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Sort by date 16,482 pages found matching <a href=""></a>- FDA Issues Serious Adverse Event Warnings for Thoratec HeartMate II and HeartWare HVAD
Washington, DC: The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is alerting health care providers, patients, and caregivers about serious adverse events associated with LVADs. These adverse events include an increased rate of pump thrombosis (blood clots inside the pump) with Thoratec' HeartMate II and a high rate of stroke with the HeartWare HVAD since app... - UCLA Data Breach Lawsuit Legal News and Information
Patients of UCLA Health System Auxiliary have filed a data breach lawsuit , alleging UCLA Health failed to properly secure personal medical information. The lawsuit alleges the UCLA Health data breach potentially exposed the personal information of up to 4.5 million patients. UCLA Data Breach In July 2015, UCLA Health System announced... - 11th Circuit Moves Alabama Middle School Rape Bait Case Forward
Sep-10-15 The Eleventh Circuit court of appeals allowed a sexual harassment suit against an Alabama school board and its administrators to proceed, after school staff used a young female student as bait to catch a sexual predator. An eighth grade student, age 14, referred to as Doe, at Sparkman Middle School in Huntsville, AL, was raped after a teacher’s aide... - Unum Employee Denied Unum Disability Benefits
Sep-3-15 Chattanooga, TN Yolanda received short-term disability benefits from Unum, or Unum Provident after suffering a back injury, and her benefits should have rolled into long-term disability benefits. Yolanda should know - she was a Unum disability specialist for five years. But Unum doesn’t even look after its own... “Unum’s reasonin... - FDA Warns of First Cases of PML Associated with MS Drug Gilenya
Washington, DC: The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is warning that a case of definite progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy (PML) ( and a case of probable PML have been reported in patients taking Gilenya (fingolimod) for multiple sclerosis (MS). These are the first cases of PML reported in patients taking Gilenya who had not been pr... - FDA Concerned About Daytrana Side Effects
Sep-5-15 Washington, DC The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued a warning that Daytrana side effects could include a risk of permanent skin disfiguration. The warning came in June 2015, when the FDA said it had received 51 cases of chemical leukoderma - changing of skin color - in the past eight years. Daytrana is a skin patch used to treat att... - IVC Filter Lawsuits Moving Forward
Aug-29-15 Boston, MA The makers of retrievable IVC (inferior vena cava) filters face numerous lawsuits alleging the filters are linked to serious complications, including migration, fracture, tilting and perforation, putting patients at risk of life-threatening consequences. According to John Dalimonte, partner at the law firm of Karon & Dalimonte, LLP, the... - Benicar Lawsuits Continue to Climb
Sep-8-15 Newark, NJ Proponents of Benicar lawsuits wonder about the time lag between the approval of a pharmaceutical drug and official warnings about potentially serious side effects. To that end, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved Benicar as a viable and safe drug to treat the effects of high blood pressure in April 2002. It wasn’t until... - Uber Lawsuit Gets Class-Action Status
Sep-8-15 San Francisco, CA A California labor lawsuit filed by Uber drivers has been granted class-action status. The California labor lawsuit alleged Uber violated various employment laws by classifying the drivers as independent contractors instead of as employees and cheating the drivers out of tips. In making his ruling, U.S. District Judge Edward M. Chen r... - Mother “Channeling Anger into a Zofran Lawsuit”
Sep-7-15 New York, NY At least three dozen lawsuits claim that Zofran used during pregnancy caused children to be born with birth defects. The birth defects range from cleft palate to spina bifida and the most recent - a missing kidney. But every lawsuit is similar in its allegations. And every mother said that, had she known Zofran can cause birth defects, she... - NBC Nightly News Investigates the Safety of Bard IVC Filters
Sep-3-15 Los Angeles, CA Medical complications and the safety record associated with CR Bard IVC Filters are the subject of a shocking NBC Nightly News two-part investigative report, with second part set to air tonight. The report investigates the near death of Dodi Froehlich as a result of her BARD IVC Recovery Filter implant breaking and piercing her he... - More Patient Information Reportedly Compromised
Sep-6-15 Los Angeles, CA Concerns continue to grow in the wake of the UCLA data breach that UCLA isn’t taking the security of personal information seriously enough. More than 4.5 million patients may have been affected by the data breach, which could have occurred as early as September 2014. Now, patients are learning that a computer with personal informa... - Bair Hugger Lawsuit Alleges Serious MRSA Infection
Sep-2-15 St. Paul, MN The overtures of the original inventor of the so-called Bair Hugger medical warming blanket notwithstanding, a Bair Hugger lawsuit has been filed in Minnesota over injuries alleged to have been caused by the oft-used medical device. The Bair Hugger, a warming blanket, was developed by a US surgeon and approved by the US Food and Drug Ad... - Harvoni Lawsuit Filed by Inmates Seeks Class-Action Status
Sep-4-15 Boston, MA Inmates are people too. And they get sick; with a sizeable number infected with hepatitis C. Prison populations are among the most infected, requiring treatment. However, the problems many plaintiffs are having with the inability to access the effective but expensive Harvoni drug are also being felt by those in the penal system. To that end, the... - Jury Awards $67 Million to Passenger Paralyzed in Chain Reaction Auto Accident
Sep-4-15 Corpus Christi, TX: A young man who was paralyzed in a company vehicle accident recovered a jury verdict of $67.4 million. Thomas J. Henry Injury Attorneys represented the plaintiff. The auto accident occurred on August 28, 2012 when Christopher J. Arnold was a passenger in a Ford SportTrak vehicle traveling on FM 624 (Northwest Blvd.) near Calallen... - Courts Consider Zofran Lawsuit Consolidation As More Lawsuits Are Filed
Aug-28-15 Wilmington, DE As more Zofran lawsuits alleging infants were born with cardiac defects after exposure to Zofran are filed, the US Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation (JPML) is considering whether to consolidate the lawsuits for pretrial proceedings. Lawsuits allege Zofran has been prescribed off-label to treat morning sickness after GlaxoSmithKl... - Xarelto MDL Gathers Steam
Aug-30-15 Anaheim, CA If you thought the number of Xarelto lawsuits filed was about to slow down, you might have to think again. In the past month, another 400 or so lawsuits have been added to the Xarelto multidistrict litigation, alleging patients suffered serious Xarelto side effects, including uncontrolled bleeding. According to court documents, 1,231 law... - Accutane User Beyond Angry
Sep-2-15 Peoria, AZ: Kelly stopped taking Accutane after just two weeks but she believes the acne medicine has already caused permanent damage. “Soon after I started Accutane I had serious abdominal pain and now I have been diagnosed with Irritable Bowel Syndrome - it’s not a stretch to connect the dots,” says Kelly. Kelly, aged 28, says... - Stryker OP-1 Putty Linked to Adverse Events
Boston, MA: A number of spinal injury patients who have undergone spinal surgery and/or spinal fusion with Stryker Corp.' OP-1 Implant and Stryker OP-1 Putty have reported potentially fatal adverse events associated with the products. Spinal fusion complications include swelling of neck and throat tissue, resulting in compression of the airway and/or... - Data Breach Lawsuit Information and Legal News
A data breach occurs when sensitive information collected (and sometimes stored) by a company is made vulnerable by someone illegally accessing that information. Information breaches can occur in a number of ways, but generally involve computer hackers or computer theft, followed by unlawful access to customer or client information. This sometimes resul...