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Top 10 Legal News Stories of 2013

January 7th, 2014. By AbiK

Bet you can’t guess what the top legal news story on LawyersandSettlements.com was for 2013 (and no, none of them featured former NYC mayoral hopeful Anthony Weiner…).

I’ll take that bet even further—I bet most attorneys, who you’d think would be in the know on these things, couldn’t even guess.

That’s because 2013 turned out to be a pretty interesting year in terms of the top legal news stories our journalists covered. While employment lawsuits—typically involving issues such as unpaid overtime and misclassification, on-the-job discrimination, workers’ comp, and wrongful termination—are always reader faves, in 2013 something strange happened: employment issues did not show up in our top ten news stories. At all.

Go figure, eh?

To be fair, when it came to content posted other than legal news articles (i.e., emerging issues, settlements, lawsuits filed), employment settlements drew the most readers. But it was health-related issues that drove readers’ interest when it came to articles and interviews. Here’s how the year’s top ten legal news stories played out (as measured by number of clicks the articles published in 2013 received):

1. Denied Disability: Social Security Recognizes Fibromyalgia

2. Health Canada Documents Link Yasmin and Yaz to Deaths

3. Are Fen-Phen Pills Back? You Would be Half-Right…

4. New York State Cracks Down on Illegal Internet Payday Loans

5. Mirena User Suffers Miscarriage, Now Filing Mirena Lawsuit

6. Mirena Side Effects Lead to Early Hysterectomy for Young Plaintiff

7. Monster Caffeine Levels: When Too Much Energy Isn’t Good for You

8. Junior Hockey League Player Filing Ulcerative Colitis Accutane Lawsuit

9. Yasmin Birth Control Suspected in Deaths of Canadian Teens

10. Mesothelioma Victim Awarded $8 Million

And if you’re wondering what the number one legal news story was for 2012…here’s that one (and, you guessed it, it was about a wage and hour lawsuit, the ‘Lunch Break Lawsuit‘ (Brinker Restaurant Corp. v. Superior Court))

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