By Allison Ross, Palm Beach Post A Miami judge has certified the nation’s first class-action suit against manufacturers and distributors of defective Chinese drywall. County Circuit Judge Joseph Farina gave the go-ahead for the class certification, which is limited to affected homeowners living in the Keys Gate community in Homestead. The [...]
May 19, 2010 By JDJournal.com Residents have filed a class action lawsuit in New Jersey State Court, Hudson County against Honeywell International of New Jersey and PPG Industries of Pennsylvania for dumping and failing to clean up cancer-causing hexavalent chromium waste in their neighborhoods. According to today’s press release at PR Newswire, the [...]
By Nick Divito, Courthouse News Service LAS VEGAS (CN) – Clark County’s child welfare system shows “deliberate indifference to the health and safety of the children it is obligated to protect,” 13 foster kids say in a federal class action. The National Center for Youth Law’s 80-page complaint demands sweeping changes in the county’s [...]
NEW YORK, Jan 14 (Reuters) – Three personal injury lawsuits were filed against Pfizer Inc (PFE.N) on Thursday, claiming its smoking cessation drug Chantix caused attempted suicides and death. The lawsuits, filed in New York State Supreme Court in Manhattan, claim that at the time the plaintiffs took Chantix, Pfizer did not tell doctors [...]
By Duff Wilson, NY Times Published: November 20, 2009 Legal experts predict that thousands of tobacco lawsuits could gain momentum in Florida after a Fort Lauderdale jury ordered Philip Morris USA to pay $300 million to a former smoker who says she needs a lung transplant. If it survives an appeal, the [...]
By MARYCLAIRE DALE (AP) Published October 14, 2009 PHILADELPHIA — A jury ordered GlaxoSmithKline to pay $2.5 million to a woman whose son was born with serious heart defects after she took the antidepressant Paxil during her pregnancy. The closely watched verdict handed down Tuesday in Philadelphia was the first of about 600 [...]
By RADHA CHITALE ABC News Medical Unit Sept. 3, 2009 At $2.3 billion, it’s a record-breaking settlement that includes the largest fine ever levied in U.S. history, but drug industry experts say that the hefty sum Pfizer agreed to Wednesday will do little to curb highly profitable, unethical marketing behaviors by some companies. The [...]
Published August 21, 2009: 09:22 AM ET by CNNMoney Drug maker Eli Lilly & Co. (LLY) has agreed to pay $22.5 million to settle a lawsuit in which West Virginia’s attorney general accused Lilly of improperly promoting the antipyschotic Zyprexa. It’s the latest Lilly payout for Zyprexa. In recent years, the company has [...]
Published August 21, 2009 beaumontenterprise.com By: Margaret Toal Twelve people in Orange County are listening to engineers, looking at police photos and following computer graphics that seek to explain the death of a 13-year-old and the possible role of a Yamaha Rhino. And there’s a crowd with them in District Court Judge Dennis [...]
Published August 13, 2009 by zeenews.com New York: The family of the first fatal swine flu victim in New York has filed papers in court with the intention of suing the local government for $40 million, news reports said on Wednesday. Assistant principal Mitch Wiener at a Queens school succumbed to the influenza virus [...]
