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Sort by date 7,886 pages found matching health insurance- Plane Crash Case Settles for Just Over $2 Million
Oct-5-09 Charlotte, NC Planes just don't fall out of the sky, say lawyers who have won sizeable settlements on behalf of their clients in plane crash lawsuits. An airplane crash, which almost always results in plane crash victims, is explained generally by aircraft failure, pilot failure, adverse weather or any combination of the three. A legal professional... - "I Connected the Dots and Linked Tendonitis to Avelox"
Oct-5-09 Roswell, GA " I didn't connect the dots with Avelox and tendon problems right away," says Carrie, who had surgery last month for tendonitis in her finger. "Six days after I started taking Avelox, my infection got better but the pain in my hand was unbearable." When Carrie finished the course of Avelox treatment (10 days) she went back to the docto... - Mesothelioma Victim Dies Just Before $11M Verdict Against Ford Motor
Jun-4-14 A Manhattan jury returned a verdict against Ford Motor Co. and awarded $11 million to the family of an auto mechanic, finding that Ford acted with reckless disregard for his safety, and that Ford bore nearly half the blame for his death. An automobile mechanic throughout his working years, Arthur H. Juni, Jr. had retired. He died of mesothelioma in Ma... - Benicar Lawsuits Continue to Climb
Sep-8-15 Newark, NJ Proponents of Benicar lawsuits wonder about the time lag between the approval of a pharmaceutical drug and official warnings about potentially serious side effects. To that end, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved Benicar as a viable and safe drug to treat the effects of high blood pressure in April 2002. It wasn’t until... - Iraq Veterans Awarded $85M in Personal Injury Lawsuit Against KBR, Halliburton
Portland, OR: 12 soldiers who became ill after serving in the Iraq war have been awarded an $85 million settlement in their personal injury lawsuit against American military contractor Kellogg Brown and Root (KBR). In their lawsuit, the first concerning soldiers' exposure to a toxin at a water plant in southern Iraq, the servicemen allege that KBR... - Fracking—the Great Divide
Jun-3-14 San Francisco, CA Both Democrats and Republicans last week sided with the oil industry and rejected a bill that would have put a temporary stop to fracking in the state of California. Dave Quast, California director of Energy in Depth, which is a group backed by the oil industry , said that fracking creates jobs, increases revenue and lessens Cal... - FDA Concerned About Daytrana Side Effects
Sep-5-15 Washington, DC The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued a warning that Daytrana side effects could include a risk of permanent skin disfiguration. The warning came in June 2015, when the FDA said it had received 51 cases of chemical leukoderma - changing of skin color - in the past eight years. Daytrana is a skin patch used to treat att... - AMS Transvaginal Mesh Good for Depends Makers
Sep-5-15 Pittsburgh, PA Cathy is among thousands of women implanted with an AMS transvaginal mesh who might find some financial relief from the latest American Medical Systems mesh settlement, but she says that no amount of money can compensate her for five years of pain. And it won’t help her non-existent sex life. “I had the transvaginal mesh s... - With Topiramate in More Medications, Will Topiramate Side Effects Increase?
Dec-28-12 Washington, DC The active ingredient in Topamax, which is considered a contributor to sometimes serious Topamax side effects , has appeared in recently-approved weight-loss medications known as Qsymia and Qnexa in the US. Topamax has also been indicated for treatment of migraine headaches, as recently evidenced in a medical column that ran in Florida T... - Accutane User Beyond Angry
Sep-2-15 Peoria, AZ: Kelly stopped taking Accutane after just two weeks but she believes the acne medicine has already caused permanent damage. “Soon after I started Accutane I had serious abdominal pain and now I have been diagnosed with Irritable Bowel Syndrome - it’s not a stretch to connect the dots,” says Kelly. Kelly, aged 28, says... - Levaquin Patient Spends Summer With Foot in Brace
Sep-24-09 San Diego, CA Kirk C. says that when he started taking Levaquin he had no idea he was not supposed to do any physical activity. That is because the reported Levaquin side effects include tendinitis and ruptured tendons. However, some patients, like Kirk, say they had no idea the Levaquin medication could cause such serious side effects. "I was on L... - Low-T: Creating a Problem, Manufacturing a Cure
May-27-14 The number of men seeking prescription testosterone therapy is on the rise. So is the evidence that testosterone therapy increases one’s risk of having significant health issues such as heart attack, stroke and death. In recent months, two studies have linked testosterone therapy to significant cardiovascular risks and the FDA is now stepping in to inve... - What Are the Risks of Statin Side Effects?
May-21-14 Washington, DC While Crestor side effects concerns have been raised by a public advocacy group, and lawsuits have been filed alleging patients suffered severe health problems after using statin drugs such as Lipitor, a major journal is considering the fall-out from a highly controversial study that may have overstated the risk of statin side effects. A... - Fracking Verdict Positive News for People Sickened by Fracking Contamination
May-20-14 Dallas, TX On April 22 - which coincidentally happened to be Earth Day - a Dallas jury awarded a Texas family $2.9 million in the nuisance claim they brought against Aurba Petroleum Inc. It is the first fracking lawsuit to result in a jury award and likely good news for other families who have been sickened by contaminated water and fracking chemicals... - Essure Not So Sure
Aug-25-15 Birmingham, AL Despite the FDA having received more than 5,000 adverse event reports regarding Essure , the birth control device is still on the market. Now hundreds of Essure victims are taking action to ensure that Essure is taken off the market. Essure side effects range from ectopic pregnancy to uterine perforation to death. Some women reportedly... - Countless Veterans Still Waiting for Mustard Gas Benefits: NPR
Aug-25-15 Washington, DC A damning exposé by National Public Radio (NPR) back in June casts Veterans Affairs (VA) in the worst possible light with regard to denied VA disability benefits . The issue relates to the thousands of soldiers who served as test subjects for mustard gas, but were never compensated. Mustard gas proved toxic, with long-term healt... - First Healthcare Fraud Whistleblower Lawsuit under Obamacare Settles for $6.88 Million
Aug-24-15 Norcross, GA When the Affordable Care Act was upheld by the US Supreme Court earlier this summer, provisions that enhance the government’s capacity to recover overpayments also includes enhanced rights and freedoms for whistleblowers to bring healthcare fraud lawsuits. In the first healthcare fraud whistleblower lawsuit of its kind under the Affo... - Michigan Attorney says Time to Put the Brakes on Dangerous Trucks
Sep-7-09 Southfield, MI Michigan Attorney Steve Gursten has reached his breaking point with bad truckers. With years of experience representing people injured or killed by dangerous trucks and truckers in truck accidents and a former president of the Truck Litigation Committee for the American Association of Justice (AAJ), Gursten says he is frankly "disguste... - Problems for Defective St. Jude Heart Valve Patient Lay in Waiting Beyond Surgery
Dec-9-12 Milwaukee, WI Problems encountered by patients with regard to the allegedly defective St. Jude heart valve , often wind up with more trouble than they bargained for even after the allegedly defective heart valve is replaced. According to Health Law Week (11/2/12), one Silzone mechanical heart valve patient discovered a whole new issue when her hear... - Whistleblower Gets Fair Chance to Present Case in DuPont Gas Leak Case
Aug-20-15 A Louisiana federal judge nullified a jury verdict in favor of DuPont Co., which had been accused by a whistleblower in a False Claims Act suit of not telling federal regulators about carcinogen leaks at one of its plants, saying the chemical giant withheld evidence. Jeffrey M. Simoneaux reported a sulfur trioxide leak to his employer and logged repor...