Home Depot U.S.A. Inc. will pay $100,000 to a part-time Towson, Md. cashier the retailer allegedly fired because she had cancer, under a settlement the company reached last week with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.

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A recent report from the Government Accountability Office is urging the Federal Communications Commission to take another look at old rules on cell phone exposure in light of new scientific studies on long term health risks, including cancer.

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A marriage that occurred 10 days before the wife died of cancer couldn’t be annulled by her estate, the Michigan Court of Appeals has ruled in affirming a motion to dismiss.

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A product liability lawsuit against drug maker Wyeth was not barred by the plaintiff’s failure to declare her claim as an asset in her bankruptcy case prior to obtaining a discharge of debts, a U.S. District Court in Mississippi has ...

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A Virginia jury has returned a $2.65 million verdict against a radiologist whose admitted negligence led to a delay in the diagnosis of breast cancer for a 54-year-old woman.

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A jury this week awarded $2 million to a Niagara Falls, N.Y. man who filed an asbestos lawsuit a year ago in State Supreme Court.

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A tobacco company must pay $28 million to a woman who was diagnosed with cancer after smoking cigarettes for over 25 years, a U.S. District Court in Connecticut has ruled in denying a motion for a new trial.

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Litigation over the drug Actos is gaining momentum as a mass tort.

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A Riverside, Calif. man has filed suit against Takeda Pharmaceuticals, claiming their diabetes medication Actos gave him bladder cancer.

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In a blow to tobacco defendants facing thousands of suits in Florida state court in the Engle litigation, the Florida Supreme Court has declined to hear an appeal in a case where an Engle plaintiff was awarded $30 million.

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