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  • Zurich Insurance Agrees $455M Settlement in Farmers Class Action
    London, UK: Zurich Financial Services Group and its subsidiary, Farmers Group Inc, have settled a nationwide class action lawsuit that is pending in Superior Court in Los Angeles. Under the terms of the settlement, $455 million will be made available to up to 13 million policyholders. The suit alleged that the class, consisting of policyholders who he...
  • Paxil May Not Be Linked to Decrease in Suicide Rates
    Oct-2-10 New York, NY Many patients say the benefits of Paxil outweigh the risk of side effects, which include congenital heart defects and other birth defects. However, new research indicates that Paxil and other antidepressants may not have a significant effect on treating depression, and they might not be linked to a decrease in suicide rates. Pregnant women...
  • Attorney Discusses Best Buy Overtime Settlement
    Oct-1-10 New York, NY Former and current Best Buy employees are finally getting properly compensated for overtime . "We filed a class action lawsuit in Pennsylvania and another in New York relating to Best Buy's failure to compensate their employees for hours worked," says attorney Gerald Lawrence of Lowey Dannenberg Cohen & Hart, P.C. "Best Buy has reached...
  • Force Protection Reaches $24M Preliminary Settlement in Shareholder Class Action
    Ladson, SC: Force Protection Inc has announced that it has reached an agreement to settle the consolidated shareholder securities class action entitled In re Force Protection, Inc. Securities Litigation, Consolidated Civil Action No. 2:08-cv-845-CWH, pending in the U.S. District Court for the District of South Carolina against the Company and a number...
  • AstraZeneca to Pay $520 Million in Seroquel Settlement
    Sep-30-10 Harrisburg, PA The state of Pennsylvania will receive $9 million of the $520 million settlement AstraZeneca Pharmaceutical is paying for improperly marketing Seroquel , an anti-psychotic. Pennsylvania Attorney General Tom Corbett said that a state and federal investigation accused the drug maker of marketing Seroquel "off-label" and paying kickbacks...
  • Omnicare Qui Tam Whistleblowers
    Sep-29-10 Boston, MA Omnicare has deep pockets when it comes to qui tam whistleblower lawsuits. In the past few years, the nation's largest pharmacy for nursing homes has been involved in a number of lawsuits involving claims that it paid kickbacks and made improper medication substitutions for patients. It has already paid millions upon millions of dollars to s...
  • Maker of Celexa Pleads Guilty to Illegal Promotion
    Sep-29-10 Washington, DC Forest Pharmaceuticals Inc. has pled guilty to illegally promoting the antidepressant Celexa for use by adolescents and children. The drug company has agreed to pay $313 million and has pled guilty to obstruction of justice and the distribution of the then-unapproved thyroid-deficiency drug Levothroid, according to the Associated Pre...
  • Attorney Has a Lot of Clients with "Internet Regret"
    Sep-28-10 Los Angeles, CA Five years ago, Los Angeles attorney Erik Syverson saw the future. He decided to focus his legal practice on what happens in the world of cyberspace. "The internet is here to stay," says Syverson. "I realized a few years ago that the internet world is going to bring up all kinds of legal issues." As a 30-something-year-old, Syverson...
  • Preliminary $1M Settlement Reached in Bell Canada Late Fees Class Action
    Ottawa, ON: An out-of-court settlement has been concluded in the class action filed on behalf of Bell Canada and Bell Mobility's Ontario clients who may have paid late payment charges on payments made before the payment deadline provided on their bill. This settlement affects Ontario Bell Canada clients who paid their bill through their financial ins...
  • Hartford Class Action Settlement of $72.5M Approved
    Bridgeport, CN: A federal judge has approved a class-action settlement under which Hartford Financial Services Group will pay $72.5 million to settle claims that the company shortchanged some 22,000 injured claimants through structured settlements. U.S. District Court Judge Janet Hall approved the settlement on Sept. 21, according to court papers. Ha...
  • Debts Wiped Out for 140,000 Payday Loan Customers
    Sep-27-10 Washington, DC It took six years, 17,000 billable hours, three law firms and three public justice organizations, but in the end they managed to wrestle a payday loan company in North Carolina into a settling with thousands of unhappy customers. "We have had great reaction from clients," says Paul Bland, with the Public Justice organization in Washingto...
  • Preliminary Audi Volkswagen Settlement Approved
    Los Angeles, CA: Volkswagen and Audi have agreed to pay sludge-related maintenance costs for nearly 480,000 vehicles as part of a proposed settlement conditionally approved in federal court. The order filed Thursday, September 23, 2010 by Judge Joseph L. Tauro in Boston, defined the group, or "class," that can benefit from the settlement as all current an...
  • Did Fired Florida Bartender Work for Four Cents an Hour?
    Sep-26-10 Coral gables, FL According to the Miami New Times on 9/16/10, there are some fairly high-end establishments that have been accused of violating Florida labor law . Angela Suarez (not her real name) illustrates the problem. For one week when she claims to have worked 60 hours, her paycheck reflected only 38. Suarez told the Miami New Times that s...
  • WaMu Cash Balance Pension Plan - Partial Preliminary Settlement
    Seattle, WA: If you participated in, and were entitled to accrue benefits in, any of the following plans (referred to collectively as "the Plans"), your rights may be affected by the settlement of a class action lawsuit: 1. The WaMu Pension Plan (referred to as the "WaMu Plan") immediately prior to January 1, 1987, and your accrued benefits or pensio...
  • Advance America Cash Advance Centers Agrees $18.75 million Settlement
    Spartanburg, SC: Advance America, Cash Advance Centers Inc has agreed to pay $18.75 million to settle a class-action lawsuit without admitting violating any state consumer finance laws, according to an SEC filing. The Spartanburg-based provider of payday and other loans said it would establish a settlement pool to compensate North Carolina class m...
  • Woman Files Appeals in Legal Malpractice Lawsuit
    Sep-21-10 Mount Vernon, IL A woman is appealing a ruling in her legal malpractice lawsuit against the law firm that represented her in a case regarding her husband's asbestos-related death. Madison County Circuit Court Judge Barbara Crowder let a number of attorneys named as defendants in the case out of the legal malpractice lawsuit, but plaintiff Judy Buckl...
  • Third Party Mobile Content Charges Settlement
    Chicago, IL: A group of mobile content providers, including Cylon, Cellfish Media, Predicto Mobile, Too Lazy, the application provider 3C Interactive, and the aggregator OpenMarket, have agreed to settle a number of class action lawsuits against them, involving claims that these companies charged wireless subscribers for "mobile content" without auth...
  • Component Hardware Reaches Class Action Settlement
    Lakewood, NJ: Component Hardware Group, Inc. ("CHG") has reached a settlement with plaintiffs in the antitrust class action titled In re Food Service Equipment Hardware Antitrust Litigation. This litigation arises out of allegations that certain manufacturers and/or distributors of food service equipment products engaged in anticompetitive behavior fro...
  • Understanding the Stockbroker Arbitration Process
    Sep-16-10 Miami, FL For investors who have suffered at the hands of stockbroker fraud , stockbroker arbitration may not sound very appealing. It does not have all the glitz and glamour of a lawsuit, nor does it usually carry the ridiculously high awards. But for many investors, stock fraud arbitration is actually a much better option, because cases are resolved m...
  • Bayer Settles 200 Trasylol Cases
    Washington, DC: Bayer AG has agreed to settle 200 of 2,000 lawsuits filed over allegations that their drug, Trasylol, which was meant to control bleeding during heart surgery, has caused injuries to patients including kidney failure. The various cases are being represented by different lawfirms, with different settlement outcomes. According to a r...
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