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Sort by date 7,886 pages found matching health insurance- United Airlines Appears to Stiff Early Retirees
Aug-8-22 Chicago, IL Cast your mind back to 2020. We were staying at home, fully masked, wearing blue gloves, bleaching our kitchen counters and very worried about people living in congregate settings, like nursing homes. Needless to say, we weren’t flying anywhere. United Airlines, like all other airlines, had a powerful incentive to reduce overhead, includi... - Philadelphia’s Roundup Lawsuits get Trial Dates and New York Settlement
Jul-14-23 Philadelphia, PA The first Philadelphia Monsanto Roundup bellwether case is set to begin jury selection in early October, a decision that plaintiffs’ attorney say is good for everyone involved. And in June, Bayer and Monsanto agreed to settle with New York for close to $7 million. According to the case management order in February, there are 12... - Lawsuits and Consumer Reporters Fight Home Warranty Companies
Jul-24-14 Las Vegas, NV Lawsuits may be the go-to to ensure companies uphold their end of a bargain, but consumer reporters are also being asked to help consumers deal with home warranty companies . Sometimes, those consumer reporters uncover a great deal of information about home warranty companies and how they operate. In other cases, a home warranty lawsuit ma... - MRI Health Risks "Changed My Life"
Aug-5-09 Honolulu, HI Jaroslaw was in a car accident about 18 months ago and his doctor ordered a bone scan by MRI. "I was injected with the gadolinium contrast agent first," says Jaroslaw, "and shortly after that I started complaining about everything." Had Jarolsaw known about MRI Health Risks , he would have insisted on not having the gadolinium-based cont... - Insurance Lawsuit Filed against Blue Cross
Jul-10-14 Pasadena, CA Anthem Blue Cross is on the receiving end of an insurance lawsuit, alleging the company acted in bad faith and breached its contract with policyholders. Many lawsuits have been filed against insurance companies, alleging the companies breached the covenant of good faith and fair dealing. This lawsuit claims Anthem Blue Cross unfairly denie... - YouTube’s $4.3M to Settle Moderator Trauma Lawsuit
Dec-8-22 Oakland, CA A proposed California labor class action alleging YouTube failed to protect its content moderators from psychological trauma caused by constantly viewing violent and disturbing videos has reached a deal. The technology giant has agreed to pay $4.3M, according to a motion filed in California federal court. Content Moderators The plaintif... - City of LaCrosse sues 3M Company over PFAS Water Contamination
Mar-30-21 LaCrosse, WI On March 4, the City of La Crosse filed a lawsuit in the Wisconsin Circuit Court alleging that 3M Company and 22 other defendants produced and marketed products containing perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl (PFAS/PFOA) with knowledge that these substances were likely to contaminate public and private wells throughout the city. The PFAS/PFO... - $7.8 Million Settlement Awarded to Cancer Patients
National Foundation Life Insurance and Dixie National Life Insurance have been ordered to pay a settlement of $7.8 million to 182 people denied payment related to their cancer treatment. The plaintiffs primarily are former South Carolina state employees whose coverage was changed by the insurers after 2001. Legal Help If you have a similar... - $115M Anthem Data Breach Class Action Settlement Reached
Santa Clara, CA: A $115 million settlement has been reached in the Anthem data breach class action. The lawsuit was brought by 80 million consumers who had their personal data compromised in the massive 2015 data breach. The settlement is the largest on record for a data breach class action lawsuit. Under the terms of the deal, the funds will be u... - Camp Lejeune Litigation Logjam
Mar-29-23 Wilmington, NC From Camp Lejeune plaintiffs’ perspective, it seems like the Navy and Marine Corps are missing in action. Over six months since the Camp Lejeune Justice Act (CLJA) has passed, not one Camp Lejeune contaminated water lawsuit has been settled. Instead, wrongful death complaints are increasing. Litigation Logjam Frustrated attorne... - Arsenic Poisoning at Montana Super Fund Site
Sep-20-21 Butte, MT U.S. Minerals, Inc. has agreed to plead guilty to a federal misdemeanor charge under the Clean Air Act (CAA) and to pay a criminal penalty of $393,200. The mining company has also agreed to a medical monitoring program for current and former employees who have been exposed to elevated levels of arsenic. Employees who take advantage of the medic... - Ohio Cannabis Workers Sue for Unpaid Wages
Oct-1-21 Cleveland, OH On September 14, the Northern District of Ohio granted conditional certification to a group of hemp workers in Tenita Bryant v. North Coast Natural Solutions, LLC . The employees may now move one step farther along in their pursuit of unpaid wages claims against a collection of related hemp enterprises that did business as AgeVital Pharm... - Failure to Reimburse Remote Work Expenses Lawsuits
Mar-10-22 Santa Clara, CA Many employees have worked remotely since the beginning of the pandemic and they have incurred business-related costs that can be reimbursed, according to California labor law . Failure to reimburse such costs have already resulted in remote work expenses lawsuits. Tally business expenses incurred over three years (many employees have b... - Louisiana Citizen's Insurance Settles Class Action for $35 Million
Victims of hurricanes Katrina and Rita who filed a class action suit against the insurer Louisiana Citizens Insurance Corp, will finally be receiving some financial compensation. The board of the insurance company has agreed to pay $35 million to settle the class action, which alleged that the company was late in paying polyholders' claims resulting from the... - Insurer Northwestern Mutual Settles Class Action for $92 Million
The 4-year old class action suit brought against Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Co has been settled, with the company agreeing to pay $92 million, which will cover approximately 1.3 million current and 1.6 million former policy owners who purchased term life or disability coverage since 1981. The lawsuit was filed in California by a customer who all... - Pfizer Reaches Tentative Bextra and Celebrex Settlements of $894 Million
Pfizer Inc announced today that it has reached agreements in principle to resolve substantially all of the personal injury cases, consumer fraud cases and state attorneys general claims involving its non-steroidal anti-inflammatory (NSAID) pain medication Bextra, which Pfizer voluntarily withdrew from the U.S. market in 2005. Additionally, following key cour... - Preliminary Settlement Reached in Hardee’s Hepatitis A Class Action Lawsuit
Santa Clara, CA: A proposed settlement has been reached in a class action lawsuit brought by consumers who ate at certain Hardee’s restaurants located in South Carolina and who allege they were exposed to Hepatitis A by infected employees at those restaurants. The settlement affects all persons who consumed food or drink between September... - Repeated Sexual Abuse in Nursing Home Criminal
Mar-2-21 Oswego, NY A female resident in Pontiac Nursing Home in Oswego suffering from dementia was sexually abused three times by another resident who was admitted to Pontiac in 2019. Management declined to tell Pontiac’s doctor and other employees that he was a known sexual offender. And Pontiac management didn’t call the police to report th... - Tenative Farmers Insurance Verdict of $130 Million in Class Action Settlement
A class action suit brought by 76,000 people against Farmers Insurance Co, has received a tentative settlement verdict of $130 million. The suit had alleged that the insurer had failed to pay for general contractors, claimed breach of contract, bad faith and fraud. The average cost per person for unpaid bills and for fixing damaged homes was $575. ... - Medi-Cal Fraud, Stars Behavioral Health Group pays $1 million settlement after wrongfully charging for treatments it did not perform
San Francisco, CA: (Nov-06-07) The federal government brought a lawsuit against Stars Behavioral Health Group, a statewide chain of mental health centers for adolescents, alleging that the facility wrongly charged Medi-Cal for treatment it did not perform. The suit claimed that Medi-Cal was charged for treatment at a San Leandro clinic on days when the you...