A Nova Scotia judge has approved a settlement in the class-action lawsuit related to OxyContin, even as two people affected by addiction to the painkiller told the court Tuesday they were unhappy with the deal struck with the drug manufacturer. CBC | Health News
Tag: Classaction
Pokemon Go Fest’s blunders result in class-action lawsuit
Enlarge (credit: Daniel Boczarski/Getty Images) By many accounts, the Pokemon Go Fest in Chicago last week was a failure of epic proportions. The main thing that many festival-goers found—instead of make-believe characters in the game—was themselves standing in huge lines and without Internet at a 20,000-person party to celebrate the augmented reality game’s first year […]
Pelvic implant class-action starts in Australia
More than 700 Australian women in a class-action case against pharmaceutical giant Johnson & Johnson state company’s vaginal mesh caused them devastating pain. CBC | Health News
OxyContin maker agrees to $20M settlement in Canadian class-action case
OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma has agreed to pay $ 20 million to settle a class-action lawsuit involving allegations about how the pain pills were marketed. CBC | Health News
Fox News is in the middle of a class-action racial-discrimination lawsuit
Screenshot via YouTube Thirteen current and former employees of Fox News are filing a class-action lawsuit in the New York Supreme Court, alleging that they experienced “abhorrent, intolerable, unlawful and hostile racial discrimination,” while senior Fox News officials ignored their requests to take action. “When it comes to racial discrimination, 21st Century Fox has been […]
Class-action suit filed over E. coli contaminated Robin Hood flour
A pair of Alberta-based law firms say they’ve filed a class-action lawsuit on behalf of people, including a B.C. woman, who bought or consumed a popular brand of flour that’s been linked to illnesses from E. coli. CBC | Health News
$2.375M settlement granted in chemotherapy class-action suit
Superior Court Justice Gregory Verbeem gave a detailed decision outlining why he felt the $ 2.375-million settlement was fair. CBC | Health News
Class-action lawsuit targets LG over legendary G4, V10 bootloop issues
Enlarge / A functioning LG G4. (credit: Ron Amadeo) Here’s some good news for Android fans who bought one of two bootloop-ridden LG flagships: a handful of upset owners of the LG G4 and LG V10 have lodged a proposed class-action lawsuit in a California federal court. The owners claim that a repeating bootloop issue […]
