In the wake of an emissions scandal that cost Volkswagen billions of dollars, states that received a share of the $2.7 Billion Volkswagen environmental settlement are now determining how to spend their money. VW faced sanctions for using "defeat devices" on its diesel cars, so the vehicles would appear to [...]
Prospect Mortgage LLC agreed to pay $4.157 million to settle allegations that the company committed mortgage fraud by underwriting loans that failed to meet Federal Housing Administration (FHA) requirements. The U.S. Justice Department announced the settlement agreement on Monday. The allegations stem from Prospect’s participation in the Direct Endorsement Lender [...]
The Flemish government approved a decree to prohibit the individual use of glyphosate, the active ingredient in Monsanto’s Roundup weed killer. The glyphosate ban decree was agreed to at the end of last week and will now be taken up by the Council of State. As of now, it is [...]
A tour bus carrying 46 passengers and two drivers collided with a tractor trailer and burst into flames in southeast Germany early Monday morning. The fatal German bus crash was reported at around 7:00 a.m. local time on the A9 highway near Stammbach. At least 18 people were killed in [...]
A Harlem train derailment at around 9:45 a.m. on Tuesday, June 27, injured at least 30 people and resulted in the evacuation of hundreds of passengers. Shortly after the subway train crashed, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) said the accident was likely caused by human error. At least two MTA [...]
Attorneys representing victims in Missouri talcum powder lawsuits against Johnson & Johnson say they will continue their efforts to keep cases in the state, despite a Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) ruling that stalled the most recent talc case in St. Louis Circuit Court. Last week, SCOTUS issued [...]
Roundup cancer attorneys at Baum, Hedlund, Aristei & Goldman submitted a public comment to the California Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA), urging the agency to require agrochemical giant Monsanto to have a Roundup warning label that marks its weed killer as a possible carcinogen. Read [...]
An AirAsia flight bound for Kuala Lumpur was forced to return to its departure city of Perth, Australia on Sunday after the Airbus A330-300 passenger jet began shaking due to a “technical failure,” according to an airline spokesperson. AirAsia Flight D7237 departed from Perth at 6:40 a.m. with 359 passengers [...]
Six consumers are leading a Wisconsin Roundup class action lawsuit against Monsanto, alleging the agrochemical giant falsely promoted its top-selling Roundup weed killer as interfering with an enzyme found in plants but not “in people or pets” when microbiota (bacteria, fungi, etc.) found in the human gut, mucous membranes and [...]
June 12, 2017 – Fresno, California - - The law firm of Baum, Hedlund, Aristei & Goldman has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the State of California on behalf of two siblings whose parents were killed in a 2016 truck accident in Madera, California. Elise, Kira, and Robert [...]
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