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Feb-13-16 A Los Angeles Superior Court plaintiff received a $1 million settlement for her lawsuit against the city for discrimination, harassment and retaliation. Plaintiff Danielle Wells, a Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) employee, filed a government tort claim and eventually a lawsuit against the City for serious violations of California Fair Employment and... - Cigna Faces Two New Denied Disability Lawsuits
Feb-4-16 Pittsburgh, PA: A woman injured in a car accident has filed a denied disability insurance lawsuit against Cigna, alleging the company improperly denied her disability claim. Meanwhile, a man in Louisiana has also filed a lawsuit against Cigna, also alleging he was improperly denied his long-term disability. The Pennsylvania Record (1/26/16) report... - Report: Banks Make $6 Billion Off of Fees
Jan-23-16 New York, NY: Even if you think banks make huge profits off the various fees they charge their customers - including overdraft fees - you might still be surprised to learn just how much money the banks make. According to CNNMoney and SNL Financial, the three largest banks earned more than $6 billion in 2015 just from their ATM and overdraft fees. T... - Transvaginal Mesh Nerve Damage “Horrendous”
Jan-22-16 Philadelphia, PA: Imagine not knowing when you have to urinate. It happened to all of us as babies, and it happens to some elders. But Yolanda is in her 40s and she has been living with this horrific incontinence since having transvaginal mesh implanted five years ago! Generally, urinary stress incontinence means leakage of urine when you cough, lau... - Supreme Court Rules Spam Text Messaging Class Action to Proceed
Jan-20-16 Santa Clara, CA: The US Supreme Court has ruled that a case against an advertising firm accused of sending unsolicited text messages on behalf of the US Navy, which is a violation of the Telephone Consumer protection Act (TCPA), can proceed. The lawsuit was filed by lead plaintiff Jose Gomez against Campbell-Ewald, a subsidiary of the Interpublic G... - Optical Drive Makers Agree $37M Settlement in Price-Fixing Class Action Lawsuit
Santa Clara, CA: A proposed $37 million settlement has been filed in an antitrust class action alleging multiple electronics makers, colluded to fix prices of optical disc drives, which read or write data on CDs, DVDs and Blu-rays and are found in computers, video game consoles and other devices. The settlement, if approved, would end the claims o... - Stryker OP-1 Putty Linked to Adverse Events
Jan-10-16 Middlesex County, MA: It would come as no surprise that the use of any product that augments and actually fosters the growth of bone has to be used with extreme caution, lest bone growth occur where it isn’t wanted, or in an area that could cause a patient harm. To that end, a lawsuit alleging Stryker OP-1 Putty linked to adverse events claims th... - The Defective Saturn and the New GM: What's in the Cards?
Dec-12-08 Detroit, MI It will be interesting to view the forthcoming marriage of automotive law as it pertains to the defective car, and the new economic realities facing auto manufacturers. Case in point: Saturn, and the auto defect issue surrounding its failed "Vti" transmissions. Back in September General Motors Corporation (GM) agreed to pay out an estimat... - Illinois Judge Affirms $2M Award for Wrongful Foreclosures
Jan-8-16 An Illinois district court judge affirmed a $2 million verdict against a Texas-based mortgage servicer for its collection activities against an elderly homeowner. Alena W. Hammer filed suit in 2013 after Residential Credit Solutions filed two wrongful foreclosures, although Hammer had previously completed a loan modification with the Federal Deposit In... - Telemarketing & Robocall Lawsuit News and Legal Information
Telemarketing lawsuits and robocall lawsuits are now being filed against companies accused of making continuous unwanted calls. These nuisance caller lawsuits allege consumers are being harassed by companies who make repeated and annoying phone calls, text messages, or faxes. A Supreme Court ruling on robocalls has opened the door for more lawsuits to... - The Fallout from a Data Breach
Jan-2-16 Los Angeles, CA: The fallout from a data breach can be massive in scope, as evidenced by the millions of people affected when their personal information is illegally accessed. Some cases involve stolen card numbers and consumers who allege their credit cards were used illegally. But other cases involve identity theft, where consumers don’t find o... - Long Term Health Care Insurance: An Expert Consultant Weighs In: Part II
Nov-21-08 Sandpoint, ID In Part 2 of a series of articles about Long Term Care Insurance (LTCI) and Conseco in particular, consultant Martin McBirney discusses the possible demise of LTCI. For the past 3 years, McBirney has focused on expert consulting work for plaintiff's attorneys regarding unfair claim denials and excessive rate increases. Long Term Care I... - $35M Babies "R" Us Preliminary Class Action Settlement
Philadelphia, PA: Two class action lawsuits are currently pending in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. The lawsuits allege that Babies "R" Us conspired with each of BabyBjorn AB, Britax Child Safety, Inc., Kids Line LLC, Maclaren USA, Inc., Medela, Inc., Peg Perego, U.S.A., Inc., and Regal Lager, Inc. in violation of federa... - SSRI Antidepressants Pushers
Nov-16-08 After twenty long years, it appears that the epidemic in mental disorders in America might be coming to an end. It won't happen because of any great medical breakthrough but rather because the perpetrators of the greatest healthcare fraud in history are finally being exposed. The demolition of the giant "psycho-pharmaceutical complex" appears to be on the ho... - Risperdal Lawsuits: 3 for Plaintiffs, 1 for Johnson & Johnson
Dec-23-15 Philadelphia, PA: Out of the four Risperdal trials to date this year, plaintiffs have won three. Philadelphia juries have found that Janssen Pharmaceuticals, a subsidiary of J&J, failed to provide adequate warnings regarding Risperdal gynecomastia - a condition that involves abnormally enlarged male breast tissue. This outcome is good news for 1,60... - Invokana’s Deadly Side Effects Create the Opportunity for Major Recovery
Dec-19-15 Invokana, made by Johnson & Johnson subsidiary Janssen Pharmaceuticals, is a “blockbuster” drug that has been prescribed to millions of Americans with type 2 diabetes in the two short years it’s been on the market. Johnson & Johnson promoted Invokana as a “much-needed” breakthrough in diabetes research. Invokana was designed to help control... - Sports Injury Lawsuits in the News Again
Dec-11-15 Chicago, IL: The family of Steve Montador, who died earlier in 2015 and reportedly had chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), has filed a lawsuit against the National Hockey League (NHL), putting athletes’ injury risks in the news again. The National Football League (NFL) and NHL have both faced lawsuits linked to various serious injuries , inclu... - California Caregivers File Wage Theft Lawsuit
Dec-9-15 Union City, CA: Although California’s Domestic Worker Bill of Rights is supposed to protect in-home workers from California overtime violations, some caregivers have been paid less than the federal minimum wage and they are filing overtime complaints. Last week, the owners of San Miguel Homes for the Elderly, LLC, who operate three residential... - Ortho Evra Patch Complaints Span Six Years
Oct-15-08 Washington, DC Although Johnson & Johnson has paid at least $68.7 million in out-of-court settlements for lawsuits filed after females used its Ortho Evra birth-control Patch , is that enough? The healthcare maker says more than 5 million women have used the Patch but it doesn't say how many (countless) women have suffered blood clots, heart attacks or st... - Tommie Copper Settlement Announced, More Deceptive Advertising Lawsuits Forthcoming
Dec-5-15 Mount Kisco, NY: As valuable a commodity as copper appears to be, its value as a pain reliever through interweaving into clothing has been questioned in the absence of scientific evidence to back it up, or so it was alleged in a Tommie Copper lawsuit just settled for $1.35 million less than a week after a Tommie Copper Deceptive Advertising lawsuit was...