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Sort by date 1,824 pages found matching bank of america- Peanut Butter Recall - It's Deja Vu all Over Again
Apr-29-09 Blakely, GA The current Peanut Corporation of America (PCA) peanut butter / peanut product recall is eerily similar to the ConAgra / Peter Pan peanut butter recall of 2007. So why did the Peanut Corporation of America (PCA) fail to learn from the prior foodborne illness outbreak? Just look at the similarities: Both involve peanut manufacturing... - Mothers Act Fuels Multibillion Dollar Industry - Part 3 of 3
Apr-14-09 PART ONE - PART TWO The prescribing of seven drugs, including two antipsychotics and five antidepressants, to treat OCD is a typical example of the profit-driven drugging that women snagged by the Mother's Act will face, but it's a far cry from the description Katherine wrote about regarding the comparatively minor treatment she received, when she st... - California Wage Lawsuit Argues Mortgage Company's Pay Practices
Oct-26-20 Berkeley, CA A former loans officer with Draper and Kramer Mortgage Corporation has filed a California wage lawsuit alleging the company stiffed him and other loan officers out of commissions and other payments, including overtime compensation. Jose Vasquez filed the lawsuit in September 2020 in the U.S. District Court Northern District of Cali... - Mothers Act Fuels Multibillion Dollar Industry - Part 1 of 3
Apr-7-09 Motherhood has fallen prey to the psycho-pharmaceutical complex. If new legislation known as the Mother's Act becomes law, the drugging of infants through pregnant and nursing mothers will no doubt increase. Congress has rightfully refused to pass this bill for eight years. The official title is currently the "Melanie Blocker Stokes Mom's Opportunity to... - Injectafer Double Dose—Double Profit and Double Risk, and Dosage Discrepancy
Oct-14-20 Santa Clara, CA Hypophosphatemia, an abnormally low level of phosphate in the blood, may be due to longer term use or excess of certain drugs such as bisphosphonates, including Injectafer , but that may depend upon researchers conducting the clinical trials and the amount of the iron-deficiency drug treatment. The FDA approved Injectafer in July 2013 a... - Peanut Corporation of America Files for Bankruptcy
Feb-15-09 Washington, DC Just weeks after it was linked to peanut butter salmonella and one of the largest food recalls in US history—and days after a second plant in Texas was also shut down--Peanut Corporation of America (PCA) has filed for liquidation under Chapter 7 in Virginia, where PCA has its head office. Meanwhile, the fallout continues to rise. The... - Second Peanut Butter Salmonella Plant Closes, Recall Widens
Feb-11-09 Blakely, GA The peanut butter salmonella story just gets bigger, with news this morning that a second manufacturing facility operated by Peanut Corporation of America (PCA) has been temporarily closed after testing positive for salmonella. And the number of recalled products is closing in on 2000. Federal regulators have not ruled out a second recall. ... - FBI Now Involved in PCA Peanut Butter Salmonella
Feb-10-09 Blakely, GA In what is fast becoming one of the most sensational food recall stories of all time, it has been reported that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) raided a manufacturing facility in Blakely, Georgia owned by Peanut Corporation of America (PCA) fingered in the peanut butter salmonella case. The raid was likely conducted in concert with... - $84M Settlement Reached in Mitsubishi Antitrust Class Action Lawsuit
Santa Clara, CA: A US$ 84,512,195 settlement has been reached between Mitsubishi Electric Corporation and its subsidiaries, Mitsubishi Electric US Holdings, Inc. and Mitsubishi Electric Automotive America, Inc., and indirect purchaser plaintiffs in a class action lawsuit alleging price-fixing of certain automotive parts. The suit was filed in Febru... - California Farmworkers Compensated for Unpaid Rest Breaks
Oct-8-20 San Joaquin, CA A group of farmworkers have finally been compensated after a California appeals court rejected their unpaid rest breaks--twice. The farm laborers first filed their California labor lawsuit in 2009 against their employer; the case went to court in 2014 and plaintiffs appealed in 2016. Alfredo Sanchez and four other plaintiffs sued... - Gambro Healthcare - Dialysis Fraud Pays Big Bucks
Mar-29-06 Medicare payments for dialysis cost the US government $5 billion a year. The global market for chronic dialysis services is worth approximately $43 billion and the US market is the largest in the world in terms of value. Worldwide, by the end of 2005, the number of dialysis patients reached 1.5 million. Of that number, approximately 23% patients were trea... - It’s “Your Money or Your Life” for Senior Workers
Oct-2-20 Sacramento, CA A nationwide flood of Covid-19-driven age discrimination lawsuits suggests that similar surge in California labor lawsuits is imminent. A New York case may be a harbinger of things to come. In Kanyuk v. Shearman & Sterling, LLP , a 62-year-old employee was the first to be fired in a wave of Covid-19-related layoffs. The e... - Attorney Ingrid Evans Stands Up for Seniors
Jan-12-09 San Francisco, CA: Attorney Ingrid Evans has spent countless hours working on behalf of senior citizens who have been the victims of financial abuse . An attorney with Waters and Kraus in San Francisco, Evans recently won a tidy sum for members of a class action suit against American International Group (AIG) after an elderly widow came to her office wi... - SSRI Pushers under Fire
Jan-6-09 Washington, DC Throughout the 1990's, most doctors who attended conferences, medical seminars and other events were not aware that the so-called "key opinion leaders" encouraging them to prescribe the new generation of antidepressants for everything under the sun, including to children as young as infants, were nothing more than highly paid drug pushers... - Are Employers’ Facebook Recruiting Practices Exempt from Age Discrimination Laws?
Sep-16-20 San Francisco, CA Bradley et al v. T-Mobile US Inc. et al. , a long-running lawsuit first filed in 2017, alleges that T-Mobile’s Facebook recruitment practices violated the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA) . The nationwide, class action lawsuit also alleges violations of the California labor code and other state laws. But per... - Pharmaceutical Industry Hustlers - Part II
Nov-23-08 Pushers of SSRI Antidepressants To gain approval for treating children, all a drug company has to do is submit two positive studies to the FDA to prove a medication is safe and effective for kids. However, after 20 years of feeding the new generation of antidepressants to tens of thousands of kids in clinical trials, the only one ever approved is Proza... - Lumber Liquidators Lawsuit News and Legal Information
Lumber Liquidators faces lawsuits across the US alleging the company's Chinese flooring products are toxic, emitting high levels of formaldehyde. Lumber Liquidators defective flooring class action lawsuits were filed as far back as 2013 but more lawsuits have since been filed in various states across the US since a 60 Minutes investigation suggested... - Nursing Home Giant Focus of Class Action Lawsuit
Oct-23-08 Bremerton, WA A class-action lawsuit alleging nursing home negligence has been filed against one of the largest operators of nursing homes in the country. Hardly surprising, given the widespread concern over nursing home abuse. Meanwhile, a blogger once employed at one of the nursing homes cited in the lawsuit tried for a year "to change the way they did... - The Fleecing of America's Senior Citizens
Oct-20-08 Pensacola, FL One of the most appalling results of the subprime debacle is how it has effected millions of America's senior citizens. Florida attorney Peter Mougey has dozens and dozens of clients whose life savings have been seriously damaged or depleted by the unscrupulous practices of Wall Street investment firms that promised clients stable returns and... - Our love-hate relationship with Uber and Lyft –Can we Compromise?
Aug-26-20 San Jose, CA The mayor of San Jose, Sam Liccardo, is a smart guy. He understands that the public have a love-hate relationship with “gig companies” like Uber and Lyft, and he also understands that there has to be a model of “give and take” from both sides, i.e., the California labor law regulators and leading gig companies. ...