A Miami, Florida, resident has received sentences totaling 13½ years in federal prison for his role in a scheme to sell genuine Lipitor intended for South American markets and counterfeit Lipitor manufactured in Costa Rica.
A settlement has been reached in a lawsuit brought by three black supervisors who claimed that Williamhouse, an envelope-making company, underpaid them because of their race.
Although they discussed the possibility of entering a guilty plea, a Montana couple has pled not guilty to drug charges after being accused of growing marijuana in the house where a fire killed their 2-year-old daughter.
Thirty corporations are named as defendants in a lawsuit filed on behalf of Randy Stone, who was allegedly exposed to asbestos on the job and died five days after being diagnosed with a form of cancer known as mesothelioma.
More than two years after filing a chemical exposure lawsuit against BP Amoco, Justin Detel’s fight is finally over. The 20-year-old Missouri resident reached a settlement with the global energy company for an undisclosed sum.
Wichita Falls, Kansas, prosecutors have dismissed about 40 felony drug cases after the police officer involved in the arrests was suspended for posting photos of dismembered women on his MySpace.com Web page.
Patsy Jean Bodkin has reached an undisclosed settlement with four companies who produced asbestos-containing products used by her father and brother at work, ultimately exposing her to the toxic substance as she washed their clothes.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit on Oct. 23 denied a petition by Ranbaxy Laboratories for a rehearing of an August decision giving Pfizer exclusivity over Lipitor's active ingredient until 2010.
Errors by doctors were responsible for nearly 60 percent of medical malpractice claims that involved a delayed or missed diagnosis, a study released earlier this month says.
The daughter of a former police detective who died at a New York City nursing home is suing the facility, claiming that the nursing home's employees were negligent in their care of her father.
A total of $150 million will be distributed during the first installment of reimbursements to those affected by WorldCom's $11 billion accounting scandal. The sum will increase as more claims are processed by the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Delta Airlines subsidiary Comair has filed suit against Bluegrass Airport in Lexington, Kentucky, and the Federal Aviation Administration after the crash in August that killed 49 people.
On Monday, jury selection began in the civil lawsuit over a refinery explosion that seriously injured three workers in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.
The Atlantic County court system is bogged down by the thousands of lawsuits filed against Merck & Co. in the pharmaceutical giant's home state of New Jersey.
The Baton Rouge, Louisiana, law firm of Kean Miller Hawthorne D'Armond McCowan and Jarman LLP is suing its insurance company for the alleged loss of a single day's income when Hurricane Katrina battered the state.
The families of four victims of a gas well explosion in Harrison County, Texas, have agreed to settle their lawsuit for $8.5 million.
Dr. Adam Finkel, former Rocky Mountain regional director for the U.S. Occupational Safety & Health Administration, has been selected as the recipient of the prestigious David P. Rall Award for Advocacy in Public Health.
Haley Joel Osment, best known for his role in "The Sixth Sense," was sentenced Thursday after pleading no contest to misdemeanor drunken driving and drug possession charges.
Douglas C. Albers avoided prosecution for sales of counterfeit Lipitor by pleading guilty Oct. 18 in a Kansas City, Missouri, District Court to one count each of selling counterfeit Neupogen and misbranded Neupogen.
Nissan Motor Co. has issued a recall of 130,000 vehicles, including 80,000 cars and sport utility vehicles sold in North America. The recall is designed to correct faulty ignitions in vehicles that utilize “intelligent keys."
A lawsuit filed by the family of a man killed in a plane crash in Jacksonville, Florida, has been settled for $2.5 million.
Michael Egan, of Sacramento, California, is set to be sentenced in January for swindling investors out of more than $8 million.
Over 5,200 people died in the U.S. last year in auto accidents involving large trucks. The state of Texas led the country in trucking accident fatalities with 502.
Washington State Insurance Commissioner Mike Kreidler released a report Oct. 16 that alleges widespread violations of spending limits by title insurance companies seeking to curry favor with builders, lenders, and real estate agents.
A lawsuit filed in Los Angeles accuses McDonald’s of failing to disclose ingredients in its french fries that allegedly aggravated a boy's autistic symptoms.
A mistrial has been declared in the second of several thousand lawsuits against drugmaker Wyeth regarding the supposed risks of the hormone replacement therapy Prempro.
A jury in Pennsylvania recently awarded $78.5 million to over 187,000 current and former Wal-Mart employees for missed breaks and off-the-clock hours worked between 1997 and 2006.
The New York federal appeals court has reinstated a lawsuit against Pfizer that was dismissed last year by a lower court judge. The suit blames Pfizer's drug Rezulin for causing liver damage.
Some medications intended to treat osteoporosis, including the popular drug Fosamax, have recently been found to increase the risk of jawbone death, also called osteonecrosis.
William J. Lennon and Anthony P. Postiglione Jr. were recently indicted in Pennsylvania on federal mail and securities fraud charges following the collapse of their hedge fund worth $5.2 million.
In Austin, Texas, the victim of a convicted drunk driver has reached a $1.5 million settlement in a civil lawsuit against the man who hit her and the owners of the bar that served him alcohol the night of the accident.
A Tampa federal judge has presented the final judgments in the securities fraud case against two former health care company executives.
James A. Hicks, former employee of Oracle-bought PeopleSoft, will recover over $17 million of a $98.5 million settlement under the provisions of the False Claims Act.
Earlier this week, an activist group in Jackson County, Missouri, attended a local legislature meeting and spoke out against a mining project planned for the city of Sugar Creek.
An Ohio mother of one was sentenced Thursday to 10 years in prison for killing two people while driving drunk with a car full of children in 2004.
The CEO of American Healthcare Management faces up to 18 months in prison and $30,000 in fines for billing Medicare and Medicaid for patient care that was never provided.
U.S. fighter jets blanketed American cities within 40 minutes after a small plane crashed into an Upper Manhattan apartment building Wednesday.
One of two survivors of a skydiving plane crash that killed six people in eastern Missouri is filing suit against the company that made the plane's engine.
Citizens Insurance was ordered Oct. 11 by Florida's Office of Insurance Regulation to sell residential property insurance to as many as 100,000 customers previously handed off by Citizens to smaller insurers that charged higher rates.
The latest reports out of Manhattan say an aircraft, either a small plane or a helicopter, has crashed into a residential building on the Upper East Side in New York.
Defective door latches and faulty drivetrains are prompting Ford Motor Company to issue two separate recalls for vehicles in the United States.
One year after a tour boat capsized on Lake George in New York, killing 20 people, two boat companies are facing off in U.S. District Court.
President Bush signed a bill Oct. 4 directing the inspector general's office of the Department of Homeland Security to look into insurers' handling of Hurricane Katrina claims related to flooding and wind damage.
When Michael Guzik opened the front door of his Lockport, Illinois, home on the morning of Oct. 5th, the house exploded, apparently due to a natural gas leak. The blast blew off the back of the house.
The banking giant agrees to compensate workers for unpaid overtime, while officially denying liability.
Hudson River pollution levels are down, but Rep. Maurice Hinchey has expressed concern over the waterway's level of polychlorinated biphenyls, a byproduct of chemicals dumped by General Electric in the 1970s.
Although improper consumer storage, not manufacturer error, is thought to be responsible for recent cases of botulism caused by carrot juice, a Bakersfield, California, company is voluntarily recalling its carrot juice product lines.
In Kirkland, Washington, on Thursday, Green Bay Packers player Koren Robinson was sentenced to 90 days in jail for violating his probation from a drunken-driving conviction last year.
In a recent review of nursing homes across the country, Consumer Reports magazine found that poor patient care is prevalent and quality nursing homes are difficult to find.
A Tampa man who suffered brain damage and paralysis after an emergency room misdiagnosis was recently awarded $217 million in damages.
The National Security Whistleblowers Coalition, in conjunction with more than 100 whistleblowers organizations, is calling upon Congresman Duncan Hunter to support their demand for comprehensive whistleblower protection clauses to be added to our legal codes.
Two American pilots are being questioned in the investigation of a Brazilian airliner crash that killed 155 people.
Jordan D. Starling, 22, who was arrested at a music festival in Wisconsin, and later fatally overdosed, had his conviction overturned after it was found that an undercover agent did not have probable cause to conduct a search.
The U.S. Supreme Court agreed October 2 to hear cases brought by insurers Geico and Safeco Corporation over their responsibility to notify consumers about using adverse information contained in credit reports to increase rates.
A jury in Montana has awarded $325,000 to the family of a young woman killed in a two-vehicle accident two years ago — an accident in which alcohol use by both drivers was a factor.
In response to an investigation by South Carolina's Department of Health and Environmental Control, the Horry County Solid Waste Authority has removed chemically treated utility poles that were partially buried on its property.
The Nutraceutical Corporation has requested a rehearing before the entire 19-member 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver in an effort to have the FDA ban on the controversial diet supplement ephedra eased.
A cement plant in Mitchell, Indiana, has agreed to pay a fine imposed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for allegedly failing to meet clean-air standards.
Even though bongs, pot pipes, and other forms of drug paraphernalia are illegal under New Hampshire state law, Hillsborough County officials say the law is difficult to enforce.
All passengers and crew are safe after a lone hijacker aboard a jetliner bound from Albania to Istanbul surrendered today.
On Sept. 29, Jack Foran, 70 years old, was standing nearby when a trench-making machine struck a high-pressure natural gas line in Labette County, Kansas. The rupture caused an explosion and a 60-foot-high fire.
On a December afternoon in Texas on Highway 114, Kim Hughes and her family were on their way home from shopping for Christmas presents when their SUV collided with the 18-wheel truck of illegal immigrant Ricardo Rodriguez.
Five contamination sites are being added to the National Superfund Priorities List, which designates the most serious hazardous waste sites marked for possible long-term cleanup with help from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Superfund program.
Restrictions on certain liquids, gels, aerosols, and other toiletries that passengers may bring onto airplanes are slowly being eased.
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