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Sort by date 1,824 pages found matching bank of america- Massive Call Center Lawsuit Granted Conditional Status As Class Action
Oct-18-13 Minneapolis, MN The apparent skirting of overtime pay laws that appears as work performed off the clock has rarely seen a bigger challenge than that of plaintiffs who have launched a class-action lawsuit against one of the nation’s leading call centers. According to various legal briefs, there could be as many as 51,021 potential class members. ... - HVB KPMG Tax Shelter Settlement
The U.S. Internal Revenue Service filed charges against the German bank for helping KPMG provide fraudulent tax shelters to wealthy U.S. individuals. Between 1996 and 2002 HVB participated in a number of fraudulent tax shelter transactions and provided lending that was essential to the functioning of shelters that enabled wealthy individuals to evade mo... - Denied Disability Roller Coaster
Oct-16-13 San Diego, CA Rebecca was first approved then denied disability by Cigna. She had all but given up hope of getting any benefits until earlier this year. “I heard that CIGNA is settling some claims that were previously denied,” she says. “I’m wondering if they will reopen my wrongly denied disability claim.” Cigna’s s... - The Variable Annuities Landscape Is Changing. Are You Being Shortchanged?
Sep-27-13 Washington, DC With the largest single demographic in America slipping into retirement, never has there been a more compelling issue than that of retirement income. And part of that equation for hundreds of thousands of Baby Boomers includes the Variable Annuity . More than a tax-deferred investment account, the product also offers retires a living bene... - Unum Named Second-Worst Insurance Company in US
Sep-8-13 Chattanooga, TN It may come as no surprise to some people who deal with companies like Unum that Unum is listed as the second-worst insurance company in the US. Unum lawsuits, alleging the company engages in bad faith insurance practices regarding Unum disability claims, have been filed against the company. In 2012, the American Association for Justice... - More Fallout from the Madoff Securities Fraud Lawsuits
Aug-19-11 New York, NY It has been two-and-a-half years since Bernard Madoff's securities fraud , in the form of a massive Ponzi scheme, came to light. Even now, the trustee in the securities fraud litigation is going after companies that were allegedly involved in the securities investment fraud. According to The Economic Times (08/18/11), Irving Picard, th... - Riggs National Corp. of PNC Financial Services Group Inc. Settlement
Shareholders filed a lawsuit against the bank claiming directors allowed the company to become a haven for "terrorism funding." Riggs and PNC agreed to pay shareholders a $2.7 million settlement and pay their lawyers an extra $1.1 million for hiding money of foreign leaders. (Nov-10-05) [ PITTSBURG TRIBUNE REVIEW ] Legal Help If you have a... - Actos Lawsuits
Aug-20-13 Actos lawsuits have been filed against Takeda Pharmaceuticals, the manufacturer and distributor of the diabetes medication, alleging the drug causes bladder cancer. • Actos lawsuits have been steadily growing in number since June 2011, when the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) warned that use of Actos for one year or more had been linked t... - 2011 a Watershed Year for Actos and Bladder Cancer
Aug-14-13 Washington, DC With the first Actos lawsuit in the federal Actos litigation expected to go to trial in the New Year, Actos watchers are still looking in their rear-view mirrors to the bellwether case involving plaintiff Jack Cooper ( Cooper v. Takeda Pharmaceuticals America Inc., CGC-12-518535, California Superior Court Los Angeles), which was tossed... - Beauty Pageant Hopeful Back on Runway After Horrific Bout with SJS
Aug-3-13 Jackson, MS It’s not often that a patient can self-diagnose Stevens Johnson Syndrome from a few basic symptoms. But that’s exactly what Kennitra Thompson did after she began to experience facial swelling followed by a Stevens Johnson Syndrome rash. “I had [searched online for] my medication, and Stevens Johnson Syndrome popped up,&... - Testimony against Takeda in Actos Lawsuit Alleges Profits Put before Patients
Jul-28-13 New York, NY A recent Actos bladder cancer lawsuit alleged that officials at Takeda Pharmaceutical Co., put profits ahead of patient safety when it came to Actos side effects. Testimony at the lawsuit, which was heard in March 2013, alleged the company was against including a bladder cancer warning on the Actos label. The Actos lawsuit resulted in a $6... - Merrill Lynch Will Face Securities Fraud Lawsuit
Jun-25-11 New York, NY Plaintiffs in a securities fraud lawsuit were handed a victory when a judge ruled that Merrill Lynch must face securities fraud litigation. The Merrill Lynch lawsuit is one of the recent securities fraud and stock fraud lawsuits in the news recently. According to Bloomberg (06/21/11), the lawsuit was filed on behalf of union and publi... - GranuFlo Lawsuit: When You Don’t Come Out Alive
Jul-4-13 Waltham, MA A startling headline indeed, but it does happen. Patients with failing kidneys who depend on life-saving dialysis to clean their blood take solace in a proven process that’s been around for some time. They have no fear that an expectation to simply walk out of the clinic a few hours later may not be the case. There is no pause to fear the... - Zimmer Knee Replacement: Headlines Don’t Tell the Whole Story
Jul-2-13 Washington, DC According to most recent figures concerning pending lawsuits over Zimmer Knee Replacement , there are just under 1,000 lawsuits currently pending in the Zimmer NexGen knee implant Multidistrict Litigation (MDL 2272, US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois). The actual number, according to a PRWeb Newswire release (6/12/1... - Actos Lawsuit Award Overturned
Jun-21-13 San Diego, CA A judge has overturned a $6.5 million award in an Actos side effects lawsuit, after finding that the plaintiff did not adequately prove a link between Actos and bladder cancer. Specifically, the judge found the plaintiff in the Actos lawsuit did not prove his cancer was caused by the medication. The lawsuit ( Cooper v. Takeda Pharmaceu... - Morgan Stanley NASD Settlement
NASD brokerage regulators fined the Wall Street investment bank $1.5 million for failing to adequately supervise its fee based brokerage business. The lawsuit claimed that from January 2001 to December 2003, Morgan Stanley failed to monitor what sorts of customers were being guided into its "Morgan Stanley Choice" accounts which charged a $1000 annual... - Eight People Injured in Boat Accident in Virginia
May-15-11 Richmond, VA A man from New Kent, Virginia, has been arrested after a recent boat accident that injured eight people, reports the Richmond Times-Dispatch . According to the news source, 32-year-old Christopher A. Parker is currently being held without bond on two counts of felony maiming and operating a boat under the influence. Authorities claim P... - Inside Illegal Debt Collection Harassment: Why It Happens
Jun-11-13 Westbury, NY The process of debt collection appears pretty basic on the surface: a consumer owes money and hasn’t paid, so the company to which funds are owed either attempts to collect the debt itself or moves the debt over to a collection agency for the purposes of collection. But collecting an outstanding debt can be far more complicated, a... - Did Brain Injury Cause Athlete's Suicide?
May-6-11 Boston, MA A traumatic brain injury can change a person's life in an instant. It can cause serious memory problems and personality changes, not to mention difficulties with impulse control. For many people, one brain injury is enough to do serious damage, but some athletes face repeated instances of traumatic brain injury, putting them at risk of serio... - Concern Over Possible SSRI Birth Defects Certainly Not New
Jun-4-13 Washington, DC While concern over the potential for SSRI birth defects has been growing, the issue is far from new. And while the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) released its most recent statement with regard to SSRI antidepressants in 2011, suspicion that either one SSRI in particular or all SSRI drugs in general carrying potential for serious,...