The family of two young girls, aged 15 months and four-years-old, filed a wrongful death lawsuit against Bugman Pest and Lawn, Inc. of Utah.
According to investigators, the girls died just a few days after a fumigant was placed around their house and the sisters might have inhaled phosphine fumes emitted from tablets of a rat poison called Fumitoxin.
Has your loved one experienced a death caused by the wrongful actions of another person or company?
Scranton, PA: Concerns over the potential for excessive bank overdraft fees are exacerbated this time of year with the return of students to school. That means back-to-school shopping and the bills that come with it. With more Americans trying to reign in their credit card debt and using debit cards tied to a checking account to make purchases, there is the risk of overspending.
According to the CBS Evening News, GlaxoSmithKline- a British pharmaceutical company- has been ordered to pay $3 billion in a settlement after an investigation of its sales and marketing practices.
The Washington Post stated that the investigation spanned seven years, with analysis of marketing practices for 10 well-known GlaxoSmithKline drugs. The investigation also questioned possible Medicaid reimbursement fraud.
“The settlement [is] the largest yet in a wave of federal cases against pharmaceutical companies accused of illegal marketing, surpassing the previous record of $2.3 billion paid by Pfizer in 2009,” as reported by New York Times.
Household product recalls in the news recently included:
Martha Stewart’s enamel cast-iron casseroles: Enamel coating can crack or break during use, cutting and burning the consumer. More than 960,000 casseroles sold at Macy’s between June 2007 and June 2011 have been recalled. The product ranges in price from $25 to $170.
What to Do: Stop using this unsafe consumer product and return it to Macy’s for a refund. Call Macy’s at 888-257-5949 or go to www.macys.com for more details.
Teva Parenteral Medicines, Inc., Baxter Healthcare Corp., and McKesson Corp. have been ordered by a jury to pay at least $20.1 million for packaging and selling an anesthetic in a way that proved harmful to patients. The jury concluded that the companies wrongfully sold Propofol in vials large enough to be used on multiple patients. Consequently, three colonoscopy patients contracted Hepatitis C. The plaintiffs sought $25 million in actual damages over the incurable liver disease. Punitive damages have yet to be decided.
Teva faces almost 300 lawsuits stemming from a Hepatitis C outbreak three years ago. The company has argued that the infections were caused by “improperly sanitized medical equipment, not reused Porpofol containers.”
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