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
At Chatham College, in Pittsburgh, Dr. Renee Falconer and lab technician Caitlin Corbitt, are finding dangerous levels of chemical pollutants in some of our children’s favorite toys. “We decided to go ahead and look for pesticides, while we were looking for the flame retardants, and we found both,”
Service Corp. International will pay over $4 million to settle a lawsuit alleging violations of overtime laws.The case involves premium payments, overtime and other wage & hour claims for funeral directors and other non-exempt employees under the Fair Labor Standards Act (“FLSA”) and the New York La
