New York City Personal Injury Lawyer articles in category: Miscellaneous

Hannaford Brothers Company is an east coast grocery store chain serving millions of customers. Customers are being urged to check with their credit card and debit card companies this week after learning 4.2 Million numbers were stolen in a security breach. The data was not taken from a company database. The supermarket chain, the Hannaford Brothers Company, said the data were exposed when...

A woman who was scalded from a hotel shower has filed a $100 million negligence lawsuit against the hotel.Ethel Tropez, a Hurricane Katrina refugee from New Orleans who lives in Live Oak, Texas, says in court papers she was badly burned and suffered scarring and disfigurement in the mishap on March 29, 2007, in the Hotel Chandler. The hotel, where deluxe rooms go for up to $510 a night, is on...

Two black shoppers have sued Toys 'R' Us because they think the store discriminated against them. Patricia Drayton and Valerie Kirk were shopping in a the toy store in The Bronx, New York City, when they were stopped when they tried to exit the premises. A security guard asked to see there receipts for the items they had purchased. After refusing to do so, Drayton was made to wait while the...

More than 100 passengers and crew arrived in Port Everglades on Princess Cruise's Sun Princess showing symptoms of norovirus, a gastrointestinal illness that resembles stomach flu. And 99 passengers and 11 crew members came down with the virus on Royal Caribbean's Freedom of the Seas -- for the second time in a week, said officials with the Miami-based cruise line and federal regulators.One has...

Have you ever been bit by a dog. This weekend I was walking in my edition and a stray dog I can be describe as a large mutt came up and started growling at my wife and I. To complicate things further, we had my two and half year old in the jogging stroller. Being the upstanding man I am (facetious), I got between the dog and my wife and child. The dog followed us for about 100 yards before...

U.S. Senator Charles E. Schumer just publicly called for an end to the continued actions of the WTC Captive Insurance Company in failing to pay the claims of those who are injured or ill as a result of their work at Ground Zero. He correctly stated that the Company appeared to be more concerned with technical legal arguments, than paying those who are injured from their work at the site. As...

By now, most people have heard about the Crown Princess cruise ship accident that occurred off the coast of Port Canaveral yesterday. Orlando's Local6.com provides first-hand accounts from passengers aboard the ship when it developed steering problems and rolled to one side.Among the more chilling tales recounting the experience was New Jersey resident Dan France:"When I was running down through...

Yahoo News features an article discussing a study that will be in the May 17 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association. It brings to light information that plaintiff attorneys have been saying for years about so called unbiased studies by the drug companies. This article is referencing a Harvard study about the bias of for-profit funding in medical research.Among its findings,...

People taking the pain reliever Celebrex were at nearly twice the risk for heart attacks as those using rival treatments, according to a study released Wednesday conducted by New Zealand's Medical Research Institute. Celebrex, which is manufactured by Pfizer Inc. and is commonly used to treat arthritis pain, belongs to the class of drugs known as cox-2 inhibitors. Two other drugs in the class,...

Feb. 14, 2006 - The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has requested the recall of all brands and sizes of balanced salt solution (made by Cytosol Laboratories, Inc), due to the presence of elevated endotoxin levels in some lots. The action was based on more than 300 reports of injuries, including toxic anterior segment syndrome, in patients receiving the products, according to an alert sent...

James Frey's mantra throughout Pieces is "I am an Alcoholic and I am a drug Addict and I am a Criminal." He uses this fictitious criminal past as a significant element in his book. For a book that spent so many weeks as the number 1 book in the country, shouldn't someone be responsible for the lies told within. A consumer has a right to know what they are purchasing, I wonder if Frey's...

James Frey, needs a new literary manager. Brillstein-Grey Entertainment literary manager Kassie Evashevski, who represented the author of "A Million Little Pieces" for more than four years, per reports says she's not representing him anymore because of his tall tales.

I recently read where Random House issued a statement about James Frey book which said "it doesn't matter whether a book sold as nonfiction is true." This is truly amazing coming from a publisher. So essentially they say that fiction, nonfiction, sci fi, etc are irrelevant when it comes to the selling of books. I can assure you a consumer who enjoys nonfiction that it irritates and actually...

The Wall Street Journal ran an article yesterday entitled Publishers Say Fact Checking is Too Costly by Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg. Oprah Winfrey's criticism of publisher Random House and Nan Talese on her show has sparked a national debate on the responsibility of publishers to verify the vailidity of works of fiction which they represent and market as "true stories." The Wall Street Journal...

The NY Times is reporting that Novo Nordisk Paid Cash Rewards To Switch Patients to Novo Insulin. Of course Novo denies the accusations. However, former sales representatives who participated in the program said that Novo paid anchors as much as $25 for each prescription they helped switch to higher-priced insulin products. Isn't this a sad state of the pharmaceutical industry if its true.