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Jul-10-15 St. Louis, MO In the first of a possible series of Depakote trials, a jury awarded $15 million in compensatory damages. The St. Louis jury then added $23 million in punitive damages to a 12-year-old girl with spina bifida, which is a birth defect associated with Depakote. Maddison Schmidt was born with spina bifida - a condition where a baby’s... - CEO Lynch Out, Fortunes Continue to Fall for Lumber Liquidators
Jul-9-15 Toano, VA The optics were never good from the beginning. They never are, when the venerable CBS investigative unit 60 Minutes comes knocking at your door. That said, the optics keep going from bad to worse with the recent and abrupt resignation of Lumber Liquidators’ CEO in late spring. The resignation came just two weeks after announcing that the... - Stevens Johnson Syndrome Award Could Be $130 Million with Interest
Jul-8-15 Boston, MA It came down to a handful of spoonfuls: just a few innocent doses of Children’s Motrin and suddenly a 7-year-old girl was hurled onto an unrelenting path of pain and suffering that has left her legally blind and unable to have children of her own. That was in 2003. Today Samantha Reckis is 19 and continuing to face a lifetime of hardship f... - Rare Meningitis Outbreak Claims 11 Lives, Sickens 119 People
Oct-10-12 Washington, DC The national meningitis outbreak has now claimed 11 lives and sickened 119 people in 10 states. All the people affected received contaminated steroid injections , according to US health officials. A report by HealthDay News states health officials in the 23 states that received shipments of the methylprednisolone acetate are trying to t... - Study: IVC Filters Rarely Removed if Complications Arise
Mar-21-14 Chicago, IL Study results recently shared at the annual meeting of the Midwestern Vascular Surgical Society revealed that the inferior vena cava and adjacent organs had been penetrated in 46% of patients who received IVC filters . The findings, presented by Dr. Michael Go, with the division of vascular diseases and surgery, Ohio State University Medical... - Levaquin Peripheral Sensorimotor Neuropathy Lawsuits Expected to Grow
Jul-3-15 San Francisco, CA It’s bad enough when a prescription medication leaves you with a nasty, but temporary side effect. It’s another thing entirely when a devastating side effect proves permanent. That’s one claim amongst a host of allegations contained in a Levaquin Antibiotics lawsuit currently before the courts and arguing for consoli... - Florida Resident Sickened by Chinese Drywall Forced from Home
Feb-20-11 Lauderhill, FL Her name is Eleanor Aguilar and Chinese drywall chased her out of her own home. Her townhouse in Lauderhill, Florida, was built with defective China drywall from Knauf Plasterboard Tianjin. The defective drywall compromised her health as well as her appliances—and now her home will take three months to remediate. But at least it... - Testosterone Side Effects Get a Rise Out of Consumer Advocate
Mar-18-14 Chicago, IL The dramatic rise in popularity of testosterone-boosting products has not only resulted in record sales for the manufacturers of such products as AndroGel, Androderm, Axirom and Bio-T-Gel (among others), the phenomenon of “Low-T” will soon be reverberating through the courts. Plaintiffs having brought many a testosterone lawsuit... - Did Unum Stonewall Policyholder Out of $24,000?
Jun-16-09 Skokie, IL If the postings at consumeraffairs.com are any indication, current and former policyholders of Unum Insurance (also known as UnumProvident) are still having trouble collecting benefits. Unum has been scattershot with prior allegations of claims denials, various delaying tactics and other measures—and if the posted musings of Joseph, of S... - NFL Dreams Dashed by Shoulder Pain Pump
Jun-13-09 Blue Ash, OH He said his doctor told him that it was akin to throwing acid on a painted wall. Analogies aside, Matthew McKeown is a young man with a dream in tatters after a shoulder pain pump manufactured by I-FLOW used after a shoulder injury is alleged to have destroyed his shoulder. His dream was to play in the National Football League (NFL)—an... - Number of Diabetes Lawsuits in Lipitor MDL above 2,200 and Climbing
Jun-27-15 Washington, DC The number of cases in the Lipitor Diabetes Lawsuits MDL has climbed to more than 2,200 and with little wonder: plaintiffs maintain that prior to a label change mandated by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in 2012, few, if any, had little clue that atorvastatin (Lipitor) could trigger type 2 diabetes. The manufacturer of Lipi... - Mirena Complaints Mounting
Jun-26-15 Newark, NJ Yet another Mirena lawsuit has been filed against Bayer Healthcare by a California woman who needed emergency surgery to remove the IUD. Chelsea Dawn McClune was implanted with the Mirena birth control device in February 2013. She had follow-up exams that indicated the procedure was correctly placed and all was well. But five months later... - Despite Yasmin Lawsuits, Bayer Presses On
Sep-27-12 Washington, DC Her user name is Eve84 and she's very concerned about Yasmin birth control , according to a message board posting back in February. "I switched to Yasmin 3 years ago, my doctor recommended it to me. I can't even remember the reason," Eve84 writes in a Yasmin & Yaz survivor's forum. "Anyway, since then I have had an increasingly str... - Mothers Act Fuels Multibillion Dollar Industry - Part 1 of 3
Apr-7-09 Motherhood has fallen prey to the psycho-pharmaceutical complex. If new legislation known as the Mother's Act becomes law, the drugging of infants through pregnant and nursing mothers will no doubt increase. Congress has rightfully refused to pass this bill for eight years. The official title is currently the "Melanie Blocker Stokes Mom's Opportunity to... - California Labor Law: More on Overtime for IT Workers
Jun-4-09 San Jose, CA According to the California Labor Law , most IT workers are entitled to California overtime for computer professionals. Job duties trump job descriptions and many employees are not performing managerial tasks, thus making them misclassified as exempt. The California labor code states that tasks performed determine whether or not IT profession... - GranuFlo Heart Attack: When Dialysis Is Anything but Routine
Mar-9-14 Waltham, MA The stories that originate from many a GranuFlo lawsuit are both compelling and heartbreaking, such as that of a woman who reportedly died while being wheeled from her dialysis station after receiving GranuFlo as part of her treatment. The dialysis clinic worker described her death as instantaneous, succumbing to a massive heart attack in m... - Law Firm Takes Google to Court
Jun-3-09 New Haven, CT: So what do lawyers do when they feel they have been dealt with unfairly? Well they go to court, that's what they do. Stratton & Faxon, a personal injury firm in New Haven, Connecticut is more than a little perturbed about Google selling its hard-earned firm name to one of its competitors. "Basically every time someone searched our firm... - Medical Malpractice: Fear has its Price
May-14-07 Miami, FL They're only human, after all. And like us, medical practitioners can have a bad day. A sleepless night, trouble with the kids, a bitter divorce. However, when someone in the medical community has a bad day, for whatever reason, it's often the patient that pays for it, in what is sometimes a lifelong struggle. And that could mean medical malprac... - Risperdal Lawsuits Favor Plaintiffs 2 to 1
Jun-21-15 Philadelphia, IL The third Risperdal trial ending with a settlement tips the scales in favor of Risperdal plaintiffs. To date, only one trial has ended in partial victory for Johnson & Johnson. The third trial’s outcome is positive news for Charlie (not his real name), who has been taking Risperdal to treat his schizophrenia for more tha... - "Thanks to Unum, I Crashed Before the Recession"
May-31-09 Amarillo, TX Sharon wonders if you have to be on your death bed to collect long term disability benefits from Unum . First she had a skin disease then her kidneys shut down. She was diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis, lung disease and more. She has also been in the hospital 9 times with pneumonia. Yet Unum Provident only paid her short term disability be...