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Sort by date 2,586 pages found matching farmers insurance- The Defective Saturn and the New GM: What's in the Cards?
Dec-12-08 Detroit, MI It will be interesting to view the forthcoming marriage of automotive law as it pertains to the defective car, and the new economic realities facing auto manufacturers. Case in point: Saturn, and the auto defect issue surrounding its failed "Vti" transmissions. Back in September General Motors Corporation (GM) agreed to pay out an estimat... - Plane Crash Kills Beloved Executive and Fiancée
Dec-7-08 Cleveland, OH It's a point we've made before; plane crashes appear to be happening at alarming frequency. Yesterday, this writer searched 'plane crash' for an assignment and up popped a small plane that crashed into the side of a mountain. I was going to write about that airplane crash this morning, but thought I would search the subject again. Sure... - Mother's Act Promotes Pregnancy as New Cottage Industry
Dec-5-08 Women of childbearing years represent the most lucrative market for the makers of psychiatric drugs. The knowledge that infants were being born with birth defects and suffering a withdrawal syndrome when these drugs were used during pregnancy was hidden for decades. Knowledge of these terrible risks would have caused a major drop in sales to this customer b... - Motorcycle Riding Attorneys Know Motorcycle Accidents
Dec-1-08 San Francisco, CA Attorney Claude Wyle has been riding motorcycles for 35 years. He and his partners at Choulos, Choulos & Wyle are all motorcycle aficionados. Even the firm's paralegal is a motorcycle enthusiast. With an expertise that few other law firms have, it seemed quite natural for them to focus their personal injury practice on people involved in... - 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... - Tenants In Common Investments
Nov-18-08 San Diego, CA Investors who put their money in TICs (Tenants In Common) investments may be wondering what happened to their money. Like many other people whose investments have lost value in recent times, people with TICs were told that their investments were safe, only to learn they were not. Part of the reason that TICs were pushed as a safe investme... - Variable Annuities Not For Everybody
Nov-9-08 Passaic, NJ If you've purchased variable annuities, you need to ask yourself whether or not you actually need them. As it turns out, not many people benefit from investing in variable annuities. In fact, according to a study conducted a few years ago by Charles Schwab, only long-term investors that are in high tax brackets and have already filled every... - Financial Elder Abuse: Children Victimizing Their Parents
Nov-4-08 Carlsbad, CA When your parents reach their senior years, you probably expect that your family members will help you to take care of your parents—not make them victims of financial elder abuse. However, children can, and do, take advantage of their elderly parents for their own financial gain. Sophia P. (not her real name) says that her sister went beh... - Kugel Mesh Infection: What's a Busy Mom to do?
Oct-25-08 Huntsville, AL Imagine. You've got 3 kids, ages 15, 13 and 10. Children at an age where they are active socially. It's a busy age. Any parent would be hard pressed to keep up with them. Now, imagine if you were a parent saddled with a Kugel Mesh patch —and worse, a hernia patch that had been recalled. That Kugel Mesh is now inside of you, a recall that... - Message to Zimmer: We Are Not Machines
Oct-22-08 Washington, DC Forgive me if I've missed something here, but what the hell is going on with medical products manufacturers, such as the people who make the Zimmer Durom Cup ? A Zimmer hip replacement patient should not be made to suffer through the pain and trauma of a failed Zimmer Durom, only to have to require a second surgery to have it fixed or repla... - The Fall of the House of (Credit) Cards in the Subprime Meltdown
Oct-15-08 Washington, DC The subprime mortgage meltdown that served as the catalyst for the global credit crisis was akin to a house of cards. Check that, a skyscraper of cards—built by greedy investors who took leave of their senses and ignored the early warning signs of a subprime meltdown. And here we were so worried about the Y2K computer meltdown in 2000 th... - "Heparin hastened my husband's Death"
Oct-13-08 Grafton, WV Betty says her husband's medical records state that he was given a lot of Heparin injections in the hospital, and she wants to know if he died from Heparin contamination . "The record says 'Hematosis on anterior abdominal wall from Heparin' so I know he was given this drug," says Betty, "but they never explained why he needed a blood thin... - Street Racing Causes Car Accidents
Oct-9-08 Columbus, OH It has become an increasingly common complaint. [ Car accidents ] are being caused by street races and their effects are often deadly. However, it is often not the street racers that are injured in the automobile accidents, but innocent people simply driving their cars and minding their own business. "I was the victim of a hit and run,... - Free Drug Samples the New Threat to Children
Oct-6-08 Washington, DC Patients love 'em because they're free, and will save them a buck or two at the drug store. Doctors love 'em because their patients love 'em—plus the added benefit of ensuring a patient without the means to afford expensive prescription drugs can have access to them. However a new study out today suggests that free drug samples do litt... - Helicopter Crash Survivor Get His Due
Oct-4-08 Torrance, CA Helicopter accident news has been in the media a lot lately, especially with the apparent increase of incidents relating to medical helicopters—the latest going down in severe weather just a week ago, killing four. But while there have been a lot of helicopter accidents involving TV news crews and medivac helicopters, helicopter crashes... - The Wachovia Watch: A New Savior Emerges as US Economy Barely Hangs On
Oct-3-08 San Francisco, CA On the eve of what will likely be an historic vote in the US House of Representatives over the proposed $700 billion bailout for the nation's troubled economy, yet another bank takeover focuses additional attention on a remarkable week in the nation's economic history and further underscores the precarious health of the once-robust Wall... - "Kugel Mesh Patch Really Affected My Life"
Oct-2-08 Huntsville, AL Patients who have the Kugel Mesh Patch implanted to repair their hernia may have to undergo another surgery to have the hernia patch taken out. That's because the patch may be defective, causing serious injury to some patients. Evelyn B. has been told that she has to have a second surgery to take out her mesh. She doesn't have insurance,... - Credit Crisis: Wachovia Taken Over by Citigroup
Sep-29-08 New York, NY In yet another result of the credit crisis , the rumored sale of Wachovia to Citigroup has just come to pass only hours ago, further concentrating increased power and influence of the nation's banking industry into just 3 banks. Whether that proves a good, or a bad thing for America is yet to be determined. However, with about 30 percent of... - Protecting Children in Car Accidents is No Accident
Sep-28-08 Ashland, MA Car accidents injure all kinds of different people—adults and children alike. And one would assume that when there are injuries affecting both adults and children in car crashes , that there is some kind of parental, or familial relationship amongst those in the car, affected by the automobile crash . However, not always. A single-... - Medical Malpractice: When you don't Get what you Pay for
Sep-26-08 Philadelphia, PA Medical malpractice is something both sides of the equation fear: for the patient, a medical malpractice suggests a botched procedure, or diagnosis that could begat a lifetime of pain and suffering, and invoke medical malpractice law . For the medical professional, it could mean a hit on their medical malpractice insurance . For either...