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A Lot of Commotion About Morgan Keegan

Posted on October 24, 2008
Homosassa, FL: Edward M. is angry—he had money in Morgan Keegan investment funds and lost almost all of it. He was counting on that money being there for him when he needed it and says he was in no position to lose so much. Now, Edward is left wondering how he can get his money back, if he can at all.

Pensioners Fighting for ERISA Rights

Posted on October 24, 2008
Sacramento, CA: With so many people living longer into retirement, companies are forced to pay more in benefits for their former employees. The Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) was created to protect those benefits, including employee stock options and pension plans...

Conseco’s Mission Statement: Any Delay is a Good Delay

Posted on October 24, 2008
Washington, DC: My parents have a long term care insurance policy with Conseco," says Paul, "and they started making claims in January, 2005. But this company has practiced nothing but bad faith, and in so doing has turned my father into an angry, emotional wreck...

Attorney Eric Chaffin asks if your Shoulder Clicks, Pops or Grinds?

Posted on October 24, 2008
New York City, NY: Researchers for the American Journal of Sports Medicine were alarmed by what they saw. For years, doctors had used arthroscopic shoulder surgery to treat conditions like floating or torn cartilage. It is a minimally invasive type of procedure believed to have few risks and was followed up with a shoulder pain pump.

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Underinsured Drivers Leave Innocent Victims Paying for Car Accidents

Posted on October 24, 2008
Miami, FL: Most people on the road are honest, hard working folk who make sure they have enough insurance to cover them in case of a car accident. However, there are people out there who drive with either very little or no insurance, leaving innocent people to pay for their automobile accidents, even if the accident was caused by the underinsured driver.

Shoulder Pain Pumps Causing Shoulder Pain

Posted on October 24, 2008
Memphis, TN: A shoulder pain pump is supposed to relieve a patient's pain—at least, that's what patients are told. However, some patients say they have even more pain after a shoulder pain pump is used than they ever had before their shoulder surgery.

Patient's Tendon "Sheared Off" After Levaquin Use

Posted on October 24, 2008
Campbell, OH: Chuck K. thought that his problems with his leg were over after he had major surgery on his left leg and finished rehabilitation. However, Chuck was given Levaquin to deal with a series of infections related to his surgery and, soon after, found himself undergoing a second major surgery and rehabilitation all over again.

Discrimination and the USDA

Posted on October 23, 2008
Washington, DC: The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) has come under fire by the Government Accountability office (GAO) for dropping the ball with regard to discrimination. Sadly, in spite of how far we have come in America and with an African-American currently in the race for the White House, employment discrimination, and employee racial discrimination appear to remain an issue in this country...

Nursing Home Giant Focus of Class Action Lawsuit

Posted on October 23, 2008
Bremerton, WA: A class-action lawsuit alleging nursing home negligence has been filed against one of the largest operators of nursing homes in the country. Hardly surprising, given the widespread concern over nursing home abuse. Meanwhile, a blogger once employed at one of the nursing homes cited in the lawsuit tried for a year "to change the way they did business and improve the care they gave to their residents, (but) I finally had to give up and leave...

Child Exposed to Celexa "One of a Kind"

Posted on October 23, 2008
Wapato, WA: Studies have shown that babies who are exposed to an SSRI prior to birth are at an increased risk of birth defects including congenital heart defects. Usually, there are certain heart problems that go along with SSRI exposure. However, what about the child who is one of a kind, who has a heart defect that has not been seen before?

I had a Heart Attack and didn't know it

Posted on October 23, 2008
Memphis, TN: Ray is diabetic. He had been taking Avandia for about a year when his doctor discovered he had heart problems. But it wasn't until he was on the operating table in the hospital, minutes before he was to have stents put in his arteries, that the images revealed the real reason his heart wasn`t working properly.

Distracted Truck Driver Causes Fatal Accident

Posted on October 23, 2008
Austin, TX: Two children died and two others were injured after a truck accident that police say was at least partially due to a distracted semi truck driver. According to KSAT, a local news station, the driver of the semi truck reached down for a cigarette and lost control of his vehicle, resulting in it flipping over.

Is Unum Provident Still a Hungry Vulture?

Posted on October 22, 2008
Chattanooga, TN: It's been awhile since Unum Provident was pilloried in the press, the subject of investigative reports by 60 Minutes and Dateline: NBC for dubious practices with regard to the provision of Unum long term disability and Unum life insurance...

Cure and Infection, Rupture a Tendon

Posted on October 22, 2008
New York City, NY: Sometimes a drug cures one problem, only to cause another. That seems to be the case for some users of the popular antibiotics Cipro and Levaquin. Both Cipro and Levaquin are prescribed for a wide spectrum of bacterial problems, from bronchitis to urinary tract infections...

Message to Zimmer: We Are Not Machines

Posted on October 22, 2008
Washington, DC: Forgive me if I've missed something here, but what the hell is going on with medical products manufacturers, such as the people who make the Zimmer Durom Cup? A Zimmer hip replacement patient should not be made to suffer through the pain and trauma of a failed Zimmer Durom, only to have to require a second surgery to have it fixed or replaced.

The SPSC Gets Tough With Defective Cribs

Posted on October 22, 2008
Washington, DC: Perhaps the latest crib recall is a sign that the US Consumer Products Safety Commission (CPSC) is prepared to bare a little more teeth in its mandate to protect consumers from shoddy products. Nonetheless, parents concerned with the baby crib recall issue and the ultimate health and safety of their children will applaud the CPSC's stance, and the issuance of a crib safety recall communiqué.

Retread Industry ‘Tired’ of Bad Rap

Posted on October 22, 2008
Pacific Grove, CA: Despite what many drivers believe, test after test confirm it is as safe, if not safer, to put retreaded tires on your vehicle, according to industry representative Harvey Brodsky. “My wife drives on retreaded tires, I drive on retreaded tires, my children drive on retreaded tires,” says Brodsky...

The Digitek Drug Debacle Going to Congress

Posted on October 21, 2008
Washington, DC: In the wake of the Digitek recall, and the more recent recall of every drug manufactured at the Actavis Totowa facility in Little Falls, New Jersey—it has been revealed that the Digitek drug debacle, together with Digitek and heart problems will be the subject of a Congressional investigation.

Car Accidents and Presidential Campaigns

Posted on October 21, 2008
Virginia Beach, WA: As the US Presidential election escalates in the run up to November 8, copious attention is being paid to the candidates, and their qualifications to lead. Part of that process, is the vetting of the candidates past, as well as those of their partners.

Interview with Bicycle Accident Attorney and Advocate Charlie Finkel

Posted on October 21, 2008
Los Angeles, CA: Over the past several years, attorney Charlie Finkel of Magana, Cathcart & McCarthy has devoted considerable time and effort on protecting the legal rights of bicycle accident victims. Unfortunately, he says the number of accidents involving bikes vs...

Preemption - True Motives

Posted on October 21, 2008
In the original petition for writ of certiorari filed in the US Supreme Court in March 2007, under reasons for granting the petition, Wyeth reveals the true motives behind the pharmaceutical industry's all-out push for a preemption win against a lone citizen from Vermont, Diane Levine, when stating:

Stockbroker Fraud Adds to Investor Concerns

Posted on October 21, 2008
San Diego, CA: As if investors don't already have enough to worry about, what with the long list of financial firms facing financial trouble and the stock markets taking a nose dive, stockbroker fraud has become the concern of some investors. Many are turning to stockbroker arbitration to settle their claims...

Ortho Evra—Out of Court, Out of Mind

Posted on October 21, 2008
Columbus, OH: Despite the fact that Johnson & Johnson recently paid the seemingly staggering sum of $68.7 million to settle lawsuits brought by young women who nearly died using their Ortho Evra birth control patch, this dangerous contraceptive device remains on the market and is still causing damage.

150 Lb Weight Gain and 1 Heart Attack

Posted on October 21, 2008
Lewisburg, TN : Theodore was put on Avandia in 2004. Within 3 months of starting the diabetes medication he had suffered all the Avandia side effects, specifically rapid weight gain, severe breathing difficulties and swelling of the extremities. Then he had a heart attack, likely Avandia-related...

Attorney Toriseva: The Digitek War

Posted on October 20, 2008
Wheeling, WV: Within the next two years, the American manufacturers of a heart medicine called Digitek will be hit with hail of lawsuits and attorney Teresa Toriseva expects to be one of the personal injury lawyers leading the charge. In April of 2008, the FDA issued a drug recall notice after a number of patients experienced problems...

Heparin Injection From Recalled Product Still on the Shelf

Posted on October 20, 2008
Los Angeles, CA: It's bad enough that a contaminated product like Heparin can find its way across our borders and into our medical supply. Heparin contamination has proven both a health liability and a source of fear for anyone requiring heparin injection by way of heparin syringes...

Jury Still Out on Safety of Drug Eluting Stents

Posted on October 20, 2008
Washington, DC: When the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved 'Endeavor,' the drug-coated Medtronic stent earlier this year, it did so amidst a storm of controversy as to whether or not the stents promote potentially dire blood clots in heart attack patients...

Where Will the Stock Loss Freefall End?

Posted on October 20, 2008
New York, NY: While the stock markets appear to be on an upswing, at least for now, there is no question that there have been significant stock losses in recent months. How significant? Well, Jeremy Gaunt, at Reuters, posts that the MSCI all-country world stock index has lost around $15 trillion in value since October 31, 2007.

Hormone Therapy and Prempro: Two Women's Accounts

Posted on October 20, 2008
Clinton Township, MI: Debbie was prescribed Prempro for post-menopausal symptoms and hormone therapy 12 years ago. Her endocrinologist warned her to discontinue taking it "because it causes breast cancer." Joyce from Savannah, GA wants to tell all women to "quit Prempro now"...

Fosamax Causes Fractures

Posted on October 20, 2008
Vancouver, WA: Long-term use of the controversial osteoporosis medication Fosamax is ringing more alarm bells with bone experts. Why? Something called spontaneous non-spinal fractures. As if osteonecrosis of the jaw and a risk of stroke weren't enough, a series of case reports published in medical literature shows a clear association between Fosamax and this type of fracture, also called atypical low-energy fractures.

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