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Sort by date 7,886 pages found matching health insurance- Doctor's Perks and Free Drug Samples Cost Patients Plenty
Dec-20-06 Washington, DC: In the debate over whether Big Pharma's perks lead doctors to prescribe high priced brand-name drugs over equally effective generics, the question to ask is whether an industry would direct 90% of a $20 billion marketing budget at doctors if it did not work. As lawmakers enact measures to limit the drug company's influence over the medic... - Lumber Liquidators Lawsuit News and Legal Information
Lumber Liquidators faces lawsuits across the US alleging the company's Chinese flooring products are toxic, emitting high levels of formaldehyde. Lumber Liquidators defective flooring class action lawsuits were filed as far back as 2013 but more lawsuits have since been filed in various states across the US since a 60 Minutes investigation suggested... - Five Top Pit Bull Verdicts
Jun-10-15 Each day about 1,000 U.S. citizens require emergency care treatment for dog bite injury, according to Dogsbite.org. For pit bull injuries or dangerous breeds, one in every six bites require medical attention. In the last 10 years, pit bulls killed 203 Americans and accounted for 62 percent of total recorded animal related injuries. A victim may recove... - Bayer’s $2billion deal to finalize future Monsanto Claims
Feb-22-21 San Francisco, CA To resolve future claims that Monsanto’s Roundup causes cancer, Bayer is coughing up a $2 billion settlement that includes benefits for people—mainly farmers and gardeners-- who were exposed to Roundup and develop the cancer in the future. The $2 billion settlement will be provided by Bayer over four years as compens... - Pfizer to Pay Oregon $3.34 in Zyvox Marketing Fraud Settlement
Portland, OR: Attorney General John Kroger has announced a $3.34 million agreement with the world's largest research-based pharmaceutical company, Pfizer, Inc., over allegedly deceptive marketing claims related to its prescription drug Zyvox®. This is the largest ever consumer drug agreement that Oregon has achieved with a prescription drug manufacturer... - Louisiana Paraquat Distributor files Toxic Tort Lawsuit against Syngenta
Aug-27-21 Shreveport, LA In a toxic tort lawsuit filed in the Western District of Louisiana, Michael Hensgens alleges that low-level exposure to Paraquat over the years he worked as a Paraquat distributor caused his Parkinson’s disease. Hensgens v. Syngenta will likely be consolidated for pretrial motions with the growing body of Paraquat litigatio... - Google Abandons Forced Arbitration of Employment Disputes
Mar-30-19 Mountain View, CA On March 21, 2019, Google employees were finally freed from contractual restrictions that forced them to arbitrate employment disputes. This follows widespread protests and challenges under California labor law stemming from the forced arbitration of sexual harassment claims. The #MeToo movement continues to bear fruit beyond the... - Zantac Bellwether Trials Likely in 2023
Aug-25-21 West Palm Beach, FL On June 14, the Southern District of Florida, where Zantac cancer lawsuits have been consolidated for pretrial motions, issued an amended case management schedule. The Order anticipates that bellwether trials will begin in 2023. It also sets a rough timeline for preliminary steps that will shape the litigation and determine the lik... - The Debate Over the Cost of Cyber Theft
Feb-7-14 Vancouver, BC The cyber-crime underworld is a shadowy place. Exactly what happens to the information when it slips out of the hands of trusted proprietors in a data breach event or in the case of privacy violation is not always predictable, but cyber security experts have a pretty good idea what’s going out there. “There are so many inse... - Personal Injury - Verdict in favor of Plaintiff in the amount of US$1,745,310
Case Name : Bauer v. AAA (Auto Club Group) Case Number : 19HA-CV-13-4463 Verdict Date : Outcome Type : Jury Verdict Court : Dakota County, Minnesota Plaintiff's Complaint : Plaintiff was injured when an unoccupied flat bed tow truck rolled backwards into him breaking both legs. The tow truck driver was sued and settled... - Texas Auto Accidents Injuries
According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) there were 3,382 fatalities in Texas car accidents in 2008. Car accidents in Texas, as in other states, are a common occurrence. However, victims of Texas auto accidents can protect their rights by filing a claim, so that any lost wages and money spent on medical expenses related to... - Investigators Zero In on Pill Pushing Doctors
Mar-14-07 Washington, DC: The number one goal of drug makers in dispatching sales representatives to meet with doctors face-to-face is to increase sales by convincing doctors to prescribe drugs off-label for unapproved uses, by saying whatever it takes to achieve that goal. A May 2006, study titled, "Turning Medicine Into Snake Oil," analyzed FDA warning letters... - Tenet Healthcare Corp. Medicare and Medicaid Over Billing Settlement
The Florida attorney general filed charges against the hospital chain for allegedly over billing Medicare and Medicaid. The lawsuit claimed Tenet violated racketeering laws by inflating profits in the federal elderly Medicare health program and over billed Medicaid, the federal health insurance program for the poor. Tenet Healthcare Corp. has agreed to... - Walgreens Faces Consumer Fraud Class Action
New York, NY: Walgreens is facing a consumer fraud class action lawsuit over allegations the drugstore chain, in partnership with Par, a manufacturer of generic pharmaceuticals, marketed generic versions of antacid Zantac and antidepressant Prozac in dosage forms that weren't subject to private and governmental reimbursement limitations. "As a result... - Eleven Thousand Bucks for Eleven Minutes: Hospital Overcharging
Jul-14-12 Washington, DC Jean Poole describes the nation's current health care environment as "a broken system." The medical billing advocate, in comments published last month in an exhaustive report in The New York Times (6/23/12), spends much of her day helping patient clients unravel emergency room charges and other hospital bills that seem to defy logic. ... - Mosanto and Regulators vs. Consumers
Jul-3-20 Santa Clara, CA The herbicides dicamba and glyphosate have a lot in common. Both are made by Monsanto, both are associated with environmental problems such as chemical drift and both cause health problems, such as cancer. Nobody knows this more than investigative journalist Carey Gillam. And another similarity: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)... - Terminations Main Reason for COVID-19 Workplace-Related Lawsuits
Jan-31-21 Santa Clara, CA Of about 1,500 workplace lawsuits filed in 2020 fueled by COVID-19, more than half involved layoffs and firings while only 200 were related to workplace safety, according to the Seyfarth Report. An uptick in workplace lawsuits is to be expected in a fallout from an economic downtown –unfortunately it has left a lot of people ou... - Hernia Mesh Victims File Motion for Multi-District Litigation
Jan-20-22 Santa Clara, CA Fifteen hernia mesh victims have filed a motion with the U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation seeking to consolidate and centralize Atrium’s ProLite and ProLoop mesh claims before one judge in U.S. District Court for the Central District of California. The motion for transfer was filed in December 2021 by plaintiffs... - Thousands more CPAP Lawsuits in Store for Philips
Jan-18-22 Philadelphia, PA A recent FDA investigation has determined that Philips, the manufacturer of up to 15 million potentially defective sleep and breathing devices worldwide, knew its machines were faulty years before it issued a recall last June. The CPAP (Continuous Positive Airway Pressure) and BiPAP devices were recalled because sound abatement foam (PE-PU... - Stryker Rejuvenate Not Sitting Well
Dec-6-13 York, PA Adrian has had his fill with hip replacement failure. First it was DePuy, and now he is facing revision surgery after his Stryker Rejuvenate hip failed. “I first had a DePuy hip replacement in 2009 only to have it recalled,” says Adrian. “I had it replaced in 2012 with the Stryker Rejuvenate but I’ve had prob...