The physician who used a non-FDA-approved bone cement during a woman’s spinal surgery and the company that ran an illegal test market to promote the dangerous product should be held accountable for her death, a lawyer for the woman’s daughter told a jury Monday. Reba Golden was vibrant and healthy when she agreed to let Dr. Jens Chapman operate on her back in 2007, but the surgeon never told …
More Than 100 Dentists Form Class Action Suit Against 3M Dental professionals are claiming the failure rate of 3M’s Lava Ultimate product have led to significant costs that they have not been able to recoup. Several dentists from Georgia and Texas are leading a proposed class action lawsuit against 3M, claiming the manufacturer’s Lava Ultimate dental crowns are defective and have a “shockingly …
A class action lawsuit against food and beverage company Mondelez International claiming some of its packaging contains non-functional slack fill is just the latest example of customers suing over what they see as deceptive marketing, a consumer advocate says. “We have seen great number of cases being brought in regard to non-functional slack fill,” Bonnie Patten, …
More than 200 litigation notices were sent in recent months to cosmetic, food and beverage companies claiming products violated California’s statute governing products labeled “Made in U.S.A.,” despite an amendment to the law. California-based Kazerouni Law Group, APC sent notices, threatening class-action lawsuits against companies selling products in California labeled “Made in U.S.A.,” “Made …
A Vancouver Island-based lawsuit against the cold remedy Cold-Fx is a lawyer-manufactured action in search of a victim and not worthy of class-action certification. Or at least that was the argument advanced by lawyers for the drug giant Valeant Pharmaceuticals earlier this month in a New Westminster courtroom. To be certified, an applicant must show the existence of a…
At least half a dozen Canadians have joined a class-action lawsuit, which has not yet been certified, that claims Old Spice deodorants can cause chemical burns. Rodney Colley of Virginia was the first to file legal action against the men’s line and its parent company, Procter & Gamble, after he claims he noticed “severe injuries on his armpits.” “[He] just went to use the product, as I recall, …
A Vancouver lawyer who’s filed a class-action lawsuit against the makers of Cold-FX, says manufacturers knew the product wasn’t more effective than placebos and withheld research that came to that conclusion. John Green has filed lawsuits in British Columbia and Saskatchewan – if the case is approved in Saskatchewan, it could have nationwide implications. He says that if the cases succeed, in a …