Samsung’s recent introduction of the Galaxy Note 7, their answer to the popular iPhone, has been making news, but not for the reason the company had hoped. Shortly after the phones hit the market, reports surfaced of them catching fire while charging. Though early on...
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IVC Filter Company Slammed With Personal Injury Lawsuit
New Jersey based company C.R. Bard Inc. is facing nationwide litigation including an estimated 400 cases accusing it of marketing a defective product. The IVC Filter MDL is an intra-veinous filter designed to catch blood clots in patients who can’t take blood thinning...
Netflix Sued Over Not Paying Professional Binge Watchers
An army of professional binge-watchers, part of a secret Netflix operation called “Project Beetlejuice,” are suing the subscription-based video streaming company for compensation. The lawsuits claim that Netflix should have paid their professional binge-watchers as...
Volkswagen Settles Emissions Case for $15.3 Billion
Volkswagen has agreed to pay out $15.3 billion in settlements to consumers following government allegations that the company cheated on emissions tests. Lawyers have been calling the lawsuit one of the largest auto-related class action settlements in U.S. history. Up...
A Conspiracy of Silence—Physician Sexual Misconduct
Public Citizen, a Washington D.C.-based consumer advocacy rights group, released a study earlier this year that focused on sexual misconduct by physicians. The data used in the study was taken from reports to the National Practitioner Databank for the period...
How to Avoid Becoming a Victim of Physician Sexual Misconduct
The vast majority of the more than 900,000 licensed medical doctors in the United States are ethical, moral and conscientious people who care deeply about their patients’ health and welfare. Unfortunately, there are practicing physicians who take advantage of their...
More than Two Dozen Universal Health Services Hospitals Under Investigation
More than two dozen Universal Health Services hospitals throughout the country are under federal criminal or civil investigation for fraud and other abuses, according to UHS Behind Closed Doors, a project of the Service Employees International Union. Universal Health...
Delayed Breast Cancer Diagnosis Leads to Mastectomies, Multiple Reconstructive Surgeries and Chemotherapy; Settled for $325,000
A 50-year-old woman’s breast cancer was not timely diagnosed by her doctor or the radiologist who performed her mammogram. The delay in diagnosis led to the woman having to undergo a double mastectomy, reconstructive surgeries and chemotherapy. The woman had visited...
Man Dies From Undiagnosed Heart Disease; Arbitration award of $1,100,000
A 52-year-old man died from a heart attack at work after doctors and a cardiac nurse failed to recognize his heart disease. An autopsy following the man’s death revealed a 90-95 percent blockage in the left anterior descending artery. Fourteen days before he died,...
Man Dies from Colon Cancer Because Doctors Did Not Follow Up on Removing Polyp; Settled for $250,000
A 77-year-old man died from colon cancer because doctors failed to remove a large precancerous polyp. The polyp was a type known to have a higher risk of becoming malignant, but neither the man nor his family were told about the risk. When the man, then 72-years-old,...