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Since the 1980s, many have turned to medications such as Prozac to combat their depression. However, those who are pregnant or attempting to get pregnant need to think again before taking these drugs. In fact, Prozac, when taken during pregnancy, has resulted in many birth defects, some of which include […]
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On August 10, 2011, Judge John R. Tunheim, District Court Judge in Minneapolis, held a Joint Status Conference for the coordinated mass torts proceeding involving the drug Levaquin. Currently, there are 1,314 individual lawsuits that have been transferred to MDL No. 1943 for pre-trial proceedings. Judge Tunheim has completed two […]
Please just take a moment to concentrate. Close your eyes and try to imagine that you are lying back in a bed. This bed has not had the bed clothes changed for a while and you are currently laying in feces and urine because you are not able to get […]
If you and I enter into a contract and one of us believes the other has defaulted under the contract, the party believing they have been wronged can file a lawsuit and ask the Court for a solution to their cause(s) of action. That is a right guaranteed in the […]
Legislation to Permit Insurance Companies to Act in Bad Faith What is “bad faith”? An insurance company has an obligation to deal fairly with their policyholders – they must deal in good faith. If an insurance company acts in its own best interests and not in its insured’s best interests, […]
What if you were prescribed a medicine that actually made your already difficult illness worse? That is precisely what has happened to hundreds of patients suffering from osteoporosis, osteopenia, and other bone loss conditions. Patients who took a class of drug known as “bisphosphonates” have suffered severe bone fractures, such […]
Imagine you have lost your sense of smell. Imagine that favorite smell, the smell of clean sheets, just isn’t there anymore. Imagine you cannot taste anything. Imagine your once favorite dish just tastes…well, wrong. That is just a little of what many users of Zicam will endure for the rest […]
Are 1993 – 2004 model years of Jeep Grand Cherokees killing people? Is Chrysler’s handling of the potential problem with the Jeep Grand Cherokee eerily reminiscent of Ford’s Pinto? Did Chrysler also consult the “bean counters” to determine what a recall would cost them as that relates to the total […]
The Yamaha Rhino UTV litigation continues to progress in federal and state courts. Currently, there are nearly 300 individual lawsuits pending in the federal MDL court in Kentucky as well as approximately 130 cases filed in consolidated state court proceedings in Georgia and 174 cases in California. All of the […]
Multidistrict litigation proceedings against Matrixx Initiatives, Inc., the manufacturer of the over-the-counter cold product Zicam, are heating up. This is a process known as multidistrict litigation (or an MDL) and is often utilized in mass tort cases where a number of claimants have been injured in a similar fashion by […]
