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Created: 27 April 2009 The AP (4/27) reports, “A federal court jury in Denver has awarded $3 million to a former United Airlines employee after finding the company retaliated against her for complaining about discrimination.” The employee alleged that when she needed to take unpaid leave she was denied and when she didn’t show up to work, she was fired.…
Created: 21 April 2009 The Kansas City Star (4/21, Margolies) reports, “Two insurers and an insurance administrator have agreed to end litigation over the sale of long-term care insurance policies by entering into settlements valued at $15 million.” Hundreds of Missouri residents “who bought policies from American Heritage Life Insurance Co. and Wakely and Associates Inc.” will be affected by…
Created: 21 April 2009 Bloomberg News (4/21, O’Reilly) reports, “Wyeth, the drugmaker being acquired by Pfizer Inc., must face a lawsuit by a woman who claims her breast cancer was caused by the menopause medicine Prempro [estrogens, conjugated/medroxyprogesterone], a Texas appeals court ruled.” The court decided that “Susan Brockert’s ‘failure-to-warn’ claims aren’t preempted by federal drug-labeling regulations, overturning a district…
Created: 17 April 2009 The New York Times (4/17, A22, Robbins) reports that Gloria Aguilar was “awarded $27.5 million” by a jury “after a New York City Transit bus ran over her while it was turning a corner two blocks from her apartment in 2005.” She “had to have her leg amputated and has worn a prosthetic leg ever since.”
Created: 16 April 2009 Bloomberg News (4/16, Pearson, Fisk) reports that Bayer AG “has started settling lawsuits over its Magnevist contrast agent used in diagnostic imaging tests.” In May 2007, the Food and Drug Administration “ordered…that all five gadolinium-based agents in the US carry a black-box warning, the agency’s strictest caution.” The products are “used to highlight internal organs in…
Created: 15 April 2009 The Arizona Republic (4/15, Harris) reports, “The Arizona Corporation Commission on Tuesday ordered Citigroup Global Markets Inc. to pay a $455,128 fine after regulators say the company provided misleading information on auction-rate securities sales in Arizona.” This marks the “final step in the state’s auction-rate securities case against Citigroup, settled in August.” Citigroup “neither admitted nor…
Created: 07 April 2009 The New York Times (4/7, B1, Meier) reports that Sprint Fidelis, which is a heart defibrillator cable, was pulled from the market by Medtronic after “five patients who had the cables died.” However, “in the next few years, thousands of those patients may face risky surgical procedures to remove and replace the electrical cable, which connects…
Created: 02 April 2009 The New York Law Journal (4/2, Fass) reports that three decades after his daughter had been immunized against polio and Mr. Tenuto contracted the disease after coming in contact with the infant’s stool, becoming paralyzed, he “has won a $22.3 million verdict in New York state court against Lederle Laboratories, the giant pharmaceutical company he claims…
Created: 26 March 2009 The Toledo Blade (3/25) editorialized, “Consumers have been handed an important victory by the U.S. Supreme Court in the form of a 6-3 decision in a case in which the high court dismissed the argument of drug makers and the Bush administration that federal approval of drugs shields them from lawsuits by injured patients.” The Blade…
Created: 18 March 2009 In an story that appears on its front page, the Washington Post (3/18, A1, Vedantam) reports, “The study would come to be called ‘cursed,’ but it started out just as Study 15” which “was a long-term trial of the antipsychotic drug Seroquel.” Recently exposed “documents show” that “Study 15 suffered the same fate as many industry-sponsored…