InjuryBoard Sarasota Archives

• Class Action Lawsuit Filed Against United Healthcare

  Joe Saunders | July 24, 2007 3:41 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Miscellaneous

  Today, I filed a class action lawsuit against United Healthcare for misrepresentation and fraudulent marketing in violation of The Florida Medicare Supplement Act. The lawsuit states that the defendants, United Health Group, Inc. and United Healthcare of Florida Inc. enrolled Medicare recipients into their Medical Advantage HMO and PPO plans without obtaining their signatures and consent to...

• Oxycontin Manufacturer Ordered to Pay Fine for Misleading Public

  Joe Saunders | July 20, 2007 8:38 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs

  Purdue Pharma L.P., the manufacturer of the popular Oxycontin, has been ordered to pay the stiff penalty of $634.5 million fine for misleading the public regarding the drug's addiction risk. In a Boston Globe article,the drug is "designed to be swallowed whole and digested over 12 hours, the pills can produce a heroin-like high if crushed and then swallowed, snorted or injected. From 1996 to...

• LA Priest Abuse Settlement and Cardinal Mahony

  Joe Saunders | July 20, 2007 1:10 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Miscellaneous

  I appeared on Fox 13's Your Turn with Kathy Fountain this week to discuss the recent abuse settlement in Los Angeles. As I stated on the program, the institutional secrecy that is so much a part of the fabric of the Catholic Church has contributed to the sex abuse scandal. This is quite evident in the case of Cardinal Mahony of Los Angeles who fought the survivors in court until it was obvious...

• Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles Settles Priest Abuse Cases

  Joe Saunders | July 16, 2007 11:03 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Miscellaneous

  The Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles has agreed to pay 508 plaintiffs $660 million for abuse they suffered at the hands of Catholic clergy dating back decades. The settlement is the largest priest abuse settlement since the sexual abuse scandal broke in Boston in 2002. However, this by no means bankrupts the church in Los Angelese. The Los Angeles Times reports that the Archdiocese of Los...

• Boston Scientific to Pay Settlement for its Guidant Defibrillator

  Joe Saunders | July 14, 2007 11:28 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Medical Malpractice

  The Boston Scientific Corporation has agreed to pay $195 million to approximately 4,000 people injured by the Guidant Ventak Prizm 2 Model 1861. The class action settlement was announced after the close of business yesterday and came on the heels of a federal trial that was to begin in 2 weeks. Judge Donovan W. Frank allowed the claims to go forward to trial and even stated that Boston...

• Zyprexa Manufacturer May Face More Legal Woes

  Joe Saunders | July 02, 2007 2:47 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs

  Eli Lilly, the manufacturer of the drug Zyprexa, may face more legal troubles after the FDA told the company it would delay the approval of its new drug Symbyax for hard-to-treat depression because the agency wanted more information about the risk of diabetes in the medicine's prescribing label. Symbyax combines Lilly's antipsychotic pill Zyprexa and the antidepressant Prozac. Zyprexa has...