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Feb-4-11 Boyertown, PA I started taking 500 mg of Levaquin last summer for an upper respiratory infection," said Sara, a nurse. "Within one day, after just one dose, my lower leg hurt. By the time I saw my doctor I could barely walk; right away he knew that Levaquin was to blame." As it turned out, Levaquin caused more than an aching lower leg. Because the d... - Tropical Fruit & Nut Recalls Products with Walnuts due to Possible Salmonella Contamination
Washington, DC: Tropical Nut & Fruit of Charlotte, NC, is recalling all its products containing walnuts supplied by Atlas Walnuts, LLC after November 16, 2010 because they have the potential to contain Salmonella. Salmonella is an organism which can cause serious and sometimes fatal infections in young children, frail or elderly people, and o... - Rolaids Products Recalled Across US
Washington, DC: McNeil Consumer Healthcare, Division of McNEIL-PPC, Inc. is recalling all lots of ROLAIDS®Extra Strength Softchews, ROLAIDS Extra Strength plus Gas Softchews, and ROLAIDS Multi-Symptom plus Anti-Gas Softchews distributed in the United States. McNeil is taking this action following some consumer reports of foreign materials in the... - Certain Over-The-Counter Cold Relief Products Recalled
Washington, DC: Reese Pharmaceutical Company of Cleveland, Ohio has voluntarily recalled lot# 091612 only in 60-count size bottles identified under four different brand names (for a list of the affected products see the link below), because cold decongestant tablets (containing Acetaminophen 325 mg, Phenylephrine 5 mg & Chlorpheniramine Maleate 2 mg) w... - Attorney: Reasonable Investor Would Not Have Expected Dramatic RMK Fund Losses
Jan-29-11 New York, NY Investors who put their money in certain RMK funds , including the RMK High Income Fund, say they were surprised when their investment lost a lot of its value. In some cases, certain Regions Morgan Keegan funds lost up to 65 percent of their value, leaving investors with little of their hard-earned money. Now, those investors are filing arb... - Florida County Ordinance Moving Up to Florida State Labor Law
Feb-3-11 Miami, FL A bit of a battle appears to be brewing between supporters of a wage law enacted at the county level in the Sunshine State, and a proposed new Florida Employment law that would likely accomplish a similar goal with regard to the prevention of wage theft. Meanwhile, the wage theft ordinance enacted in Miami-Dade, located in the southeast secto... - Attorney Chases Justice in Foreclosure Crisis
Feb-3-11 Philadelphia, PA Got to hand it to attorney John Narkin. He's got this foreclosure crisis thing figured out—well, near as anyone can figure it out. The 113-page class-action suit on behalf of distressed homeowners filed by Narkin's firm, BHN Law in Philly, lays out the whole sorry story in amazing detail, complete with links to video clips. ... - Asbestos Lawsuit against DuPont Issued Continuance
Feb-3-11 Jefferson County, TX Attorneys recently received a continuance in the retrial of an asbestos lawsuit filed in Texas against DuPont De Nemours, the Southeast Texas Record reports. Despite the fact that DuPont reportedly won a jury verdict in the case in 2008, Judge Donald Floyd later threw out the jury's decision and granted the asbestos attorney's... - Lights, Action, Camera on Whistleblowers in 2011?
Jan-8-11 Washington, DC For many people, Cheryl Eckard became a celebrity after 60 minutes profiled the whistleblower in a sensational story that likely started the year off badly for GlaxoSmithKline (GSK). Lawyers and Settlements has been watching the qui tam whistleblower lawsuit unfold since last October , when we reported on the whistleblower lawsuit a... - FDA Determines Menaflex Should Not Have Been Cleared for Marketing
Washington, DC: The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today announced that an orthopedic device used in the knee should not have been cleared for marketing in the United States. The announcement follows a re-evaluation of the scientific evidence that was undertaken after a September 2009 agency report identified problems in the agency's review of... - DePuy Hip Canada—Three Class Actions So Far…
Feb-2-11 Toronto, Ontario DePuy hip replacement lawsuits have spilled across the border into Canada, where DePuy now faces three class-action lawsuits, with the most recent filed in December 2010. More than 1,500 Canadian claimants received the DePuy hip replacements from 2006 until the worldwide recall in late summer 2010. This latest class action, which was... - FDA Issues Update on Fosamax Side Effects
Feb-2-11 Washington, DC The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has updated its warnings concerning Fosamax side effects . Specifically, the FDA is concerned about the link between the use of Fosamax (known generically as alendronate sodium) and femur fracture. Although the FDA's warning does not mention Fosamax osteonecrosis of the jaw, it does discuss the ri... - Another Potential Setback for Anti-Cancer Drug Avastin
Feb-2-11 Washington, DC On the heels of a ruling by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in December, noting that Avastin should not be used by breast cancer patients, comes an analysis that suggests the anti-cancer drug is linked to fatal side effects in about one percent of the patients who take it. CNN Health reported last night that a meta-analysi... - Fentanyl Dangerous Both in the Right and the Wrong Hands
Feb-2-11 Midland, MI Fentanyl is a dangerous adversary at the best of times—which represents those occasions when the planets align and everything goes right. Even when the drug is appropriately prescribed and managed, and the patient monitored during use of a properly functioning Duragesic Fentanyl patch, there are risks. Sadly, when such a potent pain m... - Stevens-Johnson Syndrome Lawsuit Filed in Illinois
Feb-2-11 St. Clair County, IL Residents of Illinois, Louisiana and New York recently filed a lawsuit against anti-epilepsy drugmakers, claiming the drugs caused them to develop a potentially deadly skin disease called Stevens-Johnson Syndrome , the Madison County Record reports. According to the lawsuit, the plaintiffs all developed Stevens-Johnson Syndrome... - How Much Will DePuy Hip Recall Cost Johnson & Johnson?
Feb-2-11 New York, NY The DePuy Hip recall has already cost Johnson & Johnson in terms of lost profit and costs associated with the DePuy Hip Replacement recall. How much the DePuy hip replacement recall will cost Johnson & Johnson when it comes to litigation costs remains to be seen. The company's fourth-quarter report, however, sheds some insight into... - Washington Man Receives $10 Million Settlement in Brain Injury Case
Feb-2-11 Tacoma, WA A settlement has been reached between King County, Washington, and the family of Christopher Sean Harris, who suffered a brain injury in May 2009, when he was allegedly shoved by a sheriff's deputy into a wall, the Seattle Times reports. Sarah Harris, Christopher's wife, filed a personal injury lawsuit against the county and alleged tha... - Forest Laboratories Settles Lexapro Marketing Allegations
Feb-2-11 Madison, WI Wisconsin Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen recently announced that Forest Laboratories and subsidiary Forest Pharmaceuticals Inc. have paid nearly $1.5 million to settle allegations of improper marketing of drugs such as Lexapro . According to a release from the Attorney General's office, the pharmaceutical company paid $1,427,527.98 to W... - Two People Killed in South Carolina Plane Crash
Feb-2-11 North Myrtle Beach, SC Two people from the New England area were killed recently in a single-engine plane crash at the Briarcliffe RV Resort in South Carolina, The Associated Press reports. The accident, which occurred in the middle of the day, reportedly killed the pilot from Massachusetts and a New Hampshire woman who was in a trailer on the gro... - Asbestos Mesothelioma Lawsuit Brings $4.5 Million Award
Clay County, MO: A $4.5 million settlement has been awarded in the case of a 70-year old man who died of asbestos mesothelioma. The plaintiff's career involved installing ceiling tiles which contained asbestos. During his career he breathed asbestos particles from these tiles on a daily basis while he was cutting, handling and fitting the tiles. His j...