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Los Angeles City Attorney, Mike Feuer has filed a product liability lawsuit against the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power for mismanaging customer billing, costing the city millions of dollars in damages, and overcharging customers. The billing flaw was discovered when a local mathematician, Nathan Wells, began closely tracking his power use, and discovered the Department of Water and Power had sent him a bill that was three times higher than what it was supposed to be. After contacting the DWP multiple times, they refused to correct his bill or reveal the formula in which they determined it.  Numerous customers are starting to come forward, claiming that the LADWP is not accurately measuring how much water and power they use, but instead estimating how much they use. “There is no formula. I think they make it up as they go along,” Wells said. Tim Blood, another product liability attorney involved in the case, says the DWP billing estimate is performed by computer softwar...

How Much Are Medical Device Companies Paying Your Doctor? When a doctor prescribes a new drug or medical device, most patients presume that the recommendation is based on their best interests. However, the data collected by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) about the financial ties between physicians and the medical industry suggests that this is not always the case. Thanks to technology, consumers can search the Open Payments database to find information about whether and how much their doctors are getting paid by medical device companies. For many patients, what they find can be alarming. In 2016, drug and medical device companies made a total of $8.18 billion in payments to physicians and teaching hospitals. Also concerning, payments from pharmaceutical companies and device makers increased by $90 million from 2015 to 2016. What Is the Open Payments Database? Open Payments is a federal program that collects information about the payments drug and device companies...

Roundup Cancer Lawsuit A common grass and weed killer you or your family may use at your home contains an herbicide that is considered carcinogenic. Roundup Weed & Grass Killers , which are used for lawns and gardens in residential areas, on farms and at businesses, features the ingredient glyphosate. In June 2017, health officials in California announced glyphosate will be added to that state’s list of cancer-causing chemicals . Products containing this herbicide that are sold in California will be required to feature a warning about how exposure to the chemical may cause cancer, birth defects or reproductive harm. Monsanto Roundup Lawsuit update 2020 This warning comes after more than 1,000 non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma patients have sued Monsanto, the company that produces Roundup products, claiming that the products with the chemical have caused their cancer. In March 2015, the International Agency for Research on Cancer, part of the World Health Organization, published a report stati...

Vivint Security Lawsuit Targets Victims Nationwide Through further investigation, PDH attorneys have discovered that our clients are far from the only victims of this scheme. Dozens of complaints have been filed by other individuals fighting with Vivint, debt collectors, and credit reporting agencies to remove these fraudulent accounts from their credit reports. The victims include both Vivint customers and people who had previously never even heard of Vivint. We believe that the number of people across the country that Vivint employees have included on Vivint accounts without authorization is in the thousands. Pittman, Dutton & Hellums , P.C. is investigating Vivint’s actions and failures to determine precisely how many people have been victims. Vivint maintains that the scheme described above is a “rare occurrence.” Vivint continues to deny that this rampant fraud has been occurring within its organization and refuses to audit its records to find which accounts are fraudulent to...

NCAA Compensation  Litigation of antitrust cases frequently involve law firms and their clients going up against some of the biggest corporations in the world. It can often be a true David vs. Goliath battle, but if you have the right attorney on your side, you can pull off the upset and secure the compensation you deserve. Atlanta Truck Accident Lawyer For a better understanding of how a successful antitrust case can be built, let’s take the recent case against the NCAA for example. In August of last year, a federal judge ruled that the NCAA violated antitrust laws by not allowing its college athletes to receive compensation for the use of their names and likenesses. The NCAA rakes in billions in profits by using player’s names and likenesses to sell video games, memorabilia and TV broadcasts. The players never see a dime of that money. The lawsuit was brought by former UCLA basketball player Ed O’Bannon. The court ruled that the NCAA’s rules were anticompetitive. U.S. District Co...