AstraZeneca Plc, which settled almost 4,000 product-liability cases this month involving its antipsychotic drug Seroquel through mediation, said it will keep terms of the agreements confidential. The company, said it was defending more than 10,000 cases involving 22,500 plaintiff groups. Some of the cases were previously dismissed because plaintiffs lacked…
The Fulton County Daily Report (7/30, Palmer) reports, “Lawyers watching a sexual harassment case that tested the limits of acceptable workplace behavior won’t get to hear what the full 11th US Circuit Court of Appeals thinks of the matter. The case against Home Depot, heard in a rare en banc…
Two former female employees of the hedge fund Titan Capital have filed a sexual discrimination suit against the fund’s president and other top officials. Danielle Pecile and Cristina Culicea claim in their suit that they were “repeatedly hit on, cursed at and called names like ‘idiot’ by the defendants.” Pecile…
The death of a woman who was hit by a car on a crosswalk at the Salt Lake City International Airport has prompted a lawsuit from the woman’s husband. The lawsuit claims that airport officials were aware of the “dangerous traffic situation” at the crosswalk but had done nothing to…
A sports bar in Austell, Ga., has agreed to pay $1 million to the widow of a man killed by a drunk driver who was allegedly over-served by the bar staff. The lawsuit claims that in October 2008, The Sports Grill served alcohol to William Paul Davis IV when he…
Bloomberg News (7/28, Voreacos, Johnson) reports “Merck & Co. paid claims to the families of 3,468 users of its Vioxx painkiller who died of heart attacks or strokes,” a court-appointed administrator told a judge Tuesday. “A $4.85 billion settlement fund made payments to the families of 2,878 Vioxx users who…
A San Diego jury will decide this week if Pizza Hut is liable for a November 2008 accident involving one of their drivers. The accident left a mother and daughter severely injured. According to the lawsuit, driver Nicole Fisk had a seizure while driving during work, causing her to black…
Current, former workers and documents question care of medically fragile residents at the Austin State Supported Living Center the Cardinal residence. Some current and former employees say that Cardinal is so poorly run that residents who are unable to speak for themselves are at serious risk for harm. Five current…
The Washington State Department of Transportation has agreed to pay $2 million to settle a lawsuit filed by a man involved in a serious motorcycle crash in 2006. John Lancaster claims in his lawsuit that the DOT was aware for years that the roadway where he crashed was dangerously designed,…
A committee within the F.D.A. has advised the agency to denounce its marketing approval of the popular cancer drug Avastin for treating breast cancer because “new trials showed no apparent benefit from the drug.” The committee found that new trials of the drug, which is combined with the breast cancer…