Two class action lawsuits have been filed in the wake of the recall of Hydroxycut, a popular weight-loss supplement that has been linked to liver damage and other life-threatening side effects. The suits, filed in Canada and Tennessee, accuse Iovate Health Sciences, which manufactures Hydroxycut, of failing to warn of…
Zachary James died at at a North Philadelphia hospital when his heart stopped beating on April 20, 2006. The next day, his wife learned that his death may have been preventable, if someone had just looked at his X-rays before he died. Following a 10-day trial, a jury awarded Rosalyn…
A Texas court petition seeking answers in a Cameron County teacher’s swine flu death accuses a Virginia-based company of having “horrifically unsanitary conditions” at its pig farm in Mexico and wants to discover what role the farm might have played in the outbreak. The petition was filed in Texas state…
GlaxoSmithKline, maker of Avandia, faces more lawsuits alleging that patients suffered from serious Avandia side effects. Among the more severe side effects is the reported link between Avandia and heart attacks. Some critics say the risk of a heart problem is too high, while patients file lawsuits alleging they were…
The family of an 11-year-old boy killed when a 1,600-pound metal gate fell on him while he played at a Boston, Methuen school will receive a $600,000 settlement from the city. The city had previously admitted that it was liable for leaving the unsecured iron gate in an area children…
Wal-Mart Stores Inc agreed to improve its post-Thanksgiving Day crowd control as a condition of avoiding criminal prosecution in the fatal stampede of frenzied holiday shoppers at a Long Island store. In a settlement made public with the district attorney of New York’s Nassau County and the world’s largest retailer…
Federal drug regulators warned consumers to stop using the popular Hydroxycut line of weight-loss products, citing reports of a death due to liver failure and other instances of serious health problems. In all, the Food and Drug Administration said it had received 23 reports of significant adverse health effects in…
After three days of deliberation, a McLean County jury awarded the family of a deceased Bloomington woman more than $2 million related to her exposure to asbestos. Juanita Rodarmel contracted mesothelioma after being exposed to asbestos when she laundered the clothing of her first husband, Leslie Corry, a worker at…
Just two months after the U.S. Supreme Court decided patients can sue drugmakers over injuries from medicines approved by the government, long-stalled lawsuits against GlaxoSmithKline Plc and Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. are again moving toward trials. The March 4 decision in a case on Wyeth’s nausea treatment Phenergan broke a logjam…
The family of a 19-year-old man, whose death on a Seattle street in 2007 triggered a community outpouring for better bike-safety measures, has settled a lawsuit against the company that owned the dump truck that crushed him. The parents of Bryce Lewis, Marc and Laura Paolicelli of Colorado, have agreed…