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Silver Spring, MD: Monster Beverage Corporation is facing a wrongful death lawsuit brought by the family of 19 year-old Alex Morris, who suffered a cardiac arrest and died on July 1, 2012. The Alameda County, California Coroner determined that the cause of death was cardiac arrhythmia and cardiomyopathy. The autopsy and toxicity reports confirm... - Get the Justice you Deserve with Lawsuit Funding
Aug-25-12 Negligence puts all of us at risk. It could be a distracted driver, drunk driver, defective product, dangerous property, or medical error. Sometimes such negligence can result in serious, long-term, or life-threatening injuries, even death. When this happens, steps should be taken to secure an experienced attorney to fight for compensation and justice. The... - California “New” Hero Pay for Grocery Workers Backfires
Feb-10-21 Los Angeles, CA Another Hero Pay wage hike, this time local government-mandated pay, requires that grocery companies with over 300 employees increase California hourly wages an extra $4 per hour. The salary boost is meant to compensate grocery store workers for the dangers they face during the coronavirus pandemic. However, it seems to have backfire... - Hydraulic Fracking Plaintiffs Reportedly Agree to Settle
Aug-22-12 Dimock, PA Residents of Dimock, a tiny community in northeastern Pennsylvania whose residents sued Cabot Oil & Gas Corporation over alleged hydraulic fracturing water contamination , have reportedly agreed to a settlement. Names on the proposed settlement document were redacted and the terms, and amounts of the proposed payouts have not been disclos... - 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... - Lead Paint Poisoning Lawsuit News and Legal Information
Although lead paint has been banned in the US since 1978, lead poisoning is still a common health problem in children. Exposure to even a small amount of lead in children can cause irreparable damage. Young children are most vulnerable to lead paint exposure because they are more likely to put paint chips or defective products such as toys contai... - Alleged MiraLAX Pediatric Neuropsychiatric Issues Being Investigated
Santa Clara, CA: Reports of mental health issues in children who were exposed to the laxative MiraLAX are being investigated by the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) in a study funded by US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The study received $325,000 in funding from the FDA and NIH in 20... - FDA Pulls Zantac off Shelves
Jul-6-20 Washington, DC On April 1, the federal Food and Drug Administration asked manufacturers to withdraw Zantac and all other prescription and over-the-counter ranitidine drugs from the market immediately. It has also advised those who use OTC ranitidine medications to stop taking them immediately and patients with ranitidine prescriptions to speak with their... - Stryker Rejuvenate Hip Implant Failure
The Stryker Rejuvenate hip replacement device has been linked to an increased risk of metallosis. Although the Stryker Rejuvenate is not a metal-on-metal hip device, it has metal-on-metal components, which are believed to be responsible for the development of metallosis in some patients. According to reports, the Stryker Rejuvenate hip implant is linked to... - BP Oil Spill - Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill, Oil Spill Laws
The BP oil spill that began on April 20, 2010, could prove to have devastating consequences not only for the environment but also for businesses located on or near the Gulf of Mexico. Furthermore, the BP Gulf oil spill has already had tragic consequences, with 11 men believed dead, following the explosion and sinking of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig. BP... - BP Oil Spill FAQ
Who is affected by the BP Oil Spill? People who live on or near the Louisiana, Alabama and Florida beaches around the Gulf of Mexico, people whose income relies on the tourism industry in the Gulf of Mexico and people whose income relies on Gulf of Mexico, such as fishermen. Even if your income is not directly related to the Gulf of Mexico, yo... - Unum’s Suspension of Benefits and Outsourcing
Jun-11-17 Chattanooga, TN: If you receive disability benefits from the health insurance provider Unum , you might want to seek legal advice if and when they send you a “Suspension of Benefits” letter: it is likely another bad faith tactic to deny your benefits altogether. Technically, there are two things a disability policy can do—pay or de... - Shoulder Pain Pump Patient Diagnosed with Destroyed Cartilage
Jul-28-12 Panama City, FL Back in 2008, John had shoulder pain surgery and went home with a shoulder pain pump . John says it felt OK for a few months but got progressively worse. Two years later, he had a reverse shoulder surgery. “My second surgeon told me I had no cartilage left because of this pain pump,” says John. “He also told me reverse... - School district to pay $920,724 settlement in employment lawsuit.
Marshalltown, IA: (May-19-08) The Marshalltown Education Association brought charges against the Board of Education, over salary increments. Sources stated that as part of recent negotiations, the two sides reached a settlement agreement, in which the salaries of teachers were raised by $990 in the Marshalltown district. Officials said that the increase... - An Ongoing Lawsuit and A Financially Strapped Plaintiff
Jul-27-12 Thousands of innocent victims are injured or die due to the negligence of someone else. These unfortunate events can result from an auto accident, medical malpractice, nursing home negligence, slip and fall, or product liability. Often times, the more serious the injury, the harder it will be for a plaintiff to withstand the litigation process, especially on... - Millions Taking a Proton Pump Inhibitor Needlessly, Critics Say
Nov-27-10 Minneapolis, MN : To the uninitiated, a Proton Pump Inhibitor is something that causes your proton pump to stop working—whatever you may have in your mind representing what a proton pump might be (a pump that pumps protons, would be obvious). But more correctly, the proton pump inhibitor, or PPI for short, is a medication that is used to treat aci... - Lawsuit Funding Helps Auto Accident Victims Avoid Debt
Jul-21-12 Every day, thousands of Americans are involved in automobile accidents which are the number one cause of personal injuries in the U.S. Insurance companies know that an auto accident can cause both physical and financial strain to the victim and their family and will use deny, delay, and defend tactics in hopes that the plaintiff will accept a low settlement... - Obtain Full Case Value in Your Wrongful Death Lawsuit with the Help of Lawsuit Funding
Jul-13-12 Few events in anyone’s life are as catastrophic as finding out that a loved one has been killed due to the negligence and carelessness of another person or entity (company). If someone else's careless or reckless behavior caused your loved one's death, you have an obligation to protect the legal rights of the deceased. It is important to take time an... - AMS Transvaginal Mesh Sling Means No More Sex
Jul-11-12 Madison, WI For more than five years, Donna suffered transvaginal mesh injury in silence after she had AMS Transvaginal Mesh surgery. Until her husband couldn’t take it anymore. “What really got me scared was when he said, ‘If I can’t have sex with you I will have to get it from somewhere else,’ then I went online and foun... - Health Canada Issues Black Box Warning for Champix / Chantix
Jun-26-10 Ottawa, ON Taking a cue from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the governing health authority in Canada is slapping a black box warning on Champix, the name under which Chantix is sold both in the UK and in Canada. The Globe and Mail reported earlier this month that Health Canada first started issuing warnings about Champix in 2008—just a ye...