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Jun-12-07 Lake Station, IN The dump truck crested the hill travelling way too fast. Yes, it's a truck accident. And the truck, too big and too fast, could not avoid colliding with the line of cars stopped along the interstate at the behest of a road crew. The Lincoln at the end of the line took the brunt of the damage, and drove it into the car in front carryin... - $3.45 Million Bad Faith Verdict Affirmed Against Indiana Insurance Co.
Feb-26-15 The Kentucky Court of Appeals affirmed a verdict against The Indiana Insurance Company for acting in bad faith during a drawn-out claims negotiation with the insured. James Demetre was a customer of Indiana Insurance since 2006. He insured multiple properties including his vehicle with Indiana for a total bundled policy of $2.5 million in liability cov... - JPMorgan Agrees $16.7M Unpaid Overtime Settlement
New York, NY: A $16.7 million settlement has been agreed between JP Morgan Chase & Co., and plaintiffs in an unpaid overtime class action lawsuit. The settlement address claims made by assistant branch managers that Chase misclassified them as exempt from overtime, in violation of federal and state employment laws. There are four classes o... - Fen-Phen Lawsuits: Shortness of Breath Could Signal PPH
May-25-07 Philadelphia, PA Lawsuits are still being filed against the maker of fen-phen, a popular diet drug combination that resulted in serious complications for many of the people who took it, including PPH. Primary pulmonary hypertension (PPH) and heart valve damage are two such complications. Many people who take medications do not think that they will... - Defective CR Bard IVC Filter Injury Lawsuit Settlement Reached
Feb-12-15 Los Angeles, CA CR Bard, a manufacturer of inferior vena cava (IVC) filters, has agreed to a confidential settlement in a defective products lawsuit just six days before heading to trial. The case, filed in Nevada by plaintiff Kevin Phillips, alleged that Bard’s IVC Filter, known as the Recovery Filter System ("RFS"), was defectively designed... - California's Takin' Care of Business and Working (Unpaid) Overtime
May-11-07 San Francisco, CA "We're in a transition period, where a lot of companies assumed that they did not have to pay overtime and they're learning—sometimes the easy way and sometimes the hard way—that they do," states lawyer Cliff Palefsky over the phone from his law office in San Francisco. A member of the McGuinn, Hillsman and Palefsky law f... - Is GlaxoSmithKline Talking from Both Sides of Its Mouth?
Feb-4-15 Toronto, ON A complex and in some cases tragic portfolio of issues is emerging with regard to anti-nausea medication Zofran (ondansetron), a powerful drug manufactured by GlaxoSmithKline often prescribed to surgery and cancer patients following chemotherapy. However, a concern continues to roil quietly over another common source of nausea - morning sic... - California Overtime Lawsuit News
Apr-25-07 San Diego, CA: The number of lawsuits involving overtime pay and missed breaks continues to grow, as do the number of settlements. Below are some recent developments in California overtime lawsuits. In April, a Canadian company paid over $152,000 in settlements and fines after allegations that the company did not pay its employees for overtime and den... - Zetia and Vytorin: Never Say Never
Jan-29-15 Washington, DC If there is one thing to be said about pharmaceutical companies, it remains that they never, ever give up. Not until a product is deemed so unsafe that it is physically pulled from the market, will a manufacturer finally wave the white flag. This is especially true in the statin sector, which is the biggest piece of the pie with potential to... - Seat Belt Manufacturer Pays in Defective Buckle Fatality
Apr-20-07 Selma, AL: The manufacturer of a seat belt buckle settled recently for an undisclosed amount in an Alabama lawsuit filed following the death of a truck driver during a collision. Joseph Freeman, Jr., an employee of Evergreen Forest Products (Evergreen), was transporting wood chips from an Alabama lumber mill on October 12, 2005, when a Nissan pickup... - Depression and Pregnancy Good Combo for Lexapro Sales
Jan-24-15 New York, NY The maker of the popular antidepressant Lexapro lost millions in sales when the drug’s patent expired in early March of 2012. Lexapro brought in $13.8 billion for Forest Laboratories in just one decade - that’s a whole lot of depressed people, including pregnant women, some of whom gave birth to babies with birth defects. W... - $4.4M Settlement Final in Brickman Group Unpaid Overtime Class Action Lawsuit
Scranton, PA: Final approval of a $4.4 million settlement has been granted ending an employment class action lawsuit involving hundreds of employees of The Brickman Group Ltd. LLC (now Brightview Landscapes LLC). The plaintiffs claims filed in their October 2013 lawsuit that Brickman Group underpaid overtime to its salary-paid Supervisors by u... - Benicar Lawsuits Continue, Daiichi and Forest Settle $39 Million Whistleblower Suit
Jan-23-15 San Francisco, CA With a new year often comes a new round of lawsuits for various medical products and pharmaceuticals. In this case, Benicar (olmesartan medoxomil), a drug commonly prescribed to control blood pressure. However, a common complaint amongst Benicar lawsuits is sprue-like enteropathy, a rare but extremely nasty condition typified by uncon... - Risperdal, Atypical Antipsychotic, Linked to Fractures in Seniors
Jan-22-15 Toronto, Canada A new study by researchers in Canada suggests that atypical antipsychotic medications such as Risperdal may have side effects that include a risk of falling and a risk of fractures. The study, which was published online in JAMA Internal Medicine (1/12/15) found that seniors aged 65 and older who were newly taking atypical antipsychoti... - Brain Injury Lawsuit Targets the Obvious: Professional Wrestling
Jan-22-15 Portland, OR With two weeks and counting to the Super Bowl, and with the NFL concussion settlement on the plus side of $870 million still fresh in our minds, comes word of a brain injury lawsuit from a fairly obvious genre of professional sport. In late October of last year, former professional wrestler Billy Jack Haynes of Oregon filed a multimilli... - Gynecare Intergel Linked To Pain, Tissue Adherence, and Internal Scarring
Apr-12-07 Chaska, MN Lawyers are investigating the possibility of filing lawsuits against Ethicon Inc., after a number of women were harmed by the use of Gynecare Intergel Adhesion Prevention Solution. The solution was used during gynecological surgery to protect tissue as it healed but in some cases it caused serious injury to patients. The United States Food... - $1.1M Live Nation Employment Class Action Settlement Reached
Santa Clara, CA: Live Nation will pay $1.1 million to settle allegations pending in an employment class action lawsuit that it illegally deniged breaks to 1,500 parking and traffic employees in California. The entertainment company was sued in September, 2015, by named plaintiff Lee Webster, a former traffic controller at Live Nation’s Shoreline... - Maytag Involved In Another Recall: This Time Washing Machines
Apr-10-07 Newton, IA: Maytag and Samsung have announced a recall of around 270,000 front loading washing machines. The recall was announced after Maytag received reports of five incidents in which the circuit board ignited. Samsung received a report of one such incident. The ignition occurred after water leaked onto electrical connections to the thermal sensor... - Hagens Berman Expands National Takata Airbag Safety Recall Investigation
Jan-20-15 SEATTLE (January 16, 2015) (Press Release) Attorneys at national consumer-rights law firm, Hagens Berman, already representing dozens of plaintiffs with Honda vehicles in class-action lawsuits against Takata, have expanded their national investigation regarding the Takata airbag safety defect affecting millions of vehicles and linked to at least five fatal... - $100M Halliburton Settlement Gets Preliminary Approval
Santa Clara, CA: A $100 million settlement has been preliminarily approved potentially ending a securities class action lawsuit that centered around Haliburton’s liability in its disclosure of asbestos use. Litigation of this suit has taken a decade and included two trips to the US Supreme Court. If granted final approval, the $100 milli...