In March, the FDA warned that Zocor users had an increased risk of rhabdomyolysis when taking the drug at high doses of 80 mg. While all statins carry some risk of the muscle injury, the FDA’s report was the first time a dose-specific connection had been made to a particular…
Companies controlled by Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones have paid out about $10 million to the two employees seriously injured in the 2009 collapse of the team’s practice facility, according to their attorney. The payments settle lawsuits the two brought against Cowboys Center Ltd. and Blue Star Development Co.; Cowboys…
Contact an attorney immediately, and please remember these Sabine Pilot claims are subject to a two-year statute of limitations. “Sabine Pilot” is the name of a case decided by the Texas Supreme Court in 1985, Sabine Pilot Serv. v. Hauck (Tex. 1985). The Court recognized a narrow exception to the…
A Virginia jury has awarded $1.95 million in a lawsuit over the death of a woman less than two days after she received plastic surgery. Maritess Lopez was sent home an hour after her July 2008 surgery even though she was having respiratory problems, dizziness and fever, the lawsuit claims.…
Central DuPage Hospital in Illinois has agreed to a $5.3 million settlement with the husband of a woman who died of a stroke in 2006. The suit claimed Dr. Mark Kelly and Dr. Henry Echiverri “failed to properly evaluate and treat” Samantha Medina in December 2006, which lead to her…
The city of Fort Worth, Texas, has agreed to a $120,000 settlement of a police brutality lawsuit. The suit claimed local officers slammed a man’s head into a wall and the floor of the police station while booking him for a DUI in 2008. Video surveillance confirmed the allegations, but…
Victims of the deadly 2007 Minneapolis Interstate 35W bridge collapse reached the end of their legal fight after an engineering firm agreed to pay $52.4 million to settle scores of lawsuits. The settlement by San Francisco-based URS Corp. resolves the last major piece of litigation brought by victims. All told,…
Read new Yaz story which offers caution regarding YAZ side effects. Click here
Jackson County, Mo., has agreed to a $270,000 settlement in a lawsuit filed by a motorcyclist who crashed his bike in a pot hole last summer. Derek Jackson was riding his motorcycle in east Jackson County when he pot hole ankle-deep and as wide as his arms, his lawsuit claims,…
Bayer HealthCare, the leading maker of birth control pills, is coming out with a brand new pill. Natazia, as it’s called, contains a form of estrogen that’s never been used in an oral contraceptive. It also has a novel dosing regimen. Women on Natazia will take four different combinations and…