Class Action Lawsuits

Actos is a Type 2 Diabetes drug whose active ingredient, pioglitazone, has been associated with heart problems and bladder cancer. If you had bladder cancer while taking Actos, then you should know your legal rights involving an Actos lawsuit.

Actos injuries are not limited to bladder cancer.  People taking Actos may also be at increased risk of heart problems.  These include heart failure, heart disease, and heart attack.  Actos has also been associated with liver damage and kidney damage, as well as bone fracture.

If you have suffered any of these injuries while taking Actos, or if anyone you know has suffered, learn about your legal rights. An Actos lawyer can help determine whether you have a good case and whether an Actos lawsuit should be pursued.

The ingestion of Zoloft during pregnancy led eight different couples to parent children born with various birth defects, according to a recently filed lawsuit that name the drug’s manufacturer as a defendant.Hope Lower, Cindy and Gene Bendickson, Marianne Buneta and Jason Gultch, Monica and Roosevelt Jones, Carlisa and John Black, Mary Schulze, Norneesa Knowles and Sharon Jones and Antoine Bossier filed a lawsuit Nov. 4 in St. Clair County Circuit Court against Pfizer.

The dairy class action lawsuit was filed last September 2011 but nobody thought anything of it until recently.  It’s not going away at all.

In fact the dairy class action lawsuit is getting bigger and bigger as momentum grows as animal advocacy groups get wind of the cow situation.

Violation of federal antitrust laws are the alleged crime here, as dairy consumers charge that the National Milk Producers Federation payed dairy farmers to slaughter their cows to raise milk prices.  The dairy class action lawsuit claims that half a million  or more cows were slaughtered over a seven year period to reduce the milk supply in the country.

There has since been another dairy class action lawsuit  and plaintiffs are adding up as well.  Compassion Over Killing provided much of the research that went into filing the original dairy class action lawsuit, and a second dairy class action lawsuit was filed in October in California.

A proposed comScore class action lawsuit has surfaced in the news this week, filed on behalf of two plaintiffs.  The plaintiffs claim the free software offered by comScore scans files on their personal computers and changes security settings.  And these are just a few of the allegations.

comScore Inc offers free software downloads in exchange for information about users, which it then sells to other businesses, including Facebook, Microsoft and more.  The comScore class action lawsuit alleges the company violated privacy laws by scanning accessible files on users’ personal computer and networks and collects sensitive data on those users.

In response to allegations named in the proposed comScore class action lawsuit, comScore says it warns users that it collects shopping card activity, etc, but that it also purges sensitive material.  They admit they may inadvertently collect credit card numbers, user ids, and passwords as well as account numbers in the process but that it purges their databases of that type of information.

Data collection privacy lawsuits such as this are on the rise so industry leaders are watching closely to see whether a comScore class action lawsuit serves as a harbinger of things to come.

Most infamous product liability lawsuit of the year is turning out to be against Triad Group and their contaminated alcohol wipes.  The alcohol wipe lawsuits are mounting, forming what’s known in legal circles as as precursor to an actual alcohol wipes class action lawsuit.  The alcohol prep pads and swabs were recalled earlier this year after it was found that some were contaminated with bacillus cereus.

The Triad alcohol prep pads were distributed to hospitals as part of kits, and also to chain drugstores for home use.  Adults as well as newborns have been infected with bacillus cereus after using Triad alcohol wipes, and the lawsuits filed point to the prep pads as source of the serious infection in plaintiffs.  It’s yet to be known whether the mounting cases against Triad will form a tainted wipes class action lawsuit.

In this most recent case, there is a new birth injury lawsuit filed after a premature baby was infected in the hospital after being treated with Triad alcohol prep pads.  The plaintiffs in the case say it was tainted alcohol wipes that caused a serious infection which then led to cerebral palsy in the newborn.

Hydroxycut lawsuit

The makers of Hydroxycut have had legal problems for years now, but that hasn’t stopped them from filling up shelf space at Walmart, Walgreens, CVS and GNC.  Each lawsuit is followed by a reformulation of the product, until consumers suffer and the FDA catches up with them again and again.  This time, a Hydroxycut lawsuit made a major step forward as a federal court ruling allowed the class action against Iovate Health Sciences to proceed.

Iovate Health Sciences, maker of Hydroxycut diet supplement which is taken as a weight loss aid, are defendants in a Hydroxycut class action lawsuit that alleges their product caused liver damage and at least one death.

The FDA removed Hydroxycut from the market in 2009, but Iovate Health Sciences reformulated the product and now it’s basically a caffeine pill with some herbs mixed in.  The supplement company seemingly hopes to ride on the reputation of previous formulations of Hydroxycut, which then contained ephedra.

Ephedra was an ingredient  that became banned by the FDA because it triggered heart attacks and caused at least one death.   But from Ephedra to the next active ingredient that replaced Ephedra, garcinia cambogia, to the present formulation of caffeine and herbs, Iovate Health Sciences has maintained throughout that Hydroxycut is clinically proven to help people lose weight fast. Their claims are not backed up by any scientific studies and are completely over exaggerated, according to a former Iovate Health Sciences research director.

Procter and Gamble developed a new type of diaper and began selling the Dry Max technology this past March 2011.  After just two months on the market, the diapers have caused rumblings of a Pampers Dry Max class action, already in the legal system and before a judge.

The new technology allowed diapers to be thinner, which in turn meant that in a landfill, the disposable diapers took up less room than traditional disposable diapers.

But parents are concerned that the Dry Max technology is causing their babies to have diaper rash and, in some cases, chemical burns.  Several Pampers Dry Max lawsuits have already been filed.

A judge will decide whether the lawsuits merit a Pampers Dry Max class action lawsuit, and in the meantime, complaints continue to roll in at Procter and Gamble’s call center.

P&B claims the Dry Max diapers are safe, and that one in four babies have diaper rash.  To attribute a common ailment to their new diapers is a misguided notion,  say representatives of the giant corporation.

The Consumer Product Safety Commission will investigate the allegations listed in the Pampers Dry Max class action.  Their results will be made public and then the status of the class action will be determined.

Hip implant class action lawsuits are all over the news, but now the FDA is looking into  new danger posted by metal on metal hip implants: hip implant metal poisoning caused by cobalt and chromium from the device, leaking into the bloodstream.  When the metal on metal hip implant seeps into the body, a situation called metallosis occurs, where the body is slowly poisoned by microscopic pieces of metal.  In this case, it would be chromium and cobalt.

Metallosis causes pain, weakness, numbness, shortness of breath, and damages organs.  Hip implant metal poisoning is a new phenomena, and it’s only recently that the FDA has asked that companies manufacturing the devices to perform research.

A quarter of a million hip implants are performed each year in the United States.  About one third of these are metal on metal hip implants.  Usually, the metal on metal type is used for younger people, who plan on being very active after surgery.  The other option besides metal on metal hip implants is metal on ceramic.

Some people have even chosen to have the metal on metal hip implants removed, and have experienced a release from pain, which has been described as a burning fire.

iPhones and 3G-enables iPads may be revealing your location to Apple, and there’s nothing you can do to stop it, according to a recently filed Apple location tacking lawsuit.  Even if users disable the GPS functionality, iPhones and iPads will still report your location via Apples tracking system.  That’s an invasion of privacy, according to two men, one  in Florida and the other in New York, whose Apple class action lawsuit was filed April 22, 2011.

iPhones and iPads with the iOS4, the operating system used in those products for about a year now, will track your location and send it to Apple twice a day, according to the Apple location tracking lawsuit.  Users can disable the reporting functionality of the tracking system, which means the location data won’t be sent to Apple.  However, disturbing to consumers is that the products will continue to collect your location data, even if it’s not sent to Apple.  Then, anyone with access to your iPhone or iPad and a computer can download that data.

About one third to one half of iPhone users in the U.S. could be part of this Apple location tracking class action lawsuit.  Even more plaintiffs could be involved it one source is correct in saying the hidden database file that collects your location information has been around since 2007, rather than in just the past year.

Computer fraud and consumer fraud laws have been violated, according to lawyers for the plaintiffs in the Apple location tracking lawsuit.

Kids and Apple are together taking advantage of parents’ credit cards after a loophole was discovered.  The loophole allows further purchases on a credit card after a game is purchased, allowing kids to rack up charges on their parents credit cards. The Apple class action lawsuit is brought on behalf of parents whose credit cards saw mystery charges to Apple, for amount up to $200, in one case.

The window of opportunity, which is the main bone of contention in the Apple class action lawsuit,  lasts about fifteen minutes and the in-app purchases include things like more super powers for a game character, or to unlock bigger, stronger weapons.  The purchases fall under something called Game Currency.  It’s basically a purchase of virtual goods, whether it be Smurfberries, Fish Bucks, or weapons in the Zombie Cafe game.

After downloading a free Apple game, virtual goods are available to purchase while playing the game.  And during the first fifteen minutes of the game, there is no password required in order to charge these virtual goods to Mom’s or Dad’s credit card.  The Apple class action lawsuit wants that changed and indeed, Apple in app purchases now require that password.