In the first of about 900 federal Fosamax cases to go to trial, a lawyer for Merck & Co. argued in closing statements Wednesday that the drug didn’t cause the…
The former managing counsel for Toyota Motor Sales USA has filed a lawsuit against his former employer alleging the automaker destroyed evidence in hundreds of rollover suits, leading to his…
A federal judge in Kentucky today sentenced to ex-lawyers to 20- and 25-year prison terms for bilking their former clients out of $94 million in fen-phen settlement money.
Addicted to a powerful painkiller, Kristen Diane Parker admittedly stole fentanyl from empty operating rooms at the Denver, Colo., hospital in which she worked.
Evidence unsealed last month in a complex federal case against a drug manufacturer shows that Wyeth paid for at least 40 ghostwritten articles in medical journals promoting the use of…
A reported attempt by Apple to get a British family to sign a confidentiality agreement in exchange for getting a refund on an alleged exploding iPod music player has apparently…
Without admitting liability, Pfizer has agreed to pay $75 million to settle criminal and civil cases in Nigeria alleging that the world’s largest drug company illegally tested the antibiotic Trovan…
Perhaps it will be some consolation for Brittany Donovan that the semen used to create her came from a sperm bank in New York. Brittany, a mentally disabled 13-year-old Pennsylvania…
Lawsuits on behalf of children and young adults who reportedly became ill after handling Nestle Toll House cookie dough have been filed against the company in several states, including Georgia,…
A former client has sued the law firm that helped her win a $2,000 settlement in national diet drug litigation, contending that she suffered severe emotional distress because of the…
A judge in Manhattan has dismissed a case in which a New York City boutique owner claimed the online classifieds company Craigslist should be held partly responsible for his shooting.
Finding that United States and Nicaraguan counsel for plaintiff banana workers participated in a fraud on a California court, Judge Victoria Chaney today ordered that all defendants be reimbursed for…
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