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Wichita Resident Killed by Semi

Posted on April 17, 2008
Wichita, KA: It was a Tuesday morning, around 8:30 a.m.. Brad Begley was waiting outside an office situated along U.S. Interstate highway 54, between Wichita and Augusta. Suddenly, the noise of the early morning commuter rush was broken by the sound of a truck horn blaring...

The Reality of Reality TV: Alleged "Sweatshop Conditions"

Posted on April 17, 2008
Hollywood, CA: The reality for many workers on US Reality TV shows is long hours, and little or no overtime pay -- a contravention of California overtime statutes. It is for this reason that the Writers Guild of America (WGA) is attempting to organize workers, to help them get a better deal from their employers.

Forensic psychiatrists can help increase Class Action Damage Awards

Posted on April 17, 2008
Forensic psychiatrists/psychologists can help increase damages awards in class-action and mass tort cases.

DirecTV Cancellation Fee: Customer Complaints Mount

Posted on April 16, 2008
Los Angeles, CA: It's one thing for a company to protect its cash flow. In fact, ensuring adequate cash flow is a prerequisite to running a viable business. However, ensuring that cash flow through the alleged practice of unfair and unreasonable cancellation fees, and putting those fees on the backs of your clients and customers, has been described as unfair and unjust...

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Asbestos Whistleblower Triggers Investigation and Fines

Posted on April 16, 2008
Las Vegas, NV: Fred Frazzetta is on a mission: to bring his ex-employers to justice for knowingly exposing workers to asbestos. In the summer of 2006, Frazzetta was employed as an electrician at Harrah's Las Vegas; he blew the whistle on the resort for exposing his co-workers to asbestos in a remodeling project, and admitted doing so in an email to his boss.

From Half a Million to Uncertain Worth with Auction Rate Securities

Posted on April 16, 2008
San Bernardino, CA: On the advice of a respected broker, Lisa invested a sizeable inheritance into auction rate securities, counting on a healthy return when she was ready to cash them out. That day may never come; the $330 billion ARS market is being devalued and the bonds are increasingly hard, if not impossible, to sell.

Attorney Terry J. Chapko on the Starbucks Class Action

Posted on April 16, 2008
Coronado, CA: During our interviews with Laura Ho and Shannon Liss-Riordan, Terry Chapko's name came up as one of the attorneys who brought the burgeoning Starbucks class action to their attention. LawyersandSettlements caught up with him in his one-person shop in this suburb of San Diego where he's practiced employment law on the plaintiff's side since 2004.

Did Avandia Kill A 38-Year Old Mother of Two?

Posted on April 16, 2008
Arlington, TN: One November morning in 2007 Wendy, a 38-year old mother of two, was found dead from a heart attack. She was a diabetic, and had been taking Avandia for several months. Her mother and her fianc� both suspect, given what they now know about Avandia, that Wendy's death could have been prevented.

Avandia Maker Cited by the FDA

Posted on April 15, 2008
Washington, DC: In what appears to be an epidemic amongst drug manufacturers, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has taken Avandia maker GlaxoSmithKline to task for withholding information about the drug long suspected of harboring a higher risk of heart attack than patients on other diabetes drugs.

Heparin Counterfeit Seven Times Cheaper Than the Real Thing

Posted on April 15, 2008
Washington, DC: Patients with recently-implanted heart stents, vascular stents or grafts are wondering if they are going to be affected by the tainted heparin scare, after the US Food and Drug Administration last week alerted medical device manufacturers that they should review their sources of heparin...

Self-Employed Programmer Forced to Make Concessions

Posted on April 15, 2008
Pleasanton, CA: Lindsey is a self-employed programmer who found his fee suddenly in jeopardy although he had completed more than half the job. The small company that employed him underestimated the hours needed and refused payment for what they perceived as over their budget and over time.

Diagnosis: Primary Pulmonary Hypertension (PPH)

Posted on April 15, 2008
Sacramento, CA: In 2006, Margaret was prescribed phentermine (the "phen" in Fen Phen) to lose weight and it worked�she lost about 90 lbs. But after taking the diet drug for about one year, she wound up in the hospital. "My whole body was swollen, I had severe chest pains and I had trouble breathing," she says...

Chantix Not for Everyone

Posted on April 15, 2008
New York, NY: Angela was prescribed a six-month supply of Chantix in January of this year. By her second pack, "I would look at a knife and the thought was there�I just wanted to get my life over with," she says.

First Unum: Another Bad Faith Practice

Posted on April 15, 2008
Lansing, MI: Never mind your physician's diagnosis and when you can return to work. First Unum (formerly Unum Provident) has their own team of doctors to determine if you qualify for disability. And according to one policy holder, the insurance company also has employment counselors who decide which career you are better suited to�should you become disabled and unable to work in your present job.

Tracking Down a Cure for Mesothelioma

Posted on April 01, 2008
Santa Barbara, CA: LawyersandSettlements interviewed Chris Hahn, Executive Director of the Mesothelioma Applied Research Foundation. Based in Santa Barbara, California, the Meso Foundation has the distinction of being the only US or international organization that focuses exclusively on research for improving mesothelioma...

Bextra: The Kind of Pain That Never Leaves You

Posted on April 01, 2008
San Francisco, CA: Joann Simmons is a name on a court docket now�just two words in a legal document. But those two words represent someone's life partner, who is no longer here. And the life partner left behind, James Simmons, has filed a wrongful death suit against the makers of Bextra.

Attorney Laura L. Ho on a Large-scale California Class Action

Posted on April 01, 2008
Oakland, CA: Laura L. Ho is a partner in Goldstein, Demchak, Baller, Borgen and Dardarian (GDBBD), a California firm practicing in a broad range of public interest class actions. A 1991 graduate of the University of Washington, Ho received a JD from the Yale University School of Law in 1994...

Twenty-One Arrested in Securities Fraud Ring

Posted on April 01, 2008
Trenton, NJ: Twenty-one people have been arrested because of their connection to a securities fraud ring that netted approximately $50 million by scamming investors. The New Jersey State Attorney General Anne Milgram said the scheme was operating from Miami, Florida and Sao Paulo Brazil and was using the securities market in New Jersey to conduct their scheme.

My Mother Could Have Died

Posted on April 01, 2008
North Myrtle Beach, SC: Gail's mother has been in chronic pain for eight years. She relied on the duragesic pain patch to help her cope �but this winter it nearly killed her.

A Close Call for Botox User

Posted on April 01, 2008
Hanford, CA: Susan was prescribed Botox injections to stop drooling. It has worked so far, but not without complications that have proved fatal to others. Unknown to her, the symptoms she took in stride were, in fact, early signs of poisoning by the botulinum toxin that constitutes Botox...

Ohio Crashes to Cost State $2.2 million

Posted on April 01, 2008
Columbus, OH: In 2006, a fiery collision killed two state troopers and a woman near Gallipolis Ohio and now the state is looking to pay no less than $1 million in a wrongful-death lawsuit brought against the state.

The Brualdi Law Firm P.C. Announces Class Action Lawsuit

Posted on March 31, 2008
New York, NY: The Brualdi Law Firm P.C. announces that a class action lawsuit has been commenced in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California on behalf of purchasers of the common stock of The PMI Group, Inc. (NYSE:PMI) between November 2, 2006 and March 3, 2008, inclusive (the "Class Period").

Wrongful Death Suit Granted Retrial

Posted on March 31, 2008
Rootstown, OH: A quest to shoplift from a Giant Eagle grocery store turned tragic for a 31-year-old man when he was caught and restrained outside of the grocery store by two Giant Eagle employees.

Asbestos Fall-Out after 9/11

Posted on March 31, 2008
San Diego, CA: Elliot R. moved to New York when he landed a job at the World Trade Center. Ten days later it came down and Elliot volunteered on the cleanup crew. "The air quality was overwhelming, the amount of particulate matter in the air was palpable," he says, "and a lot of asbestos was in the air...

Planned Parenthood Sued for Alleged Financial Fraud

Posted on March 31, 2008
Los Angeles, CA: A former Planned Parenthood executive is alleging that the Los Angeles organization defrauded taxpayers out of approximately $180 million. The former executive, Victor Gonzalez, served as Planned Parenthood's Los Angeles affiliate vice president for finance and administration until he tried to make his superiors aware of illegalities that he says he had discovered...

Employee for Non-profit Files $2 Million Sexual Harassment Suit

Posted on March 31, 2008
Queens, NY: A woman filed a $2 million sexual harassment suit on March 20 against her employer that alleges she was touched inappropriately by her supervisor and that he made her work life miserable for her after she had accused him of the action.

Mutual Funds and ERISA: Watch for the Signs of Greed

Posted on March 31, 2008
Manhattan, NY: The recent settlement in the New York Life Insurance Co. (NYL) with regard to the alleged mismanagement of pension funds, aptly illustrates what can sometimes happen when investors aren't paying strict attention.

Stockbroker Arbitration: Clients Try to Reclaim Lost Investments

Posted on March 31, 2008
Dallas, TX: Tom W. says that his foreign exchange trader lost approximately $75,000 in one day. Now, Tom has filed a lawsuit against the trader alleging that the trader's negligence caused huge losses to his account. Many other investors are also filing lawsuits or filing for stockbroker arbitration, alleging that their investment advisors acted inappropriately when dealing with their accounts.

Could New Wyeth Layoffs Spell Trouble for Wyeth 401k Members?

Posted on March 31, 2008
Trenton, NJ: A new round of job cuts at Wyeth Pharmaceuticals announced yesterday adds further impetus for current, or former employees of Wyeth holding retirement funds in a Wyeth Savings Plan or Wyeth Union Savings Plan to investigate the possibility of an ERISA breach.

The Trasylol Tragedy: No Reprisals for Bayer

Posted on March 31, 2008
Sarasota, FL: If there is a lesson that could be taken from the Trasylol tragedy, it might be that drug makers who hide, avoid, or mistakenly withhold important safety data from public, or even medical consumption would face certain censure in some fashion as an inducement not to ever allow such an oversight to happen again.

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