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Jane Mundy
Jane Mundy As the senior legal correspondent for Online Legal Media since 2004, Jane has interviewed over a thousand people—including plaintiffs and attorneys— about many issues for the company, from bad pharmaceuticals to labor law. She is also an award-winning freelance writer for a variety of international and national magazines and newspapers, including Scientific American, Readers Digest, the Globe & Mail and the National Post.
Jane has also written two Ocean Wise Cookbooks about sustainable seafood, the second having won Taste Canada's Gold Award. When Jane isn't at her computer or in the kitchen, she is hiking with her border collie Lizzy or traveling with her laptop. You can read some of Jane's travel and food articles at janemundy.com.
Almost All Pressure Cooker Lawsuits Settle out of Court, says Attorney
November 29, 2023.
Santa Clara, CA Pressure cooker retailers and distributors are literally under pressure to settle defective pressure cooker lawsuits. “We have successfully gone after the retailers and distributors here in the U.S. because the manufacturers in China are hard to reach,” says attorney Kirk Pope at Pope McGlamry law firm. “They all settle out of court, and most of them very quickly. Not one of our pressure cooker lawsuits has gone to trial, mainly because the defendants don’t want to expose the issue.”
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Attorney Explains Why Lithium Batteries Explode and What You Can Do
November 28, 2023.
Santa Clara, CA Li-ion-powered devices are relatively safe but lithium-ion batteries have become ubiquitous. They are the power source for so many electronic devices, not just smartphones and laptops. They’re in kids’ toys and medical devices, electric cars and e-bikes and even e-cigarettes. Because they have become so common, however, incidents involving lithium-ion battery fires have increased. Attorney Kirk Pope knows first-hand from his clients that these batteries can cause serious burn injuries and even death. Pope McGlamry law firm is focused on holding the manufacturers of lithium-ion batteries and the devices that use them accountable for that harm.
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Bard to Pay $500,000 in Third Bellwether Trial
November 25, 2023.
Santa Clara, CA In the third hernia mesh bellwether trial in multidistrict litigation, C.R. Bard and Davol Inc. were ordered by a federal jury to pay $500,00 to a Maine man who claimed his hernia mesh caused pain and other complications. The jurors found the company liable for failure to warn, strict liability, and negligence but Bard was off the hook for any punitive damages.
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Bayer has been ordered by a Missouri jury to pay $1.56
November 24, 2023.
Jefferson City, MO A Missouri jury ordered Bayer on November 17th to pay $1.56 billion to three plaintiffs who blamed their non-Hodgkin lymphoma on glyphosate in Roundup, Monsanto’s weed- killer.
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Amazon Facing California Wage and Hour Proposed Class Action
November 17, 2023.
Santa Clara, CA A proposed class action filed in California federal court on behalf of Amazon warehouse managers accuses Amazon of violating California labor laws, including failure to pay overtime, not providing adequate meal and rest breaks, and failure to keep accurate payroll records. And this isn’t the first Amazon overtime lawsuit.
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National Collegiate Athletic Association Class Action Lawsuit Going Forward
November 13, 2023.
Santa Clara, CA A California federal judge has given the green light for labor lawsuits accusing the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) of depriving U.S. college athletes of compensation for the commercial use of their “name, image and likeness” to proceed as an anti-trust class action. The plaintiffs, three college athletes, have accused the NCAA and its conferences of conspiring to restrict payments to athletes for television broadcasts, video games and other revenue sources.
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More Black Women Filing Hair Relaxer Lawsuits
November 12, 2023.
Santa Clara, CA As attorneys ramp up advertising on television and social media, more Black women are becoming aware of the association between hair relaxers and uterine cancer, and that at least a dozen cosmetic companies sold their hair straighteners containing dangerous chemicals and failed to warn customers. Many women are just now learning that they have rubbed carcinogenic formaldehyde into their scalps for decades and thousands of hair relaxer lawsuits have been filed – and continue to be filed – by women of color against these companies, including L’Oreal and Revlon.
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Yet Another Geico Overtime Lawsuit
November 7, 2023.
Macon, GA A proposed, nationwide collective of Geico’s call center-based sales workers dating to October 2020 claims the insurer required its sales representatives to work several minutes daily before and after their regular shift without pay. The Geico overtime lawsuit demands all unpaid overtime wages accrued during the untracked time, plus liquidated damages. Another lawsuit filed earlier this year accuses Geico of misclassification to avoid workers’ benefits and overtime and in 2022 class action status was granted in a former claim adjuster’s lawsuit accusing GEICO of violating federal and state overtime laws.
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$155 Million Overtime Settlement Approved for Prison Supervisors
November 6, 2023.
San Francisco, CA A $155 million overtime settlement filed by current and retired California prison supervisors has been approved by a San Francisco Superior Court Judge. The original California labor lawsuit, dating back to 2008, alleged unpaid overtime wages for tasks performed before and after their shifts.
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Attorney Discusses Bard Power Port Failures and Lawsuits
November 2, 2023.
Santa Clara, CA After serious injuries have been linked to Bard PowerPort catheters, many PowerPort lawsuits have been filed. The Dickey Anderson law firm alone has filed dozens of complaints, which could be the tip of the iceberg: The FDA has received thousands of reports from patients claiming injuries or side effects from the Bard catheters. “Most of our clients have developed infection from this defective port-catheter and one woman had to undergo surgery to remove the implanted device,” says attorney Aaron Dickey. “Another client had a cardiac injury that we believe was attributed to Bard’s catheter. These injuries shouldn’t have happened because the science was there to make a safer alternative.”
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- California Sues Meta Over Youth Marketing (Oct-31-23)
- Hair Relaxer Formaldehyde and the FDA’s Failure to Warn (Oct-31-23)
- Camp LeJeune Master and Short Form Complaint (Oct-30-23)
- Monsanto In and Out of Roundup’s Weeds (Oct-28-23)
- Company Secrets: Apple v. Rivos (Oct-25-23)
- Equinox $36 million settlement for California Wage and Hour Lawsuits (Oct-16-23)
- Background Actor Files California Labor Law Complaint against HBO (Oct-11-23)
- Philips Cuts Deal with Owners of Recalled CPAP Machines and Lawsuit Claims FDA Fails CPAP Users (Oct-9-23)
- Operators of 14 Subway Restaurants: Sell or Shutdown (Oct-4-23)
- Amazon Unpaid Wages During COVID Screenings Settled (Sep-29-23)
- Twitter’s Age Discrimination Lawsuit Proceeds Says California Judge (Sep-27-23)
- San Francisco files Misclassification Lawsuit Against Qwick Hospitality Staffing Company (Sep-26-23)
- Experienced Birth Injury Attorneys Discuss Lawsuits and Settlements (Sep-23-23)
- Hair Relaxer Makers Splitting Hairs in Georgia Court (Sep-21-23)
- Navy Offers Elective Option to Hasten Camp Lejeune Settlements (Sep-20-23)
- Monsanto RoundUp Lawsuit Update (Sep-18-23)
- New York Pizza Shops Allegedly Pay Less than Minimum Wage (Sep-15-23)
- WestRock Disability Discrimination Lawsuit Amounts to $9.5 million (Sep-14-23)
- 3M Settles Earplug Lawsuits for $6 Billion (Sep-13-23)
- Apple Settles California Wage & Hour Lawsuit (Sep-12-23)
- California Real Estate Agents Entitled to Overtime (Sep-11-23)
- New FDA Hernia Mesh Information and its Flawed 501(k) Process (Sep-6-23)
- Twitter Tries to Bail on Bonusses (Aug-31-23)
- California Judge Approves Old Dominion Freight Line and Dockworkers Settlement (Aug-27-23)
- Camp LeJeune Lawsuits at a Crawl as More Wrongful Death Lawsuits Filed (Aug-24-23)
- Monsanto Roundup $7M Settlement (Aug-22-23)
- Philips’ Objections Over CPAP Lawsuits and Another Obstacle (Aug-21-23)
- Hair Straightener Litigation Raising Cancer Awareness (Aug-18-23)
- Pepsi and Former Factory Worker Settle Overtime Lawsuit (Aug-14-23)
- Court Ruling Increases Disney Employees’ Minimum Wage (Aug-10-23)
- SpaceX Slammed with another California Labor Class Action Lawsuit (Aug-9-23)
- Walt Disney’s Female Employees File Sex Discrimination Lawsuit (Aug-7-23)
- Hernia Mesh Updates: Bard Trial and FDA’s Pros and Cons (Jul-25-23)
- Two California Public Water Utility Attorneys Awarded $6 million (Jul-21-23)
- Au Pairs Can Advertise Proposed Wage Collective (Jul-18-23)
- Philadelphia’s Roundup Lawsuits get Trial Dates and New York Settlement (Jul-14-23)
- Hair Relaxer Makers Challenge Hair Straightener Cancer Lawsuits as more Complaints Filed (Jul-13-23)
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