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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... - 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. ... - 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... - $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... - $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... - 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... - 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... - $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... - WaMu Mutual Stock Class Action Settlement Proposed
Seattle, WA: If you were a participant in the WaMu Savings Plan and invested any of your 401(k) money in Washington Mutual stock at any time between October 19, 2005 and September 26, 2008, both dates inclusive, your rights may be affected by a proposed settlement of a class action lawsuit. The settlement has been preliminarily approved... - $29M Preliminary Settlement Reached in 9 Walgreens California Wage & Hour Class Actions
New York, NY: Walgreen Co. has reached a $29 million settlement of nine California wage and hour class action lawsuits, consolidated in federal court in California. The lawsuits had all alleged that Walgreens failed to provide its employees with adequate breaks, and pay them overtime for mandatory security checks. Additionally, the wage and hour l... - $9 Million Settlement Proposed in Netflix Class Action Lawsuit
San Jose, CA: A Settlement has been reached in a privacy class action lawsuit that claims Netflix unlawfully kept and disclosed customer information, including records on the movies and TV shows its customers viewed. Netflix denies that it has done anything wrong. Any current or former Netflix subscriber as of July 5, 2012 and lives in the U.S. or... - 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... - 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... - National Collegiate Scouting Association Settles Unpaid Overtime Class Action for $1.6M
New York, NY: A $1.6 million class action settlement has been approved in an unpaid overtime lawsuit pending against the National Collegiate Scouting Association Inc.. In the complaint, the plaintiffs alleged the scouting organization was in violation of federal and state law for failing to pay overtime wages to "scout coordinators." The settlement... - 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... - 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...