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Jul-2-13 Washington, DC According to most recent figures concerning pending lawsuits over Zimmer Knee Replacement , there are just under 1,000 lawsuits currently pending in the Zimmer NexGen knee implant Multidistrict Litigation (MDL 2272, US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois). The actual number, according to a PRWeb Newswire release (6/12/1... - Actos Plaintiffs Not Dissuaded by Vacated Actos Bladder Cancer Verdict
Jun-29-13 Deerfield, IL The recent overturning of an Actos bladder cancer lawsuit verdict that had awarded $6.5 million to an elderly plaintiff has not dissuaded other Actos plaintiffs from filing an Actos lawsuit alleging their Type 2 diabetes medication is the culprit behind the emergence of their bladder cancer. A lawsuit filed at the behest of four plaint... - Adderall's Rollercoaster Year
Jan-26-06 Shire Pharmaceuticals is the global market leader in the sale of attention deficit drugs with the products Adderall , an instant-release amphetamine introduced in 1996, and Adderall XL, a timed-release version of the drug, introduced in 2001. Adderall and Adderal XL are the top selling attention deficit treatments in the US. In 2004, Shire captured 28%... - New Study Suggests Diabetes Risk with High-Potency Statins (Lipitor)
Jun-24-13 Toronto, ON With aging Baby Boomers continuing to be put on statins to fight the so-called “bad” LDL cholesterol (suspected of causing arterial plaque that leads to heart disease), a growing concern surrounds the potential for diabetes associated with higher-dose statins. The potential for Lipitor diabetes is among those concerns. To th... - Kardashian QuickTrim Class Action Settlement Reached
Los Angeles, CA: A proposed settlement has been preliminarily approved in the consumer fraud class action lawsuit pending against the Kardashian sisters, their product QuickTrim, and several retailers. The settlement resolves allegations that improper statements were made on the labels and in advertisements for the Quicktrim Weight Loss System® an... - Social Security Disability: If at First You Don't Succeed…
May-6-10 Washington, DC If at first you are denied social security disability benefits , try again. About 60 percent of all initial claims are denied, but social security disability attorneys can help you appeal and win a social security benefits or SSI disability claim. Most claims are denied because people file who have nowhere else to turn: perhaps their u... - Valproate Not To Be Used for Migraine During Pregnancy, FDA Warns
Washington, DC: The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is advising health care professionals and women that the anti-seizure medication valproate sodium (Depakote) and related products, valproic acid and divalproex sodium, are contraindicated and should not be taken by pregnant women for the prevention of migraine headaches. Based on information f... - Physiotherapy Fraud, Stryker Corp. agrees to pay $16.6 million settlement for Medicaid fraud
Boston, MA: (Nov-15-07) The Justice Department filed charges against Stryker Corp., alleging that a former outpatient therapy subsidiary fraudulently billed Medicare and other government health care programs. The suit, filed by government investigators in US District Court in Boston, claimed that Physiotherapy falsely billed Medicare, Medicaid and a Depart... - From Construction Worker to Asbestos Attorney
Apr-27-10 Edwardsville, IL Before attending law school and working at Goldenberg Heller Antognoli & Rowland, PC, one of the foremost asbestos litigation firms in the US, attorney R.J. Abernathy was a union laborer for more than 20 years. "I worked in construction from 1983 until I went to law school," says Abernathy. "My father died of asbestos-related lung canc... - Fen-phen PPH: "I Was Scared to Death"
May-17-08 Lawrenceburg, KY: W.L. Carter is one of the lucky ones. When he started taking Fen-phen in 1994, he took only half the recommended dose, given that the diet drug cocktail was expensive and his health insurance provider wouldn't pay for it. In hindsight, that strategy may have saved his life although, like thousands of others, he wound up with PPH (Prim... - Three Months After Taking Xarelto, Plaintiff’s Grandmother Was Dead
Jan-13-16 Lafayette, LA: Ashlie Fluitt’s beloved grandmother Hattie Deville-Goodwin was prescribed Xarelto for treatment of deep vein thrombosis in her leg. Deep vein thrombosis, commonly known in layman’s terms as a blood clot, is in itself a serious condition and is usually treated through the employment of blood thinners. However, the choice of blood... - Could Goldman Sachs Charges Result in Arbitration Filings?
Apr-21-10 Washington, DC The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced that it has filed charges against financial firm Goldman Sachs, alleging that the firm defrauded investors by making misleading statements about some of its investment products. In certain situations, when investors lose money, they must file a stockbroker arbitration in an attempt t... - Woman Who Lost All Limbs Recovers $25M Despite Tort Reform Statute
Oct-24-14 A Milwaukee County circuit judge has ruled that the state’s onerous tort reform statute does not apply in the case of a $25.3 million recovery for a woman who lost her arms and legs due to medical malpractice. Ascaris Mayo of Milwaukee was admitted to Columbia St. Mary’s Hospital on May 24, 2011, with acute abdominal pain accompanied by a fever. Th... - Nurse Pregnancy Discrimination, Kaiser Foundation Health Plan pays employee $180,000 bias settlement
Wailuku, HI: (Nov-06-07) The federal government brought a pregnancy discrimination lawsuit against Kaiser Foundation Health Plan, on behalf of a Kaiser nurse who was rejected for a job on Maui in 2005. The suit, filed by the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) alleged that managers at Kaiser's Wailuku clinic withdrew a job offer to Margaret... - SSRI Tragedy a Real Risk
Jun-7-13 Framingham, MA For Dr. Adam Urato, there is absolutely no doubt that the use of SSRI drugs for pregnant women presents more risks than benefits, and the consequences of exposing embryos to antidepressants are alarming. “I am absolutely concerned that we are going to have an SSRI tragedy on our hands,” says Harvard-educated Obstetrician and... - Pregnant Women Who Took Zofran Join Birth Defect Statistics
Jan-9-16 Boston, MA: Despite many studies conducted worldwide by birth defect researchers, along with exhaustive birth and prescription records linking Zofran to birth defects, the anti-nausea drug is still being prescribed off label in the United States to pregnant women. For the past decade Zofran has been the most popular medication to treat morning sickn... - Neck Injury Lawsuit Stems from a Pain in the Neck
Jan-9-16 Belleville, IL: It’s a back and neck injury of a different sort, in the form of an injection into the neck during treatment at the hospital. However, subsequent paralysis allegedly stemming from the injection has fostered a disabling injury and a subsequent neck injury compensation claim. According to an account in the Madison County Record... - Traumatic Brain Injury Affects Adolescent Brains
Oct-19-14 San Francisco, CA A new study suggests that suffering a brain injury at a young age can have a serious effect on children, including affecting their behavior. Traumatic brain injuries have been in the media lately due to their incidence in amateur and professional sport, and each year millions of people visit the emergency room for brain trauma. The... - Forced Arbitration: Corporations Opting Out of Justice and Fairness
Oct-17-14 Washington, DC There are two distinct messages to be taken away from the whole debacle of forced binding arbitration: 1) The basic ideals of our forefathers are going to hell in a hand basket, and 2) Equality is dead. How could anyone watch the video below and think otherwise? Alliance for Justice (AFJ), producer of the film, is a national associatio... - The Cost of PPH: $21,000 a Day...
Apr-28-08 Whittier, CA PPH, or Primary Pulmonary Hypertension , is a rare but debilitating lung disorder that is potentially life-threatening and has been linked to prior consumption of diet drugs such as Fen-phen and others now banned and no longer on the market. However, it can take upwards of 10 years for the symptoms of PPH, now known as Pulmonary Arterial Hyp...