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Santa Clara, CA: A preliminary settlement agreement has been reached in a wire tap class action lawsuit filed by owners of mobile phones with Carrier IQ Software on their devices and who alleged having experienced the interception and logging of SMS text messages content and Internet search terms, among other communications, by that software. ... - Law Professor Roger Baron on Subrogation and ERISA Reform
Apr-6-08 Vermillion, SD: Roger Baron is a recognized authority on insurance law and subrogation. He advised attorney Maurice Graham in the controversial Debby Shank litigation in Missouri. In that case, Shank, who suffered severe permanent brain injuries in a traffic accident, was successfully sued by her employer, Wal-Mart, for recovery of nearly $500,000 in med... - Attorney Laura L. Ho on a Large-scale California Class Action
Apr-1-08 Oakland, CA: Laura L. Ho is a partner in Goldstein, Demchak, Baller, Borgen and Dardarian (GDBBD), a California firm practicing in a broad range of public interest class actions. A 1991 graduate of the University of Washington, Ho received a JD from the Yale University School of Law in 1994. Recently, as co-lead counsel in a California state class actio... - Preliminary Paxil Class Action Settlement Reached
Santa Monica, CA: A preliminary settlement has been reached in a Paxil® class action lawsuit, and if approved, will provide money to California residents who were 18 years old or older and who paid for any portion of the price of the prescription antidepressant while living in California from January 14, 1999 through January 1, 2003, and who quali... - $45M Settlement Reached in Family Dollar Store Employment Discrimination Class Action Lawsuit
Charleston, NC: A $45 million settlement has been finalized ending an employment discrimination class action lawsuit brought by 37,000 former and current female managers for Family Dollar Store Inc. The plaintiffs alleged that Family Dollar Store paid them less than their male counterparts. The lawsuit was brought 15 years ago. Under the terms of... - USU Crash Lawsuit Heard in 10th U.S. Circuit Court
Mar-20-08 Denver, CO: Several Utah State University students were either killed or injured in a 2005 van crash in which their families are claiming was due to defective tires. The case was taken to federal appeals court on Tuesday March 18, 2008 in hopes to gain access to the internal files belonging to the tire manufacturer. The families of all but one of the... - Mechanic's Diagnosis: Mesothelioma
Mar-19-08 Clanton, AL "My daddy was a mechanic for more than 50 years right here in Clanton," says Reginia Minor. "He owned Brand's Garage and drove a truck for as long as I can remember. But in May, 2000 he developed what we thought was lung cancer; he was scheduled for chemotherapy but he didn't make it: the doctor confirmed that it was mesothelioma." Frank Eds... - Books for Less Case Closed
Mar-18-08 Pittsburgh, PA: Books for Less has recently been embroiled in a legal battle with twenty-one prior employees. Thirteen of the twenty-one employees had been in the employ of the book giant's Blawnox warehouse. The twenty-one involved in the lawsuit will receive a portion of a joint settlement of $180,000. The lawsuit is due to discrimination both racial a... - Back Pay Hearing is Delayed
Mar-18-08 Lafayette, LA: Police officers, city marshals, and firefighters for Lafayette filed a lawsuit against the city for back pay owed in the form of unpaid wages . However, the hearing for the ongoing lawsuit has been postponed since there are questions regarding the amount in which the employees are owed. This has come after months of multiple settlement offe... - Bankruptcy Debt Help: Interview with Bankruptcy Lawyer
Mar-12-08 Phoenix, AZ: In the wake of soaring credit card debts and subprime loans, a bankruptcy wave is likely to hit the US anytime soon. Nationwide, attorneys are getting more calls from people who are having financial problems; more calls from small businesses; more calls from individuals who have credit card debt and more calls from home owners. Unfortun... - Transvaginal Mesh Complications Compounded
Jul-31-15 Spokane, WA Carly says the past three years have been “hell for my husband and myself and our sex life is nonexistent” since she had transvaginal mesh implanted to treat a slight urinary incontinence problem. “Adding to more misery, the mesh didn’t even treat my incontinence.” But Carly’s incontinence problem is a... - Daniel Troy - Bush Administration's Preemption Gang - Part II
Feb-26-08 Washington, DC: In the fall of 2004, Daniel Troy left the FDA armed with the preemption policy he put in place. Now a partner at Sidley Austin Brown & Wood, Mr Troy works for a firm that he told Lily Henning of the Legal Times on September 20, 2005, "represents pretty much almost every company" in the brand-name drug industry. In fact, Sidley Austin i... - Are Statins Linked to Aggression?
Jul-24-15 Boston, MA When people start taking Crestor, they likely watch for some of the reported Crestor side effects that affect them physically. Not many people think to watch for emotional side effects linked to medications. But a recently published study suggests statins may be linked to increased aggression in women. The study was published in PLOS One... - California Overtime: IBM Giveth and IBM Taketh Away
Feb-18-08 Sacramento, CA A lawsuit filed by three IBM sales technicians in July last year charged the company with violations of federal and California state overtime laws . The focus of the workers' complaint was IBM's classification of their jobs and those of other non-managerial workers as exempt from the overtime provisions of the federal Fair Labor Standards A... - AMS Transvaginal Mesh Complaint: Is My Sex Life Over?
Jul-18-15 Charlotte, NC Although American Medical Systems (AMS) has settled many of its transvaginal mesh claims, women are still filing complaints against the mesh manufacturer. “I had the transvaginal sling removed in 2012 but I am still having pain,” says Kossondra. “My doctor told me that it is due to so much scar tissue. I think it is abou... - Securities Fraud Litigation by the Numbers
Feb-6-08 Washington, DC It's not the record of 2002 when the Enron scandal drove the number of stock fraud lawsuits to 267 for just the second year in the New Millennium. However, 2007 looks like it's going to be a banner year just the same, and given the sub prime mess, it would surprise no one if 2008 appeared to be on track for securities arbitration . Ind... - Trasylol Fiasco - FDA Fails To Protect Americans Again - Part II
Feb-4-08 Washington, DC: In reading the report issued by the Zuckerman Spaeder law firm, one thing is perfectly clear. Bayer was willing to pay $700,000 to get a Trasylol study done in time for the September 21, 2006 advisory committee meeting, if it could refute the findings of the New England Journal of Medicine study. However, unbeknownst to the contract re... - $671M DuPont C8 Cancer Settlement Reached
Santa Clara, CA: A $671 million settlement has been agreed in multi-district litigation brought against DuPont Co and its former subsidiary Chemours Co., that alleged the chemical manufacturers deliberately dumped carcinogenic chemicals, specifically Teflon ingredient C8 or PFOA, into the Ohio River. Their actions, according to the allegations, resu... - RICO Gives Unum Group Plaintiffs Extra Leverage
Jan-13-08 Philadelphia, PA: In April 2007, the federal Third Circuit Court of Appeals made reality of what may prove to be Unum Group 's worst legal nightmare. Unum's nightmare is the federal Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act. For individuals, and especially individuals denied benefits by Unum under group disability plans, that decision may... - Thousands More Transvaginal Mesh Claims Agreed to Settle
Jun-30-15 New York, NY Covidien, a transvaginal mesh manufacturer, has agreed to settle some of 11,000 claims regarding its transvaginal mesh devices, Reuters reported. It is believed that Covidien mainly supplied C.R. Bard with mesh products, which would inlcude Bard’s once-popular Avaulta. Covidien filed a report in July 2014 with the U.S. Securi...