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Company: American Oriental Bioengineering Inc, Ticker Symbol: AOB Class Period: Nov-9-09 to Jun-15-12 Date Filed: Jul-10-12 Lead Plaintiff Deadline: Sep-8-12 Court: Central District of California Allegations: Wilmington, DL: A securities class action lawsuit has b... - Risperdal Litigation Ongoing
May-29-15 Helena, MT Charlie started taking Risperdal soon after it was FDA-approved to treat teens with bipolar disorder. He was 14 years old at the time and starting to get interested in girls. “Nobody ever told me that I would develop breasts after taking this drug. My hormones are so out of whack that I even have female thoughts,” says Charlie... - FBI Investigating J&J over Power Morcellator
May-28-15 San Francisco, CA Johnson & Johnson, the maker of a highly controversial surgical instrument known as a power morcellator, is under investigation by the FBI. Specifically, the Federal Bureau of Investigation is trying to determine if J&J kept selling the devices after it was discovered it could spread a type of cancer. The US Food and D... - Caseloads for Xarelto Blood Thinner Getting Fatter
May-28-15 Lafayette, LA There are a plethora of signs and markers that appear to suggest that Xarelto is going to become a caseload juggernaut in the litigation world. First, the cases in multidistrict litigation are growing steadily, from just over 300 in March to more than 400 now. Funding firms are actively promoting case funding options for plaintiffs requiring... - American Oriental Bioengineering, Inc AOBI Securities Fraud
Company: American Oriental Bioengineering, Inc Ticker Symbol: AOBI Class Period: Nov-9-09 to Jul-15-12 Date Filed: Jul-5-12 Lead Plaintiff Deadline: Sep-3-12 Court: Central District of California Allegations: New York: A securities federal securities class action h... - Asbestos Mesothelioma: A Tale of Two Cities
Feb-20-09 Libby, MT While one community hopes that a forthcoming trial slams the owners of a now-closed vermiculite mine for making its residents sick with asbestos mesothelioma , another community appears to be downplaying the risk with an eye to their property values. In both cases, the havoc created by asbestos, and its well-known risks to health, is taking... - Cipro Rupture Can Occur After Just One Dose
Dec-28-10 Washington, DC One of the most aggravating side effects associated with Cipro (ciprofloxacin) is tendon rupture—the result of which can have a devastating impact on an individual's overall health and well-being. One of the most aggravating things about this one aspect of Cipro side effects is that it can happen after just one dose. Cipro is on... - Could Statin Use Such As Crestor Indirectly Trigger Heart Attacks in Men?
Feb-5-14 Washington, DC While statins have been shown to reduce the incidence of heart attack (and new treatment guidelines suggest there will be a lot more statins prescribed than previously), it remains that statins such as Crestor come with baggage: read, Crestor side effects such as the potential to trigger diabetes in some patients, and in rare cases, rhab... - $25M Settlement Proposed In Evergreen Ultra Short Opportunities Fund Securities Lawsuit
Philadelphia, PA: Five institutional investors, including two union benefit funds from Philadelphia, the Bricklayers and Allied Craftworkers Local 1 of PA/DE Health and Welfare Fund and the Bricklayers Local 54 of Pennsylvania Supplemental Welfare Fund, have announced that they have sought preliminary court approval of a $25 million settlement of a secur... - Plaintiff Claims Zofran Maker Uses Expectant Mothers and Unborn Children as Human Guinea Pigs
May-24-15 San Francisco, CA Accusing GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), the Zofran maker, of using expectant mothers and unborn children as human guinea pigs sounds like something the National Enquirer would dream up. In GSK’s defense, using pregnant women in clinical trials would be tantamount to such an accusation. But if GSK hid the risks of Zofran birth defect... - Consumer Fraud Scams: What's Old Is New Again
Apr-13-09 Nashville, TN The scam is as old as time itself and consumer fraud is growing with the development of new ways to lead the consumer down the garden path. Little wonder that the Consumer Protection Act has become a dog-eared reference for all kinds of scams that attempt to do an end run around fair play and consumer protection. And while the Internet... - Health Bill for 9/11 Responders Passes
Dec-22-10 Washington, DC The 9/11 responders health bill designed to cover the medical costs of rescue workers and others who became ill after breathing in toxic fumes, dust and smoke during and after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, has been passed by the US Senate. In a complete turn of events, the bill passed Wednesday by unanimous consent. It... - Fort Wayne Police Union Suing for Overtime Pay
Apr-11-09 Fort Wayne, IN An interesting unpaid overtime case is unfolding in the state of Indiana involving police officers in Fort Wayne and a police department that's trying to save some money. In the process, the department might be shooting itself—figuratively—in the foot. Here's the story. For the past number of years Fort Wayne police officers have be... - Cefepime Seizure Risk in Kidney Patients
Washington, DC: The FDA has alerted health care professionals to a label change for Cefepime. The issue is reported cases of a specific type of seizure called nonconvulsive status epilepticus associated with the use of cefepime, primarily in patients with renal impairment who did not receive appropriate dosage adjustments of cefepime. The FDA ha... - Following Suit: Medical Malpractice and Medical “Never Events”
Jan-29-14 • In December 2012, Johns Hopkins released the shocking results of a cautious and rigorous analysis of national medical malpractice claims , believed to be the first of its kind. Among the findings, Johns Hopkins patient safety researchers estimated a surgeon in the United States leaves a foreign object such as a sponge or a towel inside a patient&r... - New Owners Gambling Bydureon Won’t Be Another Byetta
Aug-12-12 New York, NY When Bristol-Myers Squibb (Squibb) and AstraZeneca close the deal on their acquisition of Amylin Pharmaceuticals, the suitors will not only rake in the cash from Amylin's new once-weekly diabetes drug injectable Bydureon, they will also have to assume any perceived and demonstrated risks associated with both Bydureon and Byetta. The latter has... - Fire Accident Aided by Building Codes?
Apr-9-09 Graham, WA Fire accident —any fire accident—is a tragedy, measured by loss of property and irreplaceable mementoes and sometimes, loss of life. Even when an individual survives, a fire injury can be devastating with lasting effects. Recent fire accident investigations in Washington State however have put the focus not on the specific origins of a fire... - Off-Label Stenting For Profit
Mar-12-07 Washington, DC: On March 1, 2007, US House of Representatives, Henry Waxman (D-CA), the chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, asked two medical device makers to turn over documents as part of an investigation into the safety and off-label marketing of drug-eluting stents. Stents are small wire-mesh tubes inserted in arteries... - $40 Million Settlement Approved in Lehman Brothers Class Action
Washington, DC: A federal judge has approved a $40 million settlement in a mortgage-backed securities class action lawsuit against individuals previously affiliated with Lehman Brothers Holding, Inc. (Lehman Brothers"), which in September 2008 filed the largest bankruptcy in US history. The lawsuit is led by Locals 302 and 612 of the International Uni... - DES Daughter Caitlin McCarthy: "You Might Not Have Cancer Today, But You Could Tomorrow"
Aug-8-12 Worcester, MA For Caitlin McCarthy, one of the many women who was exposed to DES (diethylstilbestrol) prior to birth, discovering she was suffering from DES side effects was a shock. She had no idea she had been exposed to the drug, and therefore had no idea about the link between DES and cancer, or the health risks she faced. But that shock did not st...