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Sep-29-08 New York, NY In yet another result of the credit crisis , the rumored sale of Wachovia to Citigroup has just come to pass only hours ago, further concentrating increased power and influence of the nation's banking industry into just 3 banks. Whether that proves a good, or a bad thing for America is yet to be determined. However, with about 30 percent of... - Lipitor Studies Show No Significant Benefit in Women
Ads Fail to Report Lack of Efficacy in Women A new study that looked at the use of Pfizer's cholesterol lowering drug, Lipitor, suggests that there is no evidence of the drug reducing the risk for heart attacks in women. Furthermore, while the Lipitor FDA-approved label does state that there is a lack of evidence of benefit in women, the Lipitor a... - Retirement Fund Investment Risk Ripoff
Investors beware: Banks, brokers and investment firms are passing investment risk to investors in the form of fixed income products. This investment risk is also being passed on to seniors and those who are on a fixed-income. Perhaps the most risky fixed income products are investments linked to mortgage obligations. Banks have been passing their non-pe... - Environmental Alert: The Drugs in Your Water Supply
Sep-15-08 Washington, DC If the old adage, 'you are what you eat' is true, then it would also hold that you are what you drink—something that could be morphing into the latest environmental issue . The suggestion is that we all might turn into pharmaceutical addicts just by drinking the tap water. Yes, that's an exaggeration—but what isn't are the traces of... - Attorney Brian Maul Wins Big for Sub Prime Mortgage Victim
Aug-13-08 Frederick, MD Attorney Brian Maul says he has had several phone calls this week from people who would like his help, after he won a whooping $1.25 million in compensatory and punitive damages at trial against the Wells Fargo Bank on behalf of woman who was a victim of the sub prime mortgage debacle. "I am sure there are others out there who went through... - Commercial Contract Law: A Runaway Train in California
Aug-10-08 Victorville, CA A commercial contract between the City of Victorville, in California and the developers of a planned hi-speed train has raised the hackles of an investment company that had recently purchased land near the project, with an eye for some development of its own. Niles LLC has filed a civil suit against Victorville, with the hope of invali... - Truck Accidents: Families Left Devastated
Jun-22-08 Chicago, IL Several lawsuits have been filed recently, following a series of serious truck accidents. Some of the lawsuits involve high profile accidents, such as the one at the Chicago CTA station, while others involve smaller profile crashes. However, no matter how high the profile of the accident, when a semi truck is involved the accident is almost a... - Landlord and Tenant: Let's Get Personal…
Jun-12-08 Miami, FL This is about Landlord and Tenant rights , taken from the tenant's point of view. And this also gets personal, because this is about me. And this is what happens when no one does anything, to right a wrong. And the wrong, was that four children were made to shiver through a merciless Canadian winter, without heat… When my parents split u... - Austral Pacific Energy Ltd. $1.6 million settlement reached in drilling costs dispute.
Wellington, New Zealand: (May-27-08) Austral Pacific Energy Ltd. recently announced that it has reached a settlement agreement related to the drilling of the A6 and A7 wells in the onshore Taranaki Cheal Oil Field in Stratford, New Zealand. The deal, entered into by Austral and the Cheal Joint Venture, resulted in the completion and tie-in in time to del... - Lawsuit Alleges Tattoo Parlor Rules Violate Civil Rights
May-14-08 Watsonville, CA A lawsuit has been filed in San Jose federal court that alleges that Watsonville's rules that govern tattoo shops violate civil rights. The lawsuit is stating that equal protection rights and free speech are violated, which would be in violation of the Constitution's 14 Amendment. Kate Wells, a civil rights lawyer based out of Santa Cruz... - Oil Companies to pay $423 million settlement in environmental lawsuit.
New York, NY: (May-07-08) 153 public water providers in 17 states brought a lawsuit against a dozen of the nation's largest oil companies, alleging that groundwater had been contaminated by the gasoline additive MTBE. The suit named BP America Inc., a unit of BP PLC, Chevron Corp, ConocoPhillips, Shell Oil Co., Marathon Oil Corp., Citgo Petroleum Corp.,... - Jim Wells County to pay $110,000 settlement in lawsuit.
Austin, TX: (May-05-08) Javier Gonzales, an Austin man, brought a lawsuit against the Jim Wells County Task Force, alleging that they wrongly seized money from him in 2005. Javier Gonzales's suit was brought in the Southern District of Texas US District Court in July 2007, in which he claimed that the task force placed a seizure on $10,000 of his money... - Energy companies to pay $25 million settlement in environmental lawsuit.
Billings, MT: (May-02-08) 57 plaintiffs, including some plant workers, brought a water contamination lawsuit against eastern Montana's Colstrip power plant, claiming that the plant was contaminating water supplies beneath at least one Colstrip subdivision for years before notifying the community. The suit, filed in 2003 named PPL Montana, Puget Sou... - Chicago L-Station Nightmare
May-2-08 Chicago IL: Rush hour, downtown Chicago, on a Friday afternoon - the perfect setting for a major truck accident . And that's just what happened on Friday, April 25, 2008, when a renegade tractor-trailer rig plowed into the Cermak/Chinatown Chicago Transit Authority L-station killing two women and injuring a further 21 innocent bystanders. The tractor-t... - Lawsuit Pending Against Wells Fargo due to Illiquidity of Securities for Investors
Apr-26-08 San Francisco,CA The effects of the fallout in the auction rate securities market is being felt everywhere across the country. A crop of lawsuits is springing up for brokerage firms that dealt in securities that are now in a state of illiquidity for investors. Wells Fargo and Co. and its non-bank subsidiary, Wells Fargo Investments that is based in San Fra... - Investor files lawsuit against Wells Fargo
Apr-7-08 San Antonio, TX: A man by the name of Cory Walters filed a lawsuit against Wells Fargo, alleging that it is in violation of the Texas Business Commerce Code and the Federal Securities Act when he received financial direction from them, according to the lawsuit filed in San Antonio federal court. His suit is just one of many where people are filing lawsuits... - PG&E to pay $20 million settlement in water contamination litigation.
Hinkley, CA: (Apr-01-08) Several lawsuits were brought against Pacific Gas & Electric Company, after the release of the movie 'Erin Brockovich' in 2000, showing that 104 people were exposed to contaminated water in the town. The suits alleged that Pacific Gas & Electric exposed people to the cancer-causing chemical chromium 6 in the high desert town of H... - Attorney Charles W. Shipley Speaks on Messing with Farmers and the Environment
Mar-25-08 Tulsa, OK LawyersandSettlements heard from Tulsa attorney Chuck Shipley recently when he alerted us to a recent $21 million class action verdict against OK Foods of Fort Smith, Arkansas on behalf of 300 chicken farmers. When we spoke to him, he was just back from a week off. We didn't need to ask many questions! LawyersandSettlements (LAS): Where have... - Medtronic: It's Not Just Sprint Fidelis
Mar-11-08 Rancho Mirage, CA Sandy Wells never had an implantable cardiac defibrillator with defective Medtronic Sprint Fidelis leads in her body. That's the good news. The bad news is that she did have a Medtronic Synergy neurostimulator implanted under her arm in hopes of relieving her chronic migraine headaches. The unsurprising news is that, like the Sprin... - Yamaha Rhino Rolls Onto Driver's Leg
Mar-7-08 Galla Rock, AR If a picture is worth a thousand words, then the video of a Yamaha Rhino rolling over onto the driver's left leg makes a dramatic statement. The Yamaha Rhino has come under fire after a number of injuries and deaths have been attributed to the 4-wheel ATV. Unlike other all-terrain vehicles with either three, or four wheels designed in a...