The manufacturer, now owned by Boston Scientific, faces 550 individual or class suits.
But critics argued that federal courts set a higher bar for class-action suits, making it increasingly difficult for them to bring class-action suits against corporations.
In 2003, Philip Morris changed its name to Altria after class action suits linked smoking to cancer.
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There are many other class action suits filed against the company since Lipitor lost its patent expiry last November.
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Yesterday, the Associated Press reported that Google and the plaintiffs agreed to a settlement of all the class action suits.
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The outcome could affect a wide swath of class action suits in areas including civil rights enforcement and tobacco litigation, says Prof.
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While there have been many class action suits filed by investors alleging losses from LIBOR manipulation, the Alabama suit is the first filed by homeowners.
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Yet when asked about pursuing the trial bar for similar behavior, his office says it has no jurisdiction to go after law firms in class action suits.
It also found 67 securities class action suits were filed in Q1 2009, up from 53 cases the previous quarter, and 56 suits filed a year earlier.
They say the lower-court ruling, if allowed to stand, could expose other companies to staggering liability by allowing unrelated discrimination claims to proceed as class action suits.
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In the case of energy giant Enron, which went bust in 2001, shareholders managed to recover hundreds of millions of dollars in settlements by filing class action suits.
Ms. Susan Combs, in her official capacity as Texas Comptroller, has been named as the defendant in two class action suits filed within days of one another in federal court.
The stock has temporarily stopped trading, and Livent has been hit with half-a-dozen class-action suits.
One negotiator, who wanted the industry protected from class-action suits, kicked over a chair in frustration.
Mobility from class-action suits, and siding with liberals in such areas as individual liberties.
What it allows is huge class-action suits with very little defense by any employer.
In exchange, the companies were given immunity from class-action suits and punitive damages based on past acts.
Business groups obviously hate the idea, saying it would unleash a torrent of expensive and abusive class-action suits.
Frazier said Merck would fight any effort to create Vioxx class-action suits, because each patient represents a particular case.
Famous examples of class-action suits include those against the maker of painkiller Vioxx, retailer Wal-Mart and energy giant Enron.
As the participation by Italian shareholders in American class-action suits against Parmalat show, litigiousness is not a trait confined to America.
Class-actions suits have a way of showing companies the wisdom of equality.
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As for women, the huge numbers joining the two class-action suits often reflect complaints dating back many years, rather than recent abuses.
In securities class-action suits, however, the gains are proportional to share ownership.
Class-action suits over things like poorly built cars have attracted far more complainants than the roughly 4, 200 former NFL players who are suing the league.
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Aetna is famously heavy-handed with physicians, tying them up in restrictive contracts, and has been cited recently in a number of class-action suits by patients.
Drug companies are well used to class-action suits over product liability.
Earlier this year, Congress passed a bill forcing most big class-action suits to go through the federal courts, thus preventing lawyers from shopping around for the most plaintiff-friendly local courts.
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Securities class-action suits can drag on for several years.
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