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Sort by date 7,886 pages found matching health insurance- Kugel Mesh Patch: "People Who Get Shot Feel Better than I Do"
Oct-4-08 Phoenix, AZ John H has suffered though a lot of pain, and many surgeries due to a hernia repair where a hernia patch was used to repair one of his herniated areas. Many of his symptoms and health problems following his hernia repair surgeries are consistent with those experienced by people who have had Kugel Mesh Patches implanted. "The whole thing... - Digitek caused friend's Blindness
Sep-29-08 Albany, NY At first, Jack thought he was suffering from pneumonia but he was diagnosed with congestive heart failure and started taking Digitek in hospital. Luckily for Jack, his cardiologist took him off the medication months before the Digitek recall but his friend suffered loss of vision in one eye—permanently. Jack says he was treated for hig... - Plaintiff Employment Lawyer Christopher Whelan goes after the Bad Guys
Sep-29-08 Gold River, CA Attorney Christopher Whelan is way too modest. He has doggedly pursued bad employers on behalf of hundreds of clients for over 25 years and won multi-million dollar employment law verdicts time after time. He also plowed new furrows in his field and found new ways to use existing statutes to slap wrists and get nasty companies to compensat... - Tomato-Pepper Salmonella: Still Some Concerns
Sep-25-08 La Habra, CA Marie believes she suffered from salmonella food poisoning after eating both salmonella peppers and tomatoes. "Due to the fact that I'm a nurse I didn't go to a doctor," she says, "but what really troubles me is that my grandson frequents fast-food restaurants and they continually served tomatoes and peppers on almost everything." Marie... - Trasylol: In Their Own Words
Sep-25-08 Washington, DC The world by now knows all too well that Trasylol has all the hallmarks of a blockbuster movie—perhaps even with Tommy Lee Jones as the crusading researcher, Dr. Dennis Mangano. And the thousands of patients who died from Trasylol heart failure , Trasylol kidney failure and various other Trasylol side effects might finally get their d... - Financial Elder Abuse Law: Protecting Those Who Can't Protect Themselves
Sep-25-08 San Diego, CA As terrible as it is to conceive, sometimes those who violate financial elder abuse law are family members of the victims. These abusers know their victims well—they know their account numbers, they know their passwords and they know their habits. They know just about everything about the victim, which makes financial elder abuse seem l... - "Our life was Hell because of Levaquin"
Sep-23-08 Mineral Point, WI "My husband just walked to his truck and heard two big 'pops'," says Lifka."He blew out the quads in both legs and went down." Chuck had been taking the antibiotic Levaquin for a respiratory infection; nobody told him about Levaquin side effects . "By the time I found him, Chuck had almost frozen to death—it was February in Wisconsin... - Financial Elder Abuse: Dad Did Not Sign Away Rights
Sep-19-08 Westminster, CA Financial elder abuse is often associated with a greedy relative who steals money or property from an elderly family member. However, there are situations in which people outside the family commit such elder abuse. Arthur M. says that his father's lawyer took advantage of his father's poor health to gain access to money—in the process s... - Asbestos Mesothelioma: A Lawsuit is His Legacy
Sep-18-08 Irving, TX You wonder when all this will come to an end. Maybe it never will. The fact remains, however that asbestos exposure keeps claiming lives, and major corporations continue to put their employees in harm's way of asbestos cancer . Omar Phillips may have been one of them—at least that's what the lawsuit brought against giant Exxon Mobil by h... - Levaquin: This Antibiotic Doesn't Leave You Aching for More
Sep-16-08 Newark, NJ The Levaquin antibiotic is proving to be more trouble than it is worth for many patients, if one man's story is any indication. A host of Levaquin side effects is one of the reasons why the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has the wheels in motion for a black box warning for Levaquin. "Doug" is a healthy 31-year-old man with no press... - What is a Lifetime's Exposure to Asbestos Worth?
Sep-15-08 Rochester Hill, MI As an electrician at General Motors, Russell had plenty of contact with asbestos. In fact he had 20 years exposure to the lethal substance. Today, he has a spot on his lung, and needs an inhaler to help him climb stairs. He wonders if his prolonged exposure to asbestos in the workplace may have set in motion an irreversible disease, ca... - Bankruptcy Debt: Dispelling the Myths
Sep-12-08 Oak Brook, IL If there is any silver lining to the credit crisis the nation continues to find itself in, it is the reality that personal bankruptcy is no longer the life-altering disaster it once was. Make no mistake, bankruptcy debt is serious business, and you want to avoid it if you can. But if there's no other alternative on the horizon, rest assured... - "I survived Cipro"
Sep-11-08 Los Angeles, CA Tina advises victims of Cipro side effects to "be proactive and get your health back." Tina was prescribed Cipro for a staph-related infection: after taking it for five days she could barely walk. Tina suffers from fibromyalgia but this pain was different--it was in her joints. "It attacked my knees, elbows, feet and hands," says Tina. "I... - I want to Warn Others not to take Cipro
Sep-8-08 OnAlaska, WA: Mary has been taking Cipro "on and off" since 1991. Because of her chronic medical history she has been confined to a wheelchair but she had carpal tunnel surgery four years ago, was diagnosed with a torn rotator cuff and had surgery near her Achilles tendon. How could those injuries happen—she has been disabled for years… "Because... - Heparin: No explanation for husband's death
Sep-8-08 Kankakee, IL Diane can't help but think Heparin caused her husband's death. "Two years ago my husband Jack and I were sitting at the kitchen table at my sister's house and he said he had difficulty breathing," she says. " I called our family doctor and he said we should go to the hospital but Jack refused to go. It only lasted a minute or two then he was... - Zimmer Hip Implants: Five Repair Surgeries in 10 Years
Sep-6-08 Farmington Hills, MI For some people, the thought of one hip surgery is daunting and two hip surgeries seems unbearable. Addison L. (not her real name) had six hip replacements in 10 years—five replacements on one hip and one replacement on the other. Her husband, Frank (not his real name) says that most, if not all, of the surgeries involved Zimmer hip... - Avandia Escapes New FDA Recommendation
Sep-4-08 Washington, DC And the lawsuits just keep on coming over Avandia , a diabetes drug suspected of increasing the risk for heart attack . And it's not just in the US either, where the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) continues in its much-criticized role as industry watchdog. The concern over Avandia has spread across the globe. In Canada, a Nov... - Maple Leaf Foods Class Action Lawsuit: Interview with Attorney Darren Williams
Sep-2-08 Victoria, BC On August 25, 2008 Merchant Law Group LLP filed the first class action lawsuits in Canada on behalf of listeriosis victims and recalled meat purchasers. "Since the action was filed we have had about 3,400 expressions of interest from people concerned," says attorney Darren Williams, "from Victoria, British Columbia to St. John's Newfoundland... - Zimmer Durom Lawsuits Filed
Aug-27-08 Miami, FL A lawsuit has now been filed against Zimmer, Inc. alleging the Zimmer Durom Hip Replacement cup is defective. More lawsuits are expected as patients realize they may have had a defective cup used in their implant surgery. Zimmer has admitted that the Durom cup is failing at a higher than expected rate, but blames the problem on surgeon error... - Asbestos Mesothelioma: Creating a Better Life Proved Fatal
Aug-27-08 Panama City, FL Frances' husband Charles was riddled with cancer when he died in 1998. The cancer could have been caused by more than 35 years exposure to asbestos in the building that housed their business. Now Frances and her daughter are wondering if they may at risk for the same fate. In the early 1970s Charles and Frances bought a building in F...