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Sort by date 7,426 pages found matching settlement- Trial or Settlement? 11,500 Yasmin and Yaz Lawsuits Hang in the Balance
Jun-12-12 Washington, DC It remains unclear if lawsuits over Yaz side effects—and issues relating to its' close contraceptive cousin Yasmin birth control —will ever make it to trial, or if Yasmin / Yaz manufacturer Bayer Pharmaceuticals will be successful in negotiating settlements that will satisfy plaintiffs involved in more than 11,000 lawsuits. ... - $53M Settlement Reached In Milk Products Class Action Lawsuit
Santa Clara, CA: A $52 million settlement has been reached in an antitrust class action lawsuit pending against several milk producers alleging they conspired to fix milk prices. According to the complaint, the defendants, namely National Milk Producers Federation aka Cooperatives Working Together (CWT), Dairy Farmers of America Inc., Land O’Lake... - Did Patients Receive Defective Bjork Shiley Heart Valves?
Jun-10-12 Seattle, WA It seems only natural that a patient assumes when a device is implanted in him—especially when that device is intended to be life-saving—that the device itself is free from defects. But according to a decades-old report by The New York Times (3/21/92), some Bjork Shiley heart valves may have been cracked and improperly sealed... - Asbestos Memories = Asbestosis Today?
Jun-8-12 Lakeland, FL Ken hasn’t been diagnosed with asbestosis ...yet. “My asbestosis lawyer (through LawyersandSettlements.com) recently sent my x-rays to environmental disease specialists,” says Ken. “He told me that I have to be diagnosed with asbestosis to file a claim but there are also other illnesses that come with it, which I mig... - Discrimination - Verdict in favor of Plaintiff in the amount of US$725,000
Case Name : Laura Z. Bonas Benjamin v. New York City Health & Hospitals Corporation et al Case Number : 11 Civ. 5096(VSB) Verdict Date : 2014-10-28 Outcome Type : Settlement Court : U.S. District Court, Southern District, NeYorkw Incident Date : 2008-09-12 Plaintiff's Complaint : Plaintiff is an African America... - Asbestos Lawsuits On The Rise, Awards Increase in Value
Jun-1-12 St. Paul, MN There is a new term floating around courtrooms, and articulated in many an asbestos lawsuit : 'asbestos wives and daughters.' The phenomenon denotes family members of asbestos workers who unknowingly brought asbestos fibers into their homes from the workplace, only to 'infect' a beloved family member. Heather Von St. James of St. Paul, M... - $32M Blue Buffalo Settlement Approved
Santa Clara, CA: A$32 million settlement has been approved in a consumer fraud class action lawsuit pending against Connecticut-based Blue Buffalo, a leading natural pet food maker. The class actions, brought by consumers in several suits across and country and which were consolidated into Multi District Litigation in 2014, alleged that certain B... - $9.8M Awarded in Defective Wheelchair Injury Lawsuit
Santa Clara, CA: A $9.8 million settlement has been awarded to a 35-year old plaintiff who suffered injuries resulting from defects in his wheelchair. The defective wheelchair personal injury lawsuit, filed in San Diego, alleged plaintiff Toby Morin suffered life altering injuries as a result of defective design, manufacture, warnings and repair. Fur... - Medtronic Investigation Concludes as Another Medtronic Lawsuit is Filed
May-20-12 Minneapolis, MN A federal lawsuit into the marketing of the Medtronic Infuse bone graft has reportedly ended with no charges being filed against Medtronic. The investigation looked into allegations that Medtronic illegally marketed its bone graft device. Meanwhile, another Medtronic lawsuit, alleging Medtronic Inc. downplayed the risks associated with... - Goldman Sachs Reaches $56.5M Settlement in ISDAfix Antitrust Suit
Santa Clara, CA: A $56.5 million agreement has been reached potentially enabling Goldman Sachs to exit an antitrust class action in which it is accused of participating in price-fixing the ISDAfix benchmark rate, along with several other banks. The rate is used to set terms for interest rate derivative products. The total settlement amount agreed... - Oil Field Workers Reach $2.1 Unpaid Overtime Settlement
Santa Clara, CA: A $2.1 million settlement has been reached between workers of an oil field services company and their employer, potentially ending an unpaid overtime class action lawsuit that alleged violations of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). . The class of “frac supervisor I’s” alleged Keane Frac GP LLC, Keane Frac LP and Kean... - Costa Concordia Victims Seek $200M in Lawsuit vs Carnival Cruise Lines
May-11-12 New York, NY (Press Release) – Four Hungarian performers on the ill-fated Costa Concordia cruise ship are collectively seeking $200 million in damages in a Federal gross negligence complaint (12CV-3498, filed May 3, 2012) that has been filed in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York against the ship’s owner and operator. The plain... - Drilling Mud Defeat or Mere Fork in the Road?
May-9-12 Jackson, MS What a difference a year can make. Last April, Thomas Brown was celebrating what was heralded as the largest asbestos award for a single plaintiff in US history. Brown was awarded, by a trial jury, the unprecedented sum of $322 million in combined damages for injuries allegedly stemming from his work with drilling mud . One year and two w... - Paxil Heart Defects: Will Mothers Ever Be Sure?
May-9-12 Washington, DC "Now they're going to think for the rest of their lives that it was her fault because she took Paxil." Adrienne Einarson, semiretired assistant director of Motherisk in Toronto, was commenting on the debate that continues to boil surrounding antidepressants and pregnancy. Some studies have linked Paxil side effects and birth defects in b... - $9M Settlement Reached in Wonder Bread Unpaid Overtime Class Action Lawsuit
Santa Clara, CA: A $9 million settlement has been reached in an employment class action brought by distributors for Flowers Foods, Inc., the company behind Wonder Bread and Nature’s Own. Brought by named plaintiffs Scott Rehberg, Willard Allen Riley and Mario Ronchetti in 2012, the lawsuit alleged that the distributors were misclassified as indep... - 651 Yaz/Yasmin Lawsuits Settled for $142 Million
May-4-12 Berlin, Germany Bayer AG, the manufacturer of Yaz/Yasmin birth control pills, has announced that it has settled 651 US Yasmin blood clot lawsuits for a total, so far, of $142 million. This makes the average settlement about $218,000 a case. The lawsuits allege that Yasmin/Yas oral contraceptives cause blood clots in the women taking the pills, and i... - Inflated Emergency Room Charges Just a Way of Doing Business
May-4-12 Macon, GA Emergency room charges are now to the point where publications dedicated to helping Americans save money and maintain fiscal responsibility are including emergency room cost in their recommendations. For example, the "Saving Centsably" column carried April 11 in the Macon Telegraph advocated patients ask for a detailed accounting of all e... - Infant's Family Files Tylenol Lawsuit After Death
Apr-30-12 Washington, DC A subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson has been hit with a Tylenol death lawsuit , as the parents of a 2-month-old infant have accused the companies of being negligent in the manufacturing of the product, Reuters reported. According to the news outlet, the otherwise-healthy infant, Markus Cherry, died in April 2010, just three days af... - Concerns Raised about Toning Shoes
Apr-29-12 New York, NY When it comes to dangerous shoes, most people probably think of six-inch stilettos as being the most dangerous thing out there, but according to some reports, the number of toning shoes injury complaints indicates that toning shoes and shape-up shoes might give stilettos a run for their money. Toning shoes lawsuits have been filed, allegin... - Asbestosis: The Sadness Never Goes Away
Apr-27-12 Alexandria, VA Rosemary knows it is way too late to file an asbestosis claim—her father died from asbestosis back in 1961. "Maybe I can help someone who is sad about losing their father to asbestos, I want them to know they aren't alone," she says. "My father passed away on February 14, 1961, when I was 11 years old. And I should add that my d...