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Sort by date 7,886 pages found matching health insurance- California Refinery Workers Clinch $4.4 Settlement in Rest Break Lawsuit
Sep-24-20 Los Angeles, CA On August 24, the District Court for the Central District of California gave final approval to a settlement under which ExxonMobil, PBF Energy Limited and Torrance Refining Company, LLC will pay a total of nearly $4.4 million to settle a class action lawsuit in which refinery workers claim that they were denied the paid rest breaks requir... - Were Defective St. Jude Cardiac Defibrillators Implanted Even After Recall?
Oct-9-17 Washington, DC: The complaint in the ASEA/AFSCME Local 52 Health Benefits Trust defective St Jude cardiac defibrillator lawsuit contains shocking new allegations. The fact-finding that follows may give patients the information they need to seek redress. The underlying situation is that Greatbatch battery model number QHR2850, which was used... - The Cost of Depakote Birth Defects
Jun-24-11 Salt Lake City, UT It is one thing to write about the various side effects related to use of Depakote , the anti-convulsant drug that is used to treat the symptoms of epileptic seizures. When a Depakote patient uses valproate (Depakote) during various stages of a pregnancy, the child may be born with cleft lip, cleft palate or a combination of both. ... - Coca-Cola Bottler to Settle ERISA lawsuit for $3.5 Million
Mar-21-22 Charlotte, NC Large independent bottler, Coca-Cola Consolidated Inc., has agreed to pay $3.5 million to settle a class-action breach of fiduciary duty lawsuit that could have involved thousands of plan participants. The ERISA lawsuit was originally brought in 2020 by two participants in the Coca-Cola Consolidated, Inc. 401k Plan. Cheyenne Jones v. Coc... - Increase in Personal Bankruptcies Driven by Health Costs
Aug-20-09 Washington, DC Bankruptcy is something we all fear. Beyond the thought of running afoul of bankruptcy law and the need to secure the services of a personal bankruptcy lawyer, is the hit on personal pride that debt and bankruptcy is certain to deliver. The reality however is that for most, bankruptcy debt is anything but the root cause. This fact was... - Car Title Loan Lawsuit Information & Legal News
Attorneys are investigating potential car title loan lawsuits against predatory lending companies that target financially vulnerable consumers for high-interest loans and force them to use their cars as collateral for the loan. Even though in some cases the value of the title loan is only a fraction the value of the vehicle, if the borrower defaults on... - Frito-Lay Faces Consumer Fraud Class Action over Health Claims
San Franicisco, CA: A federal consumer fraud class action lawsuit has been filed against PepsiCo and its subsidiary Frito-Lay, alleging they "misbrand"their potato chips as healthy because they contain "0 grams of Trans Fat." However, the lawsuit contends, the advertising does not point out that every 50 chips contains more than 13g of fat . S... - Judge to Uber on AB5: That Means You, Too, and Now
Feb-14-20 Los Angeles, CA On February 10, the District Court for the Central District of California denied a motion for injunction that would halt enforcement of California’s Gig Worker Law against Uber and Postmates while both companies challenge the law’s constitutionality. The decision means that both companies must begin to treat workers as employees... - Insurers Seek Compensation from St. Jude’s Medical in Class Action Lawsuit
Sep-22-17 Seattle, WA A Health Benefit Trust that covers Alaskan State Employees is the lead plaintiff in a class action lawsuit against St. Jude’s Medical and Abbott Laboratories seeking compensation for costs related to defective lithium battery powered implantable cardiac defibrillators. “They are not happy about having to pay for a device th... - Asbestos Mesothelioma and Ovarian Cancer Victims Claim they Breathed J&J Talc Dust
May-28-19 South Carolina Donna Olson used J&J talc since she was a young girl, breathing in talc particles from the cloud she made. Teresa Leavitt’s mother used J&J’s baby powder on her as a baby in the 1960s and she continued to use it herself as a teen, powdering her face and hair daily for years. Both women testified in court last week and both women won thei... - E-Cigarette Lawsuit Claims Deceptive Advertising, Fraud
Jan-20-20 Eugene, OR Among other e-cigarette side effects , Kewmarse Imani, who began JUULing in 2018, is now addicted to nicotine and will struggle with that addiction for life. Imani v. JUUL Labs, Inc. and Altria Group, Inc. , a class action lawsuit , claims that his nicotine addiction is the result of a permanent injury to his developing brain and that he suff... - Bayer’s Roundup Settlement: A Brief History
Mar-29-21 Santa Clara, CA Bayer has been working out Monsanto’s Roundup settlement since acquiring the glyphosate manufacturer in 2018. The corporation expects to resolve future claims that its weedkiller causes cancer by mid-May. Here is a brief history of Bayer’s $11 billion outline settlement. 2015: The World... - Unum Still in Denial as Unum Lawsuits Continue to be Filed
May-2-14 Houston, TX Despite the fact that federal government officials accused Unum Life Insurance Company of America of deliberately denying valid claims as a business strategy and fining them millions of dollars, Unum’s bad faith tactics carry on. A Texas woman filed a Unum lawsuit last month against the giant health insurer alleging she was denied... - Investigations Focus on Illegal Marketing by Medical Device and Supply Companies
May-18-07 Washington, DC Government law enforcement agencies have made it known that illegal marketing and promotional practices of medical device and supply companies are now the targets of investigations basically because lawmakers who oversee spending by public health care programs say the booming business in this field of medicine is a little too good to be true... - Does Monsanto (Bayer) Have a Silver Bullet?
Jan-1-20 San Francisco Edwin Hardeman v. Monsanto was the first federal trial and the March 2019 verdict is considered a milestone in the continuing Roundup cancer debate . Hardeman claimed his non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma was caused by glyphosate in Roundup weed killer and the company knew its product was carcinogenic but deliberately misled the public. ... - Bayer Done with Roundup Settlements
Feb-25-22 Santa Clara, CA It all boils down to federal regulators. Bayer has asked for a petition for a writ of certiorari with the U.S. Supreme Court and the Supreme Court has asked the Solicitor General to weigh in. A favorable decision for Bayer means it could be exempt from Monsanto’s Roundup lawsuits based on federal regulators' approval of its glyp... - Medtronic Sprint Fidelis Defective Defibrillator Leads
Medtronic, Inc. has voluntarily suspended sales of its Sprint Fidelis defibrillation leads--a component of Medtronic's implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICDs) that link the heart to the ICD. Personal injury lawsuits are now being filed against Medtronic alleging the company is responsible for manufacturing and marketing defective defibrillators. ... - Elder Abuse Lawsuits, Legal News and Lawsuit Information
Seniors deserve to be safe from harm, but every year more than 2 million seniors are reported to be victims of physical or psychological abuse and neglect. And millions of more cases probably go unreported. Elder Abuse Information "Elders who are ill, frail, disabled, mentally impaired, or depressed are at greater risk of abuse, not... - Former Marriott Hotel Waiter Appeals Dismissal of his California Unpaid Wages Lawsuit
Jun-18-18 San Jose, CA: Ex-waiter Ian McCray worked for the San Jose Marriott from May of 2012 to August of 2015. He claims that during that time, Marriott Hotel Services did not pay him the minimum wage required by the city’s municipal wage ordinance. The ordinance appears to provide for a waiver of the minimum wage requirement if employees agree to those terms i... - $29 Million Verdict in Talcum Powder Lawsuit
Mar-18-19 Oakland, CA On March 13, a jury in California Superior Court awarded Terry Leavitt and her husband $29.4 million in the first Johnson & Johnson (J&J) talcum powder lawsuit to go to trial in 2019. Ms. Leavitt linked her mesothelioma diagnosis to her use of asbestos-contaminated J&J baby powder and Shower-to-Shower talcum powder. The verdict includes $...