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Dover DW: A preliminary $3.8 million settlement has been agreed in an employment class action pending against PetSmart Inc. The lawsuit was brought by operations managers for the chain of pet supply stores who allege they were misclassified so as to make them exempt from the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) overtime requirements. Under the... - Actos Cancer Victims Awarded $2.4B Settlement
Santa Clara, CA: A $2.4 billion settlement has been agreed between Takeda Pharmaceuticals USA Inc. and some 9,000 plaintiffs who filed personal injury lawsuits against the company, alleging it failed to warn of bladder cancer risks from taking its Type 2 diabetes drug Actos (pioglitazone hydrochloride). Under the terms of the agreement, Takeda w... - Actos Cancer Victims Get $2.4B Settlement
Apr-29-15 Santa Clara, CA A $2.4 billion settlement has been agreed between Takeda Pharmaceuticals USA Inc. and some 9,000 plaintiffs who filed personal injury lawsuits against the company, alleging it failed to warn of bladder cancer risks from taking its Type 2 diabetes drug Actos (pioglitazone hydrochloride). Actos (pioglitazone hydrochloride) is a membe... - Debt Collector Harassment Costs Green Tree Millions
Apr-28-15 Washington, DC Debt collector harassment can come in many forms and from many different purveyors of angst and unfairness. In this case, the harassment came at the hands of a mortgage servicing company that was alleged to have stooped to various forms of bill collector harassment , including multiple calls per day and sometimes as early as 5 am with thr... - Target Settles MasterCard Data Breach Lawsuit
Apr-25-15 New York, NY Target and MasterCard have announced a settlement in lawsuits following the massive 2013 Target data breach . The settlement will see Target set aside up to $19 million to reimburse banks and credit unions affected by the data hack. Target has also announced a settlement with consumers affected by the accessing of private customer informati... - Portland Truck Plant Subject of Oregon Employment Lawsuits Over Harassment
Apr-24-15 Portland, OR An Egyptian-born engineer unhappy with alleged harassment, discrimination and other affronts to Oregon Employment law is the latest to launch an Oregon labor lawsuit against a prominent truck manufacturer based in Portland. Previous Oregon lawsuits against Daimler Trucks of North America LLC (Daimler) have alleged similar complaints. Th... - $15M Settlement Reached in Higher One Fees Class Action Lawsuit
Santa Clara, CA: A $15 million settlement has been reached in a class action lawsuit against Higher One Holdings, Inc., Higher One, Inc., The Bancorp Bank, Wright Express Financial Services Corporation now known as WEX Bank, and Taylor Capital Group, Inc. ("Defendants") regarding the Fees charged and the marketing of the Higher One OneAccount. A... - $512M Settlement Reached in Cephalon Antitrust Class Action Lawsuit
Pittsburgh, PA: A $512 million settlement agreement has been reached in an antitrust lawsuit pending against Cephalon Pharmaceuticals. The lawsuit alleged the defendant delayed the introduction of a generic version of the drug Provigil into the market. According to court documents, the agreement was reached between the class of direct purchase... - Divorce Another Transvaginal Mesh Side Effect
Apr-18-15 North Battleford, SK Joan’s doctor sold her on having an AMS transvaginal mesh implanted at the same time she had a hysterectomy. She didn’t even need the mesh - it was just a precautionary measure so that she wouldn’t have problems with pelvic organ prolapse. “I didn’t even need this mesh and now I am separated because m... - Yasmin Complaints Still Coming In
Apr-16-15 Bend, OR It’s surprising that not everyone has heard about Yasmin and Yaz side effects, and even more surprising that even with 100 deaths linked to the birth control pill, it is still on the market. Darla found out that Yasmin is dangerous just last month - when she suffered a life-threatening pulmonary embolism and deep vein thrombosis (DVT). F... - $4.9 Million Settlement for Worker Injured by Collapsed Wall
Apr-16-15 A Florida man seriously injured by a display wall that fell on him while working at the Houston auto show settled pretrial with the defendants in charge of the wall for $4.9 million. Houston attorney Scott Krist, a member of The National Trial Lawyers Top 100, of The Krist Law Firm, P.C., represented plaintiff David Kisich of Hollywood, Florida. As a... - HSBC, Assurant Agree to Settle Force-Placed Insurance Class Action for $1.8 Million
Apr-16-15 Colorado Springs, CO A well-known national bank that is alleged to have accepted kickbacks from an insurance provider when placing lender insurance on uninsured or under-insured properties, agreed last week to pay $1.8 million to settle a Force-placed insurance lawsuit. As part of the settlement, HSBC Bank will return some 90 percent of the commissi... - The Stryker Compensation Deadline Has Passed—Again
Apr-15-15 Kalamazoo, MI When the Stryker Orthopedics Rejuvenate Modular Hip System Recall resulted in the $1.45 billion settlement announced November 3 of last year, plaintiffs initially had no more than about five weeks to respond. Provided the hip implants had failed and had been replaced via revision surgery prior to the announced date of the settlement, resp... - Risperdal Lawsuits: One for Plaintiff, One (Partial) for Defendant
Apr-14-15 Atlanta, GA Alison is helping her 73-year-old grandfather with a Risperdal lawsuit. She recently discovered that he developed breasts after taking the drug for bipolar disorder. And Tina filed a claim when she learned that her teenage son developed breasts after taking Risperdal for autism two years ago. In February, a jury awarded Austin Pledger $... - Healthcare Fraud Whistleblowers Allege Medicaid and Medicare Out Millions
Apr-12-15 Fort Lauderdale, FL A battle is continuing between a Los Angeles-based nonprofit healthcare foundation that provides services to AIDS patients in 36 countries, and three former employees who accuse AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) of medical billing fraud that has needlessly cost Medicare and Medicaid $20 million, or so it is alleged in a healthcare frau... - Target Corp. on Target with $10 Million Data Breach Settlement
Apr-11-15 St. Paul, MN It’s been a tough couple of years for Target Corp (Target). The retailer’s expansion into Canada failed miserably. What’s more, the massive data breach that hit the retailer in 2013 resulted in class-action lawsuits. Those data breach lawsuits appear to be on their way to being settled, after a US District Court Judge las... - Viacom Reaches A $7.2 Million Settlement in Unpaid Wages Suit
Apr-8-15 Former interns and Viacom Inc. reached a $7.2 million settlement to resolve a labor and wage class action suit involving more than 1,000 interns. Viacom failed to pay wages during their employment. The motion for preliminary approval of the settlement was filed in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. The suit was i... - Back and Neck Injury Claim Headed for US Supreme Court
Apr-8-15 Washington, DC A plaintiff who suffered a back and neck injury at the hands of a drunk driver and spent most of his neck injury compensation money on legal fees and care for himself and his young daughter has successfully petitioned to have the US Supreme Court decide if he needs to pay back more than $120,000 to his benefits plan. According to cour... - AT&T to Pay $25M to Settle Massive Data Breach Lawsuit
New York, NY: AT&T will pay $25 million to resolve claims the phone carrier failed to adequately safeguard personal data of approximately 300,000 customers. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) announced the settlement of its data breach lawsuit this week. The data was stolen from call centers in Mexico, Colombia and the Philippines. ... - Actos Cancer Victims Could See A $2.2B Settlement
Apr-6-15 Santa Clara, CA Takeda Pharmaceutical Co., the maker of Actos (pioglitazone hydrochloride), has agreed to pay over $2.2 billion to settle outstanding personal injury claims. The lawsuits allege that Takeda's diabetes medication increases the risk for cancer in patients using the drug and that it had knowledge of this but failed to properly warn consum...