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Sep-5-08 Baldwin, MO For twenty years Johnny worked at a factory that produced cans. He was exposed to asbestos the entire time he worked there. Four years ago he became seriously ill. In October 2007 he died with severe respiratory problems very likely caused by asbestos. "My husband lost his vision and had to quit his job," his wife Tanya said. "But his lu... - Home Depot Retirement Fund Holders Get Second Chance in Court
Aug-19-08 Atlanta, GA Former Home Depot employees get a second chance at recovering losses to their ERISA portfolios after a federal appellation court reversed a dismissal of their lawsuit. Several lawsuits have been filed against Home Depot's former CEO and retirement plan management for the imprudent investment of employee retirement funds . . On July 31,... - Deal or No Deal? Randall Kiser Can Help You Decide
Aug-16-08 Palo Alto, CA What Randall Kiser would actually say, is that he develops "statistical models" and "data bases" that measure key variables that can be used as a guide for attorneys, litigants and others. And, then using percentages and probabilities, individuals can make accurate assessments about whether it is better to sue the pants off their antagonis... - Attorney Aashish Desai: Bank Employees Launch Big IndyMac Attack
Aug-12-08 Irvine, CA Not only were the customers of the IndyMac Bank burned by its involvement in the sub prime mortgage mess, but the bank's own employees took a scorching as well. Attorney Aashish Desai, from the firm Mower, Carreon & Desai, believes there are thousands of former IndyMac Bank employees across the US who had their savings swept away when the ban... - Study: Better to Take the Deal, Than Go to Trial
Aug-9-08 New York, NY In a classic case of the glass half-full vs. half-empty, a new report due for publication next month puts the trial on trial, as it were—and makes the case for cutting the deal and walking away with something, vs. the prospect of going the distance and coming away with nothing. The study, to be published in the September issue of Journa... - Digitek Maker should worry about Consumer, not Shareholders
Aug-9-08 Willits, CA Linda's partner passed away in April 2008, just a few days before receiving notice of the Digitek recall. "Jackie went downhill about two weeks before she passed away and from the digitalis toxicity symptoms I was told about, she had them all," says Linda. Jackie had a heart attack 15 years ago; even though she suffered from congestive he... - Attorney Camilo Salas behind the Mississippi River Oil Spill Lawsuit
Jul-28-08 News Orleans, LA Just 30 hours after a huge oil spill at the Port of New Orleans on the Mississippi River, lawyer Camilo Salas was preparing a class action complaint on behalf of Stephen Garbarick, a jazz musician from the French Quarter, and taxi cab driver Bernard Attridge. They are the lead plaintiffs and just two of the thousands in similar circumstanc... - Howard Radner: Slip and Fall Cases Get The Shove In Michigan
Jul-24-08 Detroit, MI Howard Radner is not running the biggest firm in Michigan, but he has been practicing law for 34 years and he knows what he is doing. Dog bites, lead poisoning, auto accidents, slip and fall cases, Radner has seen them all, many times. The last few years though, he has become rather perturbed by some of the changes in Michigan state tort law th... - Brian Kabateck and Alfredo Torrijos: Going after Google
Jul-23-08 Los Angeles, CA There are plenty of ways to make money on the Internet, and some of them can be pretty shady. According to a recent class action filed in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California by Kabateck Brown Kellner LLP of Los Angeles (KBK), Google, the California information technology giant, is practicing one of those shady ways b... - Retirement Funds Tanked by Wachovia
Jul-22-08 Birmingham, AL George knows stocks; he works in the business and has kept a close eye on those stocks lining his retirement nest. Then Wachovia bought his company and the shares he accumulated plummeted, taking with them a million dollars worth of retirement funds . "I've worked for this company since 1981," George explains, "and have been accumulating... - Stockbroker Arbitration: "I Trusted a Man Who Was Dishonest"
Jul-21-08 Vancouver, WA Investors run the risk of losing money on investments or not getting as much of a return as they thought they would get. There is, obviously, a certain amount of risk that is involved in investing. However, problems occur when the risk comes not from the investment itself, but from unscrupulous investment advisors, who do not properly manage... - Wayne Cohen: Flying Golf Balls Can Cost You More Than an Extra Stroke on Your Game
Jul-11-08 Washington DC Lawyer and golfer Wayne Cohen readily admits to having hit a wild shot or two, that ended up on the wrong fairway, or went hurtling off in the wrong direction. "Yes, that does happen!" he confesses. A Washington, DC personal injury lawyer, from the firm Cohen and Cohen P.C., he says it was about six years ago that the firs... - Botox may have Caused Child's Death
Jul-8-08 Waterford, CT "My daughter was only 10 years old when she died," says Diane. "Kelsey's last set of Botox injections were given just one month before she passed away." Diane was never told of the adverse side effects from Botox that included difficulty swallowing (dysphagia), upper respiratory infection, neck pain and more… Kelsey was very handicappe... - Did MRI Contrast Agents Cause Kidney Failure?
Jul-3-08 Hollister, CA Albert was injected with a gadolinium-based contrast agent during two MRIs and he believes he also had a contrast agent with two angiograms. Now he wants to know if his kidneys shut down due to MRI health risks . Albert (not his real name pending a lawsuit) doesn't have any NFD/NFS symptoms so far, but he was diagnosed with kidney fail... - Ortho Evra Patch: A Close Encounter with Death
Jul-2-08 Washington CourtHouse, OH Chastity has been through hell and back, all because she wore the Ortho Evra Patch . She had no idea how dangerous this method of birth control was until her doctor said she almost died due to a huge blood clot caused by too much estrogen from the patch. Chastity was on the patch for more than two years. She was never warned... - Retailer Disregards California Labor Laws—Again
Jun-18-08 Escondido, CA Does Guitar Center figure it's more economical to settle one lawsuit after another regarding California labor law violations than follow the rules? Is the company saving that much money by treating its employees so abysmally? Benny J. is yet another disgruntled employee who has filed a complaint against the company. Benny has been worki... - VA Medical Malpractice: Preventable Mistakes?
Jun-15-08 Largo, FL Several years ago, a survey from the Institute of Medicine titled "To Err is Human" reported that 48,000 to 98,000 Americans die each year from preventable mistakes, mainly from drug mix-ups and inattentive treatment. And more medical errors occurred in the hospitals run by the Veterans Health Administration . Fast forward to 2008 and given th... - MRI Health Risk: Say NO to Contrast Agents
Jun-12-08 Detroit, MI Leon L. lives in a state of uncertainty: he has had six MRIs and each time, was injected with a gadolinium-based contrast agent. Nobody can give him a definite answer whether or not the side effects he has developed will lead to NSF—nephrogenic systemic fibrosis. But one thing he does know—he will never have another injection of contrast ag... - MRI Health Risk: Entombed by Your Own Skin
Jun-10-08 Pitman, NJ There isn't a man or woman alive who doesn't want to feel comfortable in his or her own skin. It's become a catch phrase for emotional well-being. However, beyond the metaphor nobody gives a thought to the skin we are in. It's there, it fits, it's soft and pliable. You can move in it. But what if you couldn't? What if your skin was so hard, it f... - PPH Diagnosis "Out of the Blue"
Jun-9-08 Mankato, MN Carolyn W. took Fen-Phen so long ago and for such a short time that she forgot about it. But she was recently diagnosed with PPH (also known as PAH—Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension) and the first question her doctor asked was if she had taken any diet drugs. Carolyn is now getting all her medical records so she can join a class action laws...