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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.

Read the full Bloomberg story here.

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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.

Read the full story here at the Fort Worth Star Telegram

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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.

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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.

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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.

Read full story here at the Wall Street Journal

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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.

Read full story here at the New York Times.

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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.

Read the full story here at Bloomberg News

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Federal regulators in 2007 asked Toyota Motor Corp. to consider installing software to prevent sudden acceleration in its vehicles after receiving complaints that vehicles could race out of control, company documents show.

Yet the automaker began installing the safety feature, known as brake override, only this January after a widely publicized accident involving a runaway Lexus ES that killed four people near San Diego.

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A Seattle couple have sued Toyota in federal court, demanding that the company either take back the vehicle they just bought or reimburse them for its loss in value since the automaker’s sudden-acceleration troubles became news.

The lawsuit alleges that the issues plaguing Toyota violate the state’s Consumer Protection Act and amount to a breach of contract. The lawsuit is a proposed class action and, if certified by a federal judge, could apply to other Toyota owners in Washington with similar issues.

It claims more than 100 class members exist in Washington and that the damages in question will exceed $5 million.

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The Texas Supreme Court threw out a $15.8 million verdict, ruling unanimously that lawyers improperly introduced evidence that a gravel truck driver involved in a 2002 accident that killed four members of a Wise County family was an illegal immigrant.

By repeatedly mentioning the truck driver’s immigration status, lawyers for the Hughes family clearly sought to inflame jurors’ passions against the driver and his employer, TXI Transportation Co., the court ruled.

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