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Welding Products Cause Neurological Damages

A welding products worker sued his former employer for his debilitating neurological damages, including his Parkinson’s disease. He claims that his employers were negligent and should be found liable because they failed to warn him of the dangers associated with exposure to magnesium and for not pro

By The Legal Examiner

/ 8 Feb 2006

Sea-Doo Manufacturer Settles Wrongful Death Suit

Bombardier Inc., the maker of the popular Sea-Doo personal watercraft, settled a wrongful death lawsuit involving a 12-year old girl that was fatally wounded after crashing a Sea-Doo in 1999. The parties reached the private settlement agreement after jurors informed the trial judge that the jury was

By The Legal Examiner

/ 8 Feb 2006

Texas Lawsuits Filed by Families of TASER Victims

The families of two men who died after being shot with a TASER gun have sued the City of Amarillo, Texas and the manufacturer of the TASER.Although the defendants claim the weapon is safe, the families of Corey Calvin Clark and Troy Dale Nowell who were killed, feel differentlyThe defendants claim t

By The Legal Examiner

/ 7 Feb 2006

FDA Shuts Down Human Tissue Broker

The Food and Drug Administration ordered a New Jersey-based broker of human tissue closed this week in the midst of accusations that the company took body parts from cadavers without family permission and did not always screen these body parts for diseases.The agency said an investigation showed tha

By The Legal Examiner

/ 6 Feb 2006

Computer Professionals Are Denied Overtime Pay

Under the Fair Labor Standards Act (“FLSA”), a federal law, workers are entitled to overtime pay unless they fall under specific exemptions. Computer professionals are often improperly treated as exempt. If you install, maintain, or supportcomputer hardware or software (but are not primarily engaged

By The Legal Examiner

/ 31 Jan 2006

Frat Gets Sued For Wrongful Death

The family of an 18 year old recently inducted new fraternity member sued the fraternity and some its active members in a Texa court house early this morning. The new member died from alcohol poisoning during a party at an off campus frat house at the University of Texas at Austin. Khongsavay and So

By The Legal Examiner

/ 30 Jan 2006

Physician E-Mail Describes "Messy" Vioxx Problem

An editor for a prestigious medical journal sounded pleased, yet exasperated in an e-mail to another scientist as they went over an editorial criticizing researchers for leaving out critical data from a study of the painkiller Vioxx.”Thanks again with all the time you have spent on this Vioxx situat

By The Legal Examiner

/ 30 Jan 2006

Release of Records May Spell Doom for Defective Product Made by Guidant

Late last week, Indianapolis-based Guidant lost its battle to keep secret certain documents that may sink its defense in its product liability litigation involving defective heart implantable devices. The New York Times and two Texas citizens won access to certain documents they allege prove that Gu

By The Legal Examiner

/ 26 Jan 2006

Healthcare Staffing Industry Employees Illegally Denied Overtime Pay

Due to a shortage of health care workers in the U.S., healthcare staffing companies have experienced tremendous opportunities and growth in recent years. Companies like MHA Group, the parent company of Merritt Hawkins & Associates as wells as Staff Care, Inc., and Martin Fletcher & Associates, emplo

By The Legal Examiner

/ 24 Jan 2006

Preventable Medical Errors – The Third Leading Cause of Death

The number of hospital patients who die from preventable errors may be far higher than previously thought, and this trend shows no sign of stopping, according to a new national review of Medicare records by a Denver-based health care ranking group. The findings would make medical mistakes the third-

By The Legal Examiner

/ 23 Jan 2006

New Package Inserts May Reduce Medical Errors

It’s about time. Revamped package inserts are about to hit pharmacy shelves in the near future. In the first time in a quarter of a century, the FDA will change the requirements of the lengthy package inserts included in your prescription drugs. Pharmasicts, doctors and even patients welcome this ch

By The Legal Examiner

/ 21 Jan 2006

Mortgage Company Faces Class-Action Lawsuit for Unpaid Overtime

First Horizon Mortgage Corp. has been sued by several of its former loan officers. They contend that First Horizon Mortgage did not pay them overtime and violated the law. More specifically, seven loan officers for First Horizon in Johnson County, Kan., had filed suit in U.S. District Court Kansas C

By The Legal Examiner

/ 19 Jan 2006