On October 7, 2015, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) announced its proposal to regulate the aggressive use of arbitration agreements in consumer financial services contracts and “give consumers their day in court.” These consumer financial services include: bank accounts, private student loans, credit cards, auto loans, money transfer services, small dollar or payday loans, and installment loans. [Read more…]
In an article examining the landscape of 2016 automotive product liability defect cases,Law360 spoke with Lieff Cabraser partner Elizabeth Cabraser about the General Motors deadly ignition switch defect cases. The defect, which can cause vehicles to lose power and thus prevent airbags from deploying, has allegedly caused hundreds of deaths and injuries and has affected millions of GM autos. [Read more…]
Law360 reviewed the landscape of 2016 consumer protection litigation, focusing in part on the Volkswagen diesel emissions fraud scandal and the more than 500 lawsuits filed on behalf of affected Volkswagen Porsche and Audi owners nationwide harmed by the company’s installation of scamming software designed to bypass federal emissions standards in its 2.0-liter diesel vehicles. [Read more…]
Legal news service Law360 has announced the winners of its Practice Group of the Year awards, and Lieff Cabraser has been recognized in the categories of Product Liability (Personal Injury/Mass Tort) and Employment. This marks the second year that our firm has been selected to be among the prestigious Practice Groups of the Year. [Read more…]
As reported in The Tennessean, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has been requested to waive Medicare liens on payments from the victims compensation fund slated for those sickened or killed in the 2012 nationwide meningitis outbreak resulting from contaminated medication. [Read more…]
Drug’s Release in 2011 Leads to Thousands of Serious Injuries by 2014, Consolidated Lawsuits Through 2015
Xarelto was released in July 2011 to prevent blood clots in patients undergoing knee and hip surgeries, and its use was then expanded to include patients with irregular heartbeats or facing likely lung and leg blood clots. It was also used to prevent clots in some people with atrial fibrillation. The drug is taken as a pill with the chemical name rivaroxaban. The new Xarelto patient information injury and lawsuit timeline shown below tracks Xarelto from its release to thousands of patient injury reports less than two years later, to thousands of Xarelto death and uncontrolled bleeding injury lawsuits slated for bellwether treatment in 2016 and 2017. [Read more…]
The Los Angeles Times has published a scathing report on failures by medical device company Olympus to respond to warnings from its own researchers about contamination dangers in certain medical examination scopes, failures that led to the deaths of 21 people and severe injury to dozens more. The US FDA identified at least 7 separate infection outbreaks relating to the Olympus scopes over the last three years in Pittsburgh, Seattle, and Los Angeles. [Read more…]
Lieff Cabraser attorney Sarah R. London will be featured as a distinguished panelist in a San Francisco Trial Lawyers Association (SFTLA) Women’s Caucus event titled “Why Aren’t More Female Lawyers Making it to Trial?” on January 7, 2016. [Read more…]
According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Health Interview Survey in 2014, 2.2% of children ages 3 to 17 (about 1 in 45) have been diagnosed with autism in the United States. [Read more…]
Lawsuit charges negligence and other wrongs by medical device manufacturers C.R. Bard and Bard Peripheral Vascular arising from the implantation of an allegedly defective Bard-branded blood filter marketed as the Bard G2 IVC Filter.
December 14, 2015, New York, NY — Wendy R. Fleishman of the national plaintiffs’ law firm Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein, LLP, announced that Gary Leigh Piazza has filed a personal injury product liability lawsuit against C.R. Bard and Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc. (“Bard”) for injuries she allegedly sustained as a result of surgical implantation of the Bard G2 IVC Filter. [Read more…]
