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In what may be the start of a change in how cell phone carriers do business, Verizon Wireless began its declining early cell phone termination fees last month.
Boise, ID: T-Mobile USA, one of the largest cell phone companies in the United States, is facing a lawsuit over the company's early contract-termination fees.
Can you imagine having a cell phone that doesn't work in your own home? That's the situation Frank S., a former Cingular Wireless customer, had to contend with.
Add Justin Peck to the multitude of unhappy Verizon Wireless customers who've been speaking up of late.
A recent Superior Court ruling in California found that consumers can move ahead with a class action lawsuit against some of the nation's largest wireless carriers.
Not much has changed at Merck since Vioxx was pulled off the market. The only difference for shareholders is that instead of spending hundreds of millions of dollars a year to promote Vioxx, the attorney's fees are now costing hundreds of millions of dollars a year.
"My doctor called in September 2004 and told me to stop taking Vioxx because he heard about cardiovascular problems associated with it. One month later, I got the letter from Merck, but the damage had already been done," says Linda Long of Balton, Georgia.
Former Vioxx users could be at risk of developing strokes for years, a prominent scientist said this week after evaluating new data from a 107-page report on patients who were followed for a year after they stopped the drug
Although Merck has long maintained that the risks associated with Vioxx occur after long-term use, a recent study in the Canadian Medical Association Journal, says the drug may raise the risk of heart attack for patients taking Vioxx for less than 2 weeks.
"I was cruising down the highway in my 2002 Dodge Chrysler minivan when smoke billowed out from the hood. By the time I pulled into a parking lot, the interior was thick with smoke and flames were pouring out of the dash.