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A $3.5 million settlement has been reached in the lawsuit filed by residents who live near the Danbury dump. The suit claimed that the dump's smelly fumes made them ill, with symptoms including nausea, vomiting and respiratory ailments. (Mar-04-04) [ NBC 30 ] Legal Help If you have a similar problem and would like to be contacted by a lawyer at no... - Settlements and Verdicts: Johns Hopkins University.
A $2.6 million settlement has been reached in the lawsuit filed on behalf of the National Institutes of Health. The suit alleged that the hospital overbilled for addiction research and other projects, and came after an employee revealed that researchers had inflated the amount of time required to carry out studies on therapies for drug dependence. (Feb-2... - Settlements and Verdicts: Rush University Medical Center, Rush North Shore Medical Center, Dr. Bennett Braun, psychologist Roberta Sachs, and Dr. Corydon Hammond.
A $7.35 million settlement has been reached in the Chicago medical malpractice lawsuit filed by a woman who alleged that she was put under drug-induced hypnosis and then convinced she was part of a satanic cult. (Feb-12-04) [ NBC5 ] Legal Help If you have a similar problem and would like to be contacted by a lawyer at no obligation, please clic... - Eli Lilly The Habitual Offender
Jan-25-07 Indianapolis, IN: The revelations that Eli Lilly concealed the side effects of Zyprexa and promoted the drug for unapproved uses is not newly discovered misconduct. It is a persistent pattern of conduct indicative of a nasty habit that needs breaking. After the secret company documents were leaked to the press last month by attorney, Jim Gottstein,... - Old Navy Defective Toys: Cute, But Potentially Deadly
Feb-24-09 Washington, DC There was a time when we didn't worry about such things, like the button eyes coming off of a teddy bear and causing a choking hazard. All teddy bears and Raggedy Anne dolls had button eyes. But back in the day we never used to wear seat belts, either. It's a new day. And any product that tries to play by the old rules, winds up in the defe... - Lead Contaminated Water Scandal Leads to Lawsuit
Feb-23-09 Washington D.C. Attorney Katherine Kimpel is definitely on top of this file and seems to have a river of information flowing through her brain. Just days ago she filed a class action suit on behalf of a single father from the Capitol Hill neighborhood of Washington D.C. alleging that lead in the city's water supply caused his two adopted sons to have serio... - Zyprexa Judge decides which Journalists have First Amendment Rights
Jan-16-07 Washington, DC The judge issuing injunctions in the Eli Lilly- Zyprexa -Documents case has decided that reporters at the New York Times enjoy the full protection of the First Amendment but that other reporters and media outlets do not. The secret documents at the center of this hailstorm were provided to the New York Times, and several other journalis... - Kugel Mesh a Mess for Some
Feb-12-09 Phoenix, AZ Forgive the patient for assuming that when he or she is treated for a condition that requires surgery, the expertise of the surgeon, together with the reputation and quality of any implements required, are beyond reproach. But that didn't seem to be the case with the Kugel Mesh , a hernia patch that proved less than stellar. Indeed, the Kugel... - FBI Now Involved in PCA Peanut Butter Salmonella
Feb-10-09 Blakely, GA In what is fast becoming one of the most sensational food recall stories of all time, it has been reported that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) raided a manufacturing facility in Blakely, Georgia owned by Peanut Corporation of America (PCA) fingered in the peanut butter salmonella case. The raid was likely conducted in concert with... - Financial Advisor Loses Millions in Employee Stock Plan
Feb-10-09 San Diego, CA Many investors have lost money lately, but among those who have been forgotten are financial advisors who invested in their firm's employee stock options plans. With their companies filing for bankruptcy or being bought out by other companies, these employees are finding that the employee savings plans they paid into faithfully for many yea... - Asbestos Mesothelioma and the US Postal Service
Feb-9-09 Scarborough, ME Philip was a vehicle service technician with the U S Postal Service, so he worked around asbestos. He can remember his hands filling with asbestos dust when he removed worn out brakes. But he didn't know about asbestos mesothelioma . Clouds of Black Dust "I started working in the vehicle maintenance facility around 1980," Philip sai... - Company "Left the Town for Dead"
Feb-9-09 Daingerfield, TX: The town of Blackwell, Oklahoma wants the owners of a defunct smelter operation to get the lead out--literally! Their kids are testing positive for high levels of lead and their homes are contaminated with traces of arsenic, cadmium, zinc and lead dust. It's an environmental nightmare and no wonder they called a lawyer. Attorney Kei... - ETHEX Faces Another Recall Over Manufacturing Practices
Feb-8-09 Washington, DC A manufacturer with a prior incident for distributing products outside the bounds of good manufacturing practices is having to face the music again: More prescription prenatal and iron supplements made by ETHEX Corporation have been recalled over fear of ETHEX side effects and other concerns. In the past, ETHEX drug overdose has been an is... - Ketek can Kill
Jan-6-07 Beloit, WI The last thing Cheryl Trotter could possibly imagine after taking one Ketek pill would be complete kidney failure . "One day I was fine, the next day on my deathbed. I went from a slight cough and next thing I know, I'm in the hospital with renal failure - I couldn't believe it," she says. Every spring, Cheryl gets asthma and she has to... - SSRI Birth Defects: Why Weren't Warnings Issued Sooner?
Feb-6-09 Valley Home, AK When Susan (not her real name) gave birth to her now 5-year old son, he had a lung and heart deformity. Susan had taken the anti depressant Zoloft, albeit briefly, during her pregnancy, and given all she's subsequently read, now wonders if her son's birth defects are SSRI-related birth defects . When Susan's son was born, he wasn't bre... - Attorney Bill Marler on Tainted Peanut Butter Outbreak
Feb-5-09 Seattle, WA Attorney Bill Marler is on the phone—he's arranging for two families with children affected by the salmonella tainted peanut butter outbreak to appear before a Congressional hearing later this year in Washington D.C. "Call me back in 5 minutes, I'm on another line," says Marler. An attorney with 15 years experience fighting for people injur... - Peanut Butter Salmonella Recalls Continue, Obama Promises FDA Reform
Feb-3-09 Washington, DC A federal regulator desperately in need of reform had to wait until the company at the center of the massive peanut butter salmonella recall approved the wording of a recall, before the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) was able to publish it. By that time, many stores had already removed some of the suspect products from store she... - "Extreme Pain" from Kugel Mesh Complications
Feb-3-09 Hardinsburg, KY Tyler C. is a young man—far too young to be facing lifelong complications from the use of the Kugel Mesh Patch. Although he is only in his early 20s, Tyler has already had numerous surgeries to fix problems likely caused by his hernia patch. Unfortunately, Tyler faces still more surgeries, and he has no guarantee that those surgeries wi... - A Stock Option Contract Should Be Honored
Feb-1-09 New York, NY A billion dollars is a lot of money. $1.5 billion is even more. And when one thinks of the losses incurred by employees with their employee stock options , little wonder that so many are seeking the advice of an attorney for help from ERISA law. The worsening recession, and the contracting economy are bad enough. Substantial losses in an em... - Novartis failed to Warn about Elidel Cancer Link
Dec-28-06 Washington, DC: Most lawsuits in which drug makers have tried to use preemption to dismiss failure-to-warn claims have been against companies accused of failing to warn about the risk of suicide associated with antidepressants known as selective serotonin inhibitors or SSRIs. However, a case in Pennsylvania against Novartis, involves a toddler who devel...