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Sort by date 7,886 pages found matching health insurance- The Many Pitfalls of the Duragesic Fentanyl Patch
May-20-08 Washington, DC: When you're dealing with a medication 80 times more potent than morphine, you are entrusting your very life to the capacity of the Duragesic Fentanyl patch to dispense medication properly—because it could leave the user in severe distress, or dead. One coroner has said a lethal dose of fentanyl can strike so quickly, there isn't eve... - Digitek Defect: Twice the Size, Twice the Dose
May-20-08 Sacramento, CA The Digitek recall has gone to the dogs—literally. That's what happened when Georgia Vonk got the call from her pharmacist that Bailey P. Vonk's Digitek heart medication had been recalled for adverse reactions including nausea, vomiting, low blood pressure, cardiac instability, and even death. In a dog, it can also cause gagging... - Reviewing ADHD Drugs - FDA Goes Through the Motions
Mar-12-06 Some of the top-selling drugs of all time are those prescribed to treat attention deficit disorders. Drug companies have physicians in every field of medicine pushing these medications and dole out millions of dollars worth of free samples each year to make sure they are passed out like candy. A new ADHD drug is set to come on the market that supposedly c... - Unum Impossible to Appeal
May-15-08 Middletown, OH Jane R. has appealed her case to Unum twice. She has asked them what rules they abide by? "In Unum's policy book it states they follow all the federal, state and ERISA rules where applicable and they have the ability to change pretty much anything with my policy," she says. Unum has yet to come up with a legitimate reason as to why she wa... - Attorney Michael L. Hodges on BPA Class Action
May-15-08 Lenexa, Kansas: In his thirty-year legal career, Michael Hodges says, "We've done virtually every kind of damages case you can think of, but in the last four or five years, we've done mainly mass torts and class actions." That includes joining in multiple class actions filed recently against Avent America, Evenflo, Gerber, Handi-Craft (Dr. Brown's), and Pl... - Avandia Heart Attack
May-14-08 New Orleans, LA After being on Avandia for two years, Gail suffered a heart attack. When she was admitted to hospital, immediately following her heart attack, the doctors did an angiogram and found that all the arteries were blocked. Gail had to have five stents put in, which required two separate operations. Today, nearly a year later, her life is to... - Misled to Buy ERISA Stock Options
May-14-08 Newport Beach, CA: While the president of Washington Mutual Inc. dumped company stock, he encouraged his employees to buy, buy, buy -- to fill out their Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) account plans. And they did, resulting today in over $150 million in total losses and devalued retirement funds for employees nationwide. Renee Mayo experi... - MRI and MRA Health Risks: Questions Raised
May-14-08 Chicago, IL MRIs and MRAs are non-invasive diagnostic procedures that enable physicians to visualize internal body structures and contrast agents are often used to further improve diagnosis. The MRI contrast agent market is now the subject of lawsuits concerning gadolinium chelate-based agents (and reported to have sales of more than $1 billion annually) a... - World's Largest Oil Companies Settle with Water Providers for $423M
May-12-08 New York, NY: A settlement has been reached between the world's largest oil companies and over a hundred public water suppliers in a lawsuit that claimed groundwater was contaminated by a gasoline additive. The amount of the settlement is for $423 million and the terms of the settlement, filed on May 7, 2008, are awaiting approval by the U.S. District Cour... - Duragesic Pain Patch: Warning Signs Ignored
May-9-08 Houston, TX The recent lawsuits against the maker of the Duragesic Pain Patch are not the first to be filed. In fact, in 2006, the daughter of a woman who died while wearing a Duragesic patch won her lawsuit against Johnson & Johnson's Alza Corp, the company that manufactures the patch. Unfortunately, the companies involved in manufacturing Duragesic pat... - Public Citizen Wants Ortho-Evra GONE...
May-9-08 Washington, DC The push to get what many believe is a dangerous product off the market got a helping hand yesterday when Public Citizen petitioned the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to pull the Ortho-Evra contraceptive patch off the market. "Ortho-Evra is a poor choice for women," said Dr. Sidney Wolfe of the US-based consumer advocacy group,... - Aging School Buildings, Asbestos, and Our Teachers
May-8-08 Denver, CO As many school districts throughout the United States build new schools, there are still many teachers teaching in aging school buildings with asbestos in their walls. While the teachers in the new buildings are thankfully able to breathe the air within the building without fear of asbestos exposure , the teachers in aging buildings live with t... - Bayer Faces New Battle of Drug Trasylol
May-7-08 Raleigh, NC Bayer AG is facing a new challenge with Trasylol that doesn't have anything to do with the other 78 lawsuits that the drug company is facing. This lawsuit involves a North Carolina man's claims that he is at a financial loss because Trasylol was used during his 2006 heart surgery. Fortunately, he is not one of the tens of thousands of people... - Ortho Evra Patch: Silence Is Not the Answer
May-7-08 Washington, DC Currently, more than 3,000 women and their families in the United States are suing Johnson and Johnson, the makers of the Ortho Evra birth control patch , because they have suffered life threatening adverse health effects such as blood clots, heart attacks, and stroke, as a result of using this controversial form of birth control. Some 40 w... - Settlements and Verdicts: Salem Health and Rehabilitation Center
A $175,000 settlement has been reached in the lawsuit filed against Salem Health and Rehabilitation Center and its operator, Roanoke-based Medical Facilities of America Inc. on behalf of the family of a man who died in the nursing home's care. The suit claimed that Ray C. Wolfe was malnourished and dehydrated, and had multiple bedsores when he was admitt... - "My Son was given 900 units of Botox and Never Spoke Again"
May-2-08 Chicago, IL Sandra's son suffered a massive brain injury and he was given Botox to control muscle spasms in his arms and shoulders. But Sandra believes that the huge dose he was given (900 units) caused him to lose the ability to swallow; as well, she thinks this deadly toxin migrated to his brain. "On January 27, 2006 my son Jonathan was a... - Drug Companies Sued Over SSRIs
May-2-08 Philadelphia, PA GlaxoSmithKline currently faces a number of lawsuits regarding its SSRI antidepressant, Paxil. Recently, a Philadelphia judge denied GlaxoSmithKline's motion to dismiss a lawsuit alleging the company's antidepressant, Paxil caused a man to commit suicide. Meanwhile, the drug company faces lawsuits from women who took Paxil while pregna... - Trasylol: Bayer Bracing for Lawsuits
May-2-08 Miami, FL As Bayer AG continues to study the results of the Canadian BART trial on Trasylol , and whether or not those findings may compel the manufacturer to lobby health regulators as to the merits of re-marketing a now-vilified drug, its legal arm prepares for its day in court as lawsuits against Bayer mount. One of those lawsuits was filed in Ma... - Trasylol Death Unnecessary
May-1-08 Hayti, MO Although Trasylol has been recalled, many people are only now realizing that they or their loved ones may have been given the drug during open heart surgery and may have suffered serious adverse reactions to the drug, including kidney failure . Like many other people, Gigi B. is now trying to determine whether or not Trasylol caused a loved... - Zyprexa Medicaid Gravy Train Derailed
Feb-20-06 When Zyprexa was approved to treat adults with schizophrenia in 1996, Eli Lilly and the FDA knew about the drug's lethal side effects. Data from a 1996 six-week clinical trial revealed 27 deaths, 15 of which were suicides, and a drop-out rate of 65%. In his book, Mad In America, investigative journalist Robert Whitaker, reported that one in every 145...