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• Dollar Financial Settles Overtime Suits

  Jeremi Young | April 27, 2006 8:05 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Workplace Injuries

  Financial services company Dollar Financial Corp. has agreed to pay up to $5.8 million dollars to settle three class action lawsuits filed by former employees.The suit alleged that Dollar misclassified certain of it store managers as exempt under wage and hour laws in California. The Plaintiffs also claimed dollar used an improper profit-sharing formula in computing bonuses paid to store managers.

• Study Shows That Drowsy and Distracted Drivers Cause Most Accidents

  Clint Gilbert | April 26, 2006 10:26 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Automobile Accidents

  A federal study of Washington area drivers has found that 80% of automobile crashes involve drivers that were either distracted within seconds of the wreck, or were drowsy at the time. The study involved 100 vehicles equipped with cameras and sensors for about one year. Over 43,000 hours of data were recorded and gave real time access to the actions and state of drivers just before a...

• FDA Formally Endorses Market Withdrawal of Bausch & Lomb ReNu MoistureLoc

  Robert Wolf | April 24, 2006 9:40 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Defective & Dangerous Products

  The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a formal press release on April 14 indicating that this agency is working closely with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and Bausch & Lomb to investigate the source of Fusarium keratitis eye infections. The FDA stated that it "supports Bausch & Lomb's decision to voluntarily withdraw ReNu MoistureLoc® contact lens solution from...

• The Puck Stops Here - Hockey Goalie Seriously Injured by Allegedly Defective Mask

  Robert Wolf | April 19, 2006 10:49 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Defective & Dangerous Products

  With a serious eye injury he said could have been avoided, an Irving, Texas man is suing the makers of the goalie mask he was wearing when a hockey puck broke through the mask and struck his face.Michael Eeds, was playing goalie in an August 2004 ice hockey game when the puck broke through the mask. The impact popped the lens of Eeds' right eye out of its membrane. He's now on his 18th contact...

• $27.5 million verdict against Southwest in the apparently not-so-friendly skies

  Robert Wolf | April 11, 2006 3:45 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Miscellaneous

  A jury awarded $27.5 million in damages to a woman of Iranian descent who alleged she was racially profiled when Southwest Airlines accused her of assaulting a flight attendant and interfering with a flight crew. Samantha Carrington, a California woman, won in the civil case Friday after suing the Dallas-based carrier for false imprisonment and malicious prosecution. She was arrested in 2003...

• Wrongful Death Lawsuit Against Hosptial and Doctor

  Staff Writer | April 06, 2006 1:57 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Medical Malpractice

  Ethel Wright filed a lawsuit against Barnes Jewish Hospital, Washington University and Saiyed Aon Ali Mohib, M.D., stating that they failed to exercise reasonable care, which caused her to loose her husband.Doctors and hospitals nationwide make mistakes that result to death and injury to their patients. An article by Steve Gonzalez in the Belleville Bureau on Monday, April 03, 2006 describles a...

• Family Dollar Hit With $33.2M Penalty in Overtime Pay Suit

  Clint Gilbert | April 05, 2006 12:13 PM | 2 Comments
  Category: Workplace Injuries

  A jury last month ruled that discount chain Family Dollar owed $19.1 million for systematically classifying some employees as "salaried managers," thus making them ineligible for overtime pay. A federal judge in Alabama has now increased the award to $33.2 million.The increased award comes after the court found that Family Dollar knew it was violating employment laws when they sat up the...