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- Figures didn't add up to settlement in wrongful death case; trial ends with interest allowed on $3 million verdict. A judge allowed the plaintiffs interest on the judgment in a wrongful death lawsuit arising from Susan Silva's suicide while taking the antidepressant Paxil. Silva's parents and her estate claimed negligence by a New Mexico health care provider, Lovelace Health System, Inc., in that Susan wasn't warned she was at risk for suicide due to Paxil use...

- Whistleblower to gain $2.3 million from Guidant, LLC in False Claims Act lawsuit. The whistleblower, Robert Fry, is a former Guidant sales rep who filed the False Claims Act lawsuit claiming Guidant overbilled the government for cardiac devices such as pacemakers and defibrillators. Due to Guidant's practices, the Department of Veterans Affairs, the Department of Defense and Medicare were overcharged....

- Court throws out $5.2 million verdict in Best Buy shopper's personal injury lawsuit. Michael Chavis wasn't knocked over by the prices or merchandise when he went looking for a new television at a Best Buy store. Rather, an employee accidently hit a forklift control button while helping another customer, and it rolled over Chavis's left foot. Despite treatment over an 18-month period for suspected muscle or ligament damage, Chavis remained in pain and had to give up his manufacturing job....

- Too many versions of a predatory lending scheme means no class action lawsuit for group of 500,000 borrowers. A San Diego, California US district court judge refused to certify a class action against Countrywide, Bank of America and other lenders because the borrowers' cases were not enough alike to allow for a class resolution. The borrowers claimed RICO and unfair competition law violations by the lenders while scheming to put them into subprime mortgages. On the RICO claims, the judge stated that Countrywide's loans were made through four business divisions, and business practices varied....

- Don't take your privacy rights lightly, says Pennsylvania Attorney General Linda Kelly. Your privacy rights may make Borders' bankruptcy something that involves you. Kelly recently cautioned consumers to watch for email notices from Barnes & Noble on the transfer of their customer data as a part of the sale of Borders' assets to competitor Barnes & Noble in the Borders' bankruptcy case....

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