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Sort by date 16,481 pages found matching <a href=""></a>- Florida Labor Law Requiring Unemployed to Volunteer Considered
Feb-18-11 Tallahassee, FL A state lawmaker is looking to create a Florida labor law that would require those who are unemployed to volunteer in order to receive their unemployment checks, Fox News reports. Republican State Representative Kathleen Passidomo reportedly introduced the bill, which would force the unemployed to volunteer at a non-profit organiza... - WellCare Reaches Preliminary Settlement in Securities Class Action
TampaBay, FL: WellCare Health Plans Inc. has signed an agreement finalizing the terms of a $200 million settlement in a securities class action lawsuit. The settlement, which still requires court approval, is intended to resolve all the claims that are the subject of the class action, WellCare said in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Com... - Levaquin Case Awards $1.8 Million In Damages
Minneapolis, MN: An 82-year old Minnesota man who sued Johnson & Johnson over allegations that their antibiotic Levaquin caused damage to his tendons, has been awarded $1.8 million in damages by the jury hearing his case. The jury awarded $1.1 million in punitive damages and $630,000 in compensatory damages to John Schedin, a former Marine,... - Seven Lots of Heparin Recalled
Washington, DC: B. Braun Medical Inc. (B. Braun) was recently notified by its supplier, Scientific Protein Laboratories LLC (SPL), of a nationwide recall of a lot of Heparin Sodium USP Active Pharmaceutical Ingredient (API) sold to B. Braun because additional testing of retained crude heparin samples used by SPL to manufacture this single API lot indi... - Investors Turning to Arbitration to Recover Losses to Regions Morgan Keegan Funds
Feb-12-11 New York, NY The dramatic loss of value in the Regions Morgan Keegan funds probably took even the most seasoned investor by surprise. While investors realize they stand a chance of losing some of their investment, losing up to 65 percent of the value of the RMK funds is astonishing to some. Now, investors are turning to FINRA arbitration to recover the... - BP Faces ERISA Lawsuit
Feb-17-11 Columbus, OH Last year's oil spill may have cost BP a lot of profit, but investors and participants in BPs ERISA benefits plans say they lost a lot, too. Investors in various ERISA plans that invested with BP, such as ERISA pension funds, have filed a lawsuit against BP, saying the company committed securities fraud by making fraudulent statements abou... - This Guy Did Not Pick Zimmer
Feb-17-11 Chicago, IL See the guy balancing on the basketball? He's had two knee replacements, as you can see. His left knee was done two years before this video was made, whereas his right knee was done about ninety days before the cameras rolled, by his own admission. We're not going to tell you what kind of knee replacement he chose. But we can tell you it's not... - More Paxil Cases Reportedly Set for Court
Feb-17-11 Houston, TX Although many Paxil birth defects lawsuits have been settled, there are still some Paxil side effects lawsuits pending. Some of those lawsuits, alleging Paxil defects injured newborn babies, could go ahead this year. Five Paxil birth defects trials are reportedly set to go to trial in May 2011. The lawsuits allege that GlaxoSmithKline, m... - Bus Driver Involved in St. Louis Accident Could Be Fired
Feb-17-11 St. Louis, MO The driver of a Metro bus involved in a St. Louis accident that killed a 60-year-old woman could be fired, according to a Metro spokeswoman. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports Rosalind D. Smith was killed when the bus ran her over after she had exited it. Police believe that Smith was crossing the street at the time, and one witness... - FDA Examining DePuy Hip Replacement Devices
Feb-17-11 Silver Spring, MD After the recent Depuy Hip Replacement recalls, the US Food and Drug Administration has decided to take a closer look at all-metal hip replacement implants, The Wall Street Journal reports. According to the news source, the agency recently unveiled a page on its Web site detailing the hip implants, saying that it is "actively wor... - Levaquin Tears More Tendons Than Other Fluoroquinolones
Feb-11-11 Cornwall, NY Just two weeks after taking Levaquin for an earache, Charles had a dull, aching pain in his wrist. Although this happened in 2008, he remembers it well. "I had taken my daughter to Disneyland and couldn't even turn the doorknob and open our hotel room," he says. Turns out, Charles suffered a torn tendon, an increasingly comm... - The Domino Effect of Unum Claim Denial
Feb-16-11 New York, NY The need for any insurer, including Unum , to verify claims by policyholders is a given in view of the reality that there are those who attempt to take their insurance company to the cleaners. However, Unum insurance appears to have a reputation for denying legitimate claims that not only prove a hardship for the claimant—they can als... - Texas Refinery Explosion Kills Contractor
Feb-16-11 Houston, TX A petroleum plant explosion has killed one contractor and all but destroyed a large part of a natural gas liquid plant. The facility, Enterprise Products, located on Sun Oil Road, about 35 miles east of Houston, was reportedly also used for storage and production of octane-boosting gasoline additives. Flames from the explosion were seen... - She Died of Heart Failure at 22: Darvocet Lawsuit
Feb-16-11 White Oak, OH Critics of manufacturer Xanodyne and its decision to pull Darvon and Darvocet from the market last November claim that due to the extent of Darvon side effects and their grievous nature, the recall came 30 years too late. The plaintiffs in a pending Darvon lawsuit could not agree more. February 14 would have proved to be an unhappy Val... - United Grounds 757 Fleet for Unscheduled Maintenance
Feb-16-11 Chicago, IL United Airlines has temporarily grounded no fewer than 96 of its Boeing 757 airplanes for what officials deemed as "unscheduled maintenance," CNN reported this morning. Although 15 flights were cancelled February 15—the day of the grounding—the airline indicated that operations should return to normal today. The work was co... - Stock Broker Arbitration and Asset Auctions: Two Ways to Recover Money
Feb-16-11 Denver, CO Investors who unwittingly become victims of stock fraud might have a difficult time recovering their lost money. In many situations, stock broker arbitration helps to recover the lost money. Stock fraud arbitration can be a good route to take if the stock broker has simply not acted in his clients' best interests, but things are more difficu... - Drugmaker Settles Avandia Heart Attack Lawsuit Prior to Trial
Feb-16-11 Philadelphia, PA Drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline recently settled an Avandia heart attack lawsuit just before it was scheduled to go to trial, Reuters reports. According to a spokeswoman for the company, the settlement also means that two other cases involving the diabetes drug Avandia filed in Philadelphia have been resolved. The spokeswoman did not de... - Nutella Has Been Served—with a Lawsuit
Feb-15-11 San Diego, CA: Nutella, the hazelnut and chocolate spread created by an Italian company and marketed to North Americans, is the target of a consumer fraud lawsuit ignited by a Mom from California after she began to doubt its claims as a healthy and nutritious food. According to the statement of claim, Athena Hohenberg was shocked to hear that Nutella w... - UBS Lehman Brothers: What Did They Know—and When?
Feb-15-11 New York, NY More often than not, in the complex legal world, it is not what you know, but when you knew it that can get you in hot water. The withholding of important information at the worst possible time can have a devastating affect, as is alleged by investors who purchased UBS Lehman Principal Protected Notes prior to the collapse of the once-prou... - Real People, Real Effexor Birth Defect Concerns
Feb-15-11 Chicago, IL The emotion that exudes from the words of real people impacted by the dark side of Effexor remains far more palpable than dry statistics suggesting Effexor birth defects from the antidepressant venlafaxine. Real people, with real stories to tell about the Effexor side effects that visited them like an unwelcome guest. Judging from the po...