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Vioxx Dangers Known Prior To Withdrawal From Market , Reports Say

Posted on December 04, 2009
The Palm Beach Post reports the dangers of the once popular drug Vioxx were known years before the drug was withdrawn from the market in 2004. The dangers included increased risk for heart attack, stroke and death and were known as early as 2000 -- a year after the drug was put on the market, the article states...

AstraZeneca Faces Lawsuits Over Drug Seroquel

Posted on November 25, 2009
AstraZeneca, the U.K.?s second-largest drug maker, faces over 14,000 lawsuits claiming its antipsychotic drug Seroquel causes diabetes. A U.S. District Judge said she will recommend sending all the cases back to their home courts for trial. AstraZeneca wanted the judge to send only 60 cases back to their home courts for trial as test cases in order not to needlessly burden other judges across the country...

Philip Morris Ordered To Pay $300 Million To Former Smoker

Posted on November 23, 2009
The $300 million awarded to an ex-smoker who needs a lung transplant would be the nation's largest award to an individual suing a tobacco company, if the award survives appeal, reports the New York Times. The award could also encourage thousands of other smokers to file suit in Florida since a supreme court ruling a few years ago made it easier to pursue the suits there than in other states...

$6.5 Million Awarded To Boy Injured By Ford Seatbelt

Posted on November 20, 2009
A 14-year-old boy who was left paralyzed below the waist from a 2002 automobile wreck has been awarded $6.5 million by a Memphis jury, reports The Commercial Appeal. The boy, who was 6 years old at the time of the accident, was in the back seat of his grandfather's 1995 Mercury restrained by an adult seatbelt...

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Louisiana Woman Awarded $45,000 In Sexual Harassment Lawsuit

Posted on November 18, 2009
A former Police Department communications supervisor from Zachary has been awarded $45,000 from a federal court jury in her sexual harassment lawsuit against the former Assistant Police Chief. According to her testimony, the assistant chief asked her to have a relationship with him in December 2005 and again in July 2006...

Homeless Man Awarded $41,000 In Fraternity Shooting

Posted on November 09, 2009
A homeless man who was shot with a .22 caliber rifle by an Oregon State University fraternity member has been awarded over $6,000 for medical expenses and $35,000 in non-economic damages, totaling over $40,000. The jury found both the Association of Alpha Beta Chapter of Alpha Gamma Rho (AGR) and a former member responsible for the 2006 shooting...

Pfizer To Pay $75 Million To Woman Who Developed Cancer After Taking Prempro

Posted on November 06, 2009
A Philadelphia jury has awarded $75 million in punitive damages to an Illinois woman who developed cancer after taking one of Pfizer's menopause drugs. The punitive award is about 20 times greater than the $3.7 million awarded in actual damages. More than 6 million women have taken Prempro, a hormone replacement drug used to treat symptoms such as hot flashes, night sweats and mood swings during menopause...

$8.5 Million Awarded SUV Rollover Lawsuit

Posted on November 03, 2009
The Gadsden (Alabama) Times reported that an Etowah County Circuit Court jury has awarded $8.5 million to a woman injured in a 2003 Mercury Mountaineer rollover. Two people were killed in the accident and two were injured, including Latoya Duckett. Ms...

Jury Awards $893,684 Over Birth Injury

Posted on October 27, 2009
The Janesville (WI) Gazette reports $893,684 has been awarded to parents of a baby boy who suffered permanent injury to his shoulder during his birth in 2001. The parents sued Janesville's Mercy Hospital, Mercy Women's Health Center, Mercy Clinic West and two doctors, claiming they were negligent in the way they handled the mother's labor and the birth of her son...

Radiation Overdose Leads To Medical Malpractice Lawsuit

Posted on October 23, 2009
A patient who received an overdose of radiation during a CT scan at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center has filed a lawsuit against the hospital and General Electric Healthcare, maker of the scanner. The lawsuit claims negligence on the part of the hospital and the manufacturer in regards to performing the scans...

$49 Million Awarded In California Personal Injury Lawsuit

Posted on October 06, 2009
One of the country's largest personal injury verdicts was awarded to a former college student who is permanently brain damaged after a 2007 automobile accident, reports the Mercury News. The Santa Clara jury found two truckers and state transportation officials at fault in the accident...

$3.7 Million Awarded To Family After Farm Worker's Death

Posted on October 06, 2009
The Green Bay Press Gazette reports a Brown County, Wisconsin jury has awarded the family of a farm worker $3.7 million in their medical malpractice lawsuit. The worker died after contracting a fungal infection called blastomycosis. On two separate occasions in December of 2003 the man sought medical treatment at the Bellin Family Medical Facility...

$500,000 Awarded in Personal Injury Assault Case

Posted on September 28, 2009
The Observer-Dispatch of Utica, N.Y. reports a 67-year-old Vietnam War veteran has been awarded $350,000 as a result being beaten by a Utica police officer. Once the attorney fees are added to the earlier jury award of $60,000 for pain and suffering, the total amount would be $500,000...

Family of University of Washington Scientist Files Wrongful Death Lawsuit

Posted on September 25, 2009
The family of a 39-year-old scientist at the University of Washington has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the driver of the vehicle that struck and killed him on February 4, 2009, reports the Ballard News-Tribune. Kevin Black was struck by a Ford E250 van as he was bicycling to work...

Wrongful Death Lawsuit Filed in Texas I-35 Truck Accident Deaths

Posted on September 25, 2009
The sole survivor of an SUV struck by an 18-wheeler in a construction area of Texas I-35 has filed a wrongful death lawsuit. Named in the suit are her 13-year-old son and her 63-year-old father who both died in the accident which occurred over the 4th of July weekend...

Failure to Advise Woman of Mammogram Results in $3 Million Settlement

Posted on September 14, 2009
The family of a 47-year-old woman has accepted a $3 million settlement against University Diagnostic Medical Imaging and two Bronx doctors for not notifying her of her mammogram results. Her mammograms showed possible breast cancer. The technician, who suspected breast cancer during the woman?s routine mammograms in 2001 and 2002, recommended an MRI and sent the results to her doctor, Dr...

Cedars-Sinai To Pay $7.3 Million In Negligence Lawsuit

Posted on September 09, 2009
A $7.3 million award has been returned by a Los Angeles jury in a lawsuit alleging Cedars-Sinai Medical Center was negligent, reports the Enquirer-Herald. The lawsuit was filed in 2005 by the parents of a baby who was misdiagnosed by doctors at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center...

$3.5 Million Awarded in Texas Cancer Misdiagnosis

Posted on September 02, 2009
The Dallas Morning News reports one of the largest awards in Denton County, since tort law reform of 2003, has been awarded to the family of a woman who died from misdiagnosed cancer in 2004. The $3.5 million is expected to be reduced to $1.5 million due to civil law and will be divided between her husband, her two children, and her father...

Permanently Injured Teen Receives $30 Million Award

Posted on August 31, 2009
A Tennessee jury has awarded $30 million to a 19-year-old who has permanent brain damage as a result of a traffic accident three years ago, reports The Commercial Appeal of Memphis. In 2006, a gravel truck ran into the side of the teen's truck, killing his passenger and leaving him in a coma for eight months...

$5.3 Million Awarded in Smoker's Death

Posted on August 17, 2009
The Miami Herald reports a Broward County jury awarded a 92-year-old man over $5.3 million in his wrongful death lawsuit against Philip Morris, the cigarette maker. The man's wife died in 1996 at the age of 63 from lung cancer after smoking two packs of Marlboros a day since she was 16-years-old...

Maryland Jury Awards $1.85M in Newborn's Wrongful Death

Posted on August 10, 2009
The Frederick News Post reports a Montgomery County Circuit jury has given a couple a $1.8 million award in the death of their newborn son. When the baby was born on July 5, 2005, the doctor chose to use vacuum extraction for the delivery because the baby's head was wedged in the birth canal...

Yamaha's Rhino Investigated by CBS News

Posted on August 06, 2009
According to an exclusive CBS News investigation, there have been 59 deaths and hundreds of injuries linked to Yamaha's off-road vehicle, the Rhino. CBS reports that before the Rhino was available for sale, it was tested on trails in Kentucky in July 2002...

$3.5 Million Awarded in Wrongful Death Logging Truck Accident

Posted on July 31, 2009
A Chilton County, Alabama jury has awarded $3.5 million to the family of a man killed when the van he was driving was crushed between two logging trucks, reports the Montgomery Advertiser. Ken Gorum Trucking and Gary Fruge, the driver of the logging truck, were held responsible for the accident and have been ordered to pay the award...

Parents Sue Day Care Center in Child's Death

Posted on July 26, 2009
According to the Philadelphia Daily News, the parents of a 2-year-old boy will sue Fairy Tales Daycare and its owners in the boy's death. On July 1, 2009, the child died after being left in the back seat of a locked van with the windows rolled up and temperatures exceeding 80 degrees...

Technician Accused of Spreading Hepatitis C in Three States

Posted on July 20, 2009
Colorado, Texas, and now New York are advising patients to get tested for hepatitis C while health officials investigate a technician addicted to pain killers, reports the Associated Press. Northern Westchester Hospital in Mount Kisco has begun to notify 2,800 patients of their possible exposure to Hepatitis C because of a surgical technician?s drug dependency...

Woman Awarded $556K for Injuries in Truck-Car Accident

Posted on July 08, 2009
Mississippi?s Starkville Daily News reports the county?s largest verdict of its kind since 1992 has been awarded to a woman for her injuries in a 2004 accident. The jury awarded a woman $566,800 in damages in her lawsuit against Star Transportation Inc...

'Black Box' Warning ordered for Anti-Smoking Drugs, Chantix and Zyban

Posted on July 02, 2009
The FDA has ordered Pfizer Inc., maker of Chantix, to add the strong ?black box? warnings - the agency?s most urgent ? to this anti-smoking drug reports Forbes.com. The FDA says patients taking Chantix should be watched for serious mental health problems including suicide...

Officials Say Cold Remedy Zicam Can Damage Sense Of Smell

Posted on June 17, 2009
Federal officials are warning consumers to stop using Zicam, a popular cold remedy. The reason: it could damage or destroy users' sense of smell. The Food and Drug Administration has received 130 reports of people who lost their sense of smell after using Zicam nasal products, which include Zicam Cold Remedy and Zicam Cold Remedy Swabs...

$225,000 Paid In Taser Wrongful Death Lawsuit

Posted on June 04, 2009
The Coloradoan reports Larimer County commissioners have agreed to pay $225,000 to the estate of a man who died after being tasered repeatedly by sheriff?s deputies. The man died October 25, 2005, almost three weeks after his heart stopped while being arrested by deputies...

Two Firms Sued for Alleged Fraud in Debt Settlement

Posted on May 28, 2009
Two large debt settlement companies in New York have been sued by the state Attorney General for allegedly engaging in fraudulent and deceptive business practices and false advertising. Among the problems, according to NY Attorney General Andrew M. Cuomo: one company enrolled 18,000 customers in New York State during the past five years and earned $17 million in fees but settled debts in only 2,000 of those cases...

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