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By Edward ("Ted") Bills

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Last Entry: January 08, 2020 at 18:47:54

State Settles Sexual Harassment Suit

Posted on January 26, 2009
Washington state will pay $800,000 to resolve a lawsuit brought by three women who claimed they were victims of sexual harassment while working at the state?s Department of Labor and Industries. According to the lawsuit, a coworker and supervisor repeatedly harassed and intimidated the women and department management refused to intervene...

Workers Exposed to Chemicals Struggling for Benefits

Posted on January 26, 2009
A 2008 study suggesting a link between the industrial chemical trichloroethylene, also called TCE, and Parkinson?s disease might have been enough for 53-year-old Ed Abney to finally receive worker?s compensation benefits. However, it was not. Abney?s case highlights a widening conflict between science and law that prevents many workers from receiving payments for workplace-related injuries.

Condo Fire Sparks Wrongful Death Lawsuit

Posted on January 26, 2009
A deadly 2008 condominium fire near Seven Springs Mountain Resort was the result of negligence by the condo’s owner, the condo association, the manufacturer of the fireplace there, a chimney cleaning company and others, a wrongful death lawsuit claims...

Supreme Court Issues Worker Retaliation Ruling

Posted on January 26, 2009
Employees who cooperate with internal investigations of workplace discrimination are protected by the anti-retaliation provision of Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, the Supreme Court decided on Monday. In a unanimous ruling, the justices found that the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals had erred in finding that Title VII protection only extended to [...

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Lawsuit claims hospital overcharged patients

Posted on January 23, 2009
The Minnesota Attorney General has filed a lawsuit against Allina Hospital & Clinics accusing the healthcare group of charging excessive interest to patients with unpaid medical bills. According to a statement from the attorney general Allina charged some patients interest up to 18 percent...

Suit Charges Law School with Discrimination

Posted on January 23, 2009
A woman who was denied positions at the University of Iowa law school has filed a lawsuit claiming she was not hired because of her political affiliations. According to the lawsuit, faculty who vote on hiring disqualified the plaintiff because of her conservative views and one faculty member advised her to conceal her affiliation with [...

KBR Negligent in Soldier?s Death, Report Finds

Posted on January 23, 2009
Military contractor KBR Inc. was responsible for the negligent homicide of a soldier killed by electrocution while serving in Iraq, an Army investigation has determined. Staff Sgt. Ryan Maseth died of cardiac arrest in 2008 when he was electrocuted while taking a shower in his Baghdad barracks...

Regulators Expand Warnings on Peanuts

Posted on January 22, 2009
Federal officials have warned consumers of dangers associated with more than 125 products recalled as part of a nationwide salmonella-and-peanuts investigation. The Food and Drug Administration said products affected by the recall range from ice cream to pet foods...

Justices Refuse to Hear Exorcism Lawsuit

Posted on January 22, 2009
The U.S. Supreme Court has refused to hear an appeal of a Texas high court decision involving the forced exorcism of a teenager. In the original lawsuit, Laura Schubert Pearson accused the Pleasant Glade Assembly of God in Colleyville of assault and false imprisonment in connection with the exorcism...

Insurer to Drop Controversial Defense Tactic

Posted on January 22, 2009
Great American Insurance Company has announced that it would not pursue a controversial legal defense in a case stemming from a 2007 Houston office fire. Great American had previously argued that it should not be held liable because of a pollution exclusion in its policy...

Study: Some Childhood MRSA Infections on the Rise

Posted on January 21, 2009
An increasingly high number of children are contracting ear, nose and throat infections caused by the drug-resistant MRSA, or methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, according to a study released Monday. In the study, published in the Archives of Otolaryngology, researchers found that the number of children suffering from staph-related head and neck infections more than doubled from [...

Worry Surrounds Drugs Produced Abroad

Posted on January 21, 2009
Experts and lawmakers are crying foul on the volume of antibiotic ingredients currently produced abroad. According to Ohio Senator Sherrod Brown, the amount of critical ingredients for most antibiotics produced in countries such as China and India leaves the nation at risk for tainted or contaminated medicines, and possibly bioterrorism...

Couple Files Lawsuit Over Tainted Peanut Butter

Posted on January 21, 2009
A brand of peanut butter crackers recalled by Kellogg Co. were to blame for sickening a Vermont child late last year, a lawsuit filed Tuesday claims. According to the lawsuit, filed on behalf of Gabrielle and Daryl Meunier, the couple?s 7-year-old son contracted salmonella poisoning after eating Keebler Cheese & Peanut Butter Sandwich crackers...

Insurers Move to Drop Capital Reserves

Posted on January 21, 2009
The insurance industry is asking government regulators to lower the amount of money life insurance companies must hold in reserve to cover policyholders. The American Council of Life Insurers, an industry group, says that such concessions are necessary to support the financial outlook of the industry during the current economic crisis...

Airline Attendant Not Sexy Enough for Flight

Posted on January 20, 2009
Karin Keegan is suing JetBlue Airways and Delta Air Lines after she was prevented from boarding a JetBlue flight to go to a job assignment because the male JetBlue employee said her outfit wasn?t sexy enough. When she complained to officials, they did not intervene, even after other attendants with less seniority were allowed to [...

Unpaid Parking Tickets Lead to Man?s Death

Posted on January 20, 2009
A man battling cancer died after police detained him for four days for driving with a license that had been suspended due to six unpaid parking tickets. In their lawsuit, his family claims that police officers denied him access to daily medication needed to keep infection and blood clots under control...

Ford Hoping to Void $3 Million Settlement Agreement

Posted on January 20, 2009
The Texas Supreme Court will hear arguments in a case where Ford Motor Co. alleges juror misconduct led the company to settle a lawsuit for $3 million. The company is seeking to void the settlement and to question jurors under oath regarding their deliberations...

Kellogg Crackers Test Positive for Salmonella

Posted on January 20, 2009
According to the FDA and Kellogg, Austin Quality Foods Toasty Crackers with Peanut Butter, which had already been recalled, tested positive for salmonella. The crackers are the first consumer product to test positive in the growing outbreak linked to peanut butter and peanut paste manufactured by Peanut Corp...

Eli Lilly close to settlement over marketing of Zyprexa.

Posted on January 16, 2009
It appears that drugmaker Eli Lilly and Co. is close to agreeing to a $1.4 billion settlement related to a government investigation into the marketing of its top seller Zyprexa, according to a New York Times report. There were documents discovered that “show Lilly downplayed the drug’s risks and marketed it for unapproved uses” and [...

Study: Many C-Sections Performed Too Early

Posted on January 08, 2009
A new study has found that about a third of newborns may be at risk for respiratory distress and other problems because an elective C-section was performed too early. According to the study, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, 36 percent of 13,258 elective repeat C-sections from 1999 to 2002 were performed sooner [...

Officials Investigating Salmonella Outbreak in 42 States

Posted on January 08, 2009
Health officials are reporting that a salmonella outbreak has sickened 388 people in 42 states. According to a spokesman at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, about 70 people have been hospitalized as a result of the outbreak. State and national health officials are working to determine the source of the outbreak but have [...

Veterans File Lawsuit Over Cold War Experiments

Posted on January 08, 2009
A group of veterans have filed a federal lawsuit against several government agencies alleging that they were unwittingly exposed to dangerous chemicals and other agents as part of Cold War-era experiments. In the lawsuit, the veterans say they were never properly informed of dangers associated with the experiments...

Nursing Home Blamed for Deadly Fall

Posted on January 08, 2009
A North Carolina nursing home may be ordered to pay as much as $50,000 in fines for safety violations that led to the death of an Alzheimer’s disease patient. According to the Charlotte Observer, the Five Oaks Manor in Concord failed to properly monitor the 87-year-old resident and failed prevent her from accessing a loading [...

Judege dismisses Medronic lawsuits

Posted on January 07, 2009
The Wall Street Journal reports, “A federal judge threw out lawsuits on behalf of thousands of patients with heart-defibrillator wires that have been shown to fracture and dispatch potentially lethal shocks, concluding that a recent Supreme Court opinion made the dismissals inevitable” because that case said “that federal law ‘pre-empts’ product-liability lawsuits under state law, [...

Regulators Expand Crib Recall

Posted on January 07, 2009
A Taiwan-based crib manufacturer and consumer safety regulators have expanded a recall of cribs tied to injuries in children. The latest recall adds about 56,000 cribs, made by Jardine Enterprises, to the 320,000 cribs recalled by the company last June...

Widow Alleges Negligence in MRSA Death

Posted on January 07, 2009
Tampa-area health care providers were to blame for the methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus-related death of a Florida man, a lawsuit filed by the man?s widow claims. According to the lawsuit, Oak Hill Hospital and other physicians responsible for the care of Ronald Carl failed to diagnose and treat the MRSA that ultimately caused the man?s death...

Judge Dismisses Medtronic Device Lawsuit

Posted on January 07, 2009
Medical device maker Medtronic Inc. announced Tuesday that a federal judge has dismissed a group of lawsuits stemming from withdrawn components in one of its devices. According to Medtronic, the judge dismissed the suits with prejudice, saying the claims were barred by federal pre-emption standards...

Lawsuit: Management Ignored Phone Use Blamed in Crash

Posted on January 07, 2009
Fellow employees of an engineer accused of causing a deadly commuter train crash say the engineer routinely used his cell phone while operating trains, according to an attorney for several of the victims. In an amended lawsuit filed Monday, attorney Edward Pfiester accused train officials of failing to enforce rules against using cell phones while [...

Airline Settles with Passenger Who Claimed Harassment

Posted on January 06, 2009
JetBlue Airways Corp. and the Transportation Security Administration have agreed to pay $240,000 to settle a lawsuit filed by a man who claimed he was discriminated against because of his ethnicity and Arabic writing on his T-shirt. According to the lawsuit, TSA and JetBlue personnel refused to let him board a flight until he [...

Court Upholds Fine Against Hospital

Posted on January 06, 2009
A Houston-area hospital must pay a $250,000 fine levied against it for withholding evidence in a wrongful death lawsuit, an appeal court has ruled. In the lawsuit the family of Jerry Carswell claims that Christus St. Catherine Hospital was negligent in his death and subsequently hid his heart following an autopsy...

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