LAWSUITS NEWS & LEGAL INFORMATION
Search Results for
Sort by date 7,886 pages found matching health insurance- When Financial Advisors Commit Elder Abuse
Jan-30-09 San Diego, CA With so many stories about financial elder abuse committed by family members, it can be easy to forget that there are other people out there who are guilty of such financial abuse. However, there are people in a variety of industries who violate financial elder abuse laws for their personal gain. Lisette M. says that her parents were ta... - Daniel Troy - Godfather of Big Pharma Protection Racket
Dec-27-06 Washington, DC: In hindsight, its now more than apparent that Daniel Troy, who fought against stricter prescription drug laws in private practice, was appointed Chief Counsel at the FDA for one reason, to serve as Godfather in setting up a protection racket for Big Pharma. On August 20, 2001, when President Bush made him Chief Counsel, Mr Troy became th... - Salmonella Peanut Butter Recall Widens, Death Toll Rises
Jan-29-09 Washington, DC Parents will be forgiven for combing through their pantries and cupboards looking for anything containing peanut butter, after it was revealed late yesterday that Peanut Corporation of America (PCA) dramatically widened it's recall of products suspected, or having the potential of harboring peanut butter salmonella . Until yesterday, PCA... - SJS Ketek: Manufacturer to "Discuss" adding further Warning about "Skin Events"
Jan-27-09 Dallas, TX: Cindy's first "outbreak" occurred after she was prescribed Ketek for a mild form of pneumonia. The back of her mouth and her throat were covered in blisters and her doctor diagnosed oral herpes. Then she broke out it in shingles and now has cysts near her groin. Cindy believes she was misdiagnosed; likely because her doctor has never seen or... - Court Allows Eli Lilly to Bury Zyprexa Documents
Dec-21-06 New York, NY Alaskan attorney, Jim Gottstein, says that after being served with a mandatory injunction, he has returned the internal Eli Lilly documents that he obtained in litigation and provided to the New York Times to the court. Information from the documents related to Lilly's antipsychotic drug, Zyprexa , was highlighted two days in a row in fr... - Medical Device Foot-Dragging by the FDA: 19 Years and Counting…
Jan-23-09 Washington, DC It is of little comfort to anyone with a medical device that the federal authority charged with husbanding medical devices for safety—the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA)—has been so lax in updating rules that ensure their safety. Medical drugs, it should be noted, combine to a similar frustration. Little wonder that a failing med... - Flu Vaccines - Open Season
Dec-15-06 For all the frantic, unvaccinated citizens fearing the "upcoming" peak of flu season—rest assured, coming down with a flu infection is the least of your worries. Despite the governments statements urging individuals to vaccinate their children, the threat of an infantile influenza fatality is just about as serious as the dreaded hangnail. Noneth... - Peanut Butter Recall Spreading to More Products
Jan-18-09 Collegedale, TN A peanut butter recall linked to a national salmonella outbreak that has sickened hundreds of people in 43 states got much wider today, after the company that sells the popular 'Little Debbie' products announced a voluntary recall of peanut butter crackers. Today, McKee Foods Corporation located here recalled lots of Little Debbie pea... - Settlements and Verdicts: ConocoPhillips.
A $70 million settlement has been reached in the lawsuit filed on behalf of up to 7,000 people who now or previously owned about 3,000 homes and other properties in Pensacola, Papantonio. The suit alleged that an underground toxic plume caused by the company has devalued property and may have caused health problems. (Apr-06-04) Legal Help If... - Grand River Dam Suit is Déjà Vu All over Again
Jan-16-09 Topeka, KS Attorney Larry Bork has spent literally thousands of hours battling the Grand River Dam Authority (GRDA) on behalf of people whose homes have been flooded again and again by high water levels in Ottawa County, Oklahoma. "There are a lot of people that are extremely irritated, no doubt about it," says Bork, an attorney with Goodell, Stratton, Edm... - Zonolite Attic Insulation and Asbestos Mesothelioma
Jan-14-09 Washington, DC On December 1 2008, a tentative $140 million settlement was reached in a class action lawsuit against WR Grace & Co, the makers of Zonolite Attic Insulation, a product which contained the extremely carcinogenic tremolite asbestos. Zonolite insulation was sold extensively throughout the US and Canada from the 1920s to the late 1970s. In... - Army Helicopter Crashes, One Dead
Jan-13-09 College Station, TX In the latest helicopter accident news , yesterday's crash of an ROTC training helicopter is among the most recent helicopter crashes reported—including helicopter accidents that have claimed lives. In this latest incident, one person was killed and four people injured when a UH-60 Black Hawk carrying a crew of five fell abruptly bac... - The Fine Line Between Birth Defects and Antidepressants
Jan-12-09 Atlanta, GA Various antidepressant drugs, such as Prozac, have been linked to an increase in SSRI birth defects in children. Experts agree that the issue of antidepressants and pregnancy is not an easy one to sort out. While there could be risk to the fetus by continuing to take an antidepressant, stopping a necessary antidepressant during pregnancy coul... - Ketek Fraud Investigation Derails Confirmation of New FDA Commissioner
Dec-6-06 Washington, DC: When the Democrats won control of Congress, Senator Charles Grassley may have lost the chairmanship of the Senate Finance Committee, but the current acting FDA commissioner had better not get too settled in because the Senator is apparently not ready to throw in the towel in the on-going battle with him. In a recent press release accompa... - FDA Advisory Committee Schedules Hearing on SSRIs and Suicide
Dec-5-06 Washington DC: The FDA's Psychopharmacologic Drugs Advisory Committee will hold a public hearing on December 13, 2006, to review the adult selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI) studies on the increased risk of suicide associated with the antidepressants. The panel is expected to vote on whether the risk of suicidality in adults should be inclu... - Spinach E. coli: Warnings Unnoticed for Two Days
Dec-4-06 Salinas, CA: Concerns are now being raised that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) did not warn consumers quickly enough about the recent E. coli spinach contamination that killed at least three people and made 200 more sick. Some critics believe that the deaths from the E. coli infection could have been prevented if the CDC had lear... - Glaxo Writing Checks Left and Right to Settle Paxil Legal Battles
Dec-3-06 Madison County, IL: GlaxoSmithKline is no doubt looking forward to the New Year because the end of this one is becoming costlier by the month. On November 1, 2006, the Associated Press reported that Glaxo had agreed to pay $63.8 million to settle a class action lawsuit with allegations that Glaxo promoted Paxil for use with children and adolescents wh... - Determining the Mental Capacity of a Decedent
Jan-7-09 Forensic psychologists and neuropsychologists regularly give expert opinions about a person's mental capacity in the criminal, family law and civil courts. The evaluative process involves clinical interviews, psychological/neuropsychological testing, review of the records and interviews with individuals who have personal knowledge of the defendant's beha... - Biggest Off-Label Drug Marketing Scheme in History - Part II
Dec-1-06 [ Read Part I ] Washington DC: In fairness to off-label prescribing doctors, until recently, studies that showed SSRIs were ineffective and dangerous when used by children were kept hidden and thus, the data made available to physicians painted a rosy, but false, picture of success with SSRIs. And up until recently, many doctors were not even awar... - Adopted Children from China Exposed to Melamine in Milk?
Jan-6-09 Los Angeles, CA When the world first learned of melamine contamination in Chinese milk products , the initial reaction was an instant flashback to melamine in pet food, and other China-sourced products that have been found to be contaminated. "Those poor babies over there," you may have caught yourself saying. "At least it's not happening here in the US."...