Consumer Law

Undetected Sewage Spill
Prichard Water Works and Sewer Board spends $17 million on upgrades and testing.

Technician Whistleblower
Jury orders DuPont Chambers Works to pay $1.224 million settlement to employee.

City of Seymour, CT
$950,000 wrongful death settlement awarded after a police detective let a drunken man drive.

Drive Through Discrimination
Jack-in-the Box pays undisclosed racial discrimination settlement to two customers.

Cipro
The FDA is seeking to add black box warnings of the risk of tendon rupture associated with Cipro and Levaquin. The ruptures can involve Achilles tendon, shoulder, hand, bicep or thumb tendons, and is especially increased in patients older than 60, or people who have received kidney, heart or lung transplants, as well as people on steroid therapy...