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Sort by date 16,481 pages found matching <a href=""></a>- Abuse and Neglect of Elderly Rampant in Nursing Home Industry
Sep-12-06 Little Rock, AR In 1987, Congress passed landmark legislation aimed at improving nursing home care for the nation's vulnerable elderly population. However, a recent investigation by Consumer Reports found poor care in nursing homes is still extremely common, especially in the for-profit chains that have become the dominant force in the industry. The... - USA Properties Fund Inc. and USA Multifamily Management Inc. asbestos Settlement
Two lawsuits were filed in Contra Costa County Superior Court by the Bay Area Air Quality Management District regarding Asbestos violations. One lawsuit alleged that a Roseville property management company, operating as USA Properties Fund Inc. and USA Multifamily Management Inc., used unqualified workers who failed to protect themselves and residents f... - State of Indiana antitrust Settlement
The State of Indiana was accused by the Department of Justice (DOJ) of engaging in noncompetitive bidding practices, inflating prices to Indiana schools and libraries, falsifying invoices and disregarding the requirement that the schools and libraries make co-payments for E-Rate services. The E-Rate program, which helps poor schools connect to the Inter... - C.C. Myers Inc. construction accident death Settlement
While building the Maxwell Bridge on Napa River in 2003, a construction accident resulted in the death of bridge worker Richard "Chris" Stevens and injured seven others. A lawsuit charged C.C. Myers Inc of violating one labor code law and breaking a regulation involving falsework shoring standards. The suit alleged that the Rancho-Cordova based constru... - AT&T Communications-East fraud Settlement
Between 1998 and 2001, AT&T Communications-East allegedly passed on to government customers fees that long-distance telephone companies pay to local carriers for providing facilities that link customers to the network. The U.S. Department of Justice claimed that passing on the fees violated the terms of AT&T's contract with the government. A lawsuit was... - The U.S. Treasury Department and Internal Revenue Service tax refunds Settlement
The U.S. Treasury Department and Internal Revenue Service have been charging three percent phone tax to consumers on long-distance phone calls to pay for the Spanish-American War that was fought more than 100 years ago. The government has decided to stop collecting the 1898 phone tax and individuals will be able to claim three years' worth of refunds on... - Palm Inc. patent Settlement
A patent infringement lawsuit was filed by Xerox Corp. in 1997 against a predecessor company to Palm Inc., claiming that the handwriting-recognition technology sold as "Graffiti" and formerly used in some Palm devices infringed on a Xerox patent for a system known as Unistrokes. The handheld computer maker replaced Graffiti with an updated system called G... - Time Magazine consumer refunds Settlement
From 1998 to 2004, Time Magazine was mailed out to consumers who were not necessarily subscribers to the magazine. Deceptive mailings caused many people to buy magazines they didn't want. Consumers thought they were paying bills when they were actually signing up for a subscription or renewal. Time Warner Inc., the company that publishes the magazine, was... - Latest Pfizer Celebrex Court Ruling 50-50
Sep-11-06 San Francisco, CA According to Pfizer, Celebrex is still selling like hot cakes with worldwide sales totalling $471 million ($355 million in the US) in the second quarter of 2006, representing growth of 17% over the same period last year. "We continue to expect full-year Celebrex revenues of at least $2 billion, an ambitious target given the ongoing... - Johnson & Johnson Charite Spinal Disc Under Fire
Sep-7-06 Chicago, Illinois The Pulaski and Middleman law firm in Houston, Texas heads a group of law firms that represent over 350 injured Charite spinal disc recipients. The patients allege that the disc is defective, that the device was improperly marketed and that the company did not adequately warn of the disc's dangers. The Charite artificial disc was first... - Kmart Corporation pension Settlement
The former Kmart Corporation was sued in March 2002 claiming that former company executives allegedly acted improperly when employees and retirees invested their pension money in now-worthless Kmart stock. Approximately 125-thousand employees and retirees of Kmart will share in an $11.75 million settlement. The Troy-based Kmart emerged from bankruptcy i... - City of Long Beach property Settlement
In 1990, Shirley McClure planned to turn six homes in the Bixby Knolls and California Heights areas into care facilities for Alzheimer's patients but the City of Long Beach and neighborhood residents were not in agreement. McClure claimed that the city tried to shut her down by sending unnecessary inspectors, including public safety and building inspect... - Harold G. Nagel personal injury Settlement
Ernest W. Foster was involved in a car crash in 2004 with Harold G. Nagel near Streator, Illinois that badly injured his leg and killed Nagel. Foster was nearing an intersection when Nagel did not stop for a stop sign and collided with Foster, who had polio and wore a leg brace, which pinned him inside the wreckage. Foster agreed to a $450,000 settlemen... - Raytheon Company Securities Settlement
From 1997 to 2001, the Raytheon Company was investigated by the Securities and Exchange Commission (S.E.C) for improper accounting practices at its aircraft unit. Raytheon, based in Waltham, Mass., manufactures Hawker and Beechcraft business jets. The company agreed on a $12 million settlement with the S.E.C. and recorded an expense of $12 million in th... - Boston Scientific and Guidant Off to Texas Slaughterhouse
Sep-6-06 Corpus Christi, TX The first, but by no means the last, Guidant trial is scheduled to begin on September 18, 2006, in Neuces County District Court in Corpus Christi, Texas before Judge Jack Hunter. The two plaintiffs, Louis Motal, 63, and Bernice Hinojosa, 65, are surviving patients implanted with Guidant's Ventak Prizm 2 defibrillators in 2001. The law... - Copyright Theft -- Internet Highway Robbery
Sep-5-06 Columbus, Ohio Karri Hill learned the hard way not to trust a competitive web developer when it comes to copyright. She designed a proposal for a potential client and a few months later, saw her design online. Trouble was, she didn't receive any payment for it. "I designed and programmed a front page into html and sent it to my potential client as a li... - Big Pharma Bankrupting US Health Care System
Aug-29-06 ig Pharma is bankrupting the nation's health care system by convincing prescribing doctors to over-medicate patients with expensive psychiatric drugs and then send the bills to government programs like Medicaid and Medicare. The peddling of the new generation of psychiatric drugs that include the selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors antidepressants (S... - SoftwareOnline.com, Inc. Consumer Protection Violations Settlement
A lawsuit was filed against the company for allegedly misrepresenting the extent to which its InternetShield and Registry Cleaner products are necessary to prevent attacks from malicious Web sites and computers crashes. SoftwareOnline bombarded potential customers with pop-up ads and allegedly used deceptive billing practices. The company admitted to mult... - Pfizer Celebrex Lawsuits - 1500 and Counting
Sep-4-06 The first Celebrex trial, originally set for June 6, 2006, has been delayed indefinitely, reportedly to give attorneys more time to gather information. Although no new trial date has been set, legal analysts now predict that Celebrex trials will begin in early 2007. The delay was requested by a federal judge in San Francisco, where Pfizer is facing around... - Fifth Third Bancorp. of Cincinnati security breach lawsuit dismissed
A lawsuit filed against Fifth Third Bancorp. of Cincinnati has been dismissed. The Pennsylvania State Employees Credit Union (PSECU) filed the lawsuit hoping to recover $100,000 it spent on canceling and reissuing 235,000 Visa credit cards compromised in a security breach at BJ's Wholesale Club Inc., Mass., in 2004. PSECU claimed that Fifth Third was li...