Recent findings reported in the Annals of Internal Medicine show that the sugar-sweetened beverage industry has financially backed scientific researchers to discard a link between sugary beverage consumption and metabolic outcomes such as obesity and diabetes. It is the latest in a series of related scandals to rock the public health world. This news, coupled with the revelation that two of …
When the National Football League and retired players settled a class-action lawsuit about brain damage in 2015, the agreement raised as many questions as it answered. The $1 billion question: What did the league know? Because the settlement was reached without the evidence-gathering process known as discovery, the NFL did not have to reveal what it knew about the long-term effects of repeated …
The North Carolina NAACP claims Republicans are trying to suppress the minority vote in the Tar Heel State. So, group is suing the state to stop county election boards from marking voter registrations void. Election officials felt the need to cancel several registrations because mailings to voters’ addresses came back as undeliverable.
A pillow manufacturer that claimed its products could help people with fibromyalgia, restless leg syndrome and sleep apnea has agreed to pay $1 million to settle a false advertising lawsuit filed by Alameda County and eight other California counties. Claims in advertising and testimonials by the …
It would never have occurred to me that having rhythm was a prerequisite to being a good paramedic. But the people who run the Chicago Fire Department must have thought so. For two years, the Fire Department administered something called the Step Test as a graduation requirement for paramedic candidates at the Training Academy.
Airbnb Inc. is in talks with New York City and New York state to settle a lawsuit over a new state law designed to curtail short-term apartment rentals. The potential settlement, according to one person familiar with the discussions, would protect Airbnb against fines from the city for short-term apartment rentals that violate the new law, though it might still leave hosts liable for those …
Two companies targeted in a class-action lawsuit in connection with the 2014 chemical spill and water emergency that impacted approximately 300,000 residents in parts of nine West Virginia counties have agreed to pay $151 million in damages. Details of the settlements by the plaintiffs with West Virginia American Water Company and Eastman Chemical were released Monday …
Nearly a dozen House Democratic leaders who fought to pass President Obama’s health care law in 2010 asked an appeals court Monday to toss a GOP lawsuit that accuses the administration of unlawfully reimbursing insurers under the program. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi , her top lieutenants and committee chairman said the Affordable Care Act allowed the Treasury to fund its cost-sharing …
More than 250,000 homeowners who had loans serviced by Wells between 2005 and 2010 and paid for this type of appraisal could receive at least $120 each. Under its mortgage servicing agreement, Wells can require borrowers who default on their loan to provide an informal estimate of the home’s value, usually from a real estate broker. Starting in 2001, Wells Fargo began ordering these “broker …
Bragar Eagel & Squire, P.C. announces that a class action lawsuit has been filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York on behalf of all persons or entities who acquired Sanderson Farms, Inc. (NASDAQ : SAFM) securities between December 17, 2013 and October 6, 2016 (the “Class Period”). The Complaint alleges that throughout the Class Period, …