Lawsuit

Wrongful Death Lawsuit for Tyler R. Hill Against Ambassadors Group, docleaf, et al., Officially Settled

MOUND, Minn., Aug. 6 /PRNewswire/ -- Allen and Sheryl Hill of Mound, Minn., today announced the official settlement of their civil action for wrongful death of their 16-year-old son, Tyler Hill; invasion of privacy; and fraud against Ambassadors Group Inc., People to People International...

FDA Warnings on Mercury Tooth Fillings Expected Today: New Regulation Result of Lawsuit Settled Last Year

WASHINGTON, July 28 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is expected to issue a new regulation today calling for special controls on the placement of mercury tooth fillings. Until now, dentists who used amalgam have not had to disclose the type of materials us...

New York Law Firm Files Lawsuit Against Manufacturer of Zicam Nasal Spray and Drugstore Chain That Sold Product

Leading personal injury law firm files complaint, alleging permanent damage to Long Island man's sense of smell and taste Mineola, N.Y.(Lexis Nexis) July 8, 2009 -- Marc Grossman , senior partner of leading national personal injury law firm of Sanders Viener Grossman, ...

A Settlement Has Been Proposed in a Class Action Lawsuit Involving Cold MD Dietary Supplement

LOS ANGELES, July 7 /PRNewswire/ -- A notice program authorized by the Los Angeles County Superior Court began over the weekend to alert those who purchased Cold MD dietary supplement from March 26, 2004 through May 29, 2009 about a proposed settlement against Iomedix Cold International SRL ("Def...

Perrigo Confirms That its Partner Synthon Has Filed for Generic Version of Xyzal(R) Solution and Announcement of Lawsuit by Sepracor/UCB

ALLEGAN, Mich., June 24 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Perrigo Company (Nasdaq: PRGO ; TASE) today announced that its partner Synthon Pharmaceuticals, Inc. has filed an Abbreviated New Drug Application (ANDA) for Levocetirizine solution 2.5mg/5ml, a generic version of Xyzal(R) solution 2.5mg/5ml. Und...

U.S. Patent Infringement Lawsuit Filed by Aperio Technologies, Inc.

HAMAMATSU, Japan, June 23 /PRNewswire/ -- A U.S. patent infringement lawsuit was filed on June 10, 2009, against Hamamatsu Photonics K.K., Hamamatsu Corporation, and Olympus America, Inc. The lawsuit, brought by Aperio Technologies, Inc. in the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware, ac...

CetylMax(R) and Flexadren(R) Win Federal Lawsuit - Court Rules Against Imagenetix

SAN DIEGO, June 22 /PRNewswire/ -- CetylMax, LLC and Flexadren, LLC, manufacturers and distributors of tablet form and topical Cetylated Fatty Acids (CFA's) products aiding in joint support and pain relief, announced today that Imagenetix (OTC Bulletin Board: IAGX), the manufacturer of Celadrin, d...

Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan Concludes Autism Lawsuit with Settlement Focused on Families Who Received Early Intervention Services, Not Attorneys

DETROIT, June 19 /PRNewswire/ -- One month after announcing that it would voluntarily offer its customer groups the ability to purchase coverage for intensive early intervention treatment for autism beginning July 1, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan said today it has concluded a lawsuit involvin...

Bionovo Announces Arbitration Decision in Lawsuit Filed by Former Officer - All Claims Denied

EMERYVILLE, Calif., June 11 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Bionovo, Inc. (Nasdaq: BNVI ) announced today that an arbitration decision issued on June 10, 2009 has denied all claims against the company and its founders, Drs. Isaac Cohen and Mary Tagliaferri. The decision was in reference to a sui...

Verus Pharmaceuticals Announces a Lawsuit Against AstraZeneca AB and Tika Lakemedel AB

SAN DIEGO, May 27 /PRNewswire/ -- Verus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. ("Verus"), a specialty pharmaceutical company, announced today that it has filed a lawsuit against AstraZeneca AB ("AstraZeneca") and Tika Lakemedel AB ("Tika") in the Supreme Court of the State of New York, in which it is seeking $1.3 ...

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Lawsuit in Medical Technology

Perrigo and Partner Cobrek Confirms Filing for Generic Version of Evoclin(R) and Announcement of Lawsuit by Stiefel

ALLEGAN, Mich., March 17 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Perrigo Company (Nasdaq: PRGO ; TASE) today announced that its partner Cobrek Pharmaceuticals, Inc. has filed an Abbreviated New Drug Application (ANDA) for Clindamycin Phosphate Foam 1%, a generic version of Evoclin(R) Foam 1%. The Company bel...

Parker Waichman Alonso LLP and Affiliated Lawfirms Have Filed a Class Action Lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York Against Merck & Co., Inc. and Schering-Plough Corporation

Great Neck, N.Y., Jan. 18 /PRNewswire/ -- On January 17, 2008, the law firms of Parker Waichman Alonso LLP, Becnel Law Firm, LLC, Douglas & London P.C., Levin Simes Kaiser and Gornick LLP, Bailey Perrin Bailey LLP and Weitz & Luxenberg, P.C., have filed over a Billion ($1,000,000,000) Dollar C...

Shareholder Class Action Filed Against Rigel Pharmaceuticals, Inc. by the Law Firm of Barroway Topaz Kessler Meltzer & Check, LLP

...llowing statement was issued today by the law firm of Barroway Topaz Kessler Meltzer & Check, LLP: Notice is hereby given that a class action lawsuit was filed in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California on behalf of purchasers of securities of Rigel Pharmaceuticals, ...

Northfield Laboratories Inc. Presentation at FDA/NIH Workshop on Hemoglobin-Based Oxygen Carriers

... or non-competitive, our ability to protect our intellectual property rights, the outcome of certain governmental inquiries and purported class action lawsuit as described in our most recently filed annual report on Form 10-K and quarterly report on Form 10-Q, the possibility that we may be subject to produc...

Shareholder Class Action Filed Against Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated by the Law Firm of Schiffrin Barroway Topaz & Kessler, LLP

.../ -- The following statement was issued today by the law firm of Schiffrin Barroway Topaz & Kessler, LLP: Notice is hereby given that a class action lawsuit was filed in the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts on behalf of all purchasers of securities of Vertex Pharmaceuticals In...

Emisphere Technologies, Inc. Announces 2007 Third Quarter Financial Results

...er of 2006 -- Net proceeds from the settlement of lawsuit of $11.9 million in the three months ended Sep... 28,859 25,703 Income from settlement of lawsuit Proceeds from settlement of lawsuit 18,000 - 18,000 ...

R-CALF United Stockgrowers of America: 'Fighting for the U.S. Cattle Producer'

...wswire-USNewswire/ -- The following is being issued by R-CALF United Stockgrowers of America: WHAT: R-CALF USA will hold a news conference about the lawsuit it and 10 other plaintiffs filed against the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to prevent the agency from allowing into the United States older Ca...

Northfield Laboratories Investor Update

... or non-competitive, our ability to protect our intellectual property rights, the outcome of certain governmental inquiries and purported class action lawsuit as described in our most recently filed annual report on Form 10-K and quarterly report on Form 10-Q, the possibility that we may be subject to produc...

Northfield Laboratories Reports Results of Pivotal Phase III Trauma Study

... or non-competitive, our ability to protect our intellectual property rights, the outcome of certain governmental inquiries and purported class action lawsuit as described in our most recently filed annual report on Form 10-K and quarterly report on Form 10-Q, the possibility that we may be subject to produc...

Lawsuit in Medical Definition

Anthrax Vaccine Immunization Program

...10] On December 13, 2006 , a new class-action lawsuit [11] , filed on behalf of six unnamed plaintiffs...rding to court documents, the basic premise of the lawsuit is the plaintiffs’ claim that the vaccine is “unapproved for its applied/intended use.” The lawsuit says that “plaintiffs will suffer substantial and ...

Lawsuit in Medical Dictionary

Chemical burn

...emical burns can result if these are not diluted properly or have a prolonged ... Chemical Burns : Attorney and Lawyer for chemical burn lawsuit has a national ... Chemical Inhalation Injury. CO Poisoning. Cyanide Poisoning. Burn Brain Damage ... Chemicals that touch skin can lead t...

Lawsuit in Biological News

ACLU -- Myriad Genetics lawsuit will become landmark case

New Rochelle, NY, May 14, 2009The American Civil Liberties Union action in filing a lawsuit yesterday against Myriad Genetics is going to lead to one of the most important legal battles in the history of biotechnology, asserts Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News (GEN). ( www.genengnews.com ...

BIO-key to Respond in Court to a Lawsuit Filed by Two Investors

WALL, N.J., March 4 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- BIO-key International, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: BKYI), a leader in wireless public safety and finger-based biometric identification solutions, today announced that on or before March 16, 2009 it will file, in the United States District Court for the S...

Association for Molecular Pathology joins ACLU to challenge gene patents

...(ACLU) and the Public Patent Foundation to bring a lawsuit charging that patents on two human genes associate...ent with both the revised Policy Statement and the lawsuit is to address the larger implications of gene pate...ecular medicine a reality," said Dr. Nowak. The lawsuit charges that gene patents interfere with the free ...

Government, Industry Leaders Come Together to Explore Technology Alternatives to Border Fence for Security, Surveillance

...xas, April 21 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A coalition of Texas border mayors and county commissioners from El Paso to Brownsville joined a class-action lawsuit against Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff recently which challenges the impact the proposed border fence will have on private property righ...

IDsmart Admits in Court Document That e-Smart's Technology was Used to Develop IDsmart's Smart Card

...e-Smart(R) said, "Finally, IDsmart admitted what we alleged in the original lawsuit and which we have argued before the Court for nearly two years -- which IDs...o acknowledge to the Court that e-Smart's claims were true. In the original lawsuit filed against IDsmart the Company alleged the theft and misappropriation of...

e-Smart Technologies Responds to Press Release Issued By IDsmart LLC

...s name -- in May of 2006 Based on the above-stated events, e-Smart filed a lawsuit against Michael Gardiner and others on September 11, 2006 [U.S. Dist. Court...and IDsmart filed an action challenging the issuance of Patent 7,278,025, a lawsuit that suggests that Gardiner realizes that any product that he or IDsmart wo...

Cogent Systems and Northrop Grumman Reach Agreement to Settle Automated Fingerprint Identification Technology Suit and Create Strategic Alliance

...-- Cogent Systems (Nasdaq: COGT) and Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE: NOC ) today announced that they have reached an agreement to settle Cogent's lawsuit against Northrop Grumman regarding Cogent's automated fingerprint identification technology. The agreement is subject to negotiation and execution of ...

Cogent Systems and Northrop Grumman Reach Agreement to Settle Automated Fingerprint Identification Technology Suit and Create Strategic Alliance

...-- Cogent Systems (Nasdaq: COGT) and Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE: NOC ) today announced that they have reached an agreement to settle Cogent's lawsuit against Northrop Grumman regarding Cogent's automated fingerprint identification technology. The agreement is subject to negotiation and execution of ...

Row over study puts Korea's scientific community under scrutiny again

...the number of authors had reduced to six and that he was no longer one of them. The lead author was Dr Cha. In December last year, Dr Kim filed a lawsuit in Korea against Dr Cha and Dr Lee, alleging breach of copyright. Dr Lee responded by alleging that Dr Kim had defamed her. The CHA group also claims ...

Medical whistleblowers speak out

... of the roundtable whistleblowers was Allen Jones, a former investigator at the Pennsylvania Office of the Inspector General, who filed a civil rights lawsuit on November 22 2002 "to preserve my job and my right to speak out." Jones explained that he had investigated an account into which pharmaceutical c...

Lawsuit in Biological Technology

Haemonetics Receives Favorable Ruling in Patent Lawsuit against Competitive Technology

BRAINTREE, Mass., June 4 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Haemonetics Corporation (NYSE: HAE ) announced today that the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts has made a ruling in the Company's lawsuit against Fenwal, Inc. In January 2009, a jury issued a verdict in favor of Haemone...

ASCP Joins ACLU Lawsuit Opposing Gene Patents

The American Society for Clinical Pathology (ASCP) has joined the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) in a lawsuit challenging the legality of patents on human genes -- specifically, patents covering the BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes, which are associated with breast and ovarian cancer. The lawsuit wa...

Shire Files Lawsuit Against Natco Pharma for Infringement of FOSRENOL(R) (lanthanum carbonate) Patents

PHILADELPHIA, April 2 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Shire plc (LSE: SHP, NASDAQ: SHPGY ) announces that it has filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York against Natco Pharma Limited ("Natco") for infringement of two of Shire's patents: U.S. Patent No. 5,968...

Shire Files Lawsuit Against Mylan for Infringement of FOSRENOL(R) (Lanthanum Carbonate) Patent

PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania and DUBLIN, Ireland, March 20 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Shire plc (LSE: SHP, NASDAQ: SHPGY ) announces that it has filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court of the Southern District of New York against Mylan Inc., Mylan Pharmaceuticals Inc. and Matrix Laboratories...

Shire Files Lawsuit Against Barr Laboratories for Infringement of FOSRENOL(R) (Lanthanum Carbonate) Patents

PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania and DUBLIN, Ireland, March 16 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Shire plc (LSE: SHP, NASDAQ: SHPGY ) announces that it has filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court of the Southern District of New York against Barr Laboratories, Inc. ("Barr") for infringement of three of ...

Cephalon and Eurand File Patent Infringement Lawsuit Against Mylan Pharmaceuticals and Barr Pharmaceuticals

FRAZER, Pa. and PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 26 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Cephalon, Inc. (Nasdaq: CEPH ) and Eurand, Inc. (Nasdaq: EURX ) today announced that they have filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Delaware against Mylan Pharmaceuticals, Inc. and its subsidiary, Mylan, Inc., and Barr Pharma...

Purdue Pharma L.P. Announces Resolution of OxyContin(R) Patent Lawsuit with Mallinckrodt Inc.

Mallinckrodt acknowledges validity of Purdue patents; Purdue licenses limited sales of some generic oxycodone strengths STAMFORD, Conn., Sept. 2 /PRNewswire/ -- Purdue Pharma L.P. of Stamford, Connecticut and Mallinckrodt Inc. of Hazelwood, Missouri have agreed to end the OxyContin(...

PSKW Expands Its Lawsuit Against McKesson to Seek Assignment of McKesson's Patent Application

EDISON, N.J., Sept. 1 /PRNewswire/ -- PSKW, LLC, a New Jersey-based leading provider of prescription co-pay programs for the pharmaceutical industry, announced today that it has significantly expanded the scope of the lawsuit that it commenced last year in the Supreme Court of the State of New...

Weitz & Luxenberg Files Seroquel Diabetes Lawsuit Against AstraZeneca

AstraZeneca's CEO to be Deposed in London on Friday, June 20, 2008 NEW YORK, June 19 /PRNewswire/ -- Weitz & Luxenberg, PC, one of the leading plaintiffs' litigation law firms in America, filed a lawsuit today against pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca on behalf of a New York City Fire Depart...

Cephalon Files Patent Infringement Lawsuit Against Watson Pharmaceuticals

FRAZER, Pa., June 3 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Cephalon, Inc. (Nasdaq: CEPH) today announced that it and its wholly-owned subsidiary CIMA LABS INC. have filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Delaware against Watson Pharmaceuticals, Inc. and its wholly-owned subsidiary, Watson Laboratories, ...

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Lawsuit in Biological Definition

Polymerase chain reaction

...e Taq polymerase enzyme is also covered by patents. There have been several high-profile lawsuits related to the technique, including most famously a lawsuit brought by DuPont . The pharmaceutical company Hoffmann-La Roche purchased the rights to the patents in 1992 and currently holds them. PCR...

Lawsuit in Biological Dictionary

Trans face

...nche | w/ Tach & Trans Temp (2003-2005) ... Trans Fat and Burger King written by Registered Dietitians. ... Burger King faces Trans Fat lawsuit ... Trans fat raises bad LDL cholesterol and lowers good ... ...