Blog Posts in September, 2008
Posted on Sep 30, 2008 By dhodges@kennedyhodges.com
An Oklahoma jury has ordered Farmers Insurance Co. to pay $80 million to a class of policyholders who claimed that the insurer underpaid claims. In the lawsuit, policyholders alleged that Farmers ...
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Posted on Sep 26, 2008 By dhodges@kennedyhodges.com
Chicago Tribune reporter The U.S. Food and Drug Administration, for the first time, has conclusively linked deaths of patients infused with the blood thinner heparin to a foreign substance found in ...
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Posted on Sep 24, 2008 By dhodges@kennedyhodges.com
Commonly prescribed inhalers used to treat chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, or COPD , have been linked to an increased risk of heart attack, stroke and heart disease. According to a study, ...
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Posted on Sep 24, 2008 By dhodges@kennedyhodges.com
A large construction contractor and its subsidiary violated federal labor laws during the housing boom, according to a lawsuit filed Tuesday in Los Angeles. In the lawsuit, workers for Building ...
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Posted on Sep 22, 2008 By dhodges@kennedyhodges.com
Two doctors and a suburban Chicago hospital will pay $5.5 million to settle allegations that that they were negligent in the birth of a child with severe brain damage. In the lawsuit, Eva Liberato ...
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Posted on Sep 22, 2008 By dhodges@kennedyhodges.com
The overdose of Dennis Quaid 's children last year has brought added attention to a problem that experts say is more prevalent than commonly thought. Studies show that about one in ten children will ...
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Posted on Sep 22, 2008 By dhodges@kennedyhodges.com
Hospitals routinely fail to provide emergency room patients with adequate information to care for themselves upon discharge from the hospital, according to a recently released study. Researchers say ...
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Posted on Sep 19, 2008 By dhodges@kennedyhodges.com
The growing popularity of herbal and other alternative medicines has drawn many to ayurveda supplements, an ancient Indian medical system. However, recent reports have linked ayurveda supplements ...
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Posted on Sep 19, 2008 By dhodges@kennedyhodges.com
The family of Yani Bocanegra, a 19-year-old student killed in a bus crash in Mexico, is finding out the hard way that most of the protections they expect in the United States essentially end at the ...
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Posted on Sep 17, 2008 By dhodges@kennedyhodges.com
The Food and Drug Administration released a list of 20 medications Friday that are currently under investigation for potential safety problems. The release of the list comes after Congress last year ...
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Posted on Sep 9, 2008 By dhodges@kennedyhodges.com
A class of prescription drugs is being blamed for the deaths of a dozen patients who suffered from rheumatoid arthritis, Crohn's disease and other conditions. The Food and Drug Administration ...
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Posted on Sep 9, 2008 By dhodges@kennedyhodges.com
A series of spinal procedures involving the Medtronic Infuse Bone Graft that resulted in severe complications have been linked to doctors with financial ties to the medical device maker. According to ...
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Posted on Sep 9, 2008 By dhodges@kennedyhodges.com
The Food and Drug Administration on Thursday concluded that patients treated with an experimental osteoporosis drug were more likely to die than those treated with a placebo. The FDA analysis noted ...
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Posted on Sep 9, 2008 By dhodges@kennedyhodges.com
Wal-Mart should pay nearly 200,000 current and former Pennsylvania employees about $185 million for forcing employees to work without pay , a Philadelphia common pleas judge has ruled. The opinion by ...
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Posted on Sep 3, 2008 By dhodges@kennedyhodges.com
Supermarket chain Gristede 's wrongly denied overtime pay to more than 400 current and former lower-level managers, a federal judge ruled last week. Federal District Judge Paul A. Crotty found that ...
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