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Thursday, 13 June 2013 10:26 |
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Company Fined $25,000 for Illegal Asbestos Disposal
By Anne Bucher
 On June 10, 2013, U.S. Attorney Deborah Gilg announced that Vision 20-20, a Nebraska company, pleaded guilty to illegal asbestos removal. The company has been fined $25,000 for this violation.
Investigators discovered that, in October 2010, Vision 20-20 hired a company to perform asbestos removal on a building that Vision 20-20 intended to demolish. While Vision 20-20 paid $24,000 for asbestos removal in the roof of the building, no asbestos had been removed from the floor. According to state officials, proper asbestos removal from the floor of the building would have cost approximately $14,000. They allege that Vision 20-20 illegally demolished the building without following proper asbestos removal procedures.
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Thursday, 13 June 2013 09:59 |
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Lawsuit Alleges Byetta Caused Thyroid Cancer in Young Woman
By Anne Bucher
 Amylin Pharmaceuticals and Eli Lilly & Co. have been hit with a product liability lawsuit by a woman who claims she developed thyroid cancer from their type-2 diabetes drug Byetta.
Plaintiff Elizabeth Childress, 23, alleges in the Byetta thyroid cancer lawsuit that she had taken Byetta for several years before she was diagnosed with thyroid cancer in 2011. According to her complaint, Amylin and Eli Lilly were aware that Byetta was associated with thyroid cancer but failed to warn about this risk. Their failure to warn put numerous patients in significant danger, her lawsuit alleges.
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Thursday, 13 June 2013 09:49 |
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Susceptible Patients May Suffer Zithromax Stevens Johnson Syndrome
By Robert J. Boumis
 Stevens Johnson Syndrome or SJS is a rare condition, but that is little comfort to people suffering from this dangerous reaction. A small percentage of patients who take Zithromax go on to develop SJS. However, this antibiotic is so widely-prescribed that this translates to hundreds of Americans a year facing this life-threatening reaction.
In SJS, a drug like Zithromax triggers a misfiring of the immune system. Susceptible patients undergo an autoimmune reaction. In this type of reaction, the patient’s own body attacks itself. On rare occasions, SJS may be triggered by infection or cancer. But in most cases, pharmaceuticals like Zithromax trigger the reaction.
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Thursday, 13 June 2013 09:45 |
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Mirena IUD Migration Often Requires Corrective Surgery
By Anne Bucher
 The U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) has received more than 59,000 Mirena IUD complaints since 2004. Some of the issues are related to acne, back pain and migraine headaches. Other more serious side effects involve Mirena IUD expulsion, abdominal pain and uterine perforation. Uterine perforation occurs when the Mirena IUD migrates from its original location and through the uterine walls. When the Mirena IUD migrates, surgery is generally required to remove the device.
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Thursday, 13 June 2013 09:43 |
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Unum's Checkered Past & Reputation Lead to Lawsuits
By Amanda Antell
 America’s largest disability company, Unum, is checkered by claim denials and past scandals. Unum was listed as number two in the American Association for Justice (AAJ)’s “Ten Worst Insurance Companies in America” in 2012. In 2008, Unum was found guilty of fraud in some of their insurance cases.
Based in Chattanooga, Tennessee, Unum is currently the largest disability insurance company worldwide. Despite its popularity, many claim denial victims, and even former employees of the agency, find the company’s policies unforgiveable in many aspects.
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Wednesday, 12 June 2013 13:39 |
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Checks Go Out in National Mortgage Foreclosure Settlement
By Mike Holter
 Checks went out this week to hundreds of thousands of borrowers participating in the National Mortgage Foreclosure Settlement. Homeowners can expect to receive approximately $1,480 each as part of a $25 billion settlement with the nation’s five largest mortgage lenders.
The payments are intended to compensate borrowers who experienced foreclosure abuses between 2008 and 2011 from Ally/GMAC, Bank of America, Citi, JPMorgan Chase, and Wells Fargo.
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Wednesday, 12 June 2013 15:34 |
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Medical Experts Warn Against Metal-on-Metal Hip Implants
By Robert J. Boumis
 Hip replacement is one of the most common forms of orthopedic surgery. In this procedure, a worn-out joint is replaced by an internal medical device. In some versions of hip replacement surgery, both the ball and the socket of the joint are replaced by synthetic components. However, newer variations of artificial hip implants have used metal-on-metal components where both the ball and socket are composed of metallic alloys instead of using polymers like plastics or Teflon. Evidence has mounted that metal-on-metal hip implants – like those manufactured by the Stryker Corporation – may fail more often than competing versions of this technology.
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Wednesday, 12 June 2013 14:36 |
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Verizon Hit with First Class Action Lawsuit Over NSA Surveillance
By Sarah Pierce
 A Philadelphia couple and an activist lawyer have filed the first class action lawsuit against Verizon Communications and the federal government over the National Security Agency’s collection of millions of Verizon customers’ phone records.
The class action lawsuit, filed in federal court in D.C., names President Obama, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, the director of the NSA and the CEO of Verizon as defendants. Also being sued is the NSA, the U.S. Department of Justice, and Judge Roger Vinson of the U.S. Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court – who signed the secret order directing Verizon to turn over all phone records “on an ongoing daily basis."
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