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The family of a Queen Anne's County woman who drowned in her bathtub after using a pain medication patch has filed a $25 mil...

An important initial ruling was entered by Judge Susan Garsh regarding lawsuits brought On behalf of individuals who have been injured due to the fail...

Studies Link Shoulder Pain Pumps to PAGCL
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Menu Foods has recalled millions of cans and pouches of its dog and cat pet food after it has been linked to kidney failure and death of the pets that...

By BARRY MEIER
Published: March 16, 2007
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Ortho-McNeil Reportedly Trying to Settle Outstanding Claims Involving Birth-Control Patch
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The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) should immediately ban third-generation oral contraceptives (OCs) containing desogestrel because they almost do...

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Warnings on lead levels ignored
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FORT WORTH, Texas--Alcon Laboratories, a subsidiary of Alcon (NYSE:ACL) announced a voluntary recall of Systane Free LIQUID GEL lubricant eye drops, i...

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas -- A Texas jury has found that Centocor Inc. negligently failed to warn doctors and consumers about potential side effects of Re...

Researchers at the Mayo Clinic say patients taking the drugs Humira or Remicade triple their risk of developing several kinds of cancer, including ski...

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Epidemiologic Notes and Reports Noise-Induced Hearing Loss in Fire Fighters -- New York
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Crestor, another statin drug, is already following in Baycol’s footsteps and seems doomed to a similar fate. After reports of kidney damage and muscle...

TRENTON — New Jersey Attorney General Peter C. Harvey announced that the Attorney General’s Urban Environmental Initiative continues to investigate an...

July 4, 2005
Tainted Soil to Be Removed Next to Westchester School
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Have you or a loved one experienced liver damage or hepatitis from taking Ketek? Have you had a liver transplant from taking Ketek? Has a loved one di...

I have reprinted a letter written to the Food and Drug Administration by the watchdog group, Public Citizen, calling for the removal of the drug Crest...

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The New Jersey Supreme Court may have opened the door for providing workers' compensation benefits in same sex relationships. In Mark Lewis and Denni...

Owens Corning (OWENQ.OB) today announced that Judge Judith Fitzgerald of the United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware approved the ...

The data, presented at the Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics meeting, revealed that the drug-coated stents, manufactured by Boston Scientific ...

A Connecticut company is recalling about 1,680 pounds of ground beef products because they could be contaminated with a dangerous strain of E. coli, t...

Adderall® is the name under which Shire markets a prescription medication for ADHD generically called D-Amphetamine Salt Combo. Sales of Adderall were...

According to recent SEC filings, Boston Scientific Corp. now faces about 477 individual and 72 class-action lawsuits over recalled Guidant defibrillat...

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The two American pilots of an executive jet involved in a deadly high-altitude collision with a Brazilian airliner have denied they turned off the tra...

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Cordis Corporation (Cordis) has issued the attached letter to health care professionals to inform them of the rare but potential risk of thrombosis as...

As many as 17,000 people were urged to flee homes on the outskirts of Raleigh early today as flames shot from a burning hazardous waste plant and a ch...

The FDA updated the warning label on the Ortho Evra birth control patch after results of a new study found woman using the patch were twice as likely ...

According to recent SEC filings, Boston Scientific Corp. now faces about 477 individual and 72 class-action lawsuits over recalled Guidant defibrillat...

Bayer A.G.'s limp excuse for withholding data suggesting that a heart-surgery drug is dangerous won't wash. The failure by the German pharmaceutical g...

Every year, more than one million Americans are seriously injured as a result of defective medical devices, according to the Institute of Medicine. Jo...

Consumers are being warned to beware of defective fentanyl pain patches. Known as the Duragesic Transdermal Patch, it is a device developed to allevia...

For the second time in a year, people who received tendons, cartilage and other parts from donated cadavers are being urged to get tested for hepatiti...

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) warned consumers on July 27, 2006, not to buy or to use for medical purposes high-strength hydrogen peroxide pr...

West Coast marine terminal operators have agreed to pay $12.9 million to settle a class-action lawsuit brought by longshore workers over unpaid wages....

The State of NJ, a State that has not accepted the invitation of CMS to data match via computer connection, has adopted a new policy of retaining juri...

"OSHA is issuing this Safety and Health Information Bulletin to inform employees and employers in the automotive brake repair industry of the precauti...

Under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), employers are required to pay overtime to all employees working more than 40 hours per week in most situati...

Two sisters who handled Hurricane Katrina claims for State Farm have turned over records to federal and state investigators because they say the compa...

A Comair flight carrying 50 people crashed a mile from Lexington's airport Sunday morning shortly after takeoff, the Federal Aviation Administration s...

The Louisiana Supreme Court upheld two new state laws yesterday, giving policyholders more time to sue their insurers or file claims over damage from ...

Since the moment a decade ago when Dane Titsworth picked up a box and a disc in his spine burst, he has been in ever-worsening pain.

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A jury in Houston on Friday awarded $772,500 to the daughter of a Rosenberg woman who died after using a drug patch made by Johnson & Johnson.

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A jury awarded $10.4 million to the widow of a former shipyard worker who died of lung cancer after four years of working with materials that containe...

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Justin Knox bit down on the bitter-tasting patch, instantly releasing three days' worth of a drug more powerful than morphine. He was dead before he e...

The FDA met last week with Boston Scientific/Guidant to discuss the firm's recent announcement that several models of pacemakers and implantable defib...

Public Citizen has petitioned the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to ban the antibiotic Tequin because it is linked to blood sugar abnormaliti...

Researchers at the University of North Dakota say preliminary research shows a link between pesticide exposure and neurological diseases like Parkinso...

Princess Cruise Lines has blamed "human error" for last week's unexpected heavy roll of the cruise ship Crown Princess, which resulted in injuries to ...

A jury awarded $10.4 million to the widow of a former shipyard worker who died of lung cancer after four years of working with materials that containe...

These widely used drugs, called bisphosphonates, have recently been linked to a rare side effect that causes parts of the jawbone to deteriorate and d...

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Consumers who have Triaminic Vapor Patches should stop using them immediately. There have been multiple reported complaints received, including seizur...

The trial is designed to address safety issues swirling around the drug since last year when other studies suggested Natrecor can lead to increased ri...

Dr. Edward Scolnick, the former head of Merck & Co.'s research laboratories, said in a videotaped deposition that he did not believe the numbers were ...

The FDA determined that additional warnings are required and the manufacturer is revising the drug labeling to address this safety concern. FDA is adv...

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Guidant's implantable heart devices may fail about 10 times more often than the company had projected last year, according to a U.S. Food and Drug Adm...

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The Wall Street Journal, citing an internal FDA memo, reported Ketek had been linked to 12 cases of liver failure, including four deaths, and the FDA ...

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The companies that make the drinks have been alerted and either have reformulated their products or plan to do so, the FDA said. Government health off...

Public Citizen’s concern is based on the following information: 1) the relatively high numbers and rates (compared to other fluoroquinolones and/or an...

Two research pathologists from the Case Western Reserve School of Medicine in Cleveland, OH joined Public Citizen in the petition. Their research, con...

A Brooklyn jury awarded three retired Long Island Railroad (LIRR) workers a total of 16.4 million dollars for lung disease caused by their exposure to...

Baker, who spoke today at a briefing for congressional staff on medical malpractice, writes that "the real problem is too much medical malpractice, no...

Merck & Co, which is already facing a raft of cases over its pain reliever Vioxx, may need to hire additional attorneys to fight a recently filed laws...

Bausch & Lomb Inc. has asked all U.S. retailers to remove ReNu with MoistureLoc contact lens solution from their shelves.

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Makers of several bisphosphonates have added advisories to their drugs, warning doctors and patients of the increased risk of osteonecrosis of the jaw...

"We never saw this before in the jaw" except in patients who had received radiation therapy to that part of the face, says Ruggiero, chief of oral and...

While all forms of bisphosphonates, both oral and injectable, may increase the risk of bis-phossy jaw, it is the injectable medications, that appear t...

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The damages are in addition to $4.5 million already awarded to John McDarby, 77, of Park Ridge, who suffered a heart attack after four years on Vioxx,...

Bausch & Lomb suspended sales of all ReNu solutions in Singapore and Hong Kong in February after reports of similar infections, although the company l...

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In May of 2005, Pfizer Inc. and Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals Inc. were accused of distributing Mirapex as a drug that turned some people into ...

In 1971 the Union Carbide Corporation hired a truck driver to haul drums of chemical waste away from its plant in Bound Brook, NJ. Instead of taking a...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today warned several manufacturers and distributors of unapproved drugs containing steroids that continued distr...

The following Ortho Evra Patch Cases warrant investigation:
Our criteria is basically DVT, PE, CVA or MI suffered while on the patch, or shortly t...

A federal judge has cleared the way for a civil suit to proceed against the Environmental Protection Agency and its former head on the grounds that th...

Christie Whitman, when she led the Environmental Protection Agency, made "misleading statements of safety" about the air quality near the World Trade ...

Hundreds of people who worked on the World Trade Centre clean-up have filed a class-action lawsuit alleging companies did little to protect workers fr...

The police officer who collapsed and died during a pursuit Friday night, reportedly spent a lot of time at the World Trade Center Site.

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Since 2001, the NHTSA has warned that 15-passenger vans pose a serious rollover risk. The vans have a high center of gravity and tend to be unstable w...

The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, in cooperation with the firm named below, today announced a voluntary recall of the following consumer pr...

The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, in cooperation with the firm named below, today announced a voluntary recall of the following consumer pr...

Consumer Watchdog Group, Public Citizen, Petitions FDA to Public Citizen “a national, nonprofit consumer advocacy organization founded in 1971 to repr...

FDA and Hanford Pharmaceuticals Announce Nationwide Recall of Injectable Cefazolin for Potentially Life-Threatening Bacterial Contamination

Mar...

In a MedWatch Alert, the FDA has notified cardiopulmonary healthcare professionals of the following: “Actelion and FDA notified healthcare professiona...

The Consumer Product Safety Commission and Big Lots Stores Inc. of Columbus, Ohio, have announced the recall of some 233,000 sets of Harvest Brand Tea...

When small amounts of benzene, a known cancer-causing chemical, were found in some soft drinks 16 years ago, the Food and Drug Administration never to...

The Consumer Product Safety Commission and Barbeques Galore Inc., of Lake Forest, California, have announced the voluntary recall of some 1,800 Turbo ...

Up until now, Mirapex has been the medication most often associated with the mounting medical evidence linking certain drugs used to treat Parkinson’s...

As federal regulators are poised to announce a new standard for protecting workers, a team of scientists reported Thursday that the chromium industry ...

Mirapex (Generic: Pramipexole) is a popular medication used to control tremors associated with Parkinson’s Disease and Restless Leg Syndrome. Recent ...

It is admittedly an odd connection but there seems to be no real doubt that MIRAPEX, a drug used to treat Parkinson’s disease (PD), is also responsibl...

FDA notified healthcare professionals and patients about a Public Health Notification on continued risk of bacterial meningitis in children with cochl...

Mead Johnson and FDA notified consumers and healthcare professionals of a recall of one lot, lot # BMJ19, of GENTLEASE powdered infant formula, found ...

On February 6, 2006, Senator Bill Frist (R-TN) brought to the floor of the US Senate an asbestos bill that is just another special-interest bailout- t...

The New Jersey, USA Offices of Bagolie Friedman Injury Lawyers are investigating overdose deaths linked to the fentanyl pain patch. Known as the Dura...

The First Years and FDA notified consumers and healthcare professionals of the voluntary recall of liquid-filled teethers due to possible bacterial co...

Special interest groups argue that malpractice insurance premiums have skyrocketed because personal injury awards for conscious pain and suffering hav...

The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, in cooperation with the firm named below, today announced a voluntary recall of the following consumer pr...

The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission estimates that 8,000 to 10,000 people — mostly children — each year go to the emergency room with injuries...

Ortho-Clinical Diagnostics VITROS® Immunodiagnostic HBsAg Confirmatory Kit 12/15/05
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Bagolie Friedman Injury Lawyers are now investigating Duragesic Fentanyl Pain Patch Overdose claims. Our website, http://bagoliefriedman.com is now s...

After years of research and development, Johnson & Johnson (J&J) was the first company to market an artificial spinal disk in the U.S. that would alle...

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In a surprising move that Eli Lilly’s president, Sidney Taurel, described as being “in the best interest of the company,” the pharmaceutical giant agr...

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CPSC and Fisher-Price Announce Recall of 614,000 Infant Musical Toy Chair for Strangulation Hazard

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The New York Times and two Corpus Christi, Texas plaintiffs won access Thursday to documents they say show Guidant Corp. continued selling heart defib...

Roche Diagnostics and FDA notified healthcare professionals of a worldwide voluntary recall of specific ACCU-CHEK Aviva Meters, used to measure blood<...

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A Rosebank couple's 6-year-old daughter was awarded $1.3 million yesterday in a medical malpractice lawsuit after a jury found that the method used by...

A woman who sued a hospital and two doctors over brain damage to her son, who nearly bled to death in the womb, has been awarded $17.1 million by a Sn...

A Cook County jury Thursday ordered St. Anthony Hospital to pay $17 million in damages to the family of a 7-year-old girl born with severe brain damag...

Janssen Pharmaceutica Products is expanding a recall of 75 microgram-per-hour prescription Duragesic patches, which are used to treat moderate to seve...

Janssen Pharmaceutica Expands Nationwide Recall Of 75 mcg/Hour DURAGESIC (Fentanyl Transdermal System) CII Patches

Apr 5, 2004 | www.jnj.com

Janssen Pharmaceutica has announced what the company called an ″urgent″ expansion of its recall of its painkiller patch Duragesic because ...

The maker of a skin patch used to treat pain is voluntarily recalling its product.

Janssen Pharmaceutica Products, L.P., is expanding its U.S. ...

The Canadian Product Monograph for DURAGESIC has been revised to emphasize this safety information, and contains a section with Consumer Information t...

Pain patch required special monitoring The FDA's probe into deaths involving painkiller fentanyl underscores the lack of oversight for new drugs after...

The family of a Salt Lake area woman who died two years ago of multiple organ failure has filed a lawsuit against the maker of a pharmaceutical skin p...

• If Medicare payments have been made for injuries during the pendency of the claim, CMS has a statutory lien that must be satisfied by total reimburs...

Medicare (CMS) has moved its web site. Posted on the site are the CMS issued mandates by memo. But, see the information below as to your NEED to submi...

The FDA & Boston Scientific notified healthcare professionals and patients about serious adverse events, including death, occurring in patients treate...

[UPDATE December 29, 2005] FDA issued an update to the July and October, 2005, Preliminary Public Health Notification. The updated PPHN provides numbe...

The FDA & Boston Scientific notified healthcare professionals and patients about serious adverse events, including death, occurring in patients treate...

There are serious adverse events, including death, occurring in patients treated with Boston Scientific’s ENTERYX® for gastroesophageal reflux disease...

A timeline of Vioxx's history follows:

1998

*Nov. 1998 - Merck files an application with the FDA seeking U.S. approval of Vioxx.

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A Merck & Co. study on its Vioxx painkiller published in 2000 understated the drug's risks because it omitted three cases of heart attacks that were k...

After years of research, analysis, and debate, the International Agency for Research on Cancer, the U.N.’s cancer research agency, has reclassified HR...

General Motors Corp.'s 2005-model minivans are being investigated by U.S. auto-safety regulators for an electrical problem that can cause stalling or ...

At the request of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Texas and the U.S. Attorney's Of...

While president of Merck Research Laboratories, Edward Scolnick told some colleagues he was in "minor agony" about whether the pain-reliever Vioxx led...

Dory Bauler prides herself on staying active despite painful back problems. But at one point this year, she was getting so short of breath that she co...

The Consumer Product Safety Commission, in cooperation with Delta Enterprise Corp., of New York, N.Y., has announced a voluntary recall of about 335 L...

Michael Mastromarino, seen outside Jersey home is at center of ghoul probe involving Raccuglia & Sons funeral home and others.

Joseph Nicelli...

The Duragesic patch is indicated for the management of severe, chronic pain (such as cancer pain) that cannot be managed with less powerful drugs such...

The NJ Supreme Court (5-2) held that an employee was within the course of his employment when injured while eating dinner in NYC following the terrori...

The Food and Drug Administration warned users of the popular Ortho Evra birth control patch that they are being exposed to more hormones, and are ther...

No London Health Sciences Centre patients were affected by recalled human tissue products taken illegally from bodies at U.S. funeral homes, the hospi...

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is notifying the public of its investigation of human tissue recovered by Biomedical Tissue Services, Ltd. (BTS...

Health Canada is advising Canadians of a voluntary recall in the United States of tissue products used in implants and grafts that were imported into ...

A local company that manufactures human tissue products that aid in the recovery of burns and wounds has voluntarily recalled its product line after a...

Long-Time Critics of the ‘Patch’ See Warning as Belated and Inadequate and Yet another Vioxx-Like Example of Pharmaceutical Industry Putting Profits a...

On July 15 the FDA issued a Public Health Advisory concerning the safe use of Duragesic (transdermal fentanyl) patches in response to reports of death...

A Workers' Compensation insurer is not vicariously liable for the medical malpractice of its designated treating physician when the insurer exercised ...

"After 20 years cleaning rooms at SF Hyatt, I can’t clean my own house..."

VotersInjuredatWork.org today released the third of nineteen Permane...

A jury on Friday awarded a former popcorn-plant worker $15 million after finding that his exposure to butter-flavoring fumes led to his severe respira...

Since 1998, NIOSH and Brush Wellman Inc., the largest US producer of beryllium and beryllium products, have collaborated on research focused on beryll...

A CLASS-ACTION lawsuit filed on behalf of thousands of workers in a now-closed factory in the city of Passaic recalls a tragic chapter in New Jersey's...

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The state of Wisconsin recently became the 14th state to strike down as unconstitutional arbitrary limits on the compensation juries may provide for m...

With Medicare denying the Johnson & Johnson Corporation’s request to have its Charite artificial disc replacement covered by insurance during 2006, th...

ETS surgery works by deliberately destroying part of the sympathetic nervous system. ETS stands for Endoscopic Thoracic Sympathectomy. We use the term...

The well-known consumer advocacy group Public Citizen is asking the FDA to add black-box warnings to the labels of Viagra, Levitra, and Cialis. The dr...

Muraglitazar (Pargluva), a Potential Blockbuster Diabetes Drug, Found to Triple the Risk of Death, Heart Attacks, and Strokes – Three-fold Cancer Risk...

The CPSC, the Window Covering Safety Council, and independent retailers have joined forces for Window Covering Safety Month to advise consumers on the...

State officials in Indiana (U.S.) have banned the Hanover Nursing Center from admitting any new residents as the result of an investigation into a ser...

Guidant Corp. told U.S. regulators that they recieved reports of 6 additional failures of implantable heart defibrillators since issuing a July notice...

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Can Americans trust the insurance industry to tell them the truth? In the debate about the high cost of medical malpractice insurance for doctors, the...

When an injured plaintiff files a cause of action, the statute of limitations does not necessarily begin to run on all other possible claims related t...

Most Americans think asbestos was a public health crisis that ended years ago, but a spate of recent news stories reminds us that the threat of asbest...

Since a Texas jury found the makers of the drug Vioxx liable for the death of Robert Ernst, Americans have been hearing a lot about the size of the pu...

The state of Rhode Island has dismissed its lead paint suit against one defendant, Dupont Corp., after the company agreed to fund research and educati...

• 398 5-pound units of Home Made Brand Tuna Salad sold by Newburyport, Mass.-based Home Made Brand Foods Inc. with an Oct. 16 expiration date because ...

The jurors in the nation's first Vioxx trial sent back a clear message to Merck that the company's executives should have been paying equal or more at...

Commercial airplanes are governed by the regulations affecting common carriers and are governed by different laws and protocols than are private airpl...

Hormone therapy is a general term used to describe an attempt to substitute synthetic hormones for the hormones lost naturally during a woman's life c...

Zyprexa®, also know as Olanzapine has been used to treat schizophrenia and bipolar mania disorders. Doctors have prescribed Zyprexa® to patients with ...

Duragesic pain patches have been recalled. Janssen Pharmaceutica Products has recalled five lots of Duragesic, fentanyl transdermal system, CII 75 mcg...

Accutane, a drug manufactured by Roche Laboratories and approved by the FDA in 1982, is used in the treatment of resistant nodular cystic, the most se...

Thimerosal is the most common preservative that is used in vaccines and biologics that are marketed in the United States. Thimerosal is used to help p...

Lookout world, the USA is poised to give gun makers unprecedented immunity from lawsuits brought by victims of gun violence.

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"Baxter International Inc. said yesterday that the Food and Drug Administration had seized 6,000 company-owned Colleague infusion pumps that were link...

Philip N. Gumbs, the first black freeholder and judge in Monmouth County and a former Aberdeen mayor, died Tuesday. He was 82.

Gumbs died at Ba...

The family of a teenager killed when her Ford pickup rolled over was awarded $30.4 million. The Texas jury found Ford 90% at fault for the collapsed r...

A local group of citizens and environmental advocates have filed notice of plans to sue Honeywell International, Inc., which manufactures aerospace an...

The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission has issued a voluntary recall of children's bracelets for containing high levels of lead. About 145,000 Di...

A pair accused by State Farm Insurance of felony insurance fraud was entitled to punitive damages for what the jury decided was malignant claims. Each...

Heart device maker Guidant is apparently being investigated by the Food and Drug Administration for improper reporting of defective devices and manufa...

Thousands of former FedEx workers will have a chance to seek compensation for what they claim was discrimination on the part of the delivery service. ...

An agreement to settle for $765,000 was made by Carmike Cinemas Inc. after the U.S. Equal Opportunity Commission filed a lawsuit against one of the mo...

A study into the antidepressant drug Paxil has found an increased number of birth defects for women taking the drug during the first trimester, accord...

As many as 75,000 employees may be represented in a class-action lawsuit against Lowe's Home Centers. They are claiming they were improperly denied ov...

A campaign to "neutralize" physicians who questioned the effects of painkiller Vioxx was defended in court. David Anstice, marketing executive for Mer...

The New Jersey, USA Office of Bagolie Friedman Injury Lawyers has created the International Charite Artificial Disc Practice Group in response to the ...

The New Jersey, USA Office of Bagolie Friedman Injury Lawyers has created the International Charite Artificial Disc Practice Group in response to the ...

(PRWEB) October 11, 2005 -- Bagolie Friedman Injury Lawyers has launched the Workers Comp Law Blog, covering hot topics in workers' compensation and w...

Trial Lawyer Alan Friedman, a partner in the personal injury law firm of Bagolie Friedman, LLC, with offices in Jersey City, New Jersey, Clifton, New ...

Fighting a simple deck fire can lead to health problems. Over 90 percent of all outdoor wooden structures in the United States and in most of the wor...

A new benefit year under the Railroad Unemployment Insurance Act begins July 1, 2005. Administered by the U.S. Railroad Retirement Board, this Act p...

Latest Appellate Division Decision Reduces Pension Benefits For All Public Workers including State Workers, Police Officers, Firefighters and Teachers...