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Sep-25-06 Arvada, CO Susan Rivera never read the 'stuffers' that came in the mail with her monthly statements from credit card companies. Just like most people do, she filed them in the trash can. Little did she know that she would pay in spades for not reading their 'announcements' regarding credit card rate hikes . "All of my credit cards have been affec... - Attorney Sues Americash for PayDay Loan Hell
Jun-17-09 Chicago, IL Out of control payday loans can feel like a kind of purgatory—where borrowers swim as fast as they can but still find the shoreline getting farther and farther away. In the state of Illinois, the attorney general's website specifically warns consumers about payday loans and advises them to consider all other possible options for entering into... - California Labor Law: When a Union Dictates the Right to Work
Jun-14-09 Los Angeles,CA Even though US Federal labor law forbids an employer from discriminating against an employee on the basis of non-membership in a union, that federal statute doesn't appear to be mirrored by California labor laws , if a recent example is any indication. Like most states, California state labor law serves as an addendum to federal law—not a... - "Levaquin Ruined My Life"
Jun-12-09 Washington, DC His name is John Fratti and he walks with a cane. He can barely make it down the stairs. Lest you think that John is a stooped, elderly gentleman, John Fratti is a young man. There's a video of him floating around somewhere of an extremely athletic man shooting hoops with friends. No more. John Fratti's life, he says, has been forever change... - Preventing Foodborne Illness this Barbeque Season
Jun-8-09 Madison, WI: Who doesn't love a barbeque? It's one of America's favorite summer pastimes, but all too often we hear reports of people getting sick from eating contaminated food. Last month, President Barack Obama pledged to revamp protection of the nation's food supply to help prevent future disease outbreaks: Numerous outbreaks of foodborne illness have... - Credit Card Rate Hikes: a Lose-Lose Outcome
Aug-30-06 Credit card companies only hurt themselves by raising the rates so high that many customers can't even make minimum payments. "When our interest rates were increased from 2 percent to 35 percent, we had no choice but to claim bankruptcy." "My husband and I are both 57 years old and we both had credit cards since I was 21 -- in 36 years we had never missed... - Law Firm Takes Google to Court
Jun-3-09 New Haven, CT: So what do lawyers do when they feel they have been dealt with unfairly? Well they go to court, that's what they do. Stratton & Faxon, a personal injury firm in New Haven, Connecticut is more than a little perturbed about Google selling its hard-earned firm name to one of its competitors. "Basically every time someone searched our firm... - More E. Coli Outbreaks—What Can We Do About it?
May-25-09 Washington, DC: As we enter the summer months, we will start to see an increase in E. coli outbreaks and more cases of foodborne illness . Most of those cases will be related to the consumption of contaminated hamburger. The first outbreak, which is currently ongoing on Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Illinois, has already claimed the life of a 7-year-old and s... - Heparin Deaths Bring Blood Thinner to Spotlight Again
May-22-09 Lewes, DE Patients still reeling from the news of last year's heparin contamination are likely worrying and wondering if there is even more bad news about heparin, following the deaths of 2 people in the last 2 weeks. Although the mode of delivery for heparin in these 2 cases was different from that used in the contamination scare—no heparin injection... - $2 Million Fine Small Potatoes For Kaiser Transplant Disaster
Aug-13-06 Although the $2 million fine levied against Kaiser Permanente was the largest ever imposed by the California Department of Managed Health Care, it seems like small potatoes considering the damage caused by the HMO's failed kidney transplant program. The second largest fine ever levied against an HMO was $1 million back in 2002, following the death of a pa... - Two New Heparin Deaths Spark Renewed Concerns
May-13-09 Lewes, DE A year after the tainted heparin scare over heparin syringes and heparin contamination reverberated around the globe, two new heparin deaths in Delaware are sparking new fears. While there are still many unanswered questions, two things are certain. One is the manufacturer: Baxter International, which was one of the manufacturers of hepar... - Unum Frowns on Fibromyalgia
May-2-09 Seattle, WA: Tracy suffers from fibromyalgia—a chronic disorder that includes debilitating fatigue, sleep disturbance, joint stiffness and many more symptoms. But Unum sees fibromyalgia syndrome as a "non disease", possibly due to a lack of objective laboratory tests or medical imaging studies to confirm the diagnosis. But for Tracy and many others, it... - CDC Sued for Violation of Privacy
May-1-09 Atlanta, GA This isn't about swine flu, but there are parallels nonetheless. In a modern, democratic society—of which the US is justly proud—the provision for basic civil human rights is a hallmark of life in a respectful and advanced population. When that hallmark is sullied through a breach in civil and human rights, civil rights law is there to pr... - Not Exempt from Overtime
Jul-13-06 "We negotiated a settlement for my unpaid overtime but I turned down their final offer - the college wanted me to resign. It's not my fault that I was misclassified as exempt. Why should I resign? This third offer wasn't even enough to cover the overtime they owed me. "I'm going to fight to the end, all the way to trial if need be," says Susan James (not... - Texas Lawyer Inspects Peanut Corporation of America Plants
Apr-23-09 Blakely, GA Yesterday attorney Ron Simon investigated one plant at the Peanut Corporation of America (PCA) in Texas and the second PCA plant in Georgia today. The evidence that the PCA's products were contaminated is overwhelming. And he has photos from both plants—incriminating evidence indeed. (The photo on the left shows a dead rat and several roach... - Lucite and DuPont Fined for Pollution in Belle
Apr-23-09 Belle, WV Two days before Earth Day this year, two giant corporations agreed to pay a combined $2 million in fines for polluting the air. Such activity is not only an affront to environmental law ; it also appears to be a corporate thumbing-of-the-nose at wise stewardship when it comes to environmental issues. Critics maintain that environment law deserve... - One Mother, Three Children with Birth Defects
Apr-18-09 Washington, DC It is certainly sensational and beyond the normal scope of pharmaceutical intervention. However, the plight of a young mother and the affect various drugs and SSRI antidepressants had on her children only serves to galvanize public opinion with regard to SSRI birth defects and birth defects in general. Her name is Teresa Cooper. She wa... - Forensics Expert Discusses Chinese Drywall
Apr-16-09 Lake Forest, CA "Regardless of what people say about US building developers and contractors, for the most part they didn't buy Chinese drywall to save money but ordered it simply for supply and demand," says Doug Derry, field services manager, CBI Forensics. And there was a lot of demand after Hurricanes Katrina and Wilma. "Shipping records show that sin... - Mothers Act Fuels Multibillion Dollar Industry - Part 2 of 3
Apr-10-09 More Democrats than Republicans are supporting the Mother's Act. The increased campaign funding to Democrats may well explain this turn of events. For the last eight election cycles the pharmaceutical industry has contributed far more to Republicans than Democrats. In the 2006 cycle the percentage was 28% to Democrats and 70% to Republicans, according to the... - The VA Under Fire for Contaminated Endoscopy Equipment
Mar-28-09 Miami, FL It's a medical malpractice case in the making, after it was revealed that as many as 10 veterans have tested positive for infectious liver disease allegedly caused by contaminated colonoscopy equipment. What's more, an email sent to the Associated Press (AP) by the Veterans Affairs Department (the VA) on March 19th revealed that tubing attached...