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On Wednesday, April 3, Buncombe County filed a Motion to Intervene and proposed Intervenor Complaint in Attorney General Josh Stein's lawsuit against HCA for breach of contract requesting a permanent injunction and compliance with its obligations to provide emergency and trauma services and oncology services at the

ASHEVILLE, N.C. (WLOS) — There have been new developments in Buncombe County's lawsuit against TeamHealth, the billing service for HCA's Mission Hospital.

ASHEVILLE, N.C. (WLOS) — There have been new developments in Buncombe County's lawsuit against TeamHealth, the billing service for HCA's Mission Hospital.

ASHEVILLE, N.C. (WLOS) — There have been new developments in Buncombe County's lawsuit against TeamHealth, the billing service for HCA's Mission Hospital.

SALISBURY, N.C. (QUEEN CITY NEWS) – Four federal judges recently appointed a Salisbury attorney to serve as co-lead on what could be the largest tort in American history. Mona Lisa Wallace will be representing tens of thousands of veterans filing claims against the Department of the Navy and the Department of Justice for contaminated water at Camp

Two NCAJ members are among those tapped to lead the Camp Lejeune Justice Act litigation. In an order released last week, the judges of the Eastern District of North Carolina named Mona Lisa Wallace of Wallace & Graham as one of six co-lead counsels. The judges named Charles Ellis of Ward and Smith, P.A. liaison counsel.According to the order,

SALISBURY, N.C. (WBTV) — Local lawyer Mona Lisa Wallace was appointed Wednesday as co-lead counsel for the plaintiffs in litigation centered in North Carolina over contaminated water at the United State Marine Corps base Camp Lejeune. The litigation is based around cancers and other severe illnesses related to the contaminated water. Wallace was

On July 19, 2023, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina appointed Mona Lisa Wallace of Wallace and Graham, PA to serve as Co-Lead Counsel for plaintiffs in litigation centered in North Carolina over cancers and other severe illnesses relating to contaminated water at the United States Marine Corps base Camp Lejeune. Camp

Two long-time emergency room doctors have blown the whistle on what they say is fraudulent overcharging by HCA Healthcare, which owns Mission Health, and its medical staffing company, TeamHealth, according to a recently unsealed lawsuit filed last year.

This article is reposted from North Carolina Health News to read the original article please click this link. Residents Of The Citadel Of Salisbury, A Covid-Devastated Nursing Home, Have Charged That They Were Damaged By The Facility’s Deliberate Understaffing. Similar Cases Have Taken Years To Move Forward, Meanwhile, Those Who Claim Harm Are Aging

This article is a repost from the Asheville Citizen Times, to view to original please click here. A North Carolina Business Court judge has partially denied HCA Healthcare and Mission Health's motion to dismiss an antitrust lawsuit brought against them just more than a year ago. Special Superior Court Judge for Complex Business Case Mark Davis is presiding

This is a reposted article from The Salisbury Post, to read the original article please click here. SALISBURY — The baskets just kept coming. Pulling them from trunks of sedans and passenger seats of SUVs, representatives from Wallace & Graham law firm on Monday morning marched 30 “survivor” baskets brimming with toys and toiletries

This is a repost from Vox media, to read the original please click here. “The smell of money” — that’s what pork producers have long called the revolting odor of pig waste that permeates the air in eastern North Carolina, where hogs outnumber people by as much as 35 to 1. But to many Black, Latinx, and Indigenous residents who live

In this exceptional account, Addison (A Harvest of Thorns) reveals how a cadre of dedicated lawyers and long-suffering North Carolina families fought, and won, against Big Pork. In 2013, attorney Mona Wallace took on the case of 26-year-old Brandon Taylor, who died from toxic fumes while working at a Smithfield packing plant in Clinton, N.C. This case,

This is a repost from Becker's Hospital Review, to view the original article, click here. A self-funded employer in Louisiana is suing Knoxville, Tenn.-based TeamHealth over what it considers inappropriate billing and "systematic overcharges." The Louisiana Municipal Risk Management Agency, which pays medical expenses for service department personnel

This is a repost from Law Street Media, to view the original article click here. Louisiana Municipal Risk Management Agency filed suit in the Eastern District of Tennessee on Monday against defendants Team Health Holdings, Inc., Ameriteam Services, LLC, HCFS Health Care Financial Services, LLC, and ACS Primary Care Physicians Louisiana PC. The suit

Today W&G filed a class-action lawsuit against hospital chain, Vidant Health, which operates 9 hospitals in Eastern North Carolina. The Complaint alleges Vidant has deceptively hidden prices and charged rates grossly exceeding any reasonable value for the health care services provided. Our firm seeks to increase transparency and fairness in hospital

This article is a repost from the NC Department of Commerce, the article can be found here. Raleigh, N.C.Thirty-three North Carolina Main Street Champions will be recognized for their commitment to downtown revitalization and strong communities in 2021 during a virtual Recognition Ceremony today at 9:00 a.m. Including this year’s group of

Amongst today's heartbreaking news: Our law firm filed suit against The Citadel nursing home due to its failure to notify a resident's designated contact and power of attorney of the resident's COVID-19 related death in a timely manner. The loved one instead learned from the funeral home that his aunt was deceased and had already been embalmed. Click here

This article is a repost from Modern Health Care to view to original click here Vidant Health allegedly hid its inflated prices from patients and harassed them when their bills were past due, according to a new lawsuit. George Cansler, a patient of the nine-hospital system based in Greenville, North Carolina, was charged $3,119 for a CT scan in 2018 after

Vidant Health has deceptively hidden its prices in order to overbill patients thousands of dollars for common procedures like CT scans and then deployed aggressive and illegal debt collection tactics, a new federal class-action lawsuit alleges. The complaint alleges that Vidant has been able to extract unreasonable prices from Eastern North Carolina

This is a repost from the Military Times, to read the full article please click here. Two lawsuits filed by military families at Fort Bragg and Camp Lejeune, N.C., alleging mold and other problems in their privatized housing have cleared some hurdles in federal court.U.S. District Judge James C Dever III denied the privatized housing companies’

This article is a repost from the Fayetteville Observer, to read the full article click here. FORT BRAGG —After a series of legal motions, a judge agreed last week to dismiss portions of a class action lawsuit alleging poor management of Fort Bragg housing against four defendants, but left intact the legal actions against two others.The defendants

Mona Lisa Wallace was one of the first asbestos trial lawyers in the Southeast and has handled significant personal injury cases for over 40 years. With partners, Bill Graham and Whitney Wallace Williams, her firm, Wallace & Graham of Salisbury, has assisted thousands of individuals and families who suffer from both accident and occupationally related

This is a repost from ABC 13 News to see the original article click here ASHEVILLE, N.C. (WLOS) — A class-action lawsuit filed against Mission Health claims the hospital system has become a monopoly that's been overcharging patients for years. The lawsuit was filed in August this year by six plaintiffs. ONE PARENT'S STORY When four-year-old

This article is a repost from facingsouth.org to read the original article please visit https://www.facingsouth.org/2021/09/lawsuit-targets-hcas-hospital-monopoly-western-north-carolina Founded as a charity hospital in 1885 and incorporated as a nonprofit in 1951, Mission Health in Asheville, North Carolina, long enjoyed a reputation as a

Washington, D.C. — The American Economic Liberties Project released the following statement celebrating a new class-action lawsuit by Western North Carolina residents against HCA Healthcare (HCA). The suit, filed in North Carolina Superior Court, takes aim at the anticompetitive practices HCA has used to raise prices across Western North Carolina for

A class-action, anti-trust lawsuit filed in Buncombe County Aug. 10 charges HCA Healthcare with using a monopoly on the local health care industry to charge rates much higher than the state average while quality declines. In a statement announcing the lawsuit, lawyers representing six Western North Carolina residents who brought the suit say the complaint

A group of residents from western North Carolina filed a lawsuit Tuesday, Aug. 10, against HCA Healthcare and Mission Health alleging the anti-competitive business practices have driven medical prices up and the quality of health care down in that part of the state. HCA is based in Nashville, Tennessee, and is the largest care provider network in the

August 10, 2021 -- Today, a group of Western North Carolina residents filed a class-action lawsuit alleging that the out-of-state hospital conglomerate HCA Healthcare uses anti-competitive practices that cause high prices and worse quality for health care. The plaintiffs are represented by the law firms Wallace & Graham of Salisbury, NC, and Fairmark

CLASS ACTION LAWSUIT SEEKS DAMAGES FOR GAS STATION AND CONVENIENCE STORE OWNERS AFFECTED BY COLONIAL PIPELINE RANSOMWARE SHUTDOWN More than 11,000 gas stations, many of them independent small businesses, lost thousands of dollars from lack of gas June 22, 2021, Wilmington, NC – The Rhine Law Firm in Wilmington, NC along with its co-counsel has

When the pandemic shuttered most North Carolina workplaces, Bruce Trivett had no way to earn his pay from home. Instead, the 58-year-old prison officer worked his regular shifts at Avery Mitchell Correctional Institution in person, rarely venturing anywhere else except to pick up food, his family says. By fall, a coronavirus outbreak spread rapidly inside

FOR RELEASE May 17, 2021 MEDIA CONTACT: Linda Wike Wallace and Graham, P.A. 525 N. Main St. Salisbury, NC 28144 (800) 849-5291 E-mail: lwike@wallacegraham.com May 17, 2020, Salisbury NC – Wallace and Graham Law Firm in Salisbury NC has filed a class action lawsuit for elderly residents of the Citadel Salisbury nursing home located in Rowan

From her work with a decades-old law firm and downtown leadership positions to her family’s generous financial contributions to charity and the newly established cancer center, local attorney Whitney Wallace-Williams draws her inspiration from her innate desire to help people. Wallace-Williams, 39, spent a decade away from home, which included her

(Reuters) - Bayer AG struck a $2 billion deal to resolve future legal claims that its widely used weedkiller Roundup causes cancer, the German company said on Wednesday.Bayer has been struggling to finalize the settlement of claims that Roundup and other glyphosate-based herbicides cause non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, a type of cancer. Bayer inherited the

The following article is a repost from The Salisbury Post, to read more please click the following link Wallace and Graham partners with Yadkin Riverkeeper to feed healthcare workers SALISBURY — With support from the Wallace and Graham Gives Foundation and the Waterkeeper Alliance, the Yadkin Riverkeeper will be providing sustainably raised barbecue

Smithfield Settles Lawsuits Over Noise Smell of Hog Farms in North Carolina Chinese-owned pork producer Smithfield Foods Inc. settled a series of lawsuits with dozens of residents in rural North Carolina over the nuisance caused by living near hog farms run by company contractors. The settlement brings an end to more than two years of litigation over the

November 19, 2020 Fourth Circuit Affirms Smithfield Subsidiary Willfully and Wantonly Interfered With Neighbors’ Property Rights Today, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit affirmed that a subsidiary of Smithfield Foods, Murphy-Brown LLC, is liable for compensatory and punitive damages to neighbors of a hog farm it controlled.

SALISBURY, N.C. (WBTV) - The Rowan County law firm Wallace & Graham, PA, through its “Wallace & Graham Gives” initiative, has announced that starting this 2020-2021 academic school year, it will be awarding a total of $15,000 to six deserving Rowan County high school seniors. Each scholarship will be in the amount of $2,500 awarded

Class Action Seeks Damages for Camp Lejeune Residents Enduring ‘Unacceptable,’ ‘Intolerable’ Living Conditions A proposed class-action aims to represent military families allegedly forced to endure “unacceptable and intolerable” living conditions at Marine Corps base Camp Lejeune due to defendants Lend Lease and Winn

Please click here to view Public Justice's award video. Local law firm Wallace & Graham on Thursday was awarded 2020’s Trial Lawyer of the Year Award by national nonprofit legal advocacy organization Public Justice. Erin Brockovich served as master of ceremonies for the gala, held virtually this year due to COVID-19. The firm was honored for

Investigation Into Citadel Nursing Home Corroborates Concerns About State’s Largest COVID-19 Outbreak THIS ARTICLE IS A REPOST FROM THE SALISBURY POST, YOU CAN FIND THE FULL ARTICLE HERE: https://bit.ly/2YGKdLZ SALISBURY — On April 14, one resident of the Citadel in Salisbury was found dead around the middle of the day. Both hospice and a

SALISBURY, N.C. — Families have complained to Channel 9 for months about The Citadel Salisbury. The nursing home has one of the worst COVID-19 outbreaks in the state, and Channel 9 reporter Tina Terry learned about a new citation against the facility. “It’s negligence. The way I was done. The way my family was treated,”

Trump & Mnuchin Sent Out Stimulus Prepaid Cards with Forced Arbitration Clause THIS ARTICLE IS A REPOST FROM DAILY KOS THE ORIGINAL ARTICLE CAN BE FOUND HERE: https://bit.ly/37MUzNq The Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act (the “CARES Act”), passed by the Congress on March 27, 2020, authorizes the Treasury Department to issue

Lawyers for residents of a Rowan County nursing home wracked by COVID-19 asked a court on Tuesday to review the facility’s policies on staffing and hygiene to guard against further neglect. The request for court intervention is part of a new lawsuit filed against The Citadel Salisbury, home to the state’s worst nursing home cluster of the

SALISBURY – A new lawsuit filed against the Citadel nursing home is seeking “a comprehensive review of the facility’s polices” by a judge. The suit was filed by local law firm Wallace and Graham and Raleigh firm Gugenheim Law, which specializes in prosecuting claims against nursing homes. The Citadel is a site of a COVID-19

April 24, 2020 at 2:53 PM EDT - Updated April 24 at 3:00 PM SALISBURY, N.C. (WBTV) - From Wallace & Graham: On April 24, 2020, Wallace & Graham, P.A. proudly launched its new charitable support effort, Wallace & Graham Gives, with an initial $10,000.00 donation to the Rowan County United Way COVID-19 Relief Fund. The funds come

SALISBURY, N.C. — Our nursing home crisis is now escalating to the point of legal action. Channel 9 learned Wednesday about a complaint filed in court against the Citadel in Salisbury. Family members of 96-year-old Marjorie Fuller Garvin moved to the Citadel in Salisbury in February of 2020. The claim said she paid thousands of dollars every

A new lawsuit claims that chronic neglect and a botched response by a Salisbury nursing home fueled one of North Carolina’s largest outbreaks of COVID-19. The complaint, filed Tuesday in Mecklenburg Superior Court, also provides a glimpse into pandemic hell. Over its 20 pages, the court filing presents a virtual real-time account of how the outbreak

Marjorie Fuller Garvin, 96 years old, was “lucid and vibrant” when her family and caretakers decided to place her at the Citadel of Salisbury in February. For $11,000 a month, paid by the family, not Medicare, Garvin was “assured she would have a private room and quality care.” Instead, Citadel staff Garvin moved her to a

SALISBURY — Marjorie Garvin, a resident at the Citadel at Salisbury nursing home who is seriously ill after testing positive for COVID-19, is suing the company in charge of the facility for negligence related to the care and conditions she experienced. The Citadel has become a major center of new COVID-19 infections in the county. The lawsuit, filed

SALISBURY, N.C. (WBTV) - A personal injury lawsuit has been filed in Rowan County court on behalf of the family of a resident of The Citadel-Salisbury. Attorneys representing an elderly woman who is said to be seriously ill with COVID-19 claim negligence and reckless conduct on the part of Citadel management and staff, and are demanding a jury

Attorneys for a subsidiary of Smithfield Foods, the world’s largest pork producer, went before the Fourth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Friday and asked three judges to overturn a $3.25 million jury award in a lawsuit filed by neighbors of a large North Carolina hog farm. During the hearing, they received a sharp lecture from the bench about

The Food and Drug Administration is banning most fruit- and mint-flavored nicotine vaping products in an effort to curb a surge in teen use, the agency said Thursday. Under the new rule, which takes effect in 30 days, companies that do not stop the distribution the sweeter flavors that appeal to kids risk enforcement action, the FDA said. Companies are

A health-surveillance system put in place after the terrorist attacks of September 2001 has been used to pinpoint the cause of the vaping-related lung injuries that have killed 54 Americans and sent more than 2,500 people to the hospital. Using this system, researchers at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have found that the lung injuries rose

In a federal courtroom in Raleigh, North Carolina, a 14-year-old honor student named Alexandria McKoy swore to tell the truth. Then she settled in to testify against the world’s largest pork producer. McKoy had traveled 90 miles from Bladen County, part of the flat and farm-heavy coastal plain that covers most of eastern North Carolina. Her family

In a federal courtroom in Raleigh, North Carolina, a 14-year-old honor student named Alexandria McKoy swore to tell the truth. Then she settled in to testify against the world’s largest pork producer. This story was produced by the Food & Environment Reporting Network, an independent nonprofit news organization. McKoy had traveled 90 miles

In a secluded corner of rural eastern North Carolina, at the end of a long and winding farm lane, a pit of stinking hog manure is doing its bit to save the world from climate change. It may be a whiff of things to come. "You're standing in the middle of about 12,000 head" of hogs, says Kraig Westerbeek, an executive at Smithfield Foods, the country's

A 17-year-old boy in Canada has been treated for a life-threatening popcorn lung-like illness after vaping flavored e-liquids and THC -- the main psychoactive component of cannabis. A new report, published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal on Wednesday, details how this case of bronchiolitis appears distinct from other vaping-related lung injury

Former FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb said Monday that Juul Labs’ products should be removed from the market, citing two studies that showed the scope of teen use of its e-cigarettes and flavored pods. “It’s very clear that Juul can’t keep their products out of the hands of kids,” said Gottlieb, a physician, health advocate

Vaping makes teens more likely to try cigarettes, but doesn't increase the odds that they'll become smokers, according to a new study that looked at more than 12,000 middle school and high school students in the United States. The study calls into question earlier research that has linked electronic cigarettes to traditional smoking, but experts disputed

(Reuters) - U.S. health officials on Thursday reported 1,888 confirmed and probable cases and 3 more deaths from a mysterious respiratory illness tied to vaping, taking the total death toll to 37. Last week, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported 1,604 cases and 34 deaths from the illness and said the number of reported cases in the

One day after announcing that it will cut about 500 jobs, four top executives reportedly stepped down from Juul on Tuesday Chief Financial Officer Tim Danaher, Chief Administrative Officer Ashley Gould, Chief Marketing Officer Craig Brommers and Senior Vice President of Advanced Technologies David Foster all voluntarily left their roles at the e-cigarette

(CNN)People who died as a result of a mysterious outbreak of vaping-related lung injury often used products exclusively containing THC, the main psychoactive substance in cannabis, according to new numbers released Monday by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Among 19 such deaths with data available on what substances had been vaped, 63%

NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ, October 18, 2019 – Out of an abundance of caution, Johnson & Johnson Consumer Inc. (JJCI) announced that it is initiating a voluntary recall in the United States of a single lot of its Johnson’s Baby Powder in response to a U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) test indicating the presence of sub-trace levels of

KEY POINTS New cases of a vaping-related lung disease are being reported every day, a top CDC official says. The total is expected to increase “considerably,” CDC Principal Deputy Director Anne Schuchat tells Congress. A mysterious vaping-related lung disease has sickened nearly 1,300 people and killed at least 26, according to figures the

The Center for Disease Control and Prevention has issued a new name for the vaping-related illness that has affected hundreds across the United States. In the last week’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, issued on Oct. 11, the federal agency referred to the disease as EVALI, which stands for “e-cigarette or vaping product use-associated

Federal health officials investigating mysterious vaping-related lung injuries said Friday that some patients are being hospitalized for a second time, a disturbing new development in the ongoing national outbreak that has spread to every state except Alaska. “We are aware of a handful of patients who have been readmitted for clinical care after

The outbreak of lung illnesses linked to vaping grew by more than 200 cases in a week, now totaling 1,299, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported on Thursday. Twenty-nine people have died from vaping-related illnesses, health officials said. The figures mean that 219 new cases and seven new deaths were reported. Cases have occurred in 49

A North Carolina hospital offered some of the first clues into what’s been an ongoing medical mystery, the vaping-related lung injuries that have killed 18 people in the country to date and sent more than a thousand to hospitals with serious injuries. Officials with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced the new death count Thursday

The first vaping-related death in North Carolina was reported Thursday, officials say. Cone Health, a hospital in Greensboro, reported that a patient died Wednesday after being admitted to the hospital for vaping-related issues, according to Doug Allred, a spokesperson for the hospital. The patient was the eighth admitted to the hospital with

Three people hospitalized in North Carolina with severe lung disease in July may have fallen ill after vaping or using e-cigarettes, the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services said Friday. The department is investigating the cases, according to a news release, with North Carolina Poison Control, the Centers for Disease Control and

(NEWSER) – The 10 North Carolina plaintiffs who say a pork farm near their homes is endangering their health by, among other things, spraying hog urine and feces onto nearby fields, have won a big victory. A federal jury has awarded each plaintiff $5 million in punitive damages and $75,000 in compensatory damages, Modern Farmer reports. The more than

RALEIGH, N.C. - A North Carolina jury awarded $50 million to neighbors of a 15,000-hog farm in Eastern North Carolina in a case being closely watched across the country by environmentalists and the hog farm industry. The verdict, revealed late Thursday after a jury deliberated less than two days, is the first to come in a series of federal lawsuits filed

The verdict this week in a frivolous nuisance lawsuit against a North Carolina hog farm is a misuse of the legal system to attack the farm sector. After less than two days of deliberation, a North Carolina jury awarded $50 million to neighbors in a hog nuisance lawsuit against Murphy-Brown LLC., hog production division of Smithfield Foods. National Pork

RALEIGH, N.C. — A federal jury on Thursday awarded more than $50 million in damages to neighbors of an industrial hog operation found responsible for intense smells, noise and other disturbances so bad people couldn't enjoy their rural homes. Jurors on Thursday awarded the 10 neighbors of a 15,000-head swine operation a total of $750,000 in

A jury deliberated for less than two days before awarding 10 plaintiffs $50 million in a hog nuisance lawsuit against Murphy-Brown/Smithfield Foods, the world’s largest pork producer. According to the verdict sheet, the jury unanimously agreed that Murphy-Brown, which owns the hogs at Kinlaw Farms in Bladen County, “substantially and

Hearings begin on first case against Smithfield Foods subsidiary UPDATE: On Thursday, April 26, jurors awarded $52 million, mostly in nuisance payments, in the first case by 10 plaintiffs living close to hog CAFO Roughly 4,000 pink-tinted pools containing pig feces, urine, and blood, are scattered throughout the eastern North Carolina landscape. An

After lawyers gave their closing remarks in a groundbreaking trial over the stench of hog farms in Eastern North Carolina, U.S. District Court Judge Earl Britt left the courtroom with a parting thought: "My only comment is that I am tired of looking at that dirty hog," he said, referring to a waste-coated, life-size hog model that has been sitting inside

We live in disquieting times. The tariffs slapped on U.S. pork going to China, the lack of a re-negotiated North American Free Trade Agreement, and other policy decisions have put the pork industry on edge. But an issue much closer to home should have you just as concerned. The pending nuisance lawsuit in North Carolina against Smithfield subsidiary

A federal court trial began in Raleigh Tuesday with plaintiffs represented by Salisbury’s own Wallace and Graham. The trial involves a lawsuit filed by residents of Bladen County, brought against defendant Murphy-Brown, a subsidiary of Smithfield Foods, the world’s largest pork producer. Plaintiffs live next to Kinlaw Farms, which raises

North Carolina, where modern pork production flourished in the late 90s, is now where contention is building between pork leader Smithfield and neighbors. Testimonies began Tuesday in the first trial between Smithfield subsidiary Murphy-Brown LLC, and local residents, who say the way the company manages its hog waste is producing unbearable smell. In

Manure and urine collects inside hog barns at Kinlaw Farms in Bladen County. The farm, which raises nearly 15,000 hogs for Smithfield, generates more than 153,000 pounds of feces each day. There were no scratch ’n’ sniff cards. No fetid fragrance strips like those frequently found in fashion magazines. No pictures of the stench, since

The showdown between an eastern North Carolina hog farm and its neighbors continued Wednesday in the second day (not including a day dedicated to jury selection) of a trial about the odors and nuisance allegedly caused by industrial hog operations. The outcome of the trial could force the world's largest pork producer, Smithfield Foods subsidiary

RALEIGH, N.C. — Drive past clustered hog sheds containing thousands of animals in the country's No. 2 pork-producing state on the wrong day and the reason hundreds of North Carolina neighbors are suing in federal court is clear: it really stinks. The question facing jurors in a federal lawsuit starting Monday is whether the open-air animal waste

U.S. Justice Department Investigates health insurance providers United Healthcare, Health Net Inc., Aetna Inc., Cigna Corp’s Bravo Health and Humana Inc.

A major pork producer must live up to an agreement it signed 11 years ago and work on cleaning up water pollution tied to almost a dozen industry-scale hog operations

On April 6, 2015, the United States Supreme Court denied reviewed of a petition filed by CashCall, Inc. asking it to review a decision by the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals denying arbitration.

Dennis Whedbee's crew was rushing to prepare an oil well for pumping on the Sweet Grass Woman lease site, a speck of dusty plains rich with crude in Mandaree, N.D. It was getting late that September afternoon in 2012. Whedbee, a 50-year-old derrick hand, was helping another worker remove a pipe fitting on top of the well when it suddenly blew. Oil and

One of the most common questions we get from clients who are thinking about applying for Social Security Disability is: does my age affect my Disability benefits?

The Eleventh Circuit affirmed a Florida district court’s denial of Cashcall’s motion to compel arbitration, as the forum selected in the parties’ loan agreement was not available.  Appellee Abraham Inetianbor initially borrowed $2,600 from Western Sky Financial LLC. He subsequently repaid $3,252.65 to the servicer of the loan, CashCall, over twelve months. Mr. Inetianbor refused to pay a subsequent bill from Cashcall because he believed his financial obligations had been fulfilled. CashCall disagreed, and reported Mr. Inetianbor’s purported default to credit agencies. Mr. Inetianbor then sued, inter alia, for defamation and usury violations.

It isn’t often one can say that something exciting and positive is happening in cancer treatment but there is good news with immunotherapy. The science and treatments are changing rapidly. What is so amazing is that the source of this change is hidden within our own bodies. Cancer Immunotherapy is at the forefront of the battle to fight and perhaps cure certain types of cancer.

Every day, 24 hours a day, with 95% "up time," the facility used an extremely high-powered radiation source -- a block of cobalt-60 -- to irradiate medical supplies, thereby killing off any germs.  Most workers in the office were shielded from the high-powered gamma radiation by 6-foot-thick concrete and steel walls which blocked most of the gamma rays.  However, due to the construction of the entryway, there was a small arc with not quite enough shielding to block all of the gamma radiation.  The result was a beam of gamma radiation passing through the office along a straight line drawn from the radiation source through the area of inadequate shielding.

In June, about 900,000 vehicles from nine automakers containing the faulty airbags were recalled in two states, Florida and Hawaii, and two territories, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. Honda expanded that recall to an additional 2.4 million vehicles registered or first sold in Alabama, California, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina and Texas.

Multiple Manufactures Recall Automobiles

The air bag canisters are believed to explode during crashes under certain conditions, sending shrapnel toward motorists. Safety advocates say the defect has been implicated in four deaths worldwide and dozens of injuries.

Coal miners develop black lung disease, or coal workers' pneumoconiosis, through prolonged exposure to the coal dust in a mine's atmosphere.

A new study suggests that nearly half of workers who care for animals in large industrial hog farming operations may be carrying home livestock-associated bacteria in their noses and the bacteria remains with them up to four days after exposure.

The Social Security Administration’s Disability benefits system is fraught with unclear requirements and a long and confusing application process. 

Seven lawsuits filed against Murphy-Brown LLC in U.S. District Court Thursday allege the Smithfield Foods Inc. subsidiary failed to take steps to reduce nuisance and injury caused by its farms in Sampson and five surrounding counties.

Peter Devereaux, former Marine and Golden Gloves boxer, was a tireless advocate for breast cancer awareness. 

“The state’s high court issued its 65-page majority opinion Friday. Justice Michael Bolin authored the ruling, joined by justices Lyn Stuart, James Allen Main, Alisa Kelli Wise and Tommy Bryan. Justice Greg Shaw issued a separate concurring opinion, and Chief Justice Roy Moore and justices Tom Parker and Glenn Murdock dissented.

New research of consumer products has revealed that the cancer causing agent, Triclosan, an antibacterial chemical, is used in Colgate Total toothpaste and is also included in numerous other common products we use every day. 

“Millions of workers are exposed to solvents on a daily basis. Health hazards associated with solvent exposure include toxicity to the nervous system, reproductive damage, liver and kidney damage, respiratory impairment, cancer, and dermatitis.”

Many workers feel worried and overwhelmed when they suffer an injury on the job.  They do not want to lose their jobs

Diesel engine exhaust has now been definitively linked to causing cancer in humans. A panel of experts working for the World Health Organization (WHO) concluded in June 2012 that diesel exhausts is a potential cause of lung cancer.

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