To the apparent surprise of many researchers, a major study has found no benefit — and perhaps even some harm — from adding the anti-clotting drug Plavix to aspirin in an attempt to prevent heart attacks in people at high risk.“Their attempt to extend those results to a larger population group faile
The United States Labor Department is investigating if Northwest Airlines shortchanged its employee pension fund on a routine basis over the last three years, and then avoided having to make a $65 million payment to the fund by filing for bankruptcy protection just one day before the payment was due
A Wal-Mart employee alleged that a security guard wrongly detained her and then roughed her up after an argument with a customer. A jury awarded the employee almost $14 million for her false-imprisonment. Roslyn Campbell won a multi-million dollar judgment against Wal-Mart for the actions of a secur
Some medical experts now believe that medicated patches, used by over 12 million people for a range of ailments, can become unsafe when heated by exercise, soaking in a hot tub, or even a high fever. In November, the FDA issued a warning about birth-control patches after studies showed that women us
A small-town West Virginia police chief faces a lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union for his actions in alledgedly denying a dying gay man CPR. According to the federal lawsuit, Welch, WV police chief Bobby Bowman stopped a would-be rescuer from performing mouth-to-mouth resuscitation
A Virginia jury awarded has ordered a construction company to pay $8 million for the death of a seventeen year old student killed by a trucker who fell asleep at the wheel. Dwayne Mongold, employed by Danella Construction Corp., admitted to nodding off at the wheel but continued driving his truck, w
The US Supreme Court has ruled that the US Postal Service is not immune under federal law from personal injury lawsuits. The decision reverses conventional thinking to this point regarding the Postal Service’s liability for the negligence of mail carriers. In the opinion, Justice Anthony Kennedy dis
Loan originators for First Horizon Home Loan Corp. have filed suit against the company claiming they were illegally denied overtime pay.Follow a series of similar lawsuits agianst Bank of Blue Valley in Overland Park, Kansas, recently settled for over $1 million, National Bank of Kansas and Principa
Medtronic Inc. continued selling flawed cardiac defibrillators for two years after learning that some of them may suddenly quit working, according to documents filed in a California lawsuit. “Medtronic has been taking products they know are not quite right and putting them into people rather than ta
It’s a scary a thing. Why all of a sudden are more and more of our children being diagnosed daily with attention deficit disorder and hyperactivity and being prescribed so called “cure-all” drugs. A staggering 29 million prescriptions were written in 2004 for stimulant drugs such Adderall, Ritalin a
The University of Rochester has agreed to pay almost $9 million to employees who allege that the University violated wage laws by denying its employees payment for work done during their breaks. About 40,000 workers may be eligible to collect part of the settlement so that they will receive approxim
For years now, the bus manufacturing industry has repeatedly defeated lawsuits focused on the lack of seatbelts on commercial buses. Federal highway safety regulations have never mandated that seat belts are required on passenger buses, and the industry has relied on that lack of regulation to shiel
