RALEIGH (AP) Authorities in North Carolina have accused a woman of filing nearly 300 insurance claims for cancer even though she didn’t have the disease. The North Carolina Department of Insurance said in a statement April 24 that 60-year-old Susan Leigh ...

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ST. LOUIS (AP) — For the second time in three months, a St. Louis jury has ordered Johnson & Johnson to pay a huge award over claims that its talcum powder causes cancer. The jury deliberated eight hours Monday before ...

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ST. LOUIS (AP) — A St. Louis jury has awarded $72 million to the family of an Alabama woman who sued Johnson & Johnson over ovarian cancer she said was caused by using its baby powder and other products containing ...

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Lipe v. Starr Davis Co. (Lawyers Weekly No. 14-16-0687, 13 pp.) (Chris Dillon, J.) Appealed from the Industrial Commission. N.C. App. Unpub. Holding: Since plaintiff’s decedent was already retired when he was diagnosed with the compensable occupational disease of asbestos-related ...

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Attorneys for Garlock Sealing Technology called their bankruptcy court case against law firms representing asbestos disease claimants “bet-the-company kind of litigation.” It was a bet the company recently won, emphatically, and one that may shake up the business of mesothelioma ...

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An arbitration panel in Durham County Superior Court has awarded more than $2 million to a man who sued the Duke Private Diagnostic Clinic for taking too long to detect cancer near his vocal cords. David W. Crittenton, 46, sued the Duke clinic after one of its radiologists failed to detect cancer near his vocal cord and he was left with permanent pain in his face, jaw and neck.

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A Greensboro attorney on Tuesday filed a notice of appeal in the case of Alaina Levane Giordano, a breast-cancer-stricken Durham mother who has been ordered either to move to Illinois to be near the father of their two children or have her custody of them significantly reduced. The case has drawn international attention. Clint S. Morse (pictured), an associate with Brooks, Pierce, McLendon, Humphrey & Leonard, said Tuesday that he is representing Giordano pro bono.

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Plaintiff is a female in her mid-40s who had a breast biopsy following a suspicious mammogram. The pathologist examined her slides at the same time she was examining breast slides of another woman. The pathologist correctly interpreted both women’s slides, ...

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A lawsuit brought by a woman who was one of perhaps a half-million people exposed to cancer-causing pollutants and contaminants in drinking and bathwater at Camp Lejeune has withstood a salvo of dismissal motions filed by the government. But now a new motion is pending. The plaintiff, Laura J. Jones of Iowa, lived with her husband, a marine, at Camp Lejeune from 1980 to 1983. In 2003 Jones was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. She didn't learn about problems with Camp Lejeune's water supply until 2005.

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Client’s biopsy of a spot on the left side of her nose was switched with another patient’s. She was told she had cancer and lived with that fear for 46 days. She then had unnecessary surgery to remove the spot, ...

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