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Nov-5-14 Bend, OR Endo Pharmaceutical’s American Medical Systems (AMS) has agreed to pay almost $1.3 billion to resolve its AMS transvaginal mesh lawsuits over the mesh implants. This amount may seem substantial but only averages $40,000 per case, which is nowhere near enough for women who have suffered and continue to suffer mesh erosion and other serious... - Bad Faith Insurance Lawsuit Results in $22 Million Settlement
Oct-1-14 Philadelphia, PA A denied disability claim has resulted in a $22 million settlement in a bad faith insurance lawsuit filed against Allstate Insurance. The settlement is reported to be the largest ever in Pennsylvania. According to The Times-Tribune (9/30/14), the original lawsuit was filed by Patrick Hennessy, who suffered severe injuries in a c... - Pre-Settlement Funding May Be Your Rescue from Debt
Sep-30-14 “I just wanted to thank you for all you did to help me get money I needed quickly. I struggled for years waiting for my lawsuit to settle. I never knew there were companies like yours that would help people like me. Your pre-settlement lawsuit funding made it a little easier to get through the tough times. Thank you again!" -Harold P (Plaintiff from Marsh... - Morgan Stanley Coughs Up Over $10 million For Failing to Cover Advisors Work- Related Expenses
May-15-19 Sacramento, CA: Morgan Stanley, known as one of the world's top investment banks, regularly stiffed its workers, according to a proposed class action lawsuit that was settled in California federal court last month to the tune of $10.2 million. The international financial firm was accused of forcing its financial advisers to pay expenses such as business tr... - Latest ERISA Lawsuit News – 401k Mismanagement Lawsuits Going Strong, New Settlement in Treatment Denial Case
Apr-26-19 Los Angeles, CA Three ERISA lawsuits – two in the District Court for the Central District of California and two in the Northern District of California – show that ERISA can be a powerful tool to protect workers’ rights. Plan participants who claim that their 401k accounts were mismanaged are on a lawsuit hot streak , and patients w... - Save-A-Lot to Pay A lot to Ohio Employment Plaintiffs and Others
Aug-3-14 Cleveland, OH As happens with many multidistrict lawsuits, a class action centered in Connecticut also reaches into Ohio and other states, qualifying the litigation for allegations under Ohio Labor Employment Law . The issue involves assistant store managers working for Moran Foods LLC in various states, including Ohio. The claim alleges Moran Foods... - It’s Good to Be Hip, Not Good to Be Had…
Jul-26-14 New York, NY The landmark proposed Hip Replacement Lawsuit settlement between medical device giant Johnson & Johnson and about 8,000 plaintiffs may have been little more than a headline in the New York Times (11/19/13) for some. However, for others still waiting for the other hip to drop, the potential for complications from a metal-on-metal arti... - Jury Awards Edwin Hardeman $80.2 Million in Roundup Cancer Lawsuit
Apr-15-19 San Francisco, CA On March 27, a jury in Hardeman v. Monsanto Co. , a Monsanto glyphosate lawsuit awarded Edwin Hardeman more than $80 million. A third trial, Pilliod v. Monsanto Co. is well under way . Allegations have flown about untoward jury influence, and U.S. District Judge Vince Chhabria has begun to push the parties’ attorneys toward... - Off-Label Use Of Lilly's Evista Multiplies Risks
Feb-26-06 On October 24, 2002 the Cancer Prevention Coalition issued a press release that said women taking the osteoporosis drug Evista, marketed since 1997 by Eli Lilly, were at an increased risk of developing ovarian cancer. "There is ample scientific evidence that Evista poses risks of ovarian cancer," wrote Samuel Epstein, MD, Chairman of the Prevention Coalit... - Xarelto Settlement of $775 million Over Failure to Warn Claims
Apr-9-19 New Orleans : Thousands of patients who took Xarelto have settled, through multi-district litigation, with Johnson & Johnson and Bayer for three quarters of a billion dollars. Plaintiffs allege that the manufacturers marketed the drug to physicians to prevent blood clots, but failed to inform them of Xarelto side effects, which could cause life-threateni... - Unpaid Overtime: Questions answered by a lawyer
Jan-20-06 From a phone interview with Robin Workman, Trial Attorney, Qualls & Workman, LLP Q: Why would some companies rather pay fines than pay overtime? A: It is simply a cost benefit analysis. From a fiscal standpoint it is more cost effective for some companies not to pay overtime. Companies can roll the dice and they may never get sued. A large corporati... - Simple, Six-Step Process to Lawsuit Funding
Jun-16-14 A day doesn’t go by where we don’t hear about a personal injury due mainly to the negligence of someone else. Sadly, many victims will never seek justice due to financial constraints; they are not familiar with the lawsuit funding industry or how to obtain a lawsuit cash advance. Lawsuit funding buys a plaintiff time by providing emergency cash when... - Following Suit: Overdraft Fees Lawsuit Update
Jun-3-14 Overdraft fees lawsuits allege that banks and financial institutions charge excessive overdraft fees to consumers and further that the banks reorder credits and debits to push customers into their overdraft, increasing the fees they can charge. In March 2014, Synovus Financial Corp. agreed to pay $24 million to settle lawsuits alleging the company charg... - Ardent Settles Offshore Platform Workers’ Wage Claims for $2.3 Million
Mar-20-19 Santa Barbara, CA Ardent Companies, Inc., an ExxonMobil subcontractor, has agreed to pay $2,325,000 to settle a proposed class action lawsuit alleging that oil platform workers were not paid for on-call time after their daily shifts had ended. Settlement of the California labor lawsuit will net each of the proposed class members an average of $14,828... - California Lawsuit Results in $21 Million Settlement
May-28-14 Mira Loma, CA California wage and overtime laws require workers to be paid for any hours they work, but more and more wage and unpaid overtime lawsuits allege that companies routinely violate these laws and fail to give employees either regular or overtime pay. As a result, employees are turning to the courts, to fight against employers they say treat... - Unum Denied Disability Claims Legal Information and Lawsuit News
Unum (formerly known as Unum Provident and First Unum ) has systematically denied Unum disability insurance to thousands of policy holders in the past two decades. Unum and its subsidiaries, including Provident Life, The Paul Revere Life Insurance Company and Colonial Life & Accident Insurance Company have been subject to numerous lawsuits for il... - Unum FAQ
What is Unum? Unum insurance company is a Fortune 500 company that provides long term and short term disability, group life and long term care insurance for more than 100,000 companies and insures more than 25 million people worldwide. Unum is the world’s largest individual disability insurance carrier. Unum’s pre... - Settlement in Transvaginal Mesh Lawsuits Announced While FDA Looks at Stricter Classifications
May-14-14 Washington, DC A proposed settlement has reportedly been reached in Endo International Plc’s transvaginal mesh lawsuits . The settlement will resolve around 20,000 claims against the company, alleging women suffered serious side effects from the use of transvaginal mesh. A day before the settlement was announced, the FDA announced that the risk of... - AMS Transvaginal Mesh Settlement “Never Enough,” Says Attorney
May-7-14 Dallas, TX At first glance, American Medical Systems’ $830 million agreement to settle about 22,000 AMS transvaginal mesh complaints seems generous. But that only averages about $40,000 per case, before legal fees. The lawsuits allege the AMS polypropylene mesh is defective and that doctors and consumers were not properly warned about transvagina... - Turning Points 'Not' for Children
Nov-29-21 Philadelphia, PA The largest Philadelphia child welfare agency, which returned three girls to their sexually abusive father who continued to assault them, has settled with the girls for $6 million. This tragic incident isn’t the first involving “Turning Points for Children”. In fact Turning Points has been named in at least three neglig...