Class Action Legal News articles include legal news and lawsuit information about lawsuits filed, settlements reached and verdicts rendered in class action cases dealing with personal injury, defective products, bad drugs and other consumer law related news issues. Many of these articles include interviews from top legal professionals with guidance on legal recourse options from losses resulting from bad drugs, medical malpractice, investment fraud, personal injury, defective products and negligent employers.
St. Clair County, MI: When Boston Scientific merged with Guidant last year, it not only acquired Guidant's product line, but assumed its liabilities as well. That includes a host of individual and class action lawsuits, at least 100 in number, over defective Guidant defibrillator and pacemaker products.
Coffeyville, KS: The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has mobilized to respond to an oil spill at the Coffeyville Resources Refinery, which has spread throughout the region during rampant flood conditions.
Trenton, NJ: In the aftermath of the huge Menu Foods pet food recall this past spring, the New Jersey state legislature is considering joining two other states - Illinois and Tennessee - in granting pet owners the right to sue for loss of companionship and reasons other than economic loss - and to claim damages up to a specific cap.
Sea Cliff, NY: Just when you think you've found a way for your kid to eat their vegetables, along comes news that those veggies could seriously harm your child.
The Washington State Court of Appeals held today that under that state's Consumer Protection Act, it was error to deny class certification on the ground that establishing the element of "causation" would require individualized proof that consumers relied upon the defendant's deceptive act or practice. The court also concluded that the Washington Consumer Protection Act could be applied to the claims of all customers nationwide where the defendant resided in Washington and undertook its allegedly deceptive practices there. And the court held that it was error to deny certification of a nationwide class on the plaintiffs' breach of contract claim because individual choice of law issues did not predominate where the claim turned on interpretation of a standardized adhesion contract which the defendants used with all its customers nationwide.
Washington, DC: Legal experts say the recent court ruling in Bush's home state of Texas that failure-to-warn claims against Merck by Vioxx victims in state courts are preempted is particularly egregious due to the FDA's failure to protect the public against Merck's deceptive mass-marketing of Vioxx as a safe drug for basically 5 years.
Washington, DC: The FDA is still helping Merck escape liability for the Vioxx disaster. Texas Judge Randy Wilson, who is overseeing the Texas state court proceedings, recently granted Merck's motion to dismiss possibly thousands of lawsuits, essentially because the FDA refuses to acknowledge that Merck concealed information about the safety risks of Vioxx.
Toronto, ON: To Pet Owners Everywhere: You deserve compensation. To Canadians: Here is what you can do...
Washington, DC: Due to their rampant off-label use, at a May 10, 2007, meeting, an FDA advisory panel voted 15-2 in favor of adding new restrictions on the use of the anemia drugs darbepoetin and epoetin, known as Erythropoiesis Stimulating Agents, the man-made versions of a hormone produced in the kidneys that prevents anemia.
Washington, DC: On May 9, 2007, the New York Times reported that drug makers Johnson & Johnson and Amgen are paying "hundreds of millions of dollars to doctors every year in return for giving their patients anemia medicines."
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