Check out our Nursing Home Litigation Guide The nursing home and assisted living industry has absorbed the tip of the deadly coronavirus’s spear. The unfortunate poster child is the Life Care Center in Kirkland, WA. As of March 18, 2020…
On March 23, 2020, a former nurse at Northwestern Memorial Hospital filed a wrongful termination suit against her employer. The plaintiff, Lauri Mazurkiewicz, claims her termination was retribution for warning coworkers that the masks provided by the hospital were insufficient…
Wells Fargo & Co., the fourth-largest bank in the United States, has agreed to pay $3 billion to settle civil lawsuits and resolve criminal prosecutions over its fake customer accounts scandal. In 2016, it was revealed that for over a…
The Apple iPhone has inarguably changed the telecommunications landscape. With over 100 million iPhone users in the United States, Apple, which has sold more than 1.5 billion iPhones since 2009, accounts for approximately 45% of all smartphone users. Part of…
On February 28, 2020, a proposed class-action suit was filed in California federal court against facial recognition company, Clearview AI. This marks the fourth lawsuit filed this year against the company. Clearview AI’s biometric technology provides image matches of uploaded…
On February 22, 2020, a vote by the National Association of Attorneys General revealed 35 states and territories are now in favor of a proposed nearly $50 billion settlement offer from opioid manufacturers. With bipartisan support representing nearly 70% of…
On February 13, 2020, following months of mediation efforts, a class action suit of Equifax shareholders entered an agreement in principle to settle—a long-awaited resolution following the infamous data breach from 2017. According to the terms of the settlement, Equifax…
In recent years, there have been a large number of mass tort lawsuits involving Inferior Vena Cava (IVC) filters. An IVC filter is a vascular device placed in the inferior vena cava vein which prevents blood clots from moving into…
Shaving, waxing, tweezing, sugaring, and even electrolysis-ing – there is no limit to the ways in which women (and a growing number of men) elect to remove unwanted hair. In recent years, by far the most popular method is laser…
In October, Johnson & Johnson (J&J) revealed a government laboratory test had found asbestos in its own Baby Powder. Since then, the company has continually attacked the validity of the result. J&J announced that other labs conducting similar tests found…