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Lafayette, LA: Japanese drug maker Takeda Pharmaceutical Co Ltd, has been ordered to pay $6 billion in punitive damages in settlement of allegations the company concealed information regarding the risk for cancer associated with its diabetes drug Actos. Eli Lilly and Co, a co-defendant in the case, was ordered to pay $3 billion in punitive damages a... - Criminal Prosecution of Lilly Sought Over Zyprexa
Jan-4-07 California Attorney, Ted Chabasinski, is calling for the criminal prosecution of Eli Lilly executives for hiding the adverse effects of Zyprexa , based in part on articles last month in the New York Times which quote internal company documents that revealed that Lilly knew about the adverse effects for a decade but kept the information hidden. Mr Chab... - Lowe's owes Big Time in Overtime
Jan-3-07 Lumberton, NC Blake Canady worked at Lowe's from 1998 to 2001 as department manager. He estimates that Lowe's owes him about $10,000 in unpaid overtime. "We complained to management and it was always 'being looked into' but nothing changed," says Canady. "I worked in the hardware and tools department and upon arriving at the store every morning, we w... - Court Allows Eli Lilly to Bury Zyprexa Documents
Dec-21-06 New York, NY Alaskan attorney, Jim Gottstein, says that after being served with a mandatory injunction, he has returned the internal Eli Lilly documents that he obtained in litigation and provided to the New York Times to the court. Information from the documents related to Lilly's antipsychotic drug, Zyprexa , was highlighted two days in a row in fr... - Panacryl Sutures: Recent lawsuits just Tip of the Iceberg
Dec-19-06 Princeton, NJ In September 2002, a lawyer had a visit from a woman who told him a medical story that he initially thought was a medical malpractice situation. She had undergone several surgeries including colon-rectal surgery and a colostomy reversal and every time she was sewn up and sent home, her condition deteriorated. He got her medical records and... - Defective Products In Your Body
Dec-18-06 Sacramento, CA In May 2000, Virginia was injured in a car accident and required a hip replacement. A sulzer hip was implanted in March but shortly afterward Sulzer Orthopedics recalled its Inter-Op acetabular shell for hip implants on December 8, 2000. Some of these implants had an unacceptable level of mineral oil-based lubricant on the product and it... - InkJet Printer Frustration
Dec-13-06 Oklahoma Rich McCafferty isn't the only one fed up with his inkjet printer ; he recently noticed an Epson printer chucked into a shopping cart and abandoned in a Wal-Mart parking lot. Guess someone else didn't have any luck repairing or returning it either. "I had a few Epson inkjet printers and got rid of them too," says McCafferty. "The cartridges f... - $43 Million Settlement Preliminarily Approved in Suits Against Conrad Black
Plaintiffs in 2 class action lawsuits against media baron Conrad Black have reached a tentative settlement of $43 million. A court date of August 21, 2009 has been set for final approval. If approved, the settlement would bring to an end 5 years of litigation. The judge presiding over the suits expressed concern that payment of the settlement would be... - PPH, PAH & Fen-Phen - Ephedra, Ephedrine - LawyersAndSettlements.com
Fen-Phen and other diet drugs, including Adipex , Redux and Pondimin , were widely prescribed in the 1990s as short-term appetite suppressants. However, according to the FDA, , up to 20 percent of patients who took Redux, Fen Phen or Pondimin suffered heart damage, including Primary pulmonary hypertension ( PPH ) . PPH, PAH and Fen... - Amtrak Settles Employment Class Action for $1.99M
New York, NY: A nine-year-old employment class action lawsuit against Amtrak has been settled, with final approval granted for a $1.99 million settlement fund. The lawsuit was between Sharyn Stagi, Winifred Ladd and those similarly situated and the National Railroad Passenger Corp., also known as Amtrak. The lawsuit was filed against Amtrak in O... - ERISA fraud: Why you need to Protect Yourself
Nov-24-06 New York, NY As more and more companies and executives are being charged with Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) stock fraud violations, it is becoming increasingly important that employees keep track of their 401(k) plans and their health insurance plans. One thing that protects contributions to retirement plans and some health plans is... - $627M Settlement Reached in Wachovia Preferred Securities and Bond Litigation
New York, NY: The Orange County Employees' Retirement System, the Louisiana Sheriffs' Pension and Relief Fund, and the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority, the court-appointed representatives of a class of investors who purchased certain Wachovia Corporation (Wachovia) bonds and preferred securities pursuant or traceable to numerous publ... - FDA's Preemption Gift to Big Pharma
Nov-20-06 Washington, DC: An item sure to end up on the chopping block with the Democrats back in power, is the Bush administration's multi-billion dollar gift to Big Pharma, that bars people who have been injured by drugs approved by the FDA from suing the drug's maker in state courts. Under the FDA's federal preemption position, victims injured by dangerous dru... - Kodak Settles Race Discrimination Class Action for $21 Million
Eastman Kodak Company and Employees Committed for Justice, an organization of African American current and former employees of Kodak, jointly announce that they have reached an agreement to settle their pending litigation. The settlement is subject to approval by the Court. The case, Davis, et al. v. Eastman Kodak Company, Civil Action No. 6:04-cv-06098, wa... - Credit Card Fee Settlement Announced
Nov-15-06 Manhattan, NY: Credit card companies are always finding new ways to hike their rates in order to make more money. One easy way for some credit card companies to make extra money was the foreign currency fee, until a lawsuit was filed challenging that fee. That class action lawsuit, filed against several major credit card companies for such excessive c... - Ranbaxy Guilty, Settles Federal Charges for $500M
Washington, DC: Ranbaxy has pled guilty to federal drug safety violations and will pay $500 million in fines to resolve the claims. The generic drug manufacturer is alleged to have sold subpar drugs and made false statements to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) about its manufacturing practices at two factories in India. According to the... - Settlement Proposed in Class Action Involving Cold MD Dietary Supplement
A notice program authorized by the Los Angeles County Superior Court began over the weekend to alert those who purchased Cold MD dietary supplement from March 26, 2004 through May 29, 2009 about a proposed settlement against Iomedix Cold International SRL ("Defendant"). The notice is a result of the Court certifying, on May 29, 2009, a plaintiff class in a l... - Oxford Insurance: Poor Decisions affect Patients' Health
Nov-10-06 Oxford, MA: While other insurance companies are settling their lawsuits, Oxford Insurance is still in arbitration in a suit brought by a group of New Jersey doctors. Along with Oxford Insurance, Cigna Healthcare, United Healthcare, and Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield were all named in the lawsuit which was filed in 2002 on behalf of at least 40,000 New... - Doctors not Warned about Guidant Defibrillators Defects
Nov-6-06 Indianapolis, IN: In June 2005, Guidant Corp. recalled 50,000 of its implanted defibrillators, which are used to prevent cardiac arrest in the event of a rapid heartbeat. There are a couple of major problems with the Guidant defibrillators. In some cases the defibrillator does not perform properly when it is needed, responding instead by sending the n... - Massachusetts Wrongful Termination
As in other states, Massachusetts wrongful termination refers to situations in which an employee in Massachusetts has been wrongfully terminated from his or her employment. Although technically employers can end employment at any time for almost any reason, under Massachusetts and federal law, there are circumstances that can result in wrongful terminatio...