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Santa Clara, CA: A $12.25 million employment class action settlement has been reached between Lyft drivers and the ride share app, which would provide additional job security to a proposed class of drivers, both current and former workers for Lyft in California. However, Lyft refuses to classify its drivers as employees. Currently, drivers for Lyft... - More Lawsuits Filed Alleging Monster Energy Drink Injury
Mar-1-16 Riverside, CA: A product that is alleged to trigger heart attacks, strokes, brain damage and kidney failure in people as young as 14 is facing additional litigation following the filing of lawsuits against Monster Beverage Corp. Plaintiffs allege Monster Energy Drink Deaths and Hospitalizations . The lawsuits - four in number - were filed February 8... - Propecia Still Popular despite Dangers
Feb-23-16 Springfield, IL: Despite more than 1,000 Propecia lawsuits filed against Merck, and mounting evidence that Propecia sexual complications can be permanent, the hair loss drug is one of the biggest sellers for many Internet pharmacies. If a doctor isn’t consulted first, the hair loss drug can be dangerous - some pharmacies are less scrupulous th... - Delivery Drivers Win $2.8M Settlement in Employment Class Action Lawsuit
Chicago, IL: A $2.8 million settlement has been reached in an employment class action lawsuit pending against 3PD Inc. The lawsuit was filed by delivery drivers who alleged the company wrongfully classified them as contractors in order to place the cost of trucks and damage to goods on to the drivers. Specifically, the drivers claimed they worked... - Judge Denies GlaxoSmithKline’s Motion to Dismiss, Mothers Allege Birth Defects Linked to Zofran
Feb-26-16 Birmingham, AL : With more than 220 Zofran lawsuits consolidated for multidistrict litigation, a judge has denied GlaxoSmithKline’s motion to dismiss all lawsuits. Plaintiffs allege their infants were born with birth defects after being exposed to anti-nausea medications prior to birth. They further allege the harm was a result of GlaxoSmithKline... - California Plaintiff Alleges Violations of Overtime, Meal Breaks
Feb-29-16 Los Angeles, CA: The new year brought a resolution to right a wrong for one California plaintiff, who last month filed a California Labor Lawsuit alleging nonpayment of owed overtime pay, together with the lack of provision and allowance for uninterrupted meal breaks as required under California labor law and the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). The... - Inventor of Bair Hugger “On a Mission” to Warn Public
Feb-29-16 Houston, TX: No doubt, the Bair Hugger warming blanket has made a valuable contribution to medicine. It is standard equipment in almost every operating room in the United States. An electric heater blows warm air through tubes in a disposable blanket draped over the patient during surgery. It prevents patients from slipping into a hypothermic state. ... - File Mirena Lawsuits Sooner than Later
Feb-19-16 Bergen County, NJ: Four Mirena lawsuits against Bayer were thrown out last month - the judge ruling that the women had filed too late. There are several reasons why the lawsuits weren’t filed within the statute of limitations (SOL). One reason is that the SOL varies by state . Another reason could be the attorney’s fault. For example... - Panel Declines Consolidation of Credit Union Lawsuits
Feb-22-16 Edwardsville, IL: It’s not just the banks who are under fire for excessive overdraft fees ; credit unions also face allegations that they used illegal means to increase profits from overdraft charges. Although credit union overdraft lawsuits are moving ahead, they will not do so as a consolidated motion, after a judicial panel ruled the lawsuits w... - Carrier IQ Preliminary $9M Spyware Class Action Settlement Reached
Santa Clara, CA: A preliminary settlement agreement has been reached in a wire tap class action lawsuit filed by owners of mobile phones with Carrier IQ Software on their devices and who alleged having experienced the interception and logging of SMS text messages content and Internet search terms, among other communications, by that software. ... - Benicar Lawsuits Keep Climbing, Bellwether Trials Expected Later This Year
Feb-28-16 Parsippany, NJ: As we begin our progression into the new year, the parade of Benicar Lawsuits continues in kind. To that end, a report filed with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in the fall revealed that lawsuits at the time numbered over 1,000 and are probably well above that number in the weeks and months since November 6, when the Fo... - Transvaginal Mesh—The Past Five Years
Feb-21-16 Washington, DC: From 2011, the FDA has warned health professionals and the public that transvaginal mesh was associated with serious complications that were not rare, and recommended the mesh be bumped up from moderate to high risk. Almost five years later, the agency has reclassified mesh products designed and marketed for transvaginal treatment o... - $75M in Damages Awarded in Talcum Powder Cancer Lawsuit
Feb-24-16 Santa Clara, CA: $75 million in damages has been awarded against Johnson & Johnson (J&J), in a suit alleging the talcum powder Jacqueline Fox used caused her to develop ovarian cancer. Fox's case was heard by a jury in St. Louis, Missouri, and is just one of more than 60 cases consolidated into a single suit alleging cancer caused by talcu... - Talc Cancer Attorney Has a Message for Johnson & Johnson
Feb-27-16 Birmingham, AL: Veteran attorney Jere Beasley, from the Beasley Allen firm, publicly called upon Johnson & Johnson (J&J) to post on its corporate website all the evidence presented in the Jackie Fox wrongful death suit that linked J&J’s Baby Powder product to ovarian cancer. “This is important that the public see this informa... - California Overtime Lawsuit Alleges Restaurants Violate Pay Laws
Feb-27-16 Los Angeles, CA: A California overtime lawsuit alleges a company that owns IHOP and Applebee’s restaurants violates California overtime laws by not properly paying overtime and other earned wages. The lawsuit was filed on February 18, 2016, by Jewel Gardner against DineEquity Inc. in California court. Gardner argues in her lawsuit that she was mi... - Xarelto Lawsuits at 3,000 and Counting in Just Five Years
Feb-26-16 New Orleans, LA: It was in July 2011 that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved Xarelto (Rivaroxaban) as a long-awaited successor to the 50-year-old Coumadin (warfarin), the standard for blood thinning for a half-century. While warfarin is not infallible (no drug is), any litigation involving the latter over its tenure on the market pales in c... - Stryker OP-1 Bone Filler Anything but Putty in a Surgeon’s Hands
Feb-22-16 Washington, DC: In 2012, Online Legal Media senior writer Jane Mundy first recounted the story of April Cabana, who underwent what she thought to be routine back surgery in 2008. However, the procedure left her permanently disabled. Why? Allegedly due to the use of Stryker OP-1 Putty Linked to Adverse Events , in tandem with another product, Calstru... - 1% of Physicians Account for One-third of Paid Medical Malpractice Claims
Feb-25-16 The New England Journal of Medicine has analyzed some appalling data that 1% of physicians account for approximately 32% of paid medical malpractice claims. The data - which was pulled from the National Practitioner Data Bank - shows that over a recent 10-year period, a small number of physicians with distinctive characteristics accounted for a dispr... - Mammoth Asbestos Trial Scheduled This Month in Kentucky
Feb-25-16 Owensboro, KY: An asbestosis lawsuit brought by plaintiff Doris White and scheduled to go to trial this month underwent some changes in December of last year, although the case was preserved. The circumstances of the case, while not unique, are nonetheless a little different from the everyday fodder of the legal blotter. White, the plaintiff who suf... - California Overtime Lawsuit Settlement Awards Restaurant Workers
Feb-18-16 Los Angeles, CA: Contrary to how some restaurant employers choose to conduct business, it doesn’t pay to cheat employees out of California overtime pay. For example, a recent overtime complaint resulted in the owners of a number of sushi and ramen eateries, namely Gatten Sushi and Yushoken Ramen, paying their sushi chefs and other workers $621,00...