The Levin Papantonio law firm is currently investigating brokerage firms misconduct relating to sales practices to their customers.  It appears that some firms were recommending that their customers invest in GPB Capital Holdings’ high-risk, high-commission private placements.

Residents and business owners whose properties sustained millions of dollars in flood damage during Hurricane Harvey in August, 2017, have filed a lawsuit against the United States Government. Their complaints allege that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is responsible for the flooding that caused the damage. More specifically, the plaintiffs claim they are owed compensation for their properties under the nation's “eminent domain” laws.

A professor of psychiatry who has worked with the Boy Scouts of America (BSA) since 2014 recently testified that she and her colleagues have identified more than 7,800 former scout leaders and volunteers whom they say “were involved in sexually abusing a child” over the past 75 years. The information comes from the BSA's “Ineligible Volunteer Files,” which some now call the “Perversion Files.” Dr. Janet Warren, who teaches at the University of Virginia, also says, “From reviewing all these files, we identified 12,254 victims.”

Uloric is prescribed for the treatment of gout, a type of arthritis afflicting more than 8 million Americans. The cause is elevated uric acid levels in the blood, which can be due to impaired kidney function, genetic factors, and/or diet. It is most common in those who primarily eat too much fatty meat, consume large amounts of alcohol, and/or are obese (historians suggest that Henry VIII of England had suffered from the condition, and it has been known since ancient times as “the disease of kings”).

The massive chemical fire that broke out on Saint Patrick's Day at the Intercontinental Terminals Company site near Houston, Texas was finally contained on Friday evening.

Last year information began coming out about amounts of glyphosate being found in many common foods that people eat on a daily basis. Scientific studies released throughout 2018 discovered traces of the active ingredient in the herbicide Roundup in almost every food product tested.

Unless the defendant Sanofi-Aventis reaches a global settlement, the first “bellwether” cases in current mass litigation over the chemotherapy drug Taxotere (docetaxel) will go before a jury starting in May 2019.

A recent article appearing in the Panama City News Herald reports that out of 80,000 insureds who filed claims in the wake of Hurricane Michael last October less than 47,000 have reached settlements.

In August of 2018, the 3M Corporation entered into a $9.1 million settlement with the U.S. government over allegations that it had deliberately sold defective equipment to the Department of Defense. The equipment in question was the Combat Arms Earplugs Version 2, or CAEv2.