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• Family Sues Over Tainted Peanut Butter

  Mike Simon | June 21, 2007 8:23 AM | 0 CommentsWest Virginia, WV

  The family of 11-year-old Krystina Brugh has filed a federal lawsuit against ConAgra Foods, Inc., claiming that the food maker's tainted peanut butter is to blame for their daughter's kidney failure. ConAgra, who produces Peter Pan and Great Value brand peanut butter, recalled all of its peanut butter after government investigators traced a salmonella outbreak to its products. ConAgra is facing...

• Advanced Medical Optics Voluntarily Recalls Complete MoisturePlus Contact Lens Solution

  Mike Simon | June 01, 2007 10:27 AM | 0 CommentsWest Virginia, WV

  On May 25, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration alerted health care professionals and their patients who wear soft contact lenses about a voluntary recall of Complete MoisturePlus Multi Purpose Solution manufactured by Advanced Medical Optics of Santa Ana, CA.The company is taking this action due to reports of a rare, but serious, eye infection, Acanthamoeba keratitis, caused by a parasite. ...

• Avandia Linked to Increased Risk of Heart Problems

  Mike Simon | May 24, 2007 8:47 AM | 0 CommentsWest Virginia, WV

  On May 21, the FDA issued a warning to endocrinologists, doctors, and consumers that the Type 2 diabetes drug Avandia has been link to an increased risk of heart attack and other ischemic heart-related problems. The link was discovered in a study published by the New England Journal of Medicine, which found that the risk of heart attack was 43% greater in persons taking the drug. The study...

• Judge OKs $7.4M settlement for U.S. Patients Who Said They Had Unnecessary Heart Procedures

  Mike Simon | May 22, 2007 8:52 AM | 0 CommentsWest Virginia, WV

  A Louisiana hospital agreed to pay $7.4 million to settle its part of a class action suit accusing a cardiologist of doing unnecessary angioplasties and other procedures. Half of the amount will be shared by 305 former patients and the rest will pay litigation costs and attorneys' fees in the suit against Our Lady of Lourdes Regional Medical Center. The attorneys are still seeking damages from...

• 450,000 Evenflo Carseats Recalled

  Mike Simon | May 11, 2007 8:55 AM | 0 CommentsWest Virginia, WV

  The Consumer Product Safety Commission and National Highway Traffic Safety Administration announced a recall yesterday of Evenflo Embraceâ„¢ Infant Car Seat/Carriers. The product has been found to be unsafe when it is used as a carrier because the handle can release from the locked position unexpectedly. When the handle releases it can cause the seat to rotate forward and the child to fall to...

• UMW Says Roof Friction Caused Sago Disaster

  Mike Simon | March 27, 2007 9:11 AM | 0 CommentsWest Virginia, WV

  Over a year has passed since the Sago mine explosion killed twelve miners. International Coal Group, the owner of the Sago mine, as well as state investigators have concluded that the explosion was caused by a lightning strike, which ignited methane gas in the mine.The United Mine Workers, however, has put forth a different theory. The union argues that it was not a lightning strike that...

• ATV Accident Kills Two

  Mike Simon | March 26, 2007 9:08 AM | 0 CommentsWest Virginia, WV

  An ATV versus car accident occurred at 3:20 a.m. on March 18 on Route 2 near Flat Rock, West Virginia. The ATV was traveling on the roadway, and had two riders when it was struck by an oncoming automobile. One rider was dead at the scene, and the other passed away later at an area hospital.The driver of the automobile has been charged two counts of DUI causing death. Police continue to...

• Mylan Accused of Accepting Pay-off From Competitor

  Mike Simon | March 21, 2007 9:27 AM | 0 CommentsWest Virginia, WV

  A lawsuit filed by The Prescription Access Litigation Project, a consumer action group, alleges that Mylan Laboratories, Inc. accepted money from Cephalon, one of its competitors, to delay marketing of a generic version of the drug Provigil.Generic drugs typically cost much less, and the suit alleges that consumers paid more as a result of the $136 million pay-off Mylan and other generic drug...

• Ten Vehicle Pile-Up on I-70

  Mike Simon | February 21, 2007 11:11 AM | 0 CommentsWest Virginia, WV

  Interstate 70 was closed for thirty minutes following a multiple vehicle car accident on Sunday, February 18. The accident occurred in the eastbound lanes of the interstate between exits 216 and 218 near the Ohio Valley Mall in St. Clairsville.The accident remains under investigation, but according to the Ohio State Highway Patrol, blowing snow resulting in decreased visibility is suspected to...

• Katrina Trial Begins

  Mike Simon | February 19, 2007 11:34 AM | 0 CommentsWest Virginia, WV

  The first trial of over 4,000 federal lawsuits filed in Louisiana against insurers arising out of Hurricane Katrina began on February 12. The lawsuit against Allstate Indemnity Company alleges "bad faith" against the insurer. The plaintiffs allege that Allstate failed to promptly or properly adjust their insurance claim, and underpaid them for wind damage sustained in the storm.Last month a...