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The American Cancer Society estimates that nearly 1.5 million new cases of cancer will be diagnosed this year. Let's face it, cancer is a fact of life these days. And as medical expenses continue to...

The Senate Judiciary Committee's Subcommittee on Administrative Oversight, chaired by Sen. Charles E. Schumer, plans to hold a hearing next week on alleged abuses by mortgage lenders who are...

You saw the ads. "No income verification; low interest rates; pay off your credit cards." You, as hundreds of thousands of other consumers across the United States, jumped at the opportunities that...

Retirees frequently seek investment advice as to how to best manage their retirement funds. This advice sometimes includes the investment of a large percentage of the retiree's funds into high cost, high fee variable annuities and related investments and often the advice comes with assurances that these investments will produce monthly income. Unfortunately, these retiree investment products...

Countrywide Financial, the nation's largest mortgage lender, charged borrowers excessive and unreasonable fees to borrowers facing foreclosure, according to a lawsuit filed in Delaware on Monday.The action alleges that Countrywide profitted from the excessive fees in order to compensate for its losses in the subprime loan default crisis. While typical mortgage agreement permit Countrywide to...

An investigation by USA Today has revealed that pharmacy errors at the nation's largest drugstore chains, Walgreens and CVS, are caused by corporate policies requiring that pharmacists work long hours and fill prescriptions in as little as two minutes.A study by Auburn University in 2003 projected that the odds of getting a prescription as the result of an error by the filling pharmacist was...

A jury in Arizona awarded $6 million to the family of a man who died from a toxic interaction between two pain medications - Tramadol and Methadone.The jury found that the pharmacy, Walgreen's, that dispensed the drugs was negligent for failing to warn Eric Warren, a high school wrestling coach, of the danger of taking the two medications together. The jury also held the man's physician...

A federal court jury in Waco, Texas has awarded $6 million to a man who was critically injured in a motorcycle accident involving a collision with a tractor-trailer.The trucking company placed the blame for the accident on the operator of the motorcycle, who was injured when the truck driver changed lanes, striking the motorcycle and knocing the driver off the bike. The injured man, a 13 year...

A report released last week by the American Association of Justice shows that two years after Hurricane Katrina, insurance companies continue to engage in unfair conduct deliberately designed to avoid and delay the payment of legitimate claims. The comprehensive report shows that the insurance companies who have denied hurricane related casualty claims have, during the preceding two years,...

On Wednesday, August 15, a command and control plane crashed over the Atlantic while the E-2C Hawkeye was conducting exercises off the Virginia-North Carolina coast. Now 3 Navy sailors are missing at sea.The plane crashed after it launched from the deck of the aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman about 11 p.m. Wednesday, Navy officials said.Navy officials have announced that they do not know...

A gender discrimination action in which female employees of Novartis Pharmaceuticals alleged that there were discriminated against because they were pregnant or had recently given birth has been certified as a class action by a United States District Court Judge in New York.The case, believed to be the second largest gender discrimination case certified as a class action, involves an estimated...

Gene A. O'Neal an Atlanta, Georgia real estate promoter pled guilty on Tuesday to two counts of mail and wire fraud. O'Neal stole tens of millions of dollars from investors through a pyramid scheme. A civil complaint filed by the SEC last October is pending against O'Neal and his company, Pinnacle Development Partners LLC. Some of O'Neal's more reprehensible actions included allegedly using...

Two people traveling on a family boat at Skaneateles Lake in New York were tragically killed when they were hit head-on by another boat driven by someone allegedly under the influence of alcohol. At first it was believed that Brian Cordes, 25, was driving the boat. But, Onondaga County Sheriff's deputies found that Cordes was covering for his brother, Craig Cordes, who was allegedly drunk...

You and/or your employer pay valuable money for the premiums on your health insurance. You've been told what your coverage includes and doesn't include. You have a "basic" understanding of what your contribution may be (i.e. co-pay). You therefore gain a piece of mind (albeit a false one) that when you or your family needs medical treatment, "cost" is no longer an issue. How wrong we...

In the hopes of obtaining more listings, greater commissions, and overall greater profits, real estate brokerage firms in North Carolina commonly engage in the practice of dual agency whereby they act as both the seller's agent and the buyer's agent in the sale of a particular piece of real estate. In one form of dual agency, one broker from a real estate firm will act as both buyer's and...