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New York, NY: Plaintiffs in the securities class action regarding the proposed consolidation of several real estate entities, including the entities that own and operate the Empire State Building, into a publicly traded real estate investment trust to be known as Empire State Realty Trust, Inc., announce that the settlement of the class action has been... - Discrimination and the USDA
Oct-23-08 Washington, DC The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) has come under fire by the Government Accountability office (GAO) for dropping the ball with regard to discrimination. Sadly, in spite of how far we have come in America and with an African-American currently in the race for the White House, employment discrimination , and employee racial discriminati... - Distracted Truck Driver Causes Fatal Accident
Oct-23-08 Austin, TX Two children died and two others were injured after a Texas truck accident that police say was at least partially due to a distracted semi truck driver. According to KSAT, a local news station, the driver of the semi truck reached down for a cigarette and lost control of his vehicle, resulting in it flipping over. Shortly after, a car car... - FedEx to Pay $21.5 Million in Overcharging Class Action Settlement
New York , NY: A $21.5 million settlement has been granted final approval in a consumer fraud class action pending against FedEx Corp. The lawsuit, brought in 2011 by two law firms, alleged the world' largest cargo delivery company overcharged by as much as $3 per package for tens of thousands of packages. The plaintiffs, made up of government an... - Car Accident Ruined Victim
Oct-16-08 Hamilton, AL There are many people who are victims of [ car accidents ], that do not seem to have serious injuries but suffer a lifetime of pain following their crash. They do not have broken backs and do not suffer brain damage, but they do have severe pain and other problems that can be debilitating and can impact their life. "I was driving to schoo... - "I'm on Oxygen for the Rest of My life"
Oct-15-08 Lorain, OH Larry worked in a steel mill in Ohio for 19 years. Unfortunately, asbestos was used in the mill, around pipes and in the brake shoes of large tractors. So he and his co-workers suffered asbestos exposure the entire time they worked at the mill. Today, Larry can't breathe without supplemental oxygen. "I started working at the mill in 1966,"... - A Tale of Two Contracts
Oct-14-08 Hollywood, CA Like any grade-school promise, commercial contracts are just that—a legal pledge, or a guarantee that a promised service will be carried out. A commercial contact is a covenant, and when it is breached commercial contract law comes into play. Sometimes those breaches can make for salacious headlines, especially when well-known celebrit... - Red Bull Consumer Fraud Class Action Reaches $13M Settlement
Los Angeles, CA: A $13 million settlement has been reached in a consumer fraud class action lawsuit pending against Red Bull GmbH. The Austrian beverage maker and its US-based subsidiaries are accused of falsely advertising its energy drinks as providing more benefit to a consumer than a cup of coffee. According to the terms of the settlement... - $970M Settlement Reached in AIG Securities Lawsuit
Philadelphia, PA: A settlement, totaling $970.5 million, has been reached in the American International Group Inc, (AIG) 2008 securities litigation class action lawsuit pending in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York. If approved by the Court, the total settlement amount will be among the largest recoveries ever achieved in a... - General Mills YoPlus Consumer Fraud Class Action Reaches $8.5M Settlement
New York, NY: An $8.5 million settlement has been agreed by General Mills potentially ending a consumer fraud class action lawsuit alleging the food manufacturer misrepresented the digestive health benefits of its YoPlus probiotic yogurt. Filed in 2010, the consumer fraud class action lawsuit, etitled J Johnson v. General Mills Inc. et al., Cas... - AT&T to Pay $25M to Settle Massive Data Breach Lawsuit
New York, NY: AT&T will pay $25 million to resolve claims the phone carrier failed to adequately safeguard personal data of approximately 300,000 customers. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) announced the settlement of its data breach lawsuit this week. The data was stolen from call centers in Mexico, Colombia and the Philippines. ... - Protecting Children in Car Accidents is No Accident
Sep-28-08 Ashland, MA Car accidents injure all kinds of different people—adults and children alike. And one would assume that when there are injuries affecting both adults and children in car crashes , that there is some kind of parental, or familial relationship amongst those in the car, affected by the automobile crash . However, not always. A single-... - Medtronic Infuse Bone Graft: Long List of Perks for Docs
Sep-27-08 Anchorage, AK Patients who underwent the Medtronic Infuse Bone Graft may be surprised to learn that Medtronic has been accused in a lawsuit of providing surgeons with a number of incentives to use Medtronic products. According to the Wall Street Journal, doctors were given a wide variety of gifts to induce them to use the Infuse Bone Graft. Accor... - Medical Malpractice: When you don't Get what you Pay for
Sep-26-08 Philadelphia, PA Medical malpractice is something both sides of the equation fear: for the patient, a medical malpractice suggests a botched procedure, or diagnosis that could begat a lifetime of pain and suffering, and invoke medical malpractice law . For the medical professional, it could mean a hit on their medical malpractice insurance . For either... - Custody Laws: You Can't Choose Your Parents…
Sep-20-08 Orlando, FL While family law often involves tales of estranged bedfellows, where things get really complicated are the child custody battles. Custody laws usually guide lawyers along the family law custody road, but not in a vacuum. Other factors include things such as pre-nuptial agreements and the circumstances that can serve to make it that much e... - Hartford Pollution Class Action Settled for a Total of $39M
Hartford, IL: A multi-million dollar settlement has been reached in a environmental class action lawsuit that began eight years ago, brought by the residents of Hartford against Apex Oil, Sinclair Oil, BP, Shell Oil subsidiary Equilon, and Premcor Refining. The suit alleged that the defendants had created a lake of petroleum beneath Hartford, a town of... - Syngenta GMO Corn Seed Lawsuit Legal News and Information
Hundreds of Syngenta Genetically Modified Corn Seed Sales lawsuits have been filed nationwide, claiming Syngenta knew, or should have known, that its genetically modified Viptera corn seed (Agrisure Viptera or MIR 162) and Duracade corn seed would contaminate US corn shipments and prevent the corn from being sold to export markets, particularly Ch... - Settlement Reached in JP Morgan Chase HELOC Class Action Lawsuit
New York, NY: A nationwide settlement has been reached in a class action lawsuit claiming that JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. ("Chase") improperly suspended or reduced home equity lines of credit (HELOCs) based on its determination that the properties securing the HELOCs significantly declined in value. Entitled In Re: JP Morgan Chase Bank Home Equ... - $95m Settlement Reached in Verifone Securities Fraud Class Action Lawsuit
San Jose, CA: A $95 million settlement has been reached in the Verifone securities class action lawsuit. If approved, the settlement will resolve claims concerning a 45 percent drop in Verifone share prices in one day in December 2007. The drop in share price, the lawsuit claimed, resulted from the San Jose-based maker of electronic-payment system... - Cipro: Antibiotic, and Anti-Tendon
Aug-19-08 Los Angeles, CA An antibiotic produced by Bayer AG is plagued with a reputation for attacking tendons, and nobody knows why. The fact remains, however, that the tendency for Cipro to evoke tendonitis and tendon ruptures has earned the drug a black box warning from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The irony is that it appears to have taken...