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Suit Says Police Robbed Travelers

Posted on March 11, 2009
Attorneys representing scores of people who claim to have been wrongly stripped of money and property by police in a small Texas town (Tehama) have filed a class-action lawsuit challenging a controversial state asset-forfeiture law. According to accounts, Tehana police officers have used the law to stop minority motorists and threaten them with jail in [...

Applied Behavior Therapy Coverage

Posted on March 10, 2009
Autism patients in California are dealt insurance setback as The Department of Managed Health Care declines to require carriers to pay for applied behavior analysis, an expensive therapy that insurers contend is an educational service, not medicine. California regulators said Monday that insurers must provide speech, occupational and physical therapies to their autistic members but rejected [...

U.S. high court to hear suit over Mutual Fund fees

Posted on March 10, 2009
The justices’ decision could make it easier for fund investors to challenge the levies. Critics have long complained that mutual fund fees are too high, wrongfully enriching Wall Street at the expense of ordinary Americans. On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court said it would take on the contentious issue and the justices’ decision could make it [...

FDA: Drug Patches Pose Burn Risk in MRIs

Posted on March 09, 2009
MRI scans could pose a safety threat to patients who use nicotine or other drug delivering patches, officials from the Food and Drug Administration warned last week. According to the FDA, tiny metal fragments in many of the patches can become heated by the devices, creating a risk for burns...

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Consumers Could Face Hurdles Collecting From Peanut Corp.

Posted on March 09, 2009
The peanut processor linked to a nationwide salmonella outbreak that has sickened hundreds may not have sufficient assets to cover claims filed by those injured by its products. According to a recent bankruptcy filing, Peanut Corp. of America will not use more than $7 million in assets to cover consumer lawsuits but instead will use [...

Jury Awards Damages in Oral Surgery Death

Posted on March 09, 2009
A New Jersey jury has ordered an oral surgeon to pay $11 million to the family of man who suffocated following surgery to remove his wisdom teeth. In the lawsuit, the family claimed that surgeon George Flugrad and dentist John Madaris were negligent in the 2005 death of 21-year-old Francis Keller...

Family Files Lawsuit Over Home Explosion

Posted on March 09, 2009
The family of a Pennsylvania man who was killed in a home explosion last year has filed a lawsuit accusing a gas company, plumber and contractor of negligence in the blast. In the lawsuit, the family claims that workers from Higgins Plumbing and W.S...

Lawmakers Push Forward with Medical Device Bill

Posted on March 09, 2009
Democratic lawmakers last week reintroduced legislation that aims to overturn a Supreme Court decision that insulated medical device makers from lawsuits. The bill, the Medical Device Safety Act, comes on the heels of a Supreme Court case that rejected similar legal protection for pharmaceutical companies...

Talk isn?t cheap?

Posted on March 08, 2009
For cellphone users, not talking is costly too as a study shows many customers pay for much more time than they use If you’re like most cellphone users, you probably think you’re paying less than 10 cents per minute for calls. Think again...