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The scandal involving the Catholic Church and sex abuse by priests has been going on for years and years. But the saga ramped up decidedly in the past week, when the New York Times reported on a trove of documents supplied by Jeff Anderson, a St. Paul, Minn., lawyer who’s filed thousands of suits against the church in recent years.
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Massive Legal Battle Shaping Up Against Toyota
A panel of federal judges in San Diego, California is expected to rule on whether to consolidate a large number of lawsuits filed nationwide against Toyota.
Toyota has been inundated with lawsuits due to safety concerns that have led to the recall of more than eight-and-a-half million vehicles worldwide. Federal judges in California will hear arguments on whether to consolidate more than one hundred lawsuits claiming Toyota is responsible for economic losses suffered by Toyota owners.
A panel of seven judges will deliver a ruling on the proposed consolidation in April.
Toyota Blamed For More Wrongful Deaths And Car Crashes
More than 100 deaths have now been blamed on sudden acceleration of Toyota Motor Corp. vehicles, nearly twice the number that had been reported two months ago, according to a Times review of public records.
With a recent surge of complaints to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration factored in, sudden acceleration has been raised as a possible cause of crashes involving Toyota vehicles that led to 102 deaths, according to NHTSA records, lawsuits and police reports.
Bayer Accused in Canadian Lawsuit of Hiding Yaz Risks
Bayer AG, Germany’s largest drugmaker, was accused in a lawsuit of ignoring health risks of the contraceptive Yaz and advertising the drug as safe to boost sales.
The Yasmin family of birth-control pills, known as Yaz and Yasmin, carries a four times increased risk of deep vein thrombosis and pulmonary embolism compared with other contraceptives, according to the suit, filed in St. Catharines, Ontario, by two women. They seek class-action, or group, status to represent all women who used the drugs.
Tarrant County Settles Lawsuit Over Inmate’s Wrongful Death
FORT WORTH – Tarrant County and the County Hospital District has settled a lawsuit with the mother of a man who died while in the county jail for $30,000, according to county officials.
Tarrant County Commissioners voted 4-0 to pay $15,000 to Brenda Smith, the mother of Santana Smith, a 34-year-old Fort Worth construction worker who died on October 26, 2007 while an inmate in the Tarrant County Jail.
The hospital district, also known as JPS Health Network, also agreed to pay $15,000 to settle the case.
Yasmin Gallbladder Disease Lawsuit Filed Against Bayer
Another lawsuit has been filed against Bayer by a California woman who suffered gallbladder disease after using Yasmin, alleging that the drug maker knew the birth control pill carried unacceptable health risk but released it any way.
The Yasmin gallbladder lawsuit was filed in San Mateo County Superior Court by Louise Thanos.
The case is one of about 1,100 Yaz and Yasmin lawsuits filed on behalf of individual women who allege that they suffered injuries as a side effect of the birth control pills. In addition to lawsuits for gallbladder problems, cases have been filed by women who allege the pills caused them to suffer blood-clot related injuries, such as a stroke, heart attack, pulmonary embolism or deep vein thrombosis.
Iowa Dentist Ordered to Pay $1.5 M for Transmitting STD
A dentist has been ordered by a jury to pay a woman $1.5 million for giving her a sexually transmitted disease (STD).
According to the complaint, Alan Evans, an Iowa dentist, did not tell the plaintiff, Karly Rossiter to take precautions so that he did not infect her with the human papillomavirus, or HPV.
The court documents indicated that Evans told Rossiter that he did not have any STD’s, The two engaged in sexual activity and one year later Rossiter had an abnormal pap smear.
More Men Make Sexual Harassment Claims
Since the start of the recession, a growing number of sexual harassment complaints have come from men. Some 16.4% of all sexual harassment claims—or 2,094 claims—were filed by men in fiscal 2009, up from 15.4%, or 1,869 claims, in fiscal 2006, according to the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
While male victims sometimes experience behavior like groping and unwanted sexual advances, employment lawyers say increasingly “locker room” type behavior like vulgar talk and horseplay with sexual connotations have been the subject of claims.
Medical Malpractice Lawsuit Filed in Mishandling of Football Concussions
A former Arena Football League player filed a lawsuit alleging that a team doctor mistreated his concussions two years ago, resulting in permanent injury.
The lawsuit, filed in state court in Denver, is perhaps the first in which a professional football player has claimed malpractice with regard to concussion care since football head injuries gained national prominence three years ago.
AstraZeneca Wins Trial on Seroquel Diabetes Claim
AstraZeneca Plc officials properly warned a patient’s doctors about the diabetes risk posed by its Seroquel antipsychotic drug, a jury ruled in the first case over the medicine to go to trial.
The state court panel in New Brunswick, New Jersey, deliberated before finding the company’s warnings to Ted Baker’s doctors absolved AstraZeneca of responsibility for his injuries. Baker, 61, took Seroquel for lingering effects of post-traumatic stress syndrome caused by his military service in Vietnam. His was the first of about 26,000 claims over the drug to be considered by jurors.