Rite Aid pays $250K for disability firing 
Published: November 28, 2012
Tags: ADA, disability discrimination, EEOC, epilepsy, Maryland
Rite Aid Corp. will pay $250,000 to settle federal claims that the drugstore chain fired a Maryland man because he had epilepsy and had filed an Americans with Disabilities Act claim against the company with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
Dilantin lawsuits turn into a mini mass tort
By:
Sylvia Hsieh
Published: February 7, 2011
Tags: Dilantin, drug litigation, epilepsy, FDA, Food and Drug Administration, Mylan, off-label uses, Pfizer, phenytoin, Stevens-Johnson Syndrome, Toxic Epidermal Necrolysis
Litigation over the anti-seizure drug Dilantin has developed into a smaller-scale mass tort, with dozens of suits claiming that it causes horrendous and life-threatening skin burns.
Drug litigation in review 2010
By:
Tony Ogden
Published: January 4, 2011
Tags: Accutane, Allergan, antidepressant, Avandia, AztraZeneca, Botox, Botox litigation, Department of Justice, DOJ, epilepsy, failure to warn, GlaxoSmithKline, heart attack, hormone replacement therapy, hormone replacement therapy litigation, Johnson & Johnson, Levaquin, Neurontin, Paxil, Pfizer, Premarin, Prempro, Provera, Roche, Seroquel, Wyeth
Much like 2009, 2010 was a busy year for prescription drug suits.
