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• ConAgra Reintroduces Peter Pan

  Courtney Mills | August 09, 2007 11:18 AM | 0 CommentsCleveland, OH

  After several months off the shelves, Con Agra Foods announced today it would introduce Peter Pan, its flagship brand of peanut butter, back into the market place. Consumers will recall that a salmonella outbreak in February 2007 caused millions of jars to be pulled from shelves. In all, over 600 consumers got food poisoning from salmonella-tainted jars of Peter Pan peanut butter. The...

• Sherwin-Williams Recalls Aerosol Cans Due to Risk of Serious Facial Injury

  Jenny Albano | August 03, 2007 12:20 PM | 0 CommentsCleveland, OH

  The CPSC and The Sherwin-Williams Co. are recalling about 3,000 Hi-Heat Aerosol Coating Cans because the cans can over-pressurize and explode, which poses a risk of serious facial or other injuries to consumers.So far Sherwin-Williams has received one report of a consumer who has suffered injuries. The consumer suffered serious facial injuries which included a broken jaw, broken teeth, a broken...

• New Brain Center to Open for Children in Cleveland

  Jack Landskroner | July 19, 2007 5:31 PM | 0 CommentsCleveland, OH

  Brain tumors are the leading cause of cancer death in children. More than 2,200 cases of pediatric brain tumors are diagnosed each year. This week Rainbow Babies and Children's Hospital of Cleveland announced it will will use one of its most significant gifts ever "to establish a pediatric brain tumor center, aiming to make the hospital a national research leader."The center, launched Tuesday,...

• Shareholders Face Uphill Battle in Recovery of Losses From Securities Fraud

  Jack Landskroner | June 27, 2007 9:51 AM | 0 CommentsCleveland, OH

  This week the United States Supreme Court issued an opinion which affirms the heightened standards that shareholders must meet in order to prove securities fraud against a publicly held corporation or its officers in the sale of its securities. Investors that want to sue companies like Enron, Worldcom, Tyco and others who have left investors high and dry after making false and misleading...

• Supreme Court Blocks Faith Based Initiative Suit

  Rebecca Castell | June 25, 2007 12:46 PM | 0 CommentsCleveland, OH

  The US Supreme Court had yet another opportunity to show its Bush-based republicanism today when it refused to allow taxpayers to challenge the use of federal funds to support religous organizations and charities. A group of eight individuals brought the action hoping to reestablish the separation of church and state by preventing religious organizations from applying from federal money. To...

• U.S. Supreme Court Makes It Harder to Sue Companies for Defrauding Investors

  Rebecca Castell | June 22, 2007 12:32 PM | 0 CommentsCleveland, OH

  In a painful example of the pro-business, anti-consumer attitude of the current US Supreme Court, the Court ruled that investors who want to sue companies and executives for fraud have a higher burden to meet to get their case to court.The court on Thursday waded into the debate on the defendants' side. By a vote of 8 to 1, it said that investors must show "cogent and compelling" evidence of...

• Supreme Court Tightens Reins on Pay Discrimination Claims

  Rebecca Castell | May 30, 2007 9:58 AM | 0 CommentsCleveland, OH

  Today's New York Times reports that in a 5-4 decision yesterday, the Supreme Court held that employees may not bring suit under the principal federal anti-discrimination law unless they have filed a formal complaint with a federal agency within 180 days after their pay was set. This decision, which does not provide for an extension of the time frame if the worker is unaware of discriminatory...

• Patient Abuse Leads to Probation for University Hospitals of Cleveland

  Jack Landskroner | May 26, 2007 9:35 AM | 0 CommentsCleveland, OH

  The pyschiatric unit of University Hospitals of Cleveland was placed on probation by the Ohio Department of Mental Health after a grand jury indicted Herman Brown, a UH employee since April of this year, on multiple counts of rape, kidnapping, gross sexual imposition and sexual battery. "The hospital on May 18 acknowledged the rape of one patient after Brown's arrest. But the Ohio Department of...

• Failure to Diagnose Skin Cancer

  Paul Grieco | May 24, 2007 3:04 PM | 0 CommentsCleveland, OH

  As summer approaches remember that with increased outside activity comes the risk of skin cancer as a result of too much sun. Failure to diagnose skin cancer can lead too serious health problems and ultimately result in death. Recently a jury in California, found a dermatologist negligent for failing to biopsy a cyst. The patient's cyst later metastasized into cancer resulting in numerous...

• Recovery Beyond Workers Compensation

  Paul Grieco | May 18, 2007 12:30 PM | 0 CommentsCleveland, OH

  As most employees know, if you are injured while in the course and scope of your employment you are entitled to workers compensation benefits. These benefits cover your medical bills, lost wages and sometimes provide compensation for future losses, depending on the nature of the injuries. What employees should also be aware of, is if the injury incurred at work, was caused by the negligence of...