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May-24-15 Houston, TX On April 20, 2015, Blue Bell Creameries voluntarily recalled all of the products made at its three plants in the US because they may be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes , a potentially deadly foodborne pathogen the company detected in samples of its Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Ice Cream produced between March 17, 2015 and March 2... - New Viagra Melanoma Lawsuit Alleges Wrongful Death
May-2-15 Edwardsville, IL A Viagra lawsuit was filed early last month by the widow of a man who succumbed to a pulmonary embolism consequent to viagra melanoma . Plaintiff Tina M. Stockton says her late husband would have limited his use and dosage of Viagra, prescribed to him by his doctor, if he had been aware of the risks associated with the popular medicinal... - Mirena Statute of Limitations
Apr-21-15 Houston, TX If you have filed a Mirena IUD claim, make sure that you are aware of the statute of limitations. And if you haven’t heard from your Mirena lawyer lately, be pro-active - call now. A Mirena plaintiff is suing three Texas laws firms alleging they let her claim lapse past its limitation date. Crystal Lynn Starling, a Mississippi woma... - LivingSocial Settles Gift Certificate Class Action for $4.1M
New York, NY: A judge has ordered the online deal site LivingSocial to pay $4.1 million to settle a consumer fraud class action lawsuit filed against it. Some 11 million customers may be affected by the settlement. The lawsuit alleges that the Vouchers used to redeem Deals are "gift certificates"and that expiration dates and other conditions appl... - Toyota, Lexus or Scion Sudden Acceleration Economic Loss Class Action Settlement
Los Angeles, CA: If you currently or previously own(ed), lease(d), purchased, or insured certain Toyota, Lexus, or Scion vehicles, you could be eligible to receive monetary and other benefits from a class action settlement. The Toyota sudden and unwanted acceleration lawsuit claims that certain Toyota, Scion and Lexus vehicles equipped with electronic... - Call Center Wage and Hour Lawsuits
Call center lawsuits are now being filed against call centers for allegedly not paying employees for the time spent to log into and out of their computer systems before and after their shifts. The call center overtime lawsuits argue employees should be paid overtime for time spent doing mandatory preparation before and after work. Call Cente... - Hospital Overcharging Included $2,500 Billed for Individual Surgical Screws
Mar-15-15 Houston, TX It isn’t often that emergency room charges and hospital overcharging are used in the same sentence with words such as “racketeer” and “corrupt.” However, such allegations are included as part of claims brought against Houston-based North Cypress Medical Center by Aetna Life Insurance Co. At issue are allegation... - Persistence Pays Off for Chapel Hill Extended Warranty Plaintiffs
Feb-17-15 Chapel Hill, NC A couple from Chapel Hill who brought a Home Warranty Lawsuit against the contractor and a supplier of their custom-built home encountered a few setbacks in their litigation. But they stuck with it and late last year were rewarded with a partial victory by the North Carolina Supreme Court. Plaintiffs George and Deborah Christie had h... - Professor Denied Tenure Launches Ohio Employment Lawsuits
Jan-15-15 Athens, OH A former assistant professor at Ohio University has launched a series of Ohio Employment lawsuits against the university and other defendants, alleging the denial of tenure at the facility was because of his sexual orientation and religious beliefs. The actions were filed December 18. The plaintiff, Timothy Scott McKeny, noted that he was... - Walgreens Ordered To Pay $1.4 Million Due To Employee’s Breach of Confidentiality
Jan-11-15 The Indiana Court of Appeals let stand a $1.4 million verdict awarded by a jury in Marion County, Indiana, when plaintiff, Abigail Hinchy sued Walgreens and pharmacist Audra Withers-Peterson for breaching the duty of confidentiality by providing Hinchy’s ex-boyfriend with Hinchy’s prescription records. An untamable love triangle Peterson is fa... - Tennessee Drywall Workers Win Unpaid Overtime in DOL Settlement
Nov-21-18 Hermitage, TN On October 19, 2018, the U.S. Department of Labor announced that Tennessee contractor, Vasquez Drywall, had agreed to pay $103,300 in back wages to workers misclassified as independent contractors and a $2,424 civil penalty. Employment misclassification is rampant in the construction industry in Tennessee and throughout the country. Th... - Unum’s Denial of Opioid Overdose Deaths
Nov-15-18 New Orleans, LA : The giant insurance company Unum—also known as First Unum -- typically denies accidental death benefits (as do most other life insurance companies) by excluding in their policy coverage for deaths related to prescription overdose or for medical or surgical treatment of a sickness or disease. But Unum’s denial didn’t s... - Sephora Accused of Shorting Workers for Time to Don Makeup
Nov-5-18 San Francisco, CA Cosmetics retailer, Sephora, has recently found itself embroiled in several California unpaid wages lawsuits . The allegations are similar from lawsuit to lawsuit, and so are the plaintiffs’ evidentiary problems. Basically, Sephora is accused of failing to pay workers for time required to go through security, put on makeup before sh... - Healthcare Network Liable for $1.6M for Overdosing Patient
Dec-4-14 A jury in the Second District Court of Utah returned a verdict for $1.6 million in a wrongful death and medical malpractice action against Intermountain Healthcare for fatally overdosing a patient with a cocktail of medications. The original complaint alleged Intermountain negligently and carelessly acted below the standard of care by prescribing a c... - Los Angeles Sweatshops Cited for Wage and Hour Violations
Oct-14-18 Los Angeles, CA In early September 2018, the California Labor Commissioner’s Office fined six garment contractors a total of $573,704 for labor law violations after uncovering a scheme where the contractors operated illegally under one license to avoid complying with California wage and hour laws. But what happens to the workers? Garment workers mak... - Propecia Leads to Depression
Oct-30-14 Seattle, WA Jason has been prescribed Viagra to help with erectile dysfunction - a Propecia side effect. Contrary to the Propecia manufacturer’s label warning, his condition isn’t short-term: Jason took the hair loss medication five years ago and he is in therapy for depression. “I started to have sexual dysfunction problems not lo... - Behringer Harvard REIT I, Inc. BH REIT Securities Fraud
Company: Behringer Harvard REIT I, Inc. Ticker Symbol: BH REIT Class Period: Feb-19-03 to Sep-18-12 Date Filed: Sep-18-12 Lead Plaintiff Deadline: Nov-17-12 Court: Northern District of Texas Allegations: Los Angeles, CA: A securities class action lawsuit has been filed on behalf of inv... - Courts Continue to Quash Nursing Home Arbitration Agreements
Oct-14-14 Reading, PA When one thinks of nursing home abuse , it would be expected to assume images of mistreatment of the resident through either elder care neglect, or antagonistic and grounds of physical abuse. But there is another form of alleged abuse that has been lurking amongst nursing homes and elder care facilities for some time. It’s abuse tha... - Wheeler v. Metropolitan Life Insurance Company Seeks LTD Benefits for Injured Seaman
Sep-14-18 San Diego, CA Christopher Wheeler was a Coxswain/Diesel mechanic, a contractor doing heavy physical work for the U.S. Navy Fifth Fleet. On March 17, 2015, he was badly injured during a storm at sea off Bahrain. Hospitals and rehab landed him a computer job for which he had no aptitude or training. When that didn’t work out, his employer, Exelis, Inc. ter... - Amputees’ Fight for Insurance Coverage Focuses on ‘Medical Necessity’ of Microprocessor Prosthetics
Sep-4-18 Washington, DC Lucky to live, unlucky to lose a foot or a leg, survivors of the Boston Marathon bombing soon found themselves facing the harsh truth of inadequate insurance coverage for their prosthetic care. Years on, the good news is that microprocessor-enhanced artificial limbs have gotten better. The bad news is that insurance companies like Anthem...