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Dec-21-06 The motive behind Big Pharma's promotion of the off-label prescribing of psychotropic drugs is market expansion and unfortunately, it just so happens that children provide the richest harvest because most kids are covered by health insurance plans or Medicaid. The various recruitment schemes include trolling for customers among infants and toddlers betwee... - No Excuse for marketing Ace Inhibitors to Pregnant Women
Oct-20-06 Waltham, MA In the wake of a study published in June 2006, in The New England Journal of Medicine found a higher rate of birth defects in infants born to mothers who filled prescriptions for Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme Inhibitors (ACE inhibitors), during the first trimester of pregnancy. The FDA advised women to reconsider the use of those drugs b... - Depo Provera lawsuit
Dec-29-05 Four women in Canada have filed a class action lawsuit against Pfizer Canada and Pfizer Inc. seeking relief of general damages for the sum of $500,000,000. The plaintiffs have all been long-term users of Depo-Provera, an injectable method of birth control, and they have all been diagnosed with bone mass density (BMS) problems including fractures, hip and spi... - A Recall That Took Some Resistance
Jan-25-16 Washington, DC: Resistance cords continue to be an attractive method of resistance training for consumers who don’t have access to a gym or for whom using weights for resistance is an unrealistic option. Resistance cords and bands are also used in treatment protocols within physiotherapy. However, as innocent as resistance cords and bands appear when... - Defective Table Saw Lawsuit News and Legal Information
Lawsuits have been filed against the makers of table saws alleging consumers have been seriously injured by defective table saws . Among the allegations made against table saw companies are that safety components are available that could prevent serious injury, but that have not been included on modern table saws. Table Saw Injuries ... - “Quit or Die, N----r,” Read the Note
Sep-17-21 Fresno, CA Three former employees of Kraft Heinz Foods Co. at the Tulare, California plant have filed a lawsuit citing violations of federal and California employee labor laws including Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964; Section 1981 of the Civil Rights Act of 1866; the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990; the California Fair Employment and H... - FDA Stalls Formaldehyde Hair Relaxer Ban
Jun-28-24 Santa Clara, CA When it comes to regulating products, hair relaxers in the U.S. are like the wild west. Despite the FDA announcing a proposed ban for April 2024 on hair straighteners containing formaldehyde (it has missed that deadline), and despite the EPA announcing that exposure to formaldehyde is an “unreasonable risk to human health”, no... - Chinese Drywall Assessment Determined "High Risk"
Jul-8-09 North Port FL "My fiancé and I found a house to rent, lease or sell on craigslist," says Carolyn, "and the owner agreed on $700 per month with a $5,000 deposit so we could buy the house. But after only one month we found so many things wrong, because of Chinese drywall ". Professional Building Inspectors were brought in, determined that there was... - 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... - 159,000 Wine Bottle Openers Recalled
Washington, DC: Sunbeam Products Inc is recalling about 159,000 wine bottle openers because the wine bottles can break when opened with the recalled opener, posing a laceration hazard to consumers. Sunbeam has received 52 reports of wine bottles breaking while the opener was being used on them, including 22 reports of injuries. Injuries include la... - Alere INRatio Recall Legal News and Lawsuit Information
The Alere INRatio Monitoring System is a handheld device used by patients to monitor amounts of the blood-thinning drug Warfarin . While these drugs prevent blood clots , too little or too much can be life-threatening—accurate monitoring is crucial, especially if the patient is self-monitoring their blood levels at home. The INRatio2 system was... - Clickwrap Employment Contract Roils California Arbitration Law
Aug-1-24 San Francisco, CA – On July 23, the California Court of Appeal heard oral arguments in Inostroza. v. Amazon , a California labor employment lawsuit . The workers’ challenge threatens to upend California law at the weird intersection of clickwrap contracts, California labor law and arbitration agreements. This tangled tale takes some unpackin... - Lawmakers Go After Thugs at FDA Over Avandia
Jun-11-07 Washington, DC: In one of the latest developments in the Avandia diabetes drug saga, on June 7, 2007, a bipartisan group of powerful lawmakers sent a letter to FDA asking Commissioner Andrew von Eschenbach for an explanation of the agency's policy on conflicts of interest regarding hiring employees directly from drug companies regulated by the FDA. At... - Strawberry Harvester Settles Agricultural Workers Claims for $1M
May-27-24 Santa Maria, CA New Hope Harvesting LLC, has agreed in California federal court to a $1 million deal that will settle claims brought by about 900 migrant workers. The agricultural workers claimed the strawberry harvester denied their full wages, denied them proper rest and meal breaks, and charged or failed to reimburse them for certain expenses. The Cali... - Chantix FAQ
What is Chantix? Chantix (generic name varenicline) is an anti-smoking prescription medicine that treats smoking addiction by blocking the effects of nicotine present in the brain so that the body won't crave nicotine any longer. Is there a difference between Champix and Chantix? Except for the name, both medicines have the same active... - Chantix - Chantix Suicide, Chantix Side Effects
Reports of serious Chantix side effects , including a possible link between use of Chantix and suicide resulted in the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issuing a black box warning for the smoking cessation drug. Chantix lawsuits have been filed, alleging patients who used Chantix were harmed by the medication. Chantix Suicide Warnings ... - Personal Identity Theft - Identity Theft Lawsuit & Attorney - ID Theft Fraud
Identity theft is one of the fastest growing crimes. No matter how careful you are, highly skilled thieves utilize a number of identity theft scams in attempts to gain access to your private information. If you have been a victim of identity theft, experienced identity theft attorneys can help you by filing a police report and Federal Trade Commission (FTC... - Civil/Human Rights - Verdict in favor of Plaintiff
Case Name : Stewart vs St. Vincent De Paul Case Number : 37-2013-00059877 CL UD CTL Verdict Date : 2015-07-01 Outcome Type : Judgement Court : San Diego Superior Hall of Justice Incident Date : 2013-07-04 Plaintiff's Complaint : On July 4, 2013 a tenant named Lorraine Prenters at Village Place apartments 32 17th St... - Embark Resistance Cord Lawsuit, Legal News and Lawsuit Information
Lawyers are investigating possible defective products class action lawsuits , alleging the Embark Resistance Cord was defectively designed putting consumers at risk of injury. The Embark Resistance band was sold by Target Corporation and was recalled in September 2011, due to reports of injury, including permanent vision loss. Embark Resistance C... - Protopic Warning Too Late
Nov-27-06 Seattle, WA "I am sure that heavy use of Protopic caused my wife's death," says Joel Green. "She was diagnosed with T-Cell Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma, about six months after taking daily applications of Protopic." "In November 2002 my wife experienced a bad skin rash and an allergist (and personal friend) prescribed Protopic after some steroid creams didn...