Posts tagged fraud

• Light Cigarettes and Class Action

  John Hopkins | September 16, 2006 12:34 PM | 0 CommentsWest Palm Beach, FL Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  The Tobacco Industry began marketing "light" cigarettes because? Anybody, anybody? It seems likely that it involved, at least a little, the need to hedge against the increasing sounds being made by the anti-smoking faction; don't you think? Could a fear of shrinking profits have been involved? Could they have had a desire to create the idea that smoking "light cigarettes" was somehow healthier?...

• Light Cigarettes Sound Better--and That's What Tobacco was Going For!

  John Hopkins | September 15, 2006 1:54 PM | 0 CommentsWest Palm Beach, FL Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  Smokers came to know that smoking was not good for them, but Big Tobacco had an answer for them: "light cigarettes". Lower in tar; lower in nicotine; keep on puffin'!!That fiction, sold to the public for over 20 years, may actually be exposed by the light of day. Plaintiffs have asked District Couirt Judge Jack Weinstein to certify a class action lawsuit in which the plaintiffs allege that Big...

• Recipe for Injury: Bad Prescribing and Bad Prescriptions

  John Hopkins | September 05, 2006 8:36 PM | 0 CommentsWest Palm Beach, FL Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  One and a half million Americans are harmed each year at a cost of over $3.5 million dollars per year due to preventable mistakes; as reported by the New York Times recently. This article was based on a report issued by the Institute of Medicine this summer. These figures, according to the report, account for only the prescribing errors and not the errors resulting from drugs that did not work...

• Iraq Corporate Fraud Lawsuits Take Hit

  Staff Writer | August 24, 2006 10:57 AM | 0 CommentsWest Palm Beach, FL Category: Miscellaneous
  

  When a U.S. judge set aside a $10 million verdict against Custer Battles last week, it brought into question the ability of the government and whistleblowers to penalize companies that profited illegally from the war in Iraq. Custer Battles was found to have grossly inflated invoices to the Coalition Provisional Authority, but Judge T.S. Ellis, III ruled that invoices to the CPA were not proven...