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Sort by date 16,482 pages found matching <a href=""></a>- Yasmin Almost Ruined Wedding Day
Aug-6-13 Merrick, NY Corrine only took Yasmin for a few months prior to her wedding day. Ironically, the birth control pill almost caused the big day to be canceled! “I wasn’t on any birth control until a few months before I got married because I didn’t want to get my period on my wedding day,” Corrine explains. Her wedding was on a S... - Financial Elder Abuse Often Perpetrated by Trusted Family and Friends
Aug-6-13 Anaheim, CA Most people would like to think that those who would commit financial elder abuse in California or across the US are strangers or people not closely associated with the victim, not trusted family and friends. But the truth is that much California elderly financial abuse is committed by the victim’s loved ones. Friends, children and si... - Medtronic Infuse Lawsuit Muddle
Aug-10-13 Los Angeles, CA Shortly after a California man filed a Medtronic Infuse Bone Graft lawsuit against Medtronic Inc., the manufacturer, a motion to dismiss the Medtronic Infuse lawsuit was denied by an Illinois state judge on the grounds that it was used off-label. But just this week, a Minneapolis judge ruled that federal law will not allow Minnesota c... - Even Mild Brain Injury Can Lead to Multimillion-Dollar Settlements
Aug-10-13 Waterford, CT An injury to the brain, either unto itself or in concert with other injuries (such as those sustained in an accident), can seriously impact a person’s life and livelihood, and can be the foundation for litigation in order to seek needed compensation for medical care. But not all brain injuries can be described as a traumatic brain injur... - Asbestos Mud Drilling Exposes Workers to Serious Health Problems
Aug-9-13 New Orleans, LA Imagine working with a material you were told was safe only to be told later it contained a carcinogen that could cause serious health problems. That is the issue facing many a mud engineer , people who worked with drilling mud, which often has asbestos mixed in. Despite working with a carcinogen, many of the people who worked with drill... - And Now a Mirena Birth Control Side Effect You Haven’t Heard About…
Aug-9-13 Cleveland, OH Sara knows all about Mirena birth control side effects . The mother of three opted for the Bayer IUD (intra-uterine device) three years ago but soon began to experience severe pain. After reporting to the emergency room of her local hospital, the pretty blonde was told her Mirena IUD had migrated away from the initial insertion point. &... - Second California Wrongful Death Lawsuit Filed Against Monster
Silver Spring, MD: Monster Beverage Corporation is facing a wrongful death lawsuit brought by the family of 19 year-old Alex Morris, who suffered a cardiac arrest and died on July 1, 2012. The Alameda County, California Coroner determined that the cause of death was cardiac arrhythmia and cardiomyopathy. The autopsy and toxicity reports confirm... - Oil & Gas Workers Win Wage & Hour Back Pay Victory
Jul-31-13 Washington, DC Morco Geological Services Inc., doing business as Morco Geological, has agreed to pay $595,737 in back wages to 121 current and former mud logging technicians following an investigation by the US Labor Department’s Wage and Hour Division, which found violations of the minimum wage, overtime and record-keeping provisions of t... - Patients, Doctors Say Lipitor Generally Is Not Good for You
Aug-8-13 Washington, DC Dr. Mohammad H. Chaudhry is a noted cardiologist who practices at the Heart Center in Takoma Park, Maryland. He has a few things to say about Lipitor and other statins like it. He has some things to say about how they work, what their side effects are and how lipitor mdl patients can get off the statin treadmill. There may be some ver... - LiveDeal Settles Consumer Fraud Class Action Lawsuit
Las Vegas, NV: LiveDeal, Inc, has finalized a settlement in the consumer fraud class action lawsuit Global Education Services, Inc. v. LiveDeal, Inc., et al. Final approval of the settlement occurred on May 27, 2013, marking the formal end of the litigation. Dismissal of the lawsuit is pending. Global Education Services, Inc., the lead plain... - Groupon Canada Reaches Tentative Settlement
Toronto, ON: A potential consumer fraud class action lawsuit pending against Groupon over expired deal purchases has reached a proposed settlement. The lawsuit, filed in Canada, alleges that Groupon' use of, and representations to, consumers about the expiry date and partial redemption provisions in its contracts are illegal practices. The settlem... - Jackson National Life Insurance Agrees $24M Settlement In Elder Financial Fraud Class Action
San Francisco, CA: A $25 million settlement has been proposed, which, if approved, would settle the proposed consumer fraud and elder financial abuse class action pending against Jackson National Life Insurance Co. The insurer has agreed to pay the settlement which would end the litigation and bring economic relief to over 44,000 elderly customers in C... - Zoloft Lawsuit Filed in Philadelphia
Aug-3-13 Philadelphia, PA A Zoloft lawsuit alleging wrongful death has been filed against Pfizer and the maker of a generic version of Zoloft in Philadelphia. The lawsuit alleges an infant boy died of generic Zoloft birth defects and that the companies involved in the making of Zoloft and generic Zoloft failed to warn about the risks of Zoloft side effects. ... - New Concerns Arise from SSRI Side Effects
Aug-7-13 Ayrshire, Scotland Anna Wilson was 20 weeks pregnant when doctors performed a routine scan and told the Ayrshire, Scotland mother-to-be that her unborn child had a heart problem and would need surgery. Little David is now nine months old and has already had that operation. He’ll require another open-heart surgical procedure by the age of five. Even... - ERISA Lawsuits Filed following Striking of DOMA
Aug-2-13 Chicago, IL ERISA lawsuits have been filed in the aftermath of the Supreme Court’s ruling striking down the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA). The act, which was struck down in the lawsuit of Edith Windsor, has paved the way for lawsuits, including ERISA lawsuits, to be filed across the United States, as people in same-sex marriages fight for their r... - Keeping Topamax Side Effects Top of Mind
Aug-6-13 Washington, DC There are so many issues with regard to Topamax side effects , it’s hard to know where to begin. But suffice to say that a medication designed to mitigate seizures and migraine headaches can prove a headache unto itself. The tragedy is when expectant mothers consume Topamax for whatever reason and in so doing introduce a very rea... - “File a Yasmin Claim, Just in Case”
Jul-28-13 Tacoma, WA It never occurred to Mary until some time later that an “incident” at work was in fact a mini-stroke. And it never occurred to her that Yasmin was the cause. It never even crossed her doctor’s mind that Yasmin was associated with stroke, but as soon as her ob-gyn found out, she told Mary to stop taking it - immediately. ... - Parents Blame Depakote for Son’s Autism
Aug-5-13 Pikeville, NC “When my wife was first prescribed Depakote for seizures, we were never warned about any Depakote side effects,” says Anthony. “There is no way my wife would have continued had we known about Depakote birth defects .” Anthony’s son has been diagnosed with autism and he believes the epilepsy drug is to blame... - Thousands of Americans Dying from Asbestos Disease Each Year
Aug-5-13 Washington, DC Each year, an estimated 10,000 Americans die from asbestos-related disease: 3,000 from mesothelioma, 5,000 from lung cancer, and 2,000 from other cancers or respiratory diseases. Between 2000 and 2010, 43,464 Americans died from mesothelioma and asbestosis--- just two of the leading asbestos-caused diseases. "One life lost to a preve... - For Some Plaintiffs, Pre-Settlement Funding Remains Their Only Option
Aug-5-13 New York, NY While critics of pre-settlement funding continue to rail on about high funding fees, the good news for the legal consumer is that the increasing choices in the market, including the relatively new funding structure designed to help plaintiffs through a tough financial time while waiting for a case to settle, is seeing dozens of players. ...