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Sort by date 7,886 pages found matching health insurance- Overtime Wage Payment Violations are an Epidemic in California
Apr-9-07 Los Angeles, CA: There is a flood of court cases filed in California claiming employers violated overtime wage statutes. Many of these violations may be traced to a business attitude which teaches it is worth the risk if the financial gain received is greater than the penalty imposed. A Fair Days Pay for a Fair Days Work The 40 hour work week and... - Following Suit: Data Breach Updates
Feb-11-14 • A data breach can occur in a number of ways. Mainly computer hackers and computer theft allow unlawful access to customer information, which often results in personal information being sold illicitly, followed by data breach lawsuits. For instance, the stolen Target customer data immediately resulted in Target credit card attack lawsuits. Another... - Body Powder and Cancer: When an Old Friend Turns on You…
Jun-20-16 Washington, DC: One can imagine the shock and dismay at the realization that a heritage product held for generations as a safe and effective strategy for hygiene, and trusted akin to Mom’s apple pie, carries a dark health risk. And yet, as many a body powder lawsuit asserts, talcum powder is alleged to cause ovarian cancer, a risk that has been k... - HIV Drug Abacavir May Increase Risk for Cardiac Events
Health Canada Issues Safety Information Health Canada in conjunction with GlaxoSmithKline warns that HIV-infected patients who are taking abacavir-containing products ZIAGEN, KIVEXA and TRIZIVIR may be at increased risk for myocardial infarction. GlaxoSmithKline has provided Health Canada with recent findings published in the April 26, 2008, issue... - Zimmer Biomet Implantable Spinal Fusion Stimulators Legal News
Washington, DC: Zimmer Biomet, in conjunction with the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), is recalling the SpF PLUS-Mini and SpF XL IIb Implantable Spinal Fusion Stimulators due to higher than allowed levels of potential harmful chemicals, which may be toxic to tissues and organs (cytotoxicity) and that were found during the company's routine mo... - Fairview Red Wing Health Services agrees to pay undisclosed settlement in medical malpractice lawsuit.
Red Wing, MN: (June-11-08) A medical malpractice lawsuit has been settled between Fairview Red Wing Health Services and Richard and Yvonne Raasch. The suit was filed by the Raaschs' after Richard Raasch underwent an endoscopic procedure at the clinic in June 2006. The complaint alleged negligence because the doctor who treated him caused a perforation in... - Greka Ordered to Clean-up Toxic PCBs
Bradley 3 Island Site Must Develop Clean-Up Plan Greka Oil and Gas has been ordered by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to thoroughly evaluate their Bradley 3 Island facility and develop a plan to clean up polychlorinated biphenyls at the site. The order mandates investigation and cleanup remedies necessary to protect public health a... - Study Shows PVC Shower Curtains Pose Serious Health Threat
PVC Shower Curtains Should be Taken Off The Market The Center for Health, Environment & Justice (CHEJ), has found that shower curtains made of plastic polyvinyl chloride, also called PVC or vinyl, may be harmful to people's health. The consumer watchdog group tested new shower curtains purchased from Bed Bath & Beyond, Kmart, Sears, Target and Wal... - Pfizer Warns of Liver Problems with Somavert
Pfizer Canada Inc., following discussions with Health Canada, is informing Canadians of the increased risk of liver problems when SOMAVERT (pegvisomant) is taken in combination with a somatostatin analogue (octreotide acetate). SOMAVERT is a medicine used for the treatment of acromegaly (a disease caused when the body produces too much growth hormone)... - $60M Settlement Reached in K-Dur 20 Pay-For-Delay MDL
Santa Clara, CA: Preliminary approval of a $60.2 million settlement against Merck & Co. Inc., and Upsher-Smith Laboratories Inc., has been granted, potentially ending a long running multi-district litigation (MDL) alleging the companies engaged in a pay-for-delay scheme affecting direct purchasers of the potassium supplement K-Dur. The MDL, whi... - Ardent Settles Offshore Platform Workers’ Wage Claims for $2.3 Million
Mar-20-19 Santa Barbara, CA Ardent Companies, Inc., an ExxonMobil subcontractor, has agreed to pay $2,325,000 to settle a proposed class action lawsuit alleging that oil platform workers were not paid for on-call time after their daily shifts had ended. Settlement of the California labor lawsuit will net each of the proposed class members an average of $14,828... - New Orleans Files $77 Billion Lawsuit for Failed Levees
Mar-11-07 New Orleans, LA: The city of New Orleans has filed a $77 billion claim against the United States Army Corps of Engineers seeking compensation for losses incurred after failed levees resulted in flooding of the city. In addition to the city's lawsuit, at least 34,500 other claims had also arrived in the New Orleans district office. In many cases, peop... - Federal Government Discourages Penalties for Nursing Home Abuse Despite Report Calling for More Oversight
May-24-18 New York, NY: Since 2017, the Trump administration has been rolling back Obama-era rules intended to protect patients from elder care neglect . Since 2016, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), part of the Federal Department of Health and Human Services, has been making rules that prevent victims of nursing home injury from bringing civi... - Accutane Sufferer Hopeful with Generic Isotretinoin Lawsuit
Aug-7-12 Walnut Creek, CA Like countless teens, Brad was prescribed Accutane to treat acne. And like a small percentage of Accutane consumers, he is now suffering from Accutane Ulcerative Colitis , to the point where he was hospitalized on three occasions. “Just a few months after I stopped the Accutane four-month treatment back in 2005, I slowly develo... - A New Canadian Testosterone Study Is a Catch-22
Jun-4-16 Toronto, ON: While many a testosterone lawsuit claim that testosterone supplements foster testosterone stroke and testosterone heart attack, a recent Canadian study out of the Sunnybrook Health Sciences Center in Toronto suggests that testosterone therapy in older men carries certain benefits, and that the longer a man takes testosterone supplementatio... - Wendy Mann bike accident Settlement
The family of Nathan Oglesby, 17, will receive $80,000 from driver Wendy Mann's insurance company. The 17-year-old's mother, father and two older brothers will share the monetary award, minus about $43,000 in legal fees. The Cary-Grove High School senior died Aug. 7, 2000, when Mann's car struck him while he was riding his bicycle home from work alo... - Abdominal Mesh Complaints Rise in Canada, MDL Established in the US
Jun-17-17 Dartmouth, Nova Scotia: A Nova Scotia man is the latest Canadian to report complications with surgical abdominal mesh , and will likely join hundreds of other Canadian hernia surgery patients in a class action lawsuit against Ethicon, a subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson, the makers of Physiomesh. Eric Hagen, 86, along with many other Canadian herni... - Feds Reach $8M Settlement with Omnicare in False Claims Whistleblower Suit
Santa Clara, CA: An $8 million settlement has been reached in a qui tam lawsuit brought against Omnicare Inc, a subsidiary of CVS Health Corp, by The US Department of Justice and 28 states. The whistleblower lawsuit alleged the defendants violated the False Claim Act by incorrectly labeling generic drugs. The labeling procedure enabled claims to be... - Medtronic SynchroMed Infusion Pump Lawsuit News & Legal Information
The Medtronic SynchroMed EI Implantable Infusion Pump has been recalled by Medtronic and the FDA after reports that Implantable Drug Infusion Pumps have resulted in incorrect dosage and life-threatening withdrawals. At least 14 patient deaths are linked to Implantable Infusion Pumps . The SynchroMed pump is implanted to deliver drugs to treat pai... - Hurricane Insurer Settles 2 Class Actions for $35 Million
A settlement of $35 million has been reached between the members of 2 class action lawsuits and Louisiana Citizens Property Insurance Corporation. The state-run insurer had specialized in covering high-risk properties, however the aftermath of hurricane Katrina escalated the costs and times involved in settling claims. The suits alleged that the i...