylmar, CA How many lawsuits will it take for Taco Bell to comply with the California labor code and shell out California Overtime ? The US Fair Labor Standards Act requires employers to pay non-managerial employees at a rate of one and one-half times the regular rate for each hour worked over 40 per week. Either the Act is news (!) to Taco Bell, the co... - Qui Tam Whistleblower Lawsuit over Afghan Overbilling Settled
Nov-19-10 Kabul, Afghanistan A qui tam whistleblower lawsuit has been settled after one of the US government's highest-profile contractors in Afghanistan agreed to pay millions of dollars over allegations that he overbilled the government, McClatchy Newspapers reports. In return for the payment of tens of millions of dollars, the Justice Department has agre... - Paxil Birth Defects Trial Underway
Nov-17-10 Philadelphia, PA A Paxil birth defects lawsuit , alleging infants suffered serious Paxil side effects when they were exposed to the antidepressant prior to birth, is underway in Philadelphia. The lawsuit alleges GlaxoSmithKline knew about Paxil birth defects but failed to warn consumers about that risk. According to Bloomberg (11/09/10), the lawsui... - Pair Indicted in $1 Million Securities Fraud
Nov-13-10 Beverly, MA While their lawyer argues that charges stemmed from a "flawed investigation," two former executives of a Massachusetts technology company have been indicted on securities fraud involving the alleged falsification of documents in an attempt to inflate a company's revenue in a way that would benefit the accused. The Boston Globe reported... - Legal Malpractice Verdict Against Largest Law Firm on Planet
Nov-12-10 Hattiesburg, MS While one would assume lawyers should know better, the esteemed practice of law is not above wrongdoing—as any Legal Malpractice case will attest. A recent legal malpractice lawsuit resulted in a Mississippi jury awarding a $103 million legal malpractice settlement in favor of the plaintiffs against the largest law firm in the wor... - Everybody Deserves Due Process Says Attorney Gary Mason
Nov-12-10 Washington, D.C. Banks are being hit with a hailstorm of class actions for being quick to trigger foreclosures without actually reviewing the facts of the case. So-called "robo-signers" from GMAC and several other lenders have admitted in depositions that they signed thousands of foreclosure affidavits without ever reading the files. "The courts are... - Successful 9/11 First Responders Settlement Reached
New York, NY: Attorneys representing the plaintiffs who were injured while working in the rescue, recovery and debris removal activities at the site of the World Trade Center following the 9/11 terrorist attacks and subsequent collapse of the twin towers have confirmed today that they have surpassed the requisite ninety-five percent (95%) opt-in thresh... - Birth Injury Lawsuit Results in $14 Million Award
Nov-2-10 Warren, OH Doctors helping women give birth make many urgent decisions in the course of their work, but sometimes those decisions can lead to devastating birth injuries . Families who have children born with a birth injury can face massive medical bills and may have to provide professional around-the-clock care for their child, increasing the costs asso... - Group: Drug Companies are Feds' Top Source of Fraud Settlements
Oct-30-10 Washington, DC Multimillion-dollar settlements for illegal marketing of Seroquel and other drugs have made the pharmaceutical industry the Department of Justice's top source of fraud-related settlements, says an advocacy group. According to Taxpayers Against Fraud Education Fund, last year pharmaceutical companies handed out eight of the 10 largest... - Student Loan Fraud News and Information
Students pursuing post-secondary education or attending a 2- or 4-year college often find themselves in financial hardship, and rely on student loans to help them through. Allegations about financial fraud have been raised against some student loan companies. Among the complaints against companies, such as ACS and NextStudent, are violations of consumer p... - Data Breach Lawsuit Information and Legal News
A data breach occurs when sensitive information collected (and sometimes stored) by a company is made vulnerable by someone illegally accessing that information. Information breaches can occur in a number of ways, but generally involve computer hackers or computer theft, followed by unlawful access to customer or client information. This sometimes resul... - ADT Reaches Preliminary $15M Settlement in Robocalls Class Action Lawsuit
New York, NY: A preliminary settlement has been reached in the class action lawsuit pending against ADS Security alleging the company engaged in telemarketing calls to consumers in violation of the federal Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA). Entitled Vishva Desai v. ADT Security Services Inc., the lawsuit claims that certain ADT authorized...