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Mar-27-11 Columbia, MO The vice president of Missouri's Cape Girardeau Craftsman Independent Union (CIU) says that the Midtown Family Medical Center can no longer serve the general public because it violates the US Employee Retirement Income Security Act ( ERISA ). The Columbia Daily Tribune reports that union vice president Skip Kelley explained in a recent... - Colorado Developer Sentenced in Securities Fraud Case
Mar-16-11 Colorado Springs, CO Colorado Springs resident Adam Kelepolo was recently given a 10-year community corrections sentence and ordered to pay $820,000 in restitution for committing securities fraud , the Colorado Springs Gazette reports. According to the news source, Kelepolo was accused of defrauding investors in a scheme that raised more than a mil... - Kmart settles healthcare fraud lawsuit for $32.3 million
Jan-20-18 Washington, DC The Department of Justice announced that Kmart Corporation has agreed to pay $32.3 million ($59 million including state law issues) to settle a lawsuit that claims in-store pharmacies overbilled Medicare Part D, Medicaid, and TRICARE. The healthcare fraud scheme, which a Kmart pharmacist stumbled upon only when he had his own presc... - Emergency Room Charges and What to Do About Them
Jan-14-18 Washington, DC: A study into medical bills, treatment costs at hospitals and emergency room charges undertaken last year and published in May by the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine confirmed what we already know: charges for medical care can be excessive when compared to what Medicare and Medicaid interprets as the true value for services... - GlaxoSmithKline Faces Louisiana Lawsuit Over Avandia; Reportedly Settles Other Lawsuits
Feb-22-11 Baton Rouge, LA Now that the label for Avandia has been changed and stricter rules are in place regarding Avandia's uses, another lawsuit has been filed alleging GlaxoSmithKline hid Avandia side effects from users. This time, however, the plaintiff alleging serious Avandia risks is not a patient but Louisiana Attorney General Buddy Caldwell. Accordi... - Denied Disability Claimant Wins when Administrator Blows Deadline
Jan-10-18 San Jose, CA Employers can change the terms of their long-term disability plans whenever they want. Those changes often affect what employees must show to make a disability claim , and they rarely make it easy to collect. Plans usually apply changed provisions even to employees who are already receiving benefits. They often lose those payments. But when... - Zimmer Hip Victim Needs Answers
Feb-19-11 Vancouver, British Columbia Gray barely gave his hip replacement surgery a second thought—he would be in and out of hospital within a few days. But for hundreds, possibly thousands of people who have been implanted with a Zimmer Durom Cup artificial hip, this type of surgery has turned into a nightmare. "I went in for a little arthritis in my hip... - More Fallout from Alleged Carr Miller Capital Ponzi Scheme
Feb-4-11 Las Vegas, NV In addition to the investors who lost money in the alleged Carr Miller Capital Ponzi Scheme , there may be more fallout from New Jersey's actions against Carr Miller Capital. Charges have been filed against nominal defendants who may not have known about the alleged Ponzi scheme, but are still implicated because of their association with C... - Opioid Epidemic Biggest News Story in 2017, Opioid Litigation May be Biggest Legal News in 2018
Jan-1-18 Cleveland, OH: Across the U.S., city and county newspapers looking back on 2017 say the top news story was the opioid crisis. And opioid litigation already looks like it will dominate legal news in 2018. Early in December, the U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation (MDL) ordered city and county cases to join more than five dozen similar civil ac... - 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... - “I want this Mirena IUD out, over and done with.”
Dec-30-17 Toronto, ON. Nickey followed her doctor’s orders, and the Mirena manufacturer’s orders: five years after the IUD was implanted, she made an appointment to have it removed. But it wasn’t that easy. Next month will be the fourth, and she hopes final, attempt to have all of the birth control device removed from her uterus. “O... - Conductor de Turno demanda a Starbucks por Robo de Salario
Dec-21-17 Santa Cruz, CA: El señor Walter Savinovich, un conductor de Evolution Fresh, presentó una demanda al Tribunal Superior del condado de Santa Cruz el 7 de agosto de 2017. Savinovich alegó que Evolution Fresh y su empresa matriz, la Corporación Starbucks, violó las disposiciones de salario y horas de la legislación... - Accounting Malpractice Lawsuit Launched against Giant E&Y Firm
Dec-31-10 New York, NY A major Accounting Malpractice lawsuit has been filed in the State of New York, and is the first major action to emerge from the failure of the once-Herculean Lehman Brothers bank. While all eyes are on the action and how it all plays out, the lawsuit also comes at a critical time for New York with the ascension of outgoing New York Attorn... - The Talcum Powder Cases Heading for Massive Trials Next Year
Dec-12-17 Ridgeland, MO: Next year and the year after, St. Louis, Missouri will be the venue for a massive showdown in the courts between Johnson & Johnson and the hundreds of women who have filed lawsuits alleging there is a direct relationship between their ovarian cancer and the use of talcum powder-based products manufactured and sold by Johnson and John... - Uber Hit with Proposed Class Action in California
Dec-7-17 Los Angeles, CA: A California labor lawsuit brought by a Uber driver likens a pricing model observed by Uber to stiffing drivers of proper wages as required under California labor law. For its part, co-defendant Uber Technologies Inc. disagrees with plaintiff Sophano Van’s allegations and is trying to have the lawsuit tossed. As outlined in L... - Celexa Birth Defects - Celexa Side Effects, Celexa Lawsuit, Celexa Lawyer
Recent studies have found that babies exposed to Celexa (Citalopram) during certain periods prior to birth run a risk of experiencing Celexa side effects . Those Celexa birth defects include a risk of persistent pulmonary hypertension of the newborn (PPHN), oral cleft, Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome and coarction of the aorta. A potential link between... - Securities Lawsuit Filed Against Oppenheimer Global Resource Private Equity Fund
Cincinnati, OH: A securities class action lawsuit has been filed against Oppenheimer Global Resource Private Equity Fund I, L.P. and others ("OGRPE Fund"). The complaint is pending in the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts. The action alleges defendants violated Sections 12 (a)(2) and/or 15 of the Securities Act of 19... - Study Suggests IVC Filter Use is on the Decline, But Problems Remain
Nov-25-17 St. Louis, MO: Does a win by Cook Medical in a recent bellwether IVC filter lawsuit , together with the release of a study suggesting that IVC filter use is beginning to trend downwards after thirty years of growth, point to the beginning of a sea change for the inferior vena cava filter industry, and IVC filter patients? Earlier this month MedPage... - Abogado especializado en HPPR provocada por Lexapro
Lexapro (también conocido como Escitalopram) es un antidepresivo utilizado para tratar la ansiedad y trastornos graves de depresión. Se encuentra dentro del grupo de medicamentos denominados inhibidores selectivos de la recaptación de serotonina (ISRS). El fabricante de Lexapro, Forest Pharmaceutical, resta importancia a los pelig... - Toddler Loses Leg and all her Fingers in Pressure Cooker Explosion
Nov-22-17 Miami, FL Two-year old Samantha Gonzalez was grievously burned in 2015, when her grandmother’s Tristar “As Seen on TV” pressure cooker malfunctioned. The damage will last as long as Samantha lives. Exploding pressure cooker injuries have been the source of many lawsuits. But this is not the kind of case that leads to a tidy l...