All antidepressants must carry a “black box” warning to describe the risk and emphasize the need for close monitoring of children and adolescents being treated with antidepressant medications, the U.S. Food and Drug administration said Friday.
The Public Health Advisory is part of a multi-pronged strategy to warn the pubic about the increased risk of suicidal […]

WASHINGTON - A court ruled that a class action lawsuit against Wal-Mart Stores Inc. may go to trial, allowing 40,000 current and former employees to participate in the lawsuit, Seattle law firm Tousley Brain Stephens said in a press release on Friday.
The lawsuit alleges that Wal-Mart has “engaged in a systematic scheme of wage abuse […]

Robert Roesler, 61, filed a lawsuit against Pfizer Inc., the world’s largest pharmaceutical company, alleging its anti-inflammatory drug Celebrex caused him to suffer an irregular heartbeat, New York Daily News reported.
The lawsuit, filed on Friday in Nassau Supreme Court, comes in the wake of Merck’s decision to pull its arthritis drug Vioxx from all worldwide […]

Johnson & Johnson sent doctors a warning letter about the increased risk of lymphoma, a blood cancer, in patients taking its rheumatoid arthritis drug Remicade, Reuters reported last week.
The warning comes in the wake of Merck’s decision to pull its arthritis drug Vioxx from all worldwide markets after a study confirmed that it increases a […]

A South Texas woman on Tuesday filed a lawsuit against Merck & Company, alleging she had to undergo open-heart surgery after using Vioxx for less than a year to treat her arthritis pain.
On September 30, 2004 Merck announced that it was pulling Vioxx from all worldwide markets after a study confirmed that it increases a […]

ILLINOIS - Attorneys for a Madison County resident on Tuesday announced the filing of a class action lawsuit against Merck & Company, alleging that the company defrauded consumers by promoting Vioxx as a safe painkiller.
The plaintiff claims that Merck has unfairly profited by overstating the superiority of Vioxx, while downplaying its dangers.
“Consumers paid […]

Attorney Kenneth B. McClain on Friday filed a Vioxx Class Action Lawsuit against Merck & Company on behalf of Caroline Nevels, of Lexington Missouri, over the 2002 death of her daughter.
The lawsuit, filed in Jackson County Circuit Court, is seeking unspecified compensatory and punitive damages and money for medical monitoring of Vioxx patients.
On September 30, […]

Congress is considering extending the so-called “SUV” tax break that will cost nearly $2 billion and further our dependence on oil by encouraging small businesses to buy the biggest, gas-guzzling vehicles available, Public Citizen said in a press release on Tuesday.
Car dealers across America for quite some time now have been using the tax loophole […]

Kenneth B. Moll & Associates, a Chicago law firm, on Tuesday said it filed the first worldwide Vioxx class action lawsuit against Merck & Co., on behalf of all patients who were prescribed the arthritis drug.
The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, is seeking to recover damages for patients […]

Corporate America and their political allies are consistently telling the American public that frivolous lawsuits place a huge burden on the economy.
But contrary to what Corporate America wants you to believe, American businesses file four times as many lawsuits as do individuals represented by trial attorneys, and businesses are penalized by judges much more often […]