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| Business Bid to Curb Consumer Suits Gets Top U.S. Court Look |  | The U.S. Supreme Court will consider a business-backed bid to put new limits on Congress's power to authorize consumer lawsuits in federal court. The justices said they will hear an appeal from the data broker Spokeo Inc. in a dispute with implications for a slew of federal statutes. Spokeo, which uses public information to compile personal dossiers, is seeking to stop a lawsuit by a man who says the company misrepresented his education, wealth and marital status. The suit, seeking class action status, accuses Spokeo of violating the U.S. Fair Credit Reporting Act, which authorizes damages of at least $100 for each victim. The central question is whether federal judges can hear cases when a statute authorizes damages to someone who hasn't suffered any concrete harm, as Spokeo contends is the case with plaintiff Thomas Robins.
Greg Stohr, Bloomberg 04/28/2015    | | Read Article: Bloomberg |
| Takeda Agrees to Pay $2.3 Billion to Settle Actos Cases | | Takeda Pharmaceutical Co. has agreed to pay more than $2.3 billion to resolve lawsuits accusing the company of hiding its Actos diabetes medicine's cancer risks, three people familiar with the accord said. Takeda directors still must vote on the deal, designed to resolve more than 8,000 suits, said the people, who asked not to be identified because they weren't authorized to speak publicly about the settlement. The accord would offer a payment of more than $287,000 per case to those who sign up for the settlement program while former Actos users whose injuries warrant more compensation can continue to litigate their claims, the people said. Asia's largest drugmaker, which hasn't settled any Actos cases up to this point, is accused in the suits of ignoring the drug's link to bladder cancer. A federal jury in Louisiana last year ordered Takeda and Eli Lilly & Co. to pay a combined $9 billion in damages to a shopkeeper who blamed Actos for causing his bladder cancer. That award, the seventh-largest in U.S. history based on data compiled by Bloomberg, was later reduced by more than 99 percent to $36.8 million by a judge.
Jef Feeley, Bloomberg 04/28/2015 | | Read Article: Bloomberg |
| Health Insurers Could Take $180M From Concussed Ex-NFL Players | | Nearly a fifth of the NFL settlement approved last week to compensate former players with head injuries could go to their health insurers instead. As a result of federal laws and court rulings enabling insurers to recover costs of medical treatment for injuries, Medicare, Medicaid, and private insurers will be reimbursed before players receive any money. Their share will reduce the value of a deal already criticized by some ex-players' lawyers as inadequate. The agreement allows for payments of up to $5 million to injured players, or their surviving family members, depending on the severity of the illness or injury. Most of those awards will be reduced by payments to health insurers, often referred to as medical liens.
David Armstrong, Bloomberg News, Philadelphia Inquirer 04/28/2015 | | Read Article: Philadelphia Inquirer |
| City of San Antonio Sued Over Serious Auto Accident with Mayor's Car | | A lawsuit was filed on Monday against the city of San Antonio and the driver for the city's mayor, Ivy Taylor. The driver is accused of running a red light and crashing into a convertible, leaving a woman brain dead. The incident took place on April 18 when the driver crashed into the convertible, which had three passengers - a male driver and two female passengers. One of the women was taken to San Antonio Military Medical Center in serious condition and remains in a coma.
Elizabeth Zavala, My San Antonio 04/27/2015 | | Read Article: My San Antonio |
| GM Ignition Switch Death Toll Rises to 90 | | Families of at least 90 people killed in crashes caused by defective General Motors ignition switches will get compensation from the automaker. Attorney Kenneth Feinberg, who was hired by GM to compensate victims, updated the total Monday. It was 87 last week. An additional 163 injured people also will be compensated. As of last week, 113 offers had been accepted and five rejected. The amounts haven't been disclosed.
Associated Press, ABC News 04/28/2015 | | Read Article: ABC News |
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