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WSB Financial Group, the parent company of Westsound Bank, today reported it has entered into a settlement agreement with the lead plaintiff in the pending securities class action. The class action settlement is subject to the approval of the United States District Court for the Western District of Washington. The settlement agreement provides for the... - Debilitating Yasmin Side Effects Due to One Little Pill
Jan-10-14 Peotone, IL Diana Zuckerman knows a thing or two about women’s issues, including birth control. She’s the president of the National Research Center for Women and Families, and she has a message for Bayer and any woman choosing oral contraceptives containing drospirenone such as Yasmin birth control : the class of drugs “shouldn’t... - Leiner to pay $10 million settlement in trade practices lawsuit.
Carson, CA: (May-09-08) Federal officials brought a lawsuit against Leiner Health Products Inc., over the production, control and distribution of certain over-the-counter drug products at the company's now defunct South Carolina facility. The suit was filed as part of an ongoing investigation of the company's trade practices. Court papers indicate that t... - United Rentals Settles Class Actions for $27.5 Million
America's largest construction equipment rental company has settled 3 class action lawsuits for $27.5 million. In 2004 United Rentals was sued following a Securities and Exchange Commission accounting probe, by investors who bought securities in the company between February 28, 2001 and August 30, 2004. United Rental's insurance carriers will pay... - $165M NovaStar MBS Settlement Gets Preliminarily Approval
Santa Clara, CA: A $165 million settlement has received preliminary approval, potentially ending allegations of securities fraud fraud against Wells Fargo, Deutsche Bank and the Royal Bank of Scotland, for their underwriting of $7.7 billion worth of mortgage-backed securities (MBS) issued by bankrupt subprime lender NovaStar. If granted final cour... - Wells Fargo, Wachovia Sued for $60 Billion by Citigroup
Wells Fargo and Wachovia face a $60 billion lawsuit launched by Citigroup, after the tentative deal Citigroup was working on to purchase Wachovia's banking operations was usurped by a rival offer from Wells Fargo & Co. Filed Monday in New York Supreme Court, the complaint seeks more than $40 billion in punitive damages and more than $20 billion in com... - Zyprexa Sales Show No Amount of Lawsuits Will Deter Lilly
Sep-28-06 Indianapolis, IN Scores of new lawsuits are being filed by patients who say they took Zyprexa without knowing the risks after Eli Lilly promoted the drug to doctors as a treatment for conditions other than schizophrenia and bipolar disorder that the drug is approved to treat. In June 2005, Lilly announced plans to settle roughly 8,000 claims by pati... - $3.5 Verdict Upheld Against School District for Driver’s Ed. Crash
Apr-30-15 The family of a 15-year-old central Idaho boy who died in a car crash during his driver’s education class in the Blaine County School District has received a $3.5 million damages verdict, which was recently upheld by the Idaho Supreme Court. Blaine County School District had appealed the family’s award, but the court rejected this appeal, upholding... - Target Settles MasterCard Data Breach Lawsuit
Apr-25-15 New York, NY Target and MasterCard have announced a settlement in lawsuits following the massive 2013 Target data breach . The settlement will see Target set aside up to $19 million to reimburse banks and credit unions affected by the data hack. Target has also announced a settlement with consumers affected by the accessing of private customer informati... - 3M Allegedly Reported False Safety Results to Procure Lucrative Contract
Mar-6-19 Kansas City, MO On February 21, 2019, Jonathan Foster, an Army Reserve veteran, filed a 3M Combat Arms defective earplug lawsuit in the Western District of Missouri. He suffers from tinnitus, a symptom of permanent hearing loss, because the earplugs supplied to him by the Army during his training and subsequent deployment to Afghanistan were badly de... - Savannah hospital to pay $5.08 million settlement in insurance lawsuit.
Savannah, GA: (Apr-25-08) The federal government brought a lawsuit against Memorial Health, parent company of Savannah's Memorial University Medical Center, alleging that it overcharged the Medicare program. The suit accused Memorial and the other defendants of violating the Federal False Claims Act, which makes it illegal to knowingly make a false claim... - Yasmin and the Birth Control Controversy
Dec-31-13 Dallas, TX Birth control has been in the news a lot lately, whether the focus is on concerns about issues such as Yasmin side effects or concerns about health insurance being forced to cover contraception. In the last few years, Yasmin birth control, Yaz birth control and now NuvaRing birth control have been the focus of concerns about serious, life-th... - Subpoenas Fly! Senate Demands Docs in Tainted Talcum Powder Probe
Mar-5-19 Washington, DC The long-running Johnson & Johnson (J&J) talcum powder lawsuits have now taken a strangely contemporary turn as long-silent witnesses, both in this world and the next, tell tales. The Department of Justice (DOJ) and Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) have subpoenaed corporate documents, and Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA) Ranking Membe... - Third Actos Bladder Cancer Bellwether Lawsuit Concludes
Dec-29-13 Las Vegas, NV A third Actos bladder cancer bellwether lawsuit just recently concluded in Nevada was a victory for Actos manufacturer Takeda Pharmaceutical America Inc. (Takeda) after a jury cleared Takeda of any liability with regard to the plaintiff’s bladder cancer. However, as was the case with two previous Actos lawsuits, there were extenuati... - $1.9M Settlement Reached Over Pharmavite False Ad Claims
Santa Clara, CA: A $1.9 million settlement has been reached in a consumer fraud class action lawsuit pending against Pharmavite LLC. The suit alleged the supplement manufacturer wrongly labeld its Nature Made brand glucosamine products. Specifically, the lawsuit, which has been going on for six years, alleged Pharmavite falsely claimed that its su... - FDA Reportedly Reverses Decision on Endoscope Recall
May-9-16 Washington, DC: Following a 2015 announcement of an endoscope recall , linked to an endoscope-cleaning device and a 2016 announcement confirming the recall, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has now said a machine used to clean duodenoscopes can stay on the market. The product, known as the System 83 Plus machine, is made by Custom Ultrasonics... - Ongoing Efforts to Improve Endoscope Disinfection May not be Enough
May-21-17 Ivyland, PA: It was just about a year ago, on May 29 2016 that the Sunday Telegram of Massachusetts highlighted the trials and tribulations of a manufacturer and their endoscope cleaning machine. Custom Ultrasonics Inc., based in Ivyland PA., had been previously taken to task by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) with regard to an endoscope cleaning... - Sexual Harassment and Workplace Bullying–Both California Labor Law Violations--Results in $2.6M Verdict
Apr-24-18 Santa Cruz, CA: A Santa Cruz County Superior Court jury, after a one-month trial, awarded $2.6 million to a truck driver who was sexually harassed. Of that amount, Beverly Fabrics was ordered to pay $1.1 million punitive damages for sexual harassment, gender discrimination, retaliation and failure to prevent harassment, discrimination and retaliation, acco... - Wisconsin Nurses Win $3.5M Settlement in Unpaid Overtime Class Action Settlement
Madison, WI: A $3.5 million settlement has been reached in a nursing unpaid overtime class action lawsuit brought by nurses at St. Mary' Hospital in Madison. In their complaint, the 1,400 nurses alleged the 440-bed hospital failed to pay them for meal breaks when they had to remain in the hospital on call. The nurses worked at the hospital over... - Quorum to pay $2.8 million settlement in health care lawsuit.
Natchez, MS: (Mar-19-08) Hale Hospital, a city-owned hospital in Haverhill, MA, brought a lawsuit against Quorum Health Resources, alleging that the health resources company significantly overstated financial statements and omitted losses in financial records. Haverhill's City Council President alleged that Quorum did not make the city council fully awar...