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Best Buy Accused of Overcharging
Posted by: Sam Nicholson
May 31, 2007
HARTFORD, Conn. -- Connecticut's attorney general announced a lawsuit Thursday against Best Buy Co. Inc., accusing the nation's largest consumer electronics retailer of deceiving customers with in-store computer kiosks and overcharging them.
Physicians Argue Proposed Federal Settlement Could Kill Separate Case Against Blue Cross
Posted by: Harry Revell
May 24, 2007
Florida emergency physicians will argue in Miami federal court today that a proposed $180 million Blue Cross and Blue Shield settlement in a physician-brought class action case should not block their separate Palm Beach Circuit Court class action based on a state reimbursement law.
Study Cites Safety Questions About Diabetes Drug
Posted by: Sam Nicholson
May 24, 2007
An article released today by The New England Journal of Medicine raised safety questions about the widely-used diabetes pill Avandia. An analysis of clinical trials concluded that the drug might significantly increase the risk of heart attacks.
Bilking the Elderly, With a Corporate Assist
Posted by: Sam Nicholson
May 22, 2007
The thieves operated from small offices in Toronto and hangar-size rooms in India. Every night, working from lists of names and phone numbers, they called World War II veterans, retired schoolteachers and thousands of other elderly Americans and posed as government and insurance workers updating their files.
GE recalls 2.5M dishwashers over wiring
Posted by: Sam Nicholson
May 22, 2007
General Electric recalled 2.5 million fire-prone dishwashers Wednesday, the latest in a string of electrical problems with dishwashers and one that could lead to new industry standards.
Virginia Law Firm Files $10 Million Action Against C.B. Fleet Company
Posted by: Sam Nicholson
May 22, 2007
Lawsuit Expected to Be First of Thousands in Defective Product Case LYNCHBURG, Va., May 16 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A Norfolk, Virginia law firm has filed a $10 million lawsuit against Lynchburg-based C.B. Fleet Company on behalf of a Texas woman who suffered acute renal failure and other side effects after the use of Fleet Phospho-soda prior to a medical procedure. While there have been hundreds of reports of patients damaged by the product, this legal action is believed to be the first filed against the large manufacturer of health, medical and pharmaceutical products.
Discriminating Lenders, or Just Discrimination?
Posted by: Sam Nicholson
May 22, 2007
When mortgage lenders refuse to write loans on central-city rowhouses, does that violate federal fair-housing rules?
Lawsuits claim coin companies bilked customers out of millions
Posted by: Sam Nicholson
May 17, 2007
Victims said gold coins they bought were overvalued.
NovaStar sued, accused of redlining minorities
Posted by: Sam Nicholson
May 15, 2007
NEW YORK, May 9 (Reuters) - NovaStar Financial Inc., a subprime mortgage lender that is seeking a buyer, was accused in a federal lawsuit of denying mortgages to African-Americans, Native Americans and the disabled, court papers show.
Methods Used by Insurers Are Questioned
Posted by: Sam Nicholson
May 08, 2007
WASHINGTON, May 6 — Insurance companies have used improper hard-sell tactics to persuade Medicare recipients to sign up for private health plans that cost the government far more than the traditional Medicare program, federal and state officials and consumer advocates say.
Judge OKs class-action suit against Carrier over furnaces
Posted by: Sam Nicholson
May 08, 2007
A federal court judge in Tacoma on Monday certified a class-action lawsuit allowing Washington consumers to sue Carrier Corp. over its residential furnaces.
Deal to Give $85.8M to NJ Customers
Posted by: Sam Nicholson
May 03, 2007
NEWARK, N.J. — About 100,000 New Jersey customers of Rent-A-Center Inc. would each get an average of $800 for claims they were charged in illegal interest, under a proposed settlement announced Tuesday by the company and lawyers for the customers.
Malpractice Juries Tend to Side More With Doctors, Researcher Finds
Posted by: Sam Nicholson
May 01, 2007
Popular belief, at least in medical communities, holds that juries in medical malpractice cases tend to side with plaintiffs, even where the case against a doctor is a weak one. But jurors actually tend to believe doctors more than they do plaintiffs, says a law professor who examined numerous data on medical malpractice litigation, including cases in New Jersey.
Wal-Mart sued over ammunition sale in Las Cruces
Posted by: Sam Nicholson
May 01, 2007
LAS CRUCES, N.M. (AP) - A lawsuit alleges Wal-Mart sold ammunition to an unstable man accused of fatally shooting another man six hours later in Las Cruces.
FDA Rejects Merck's Vioxx Successor
Posted by: Sam Nicholson
May 01, 2007
TRENTON, N.J. - The Food and Drug Administration rejected Merck & Co.'s request to market a successor to its withdrawn arthritis drug Vioxx in the United States, the drugmaker said Friday.
Major Anti-Spam Lawsuit Filed in Virginia
Posted by: Sam Nicholson
May 01, 2007
A company representing Internet users in more than 100 countries today filed a lawsuit in Virginia seeking the identity of individuals responsible for harvesting millions of e-mail addresses on behalf of spammers.
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