A class action lawsuit filed on behalf of Ground Zero workers alleges the leaseholder of the World Trade Center, owners, controllers and the companies hired to oversee the clean up did very little to protect workers from asbestos and other toxins in the air.
The New York law firm, Worby, Groner, Edelman, & Napoli, Bern, filed […]

Antidepressant drugs like Paxil, Zoloft and Prozac may cause some children and adolescents to have suicidal thoughts and actions, U.S. Food and Drug Administration officials said on Monday.
“I think that we now all believe that there is an increase in suicidal thinking and action that is consistent across all the drugs,’ Dr. Robert Temple, director […]

An Oakland law firm filed two class action lawsuits against Sutter Health, which owns more than 26 hospitals in Northern California, on behalf of patients without health insurance who claim they were overcharged by Sutter and then victimized by “humiliating” and “abusive” debt collection practices.
One lawsuit was filed in Alameda County State Superior Court and […]

A 10-year federal ban on assault weapons expired Monday making it legal for consumers to purchase AK-47s, the same rifle that is being used to fight against U.S. forces in Iraq, and other high-powered firearms in America.
Ten years ago President Clinton passed “The Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994″, which outlawed 19 […]

DuPont last week agreed to pay more than $300 million to settle a class action lawsuit filed on behalf of 60,000 residents of Ohio and West Virginia who accuse the company of having contaminated their drinking water with the chemical Perflourooctanoic Acid (PFOA), which is used to manufacture some Teflon products.
The settlement, which is pending […]

The United States House of Representatives’ Congressional Oversight and Investigation Committee on Thursday was scheduled to hold a Hearing on “Antidepressants and Children” in Washington, D.C.
The Committee is investigating what the Food and Drug Administration and pharmaceutical makers knew about the safety of antidepressants before the drug industry began issuing warnings about the effects of […]

Parents of children and adolescents who were prescribed the antidepressant drug Paxil are filing lawsuits against Europe’s largest drug maker GlaxoSmithKline following claims the company concealed information about the safety and effectiveness of Paxil in treating young people with depression.
The lawsuits are the latest of legal battles for GSK.
In August the company agreed to […]

A San Francisco law firm last month filed an antitrust lawsuit against 15 of the world’s largest drug makers, alleging they have illegally conspired to inflate U.S. drug prices, The Associated Press reported.
The lawsuit, filed in Alameda County court in Oakland on behalf of nineteen California pharmacies, charges the 15 drug makers with violating California’s […]

Pfizer Inc., the world’s largest drugmaker, said on Saturday that the company and its wholly owned subsidiary, Quigley Company, Inc., have agreed to pay $430 million to resolve all pending and future claims against the companies in which claimants allege personal injury from exposure to Quigley products containing asbestos, silica, or mixed dust.
Quigley was […]

Pfizer, the world’s largest drugmaker, last week warned doctors about the increased risk of hyperglycemia and diabetes in patients taking its antipsychotic drug Geodon.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration requested that a warning be added to the prescribing information for all so-called atypical anti-psychotics regarding the risk of hyperglycemia and diabetes, Pfizer said.
Pfizer, in the […]