The courts will now hear the accusations brought by the family of George Smith, who disappeared a year ago from the Royal Caribbean Cruise ship “Brilliance of the Seas" during his honeymoon in the Mediterranean.
Ketek, a powerful antibiotic used to treat medicine-resistant strains of bacteria, has been shown to increase the risk of liver damage among patients who take it.
A proposed class-action suit filed in Chicago's U.S. District Court challenges a new law that requires new Medicaid applicants and current beneficiaries to prove citizenship with a birth certificate or other form of identification.
A family's home in Quincy, Mass. was severely damaged June 28th by a massive explosion. Chemicals in the sewer system are suspected as the blast's cause, as no gas line is connected to the property.
A man from Galesburg, Illinois was sentenced to three years in prison for reckless homicide and driving under the influence.
A Lexington, South Carolina man was sentenced to 20 years for killing two boys from Batesburg-Leesville in a DUI-related crash.
In a settlement provisionally accepted by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), Tiffany and Co. has agreed to pay a $262,500 penalty for not properly reporting a hazardous defect in its infant teether rattlers.
The US Supreme Court said it will review a case in which tobacco giant Philip Morris was ordered to pay $80 million in damages to the family of a smoker who died of lung cancer.
After a woman was attacked by at least four dogs in Hickman County, the district attorney has filed a petition to euthanize the dogs that were allegedly involved in the event.
A recent report shows a sharp decrease in recent FDA enforcement of drug safety measures, leading many to believe that the government agency is allowing potentially dangerous drugs to remain on the market.
Merck & Co. finds itself in the crosshairs of another Vioxx lawsuit as California’s first trial over the controversial painkiller gets underway on Tuesday.
Developer David Silverstein and the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey have sued insurers for alleged foot dragging in paying more than $3.5 billion in claims related to the destruction of the World Trade Center.
On the morning of June 26, a two-story motel in Bremen, Ga. was rattled by an explosion that destroyed six to eight rooms. A maintenance worker may be trapped in the collapsed corner of the 73-room building.
The FDA has issued a warning that consumers should not use the Triaminic Vapor Patch due to the possibility that the patch and its medication could be ingested by small children during use.
After being found guilty on two counts of delivery of a controlled substance in a school zone, Leeotis Sims, 31, of Gurdon, Arkansas was convicted and sentenced to 60 years in prison.
Jay and Laura Flynn have filed a lawsuit that alleges a defective batch of a grout sealer ruined their sex life. The Georgia couple is seeking damages, claiming the product also caused Jay Flynn additional injuries.
Boston Scientific Corp. inherited lawsuits and issues associated with Guidant pacemakers and defibrillators when it bought the medical device maker earlier this year. The problems with the former Guidant products continue, prompting more recalls.
In April, a $28 million verdict was handed down in a medical malpractice suit. Now, defense attorneys hope to decrease that amount by attacking individual jurors and claiming the entire panel was prejudiced.
A man from Clarion, Pennsylvania was sentenced to prison after injuring three passengers in a drunken driving accident.
A class action suit has been filed against Columbus, Ohio–based Nationwide Insurance alleging the insurer fraudulently charged customers more than the guaranteed annual premiums specified in their policies.
A class-action lawsuit against UnitedHealth Group Inc. and Coventry Health Care was dismissed in court on Monday.
A man is suing Kaiser Permanente for insurance bad faith and breach of contract after he was unable to arrange a kidney transplant.
New York law firm Parker & Waichman won a rare appeals court reversal relating to a decision that overturned a ruling in a fen-phen-connected suit Parker had brought against the law firm Napoli Kaiser & Bern LLP.
A former soccer coach for the Gill St. Bernard School in Peapack-Gladstone, New Jersey, was cleared by a Morris County jury of selling $25,700 of marijuana.
What began as a routine traffic stop in Farmington, Maine, ended up with police seizing marijuana, pot plants, narcotics, $800 in cash, and filing drug charges against 3 people.
When 79-year-old retired postal worker Joseph Sicari tried to light a cigarette in his kitchen the morning of June 14, a devastating explosion occurred that left him in critical condition and leveled his house.
A Rockford, Illinois man is appealing his case to the state supreme court after he was found with several bags of crushed peanuts resembling crack-cocaine, and ran from police, discarding a gun in the process.
A Staten Island teenager filed a lawsuit last week against the driver and owner of the car that struck her and three friends as they crossed a street, killing one and injuring the others.
Two former users of the cholesterol medication Lipitor are suing drugmaker Pfizer because of the permanent health effects they suffered due to taking the medication.
Nutraquest Inc. agreed June 15 to settle for $1 million a suit brought by California prosecutors accusing the diet-pill maker of deceptive practices in marketing its ephedra-containing products.
A man with two previous DUI convictions was sentenced to 10.5 years after driving intoxicated and causing a crash that killed his 22-year-old passenger.
The federal Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is suggesting that the insecticide azinphos-methyl be phased out by 2010 due to farm worker and environmental health risks.
In a closely scrutinized federal court case, a jury will attempt to decide whether welding fumes can cause neurological problems and diseases such as Parkinson's.
DuPont is facing another class-action lawsuit in a series of suits filed against the company for releasing PFOA into the environment, in this case around its Chamber Works plant in New Jersey.
Since pleading guilty to driving under the influence of prescription medication, Rep. Patrick Kennedy (D-R.I.) has been sentenced to drug treatment and one year's probation.
A man driving a stolen car evaded police and crashed into an unoccupied house, breaking a gas line. The ensuing fire caused approximately $250,000 in damages. The driver fled on foot, escaping arrest.
Pharmaceutical company Wyeth will pay hundreds of millions of dollars to settle thousands of fen-phen-related suits brought by Texas residents who took the company's diet drugs Pondimin and Redux.
A $13.5 million verdict has been found against Georgia-Pacific Corp. for the family of a Texas man who died from mesothelioma as a result of asbestos exposure as a child.
Rep. Patrick Kennedy pleads guilty to driving under the influence of prescription medication.
Workers at the former Kerr-McGee wood treatment plant in Columbus say that creosote spills were common and safety precautions were neglected. Creosote, used to treat wood for railroad ties and other long-term structures, is a known carcinogen.
According to a large recent study in Tennessee, ACE inhibitors, a pressure-lowering medication, were recently found to increase the risk of birth defects when used by pregnant women.
Documents unsealed during a product liability lawsuit against Guidant Corp. revealed that the defibrillator maker drafted a warning letter to doctors, but decided not to send it.
Previously only thought to negatively affect women in the later stages of pregnancy, certain blood pressure medications have now been linked to health problems in the first trimester as well.
After initially pulling it from the market in February of 2005, the FDA has decided to once more allow sales of multiple sclerosis medication Tysabri under strict distribution rules.
A man from Brewton, Alabama was sentenced to life in prison for killing a South Carolina motorist while driving drunk, going the wrong way, and watching pornography.
Ramsey County Sheriff Bob Fletcher ordered his 17-year-old son arrested after the boy’s mother found drugs and drug paraphernalia in the boy’s bedroom.
Residents of four Bronx, N.Y. neighborhoods have enough evidence to sue the city over toxic chemicals in a Bronx landfill, the state appellate court ruled on Monday.
A settlement has been reached in a lawsuit that accused Associated Aviation Underwriters of polluting wells in Tucson, Ariz. over 25 years ago.
One construction worker was killed and two others were injured when an attempt to waterproof a basement and install a ritual bath caused an explosion.
Hewlett-Packard is conducting a worldwide recall of its Photosmart R707 digital cameras because some batteries used with the camera overheat when the camera is connected to a docking station or to an AC adaptor.
A Knoxville, Tennessee bar is being blamed for the car crash death of an underage patron in separate lawsuits by his father and mother that total $15 million.
A man who was severely injured when his Saturn was destroyed by a tractor-trailer in a hit-and-run incident in Raleigh, N.C. accepted a $3.9 million dollar settlement from the company that employed the driver.
The parents of a fallen Texas firefighter have filed a civil lawsuit against several companies, claiming those organizations contributed to the defectiveness of a door latch that caused their son's death.
Four months after the senate blocked a proposed $140 billion fund for victims of asbestos, supporters are convening a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing to consider a modified version.
Attorney Mark Jay Krum filed lawsuits on behalf of two clients who claim that drug maker Pfizer withheld information about possible debilitating side effects associated with its popular cholesterol-reducing drug Lipitor.
The Institute of Medicine has reported that asbestos, a substance long known to cause lung cancer, may cause larynx cancer, and possibly other types.
New York State Comptroller Alan Hevesi announced June 1 that he plans to replace the law firm Milberg Weiss Bershad & Schulman in the state's class action suit against the pharmaceutical company Bayer AG.
Louis Kebert was ordered to serve the maximum sentence under Kansas law for a DUI accident that left three critically injured and one dead.
An Albuquerque man was sentenced to eight years in prison for killing three men during a traffic accident that occurred while he was driving intoxicated.
A North Carolina hospital allegedly failed to properly examine and treat Paige Johnson, 18, after she was hit by a car. She died of a closed head injury 30 hours after being admitted to their ER.
A new study shows that several common painkillers have the potential to cause an increased risk of stroke and heart attack, similar to the negative side effects of cox-2 inhibitor drugs such as Vioxx and Bextra.
A recent letter from the FDA to drugmaker Wyeth lists numerous safety violations att he manufacturing plant in Puerto Rico that have the potential to cause drug contamination and other problems.
Sgt. Roosevelt Howard, an 18-year veteran of the East Chicago Police Department, was in a Gary, Indiana, house when police raided it due to "possible narcotics activity" and is now on paid administrative leave.
In a ruling from the high court of the country, the Supreme Court has made significant changes to the whisleblower rights afforded government workers.
Ex–dietary supplement maker Metabolife International Inc. is asking the bankruptcy court to approve a $4.7 million settlement to close 21 personal injury lawsuits totaling $130.4 million filed because of health problems caused by its ephedra-containing supplement Metabolife 356.
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