Articles Posted in Legal News

by
Thousands of women who underwent internal bra breast surgery are now experiencing serious complications from the surgical mesh placed inside them, and many are pursuing legal action against the manufacturers that promoted these products for a use the FDA never approved.

Breast mesh lawsuits allege that manufacturers of products such as AlloDerm, GalaFLEX, Phasix, and AlloMax marketed their devices for breast reconstruction, augmentation, and revision surgeries even though those applications had never been adequately studied or approved by the FDA. Patients were not warned. Surgeons were not given enough information. So when complications developed, including infection, mesh failure, chronic pain, and the need for additional surgery, most women did not have the information to connect the dots from their problems to the problems with the devices.

This page explains the internal bra mesh lawsuit in plain English: what the legal claims are, who may be eligible, what complications may qualify, and what these cases may be worth.

Continue reading

by

For more than two decades, Dr. Patrick Clyne occupied positions of extraordinary trust. He treated children as a pediatrician, served in leadership within Santa Clara County’s child welfare system, and acted as a foster parent. Those roles placed him at the intersection of medicine, government authority, and child protection—precisely where safeguards should be strongest.

Instead, according to allegations now spanning years and multiple proceedings, those safeguards repeatedly failed.

State regulators allege that beginning as early as 2001, concerns were raised about Dr. Clyne’s conduct with children. Yet meaningful intervention lagged. By the time California’s Attorney General formally acted in 2021, seeking to revoke his medical license for unprofessional conduct and gross negligence, the alleged misconduct was no longer an isolated concern. The state ultimately expanded its case, increasing the number of alleged victims and asserting that children as young as six were subjected to inappropriate, medically unnecessary examinations, often without a caregiver present.

Continue reading

by

Twin Pines Ranch in Riverside County was a juvenile detention facility that operated for nearly seven decades before closing in 2014. Thousands of boys between ages 14 and 18 were sent there under the authority of the Riverside County Probation Department. For many, the Ranch was not a place of rehabilitation but a site of sexual abuse and exploitation by staff who were supposed to protect them.

Today, survivors are filing lawsuits against Riverside County and others responsible for the abuse at Twin Pines Ranch. These claims seek compensation and accountability for decades of misconduct and neglect inside one of California’s most notorious “boys ranch” facilities.

If you have a potential sex abuse lawsuit involving Twin Pines Ranch in Riverside County, call our sex abuse lawyers today at 800-553-8082 or get a free online consultation.

Continue reading

by

Wilfredo Figueroa-Berrios was a nurse at Sinai-Grace Hospital in Detroit, Michigan. For years, he held a position of trust in the emergency department, treating patients who came in vulnerable and often unable to protect themselves. In 2025, Figueroa-Berrios was criminally charged with multiple counts of sexual assault. The allegations are disturbing: he is accused of assaulting a patient inside Sinai-Grace Hospital and another woman outside the hospital, among other pending cases.

Our sex abuse lawyers place the blame squarely on Figueroa-Berrios and on the hospital system that allowed him to work unchecked. Sinai-Grace Hospital and its corporate parent, Tenet Healthcare, should never have allowed this to happen.

This page talks about these lawsuits and the settlement amounts we expect victims to see if the litigation is as successful as our attorneys expect at this early stage.

Continue reading

by

Federal lawsuits against Allergan’s Natrelle Biocell Textured Breast Implants emerged months after its manufacturer, Allergan, recalled it.

The MDL, overseen by Judge Brian R. Martinotti in the District of New Jersey, consolidates federal lawsuits alleging that Allergan’s Biocell textured breast implants are linked to breast implant-associated anaplastic large cell lymphoma (BIA-ALCL), a rare form of cancer. The litigation focuses on claims that Allergan failed to adequately warn patients and healthcare providers about the risks associated with these implants.

UPDATES:
Continue reading

by

Our lawyers handle Elmiron vision loss lawsuits throughout the country.

This page provides the latest news and updates on the Elmiron class action lawsuit and provides our prediction of the settlement amounts, vision loss, and blindness victims who bring an Elmiron lawsuit will ultimately receive.

Elmiron settlements are happening in 2024.  Many victims have agreed to settlement amounts and will receive settlement checks shortly if they have not already.  Many Elmiron lawyers have stopped taking new Elmiron clients, including us.  We keep this information up to keep you updated because we are still committed to victims.  We have July 2024 updates below.

Continue reading

by

This page looks at sexual abuse lawsuits involving juvenile inmates at the Cook County Juvenile Temporary Detention Center (commonly known as the Audy Center or Audy Home).

Like many juvenile detention facilities across Illinois, rampant sexual abuse, violence, and mistreatment plagued the Audy Center for decades. For too long, Cook County officials and detention leadership failed to protect the vulnerable youth in their custody, allowing widespread abuse to occur behind locked doors. Staff misconduct, systemic negligence, and an entrenched culture of silence turned the facility into a breeding ground for trauma rather than rehabilitation. As a result, survivors are now stepping forward to file lawsuits, seeking not only compensation for their suffering but also accountability for a system that betrayed them.

If you believe you have a potential sex abuse lawsuit involving the Audy Center in Cook County, contact our sex abuse lawyers today at 800-553-8082 or get a free online consultation. We are committed to fighting for survivors and holding Cook County and its officials accountable for the harm they allowed to happen.

Continue reading

by

Over the past several years, numerous lawsuits have been filed against New Hampshire’s juvenile detention facilities, particularly the Sununu Youth Services Center (formerly known as the Youth Development Center), alleging decades of physical and sexual abuse by staff members. These allegations have led to criminal charges, civil lawsuits, and significant settlements.

Since 2020, nearly 1,300 survivors have come forward with harrowing accounts of abuse inside YDC. These allegations include rape, violent beatings, and emotional torture spanning from the 1960s through the 2010s. Lawsuits claim that state employees not only committed these crimes but operated with impunity for decades, protected by a system designed to hide abuse rather than stop it.

Our sex abuse lawyers are helping victims of juvenile detention center sex abuse get the compensation they deserve. Contact us at 800-553-8082 or reach out to us online for a free case evaluation.

Continue reading

by

Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) is a government program that is supposed to provide financial support to anyone who is unable to work because they have become permanently disabled due to an illness or injury. To qualify for SSDI benefits you have to file a disability claim with the Social Security Administration (SSA) and your claim must be approved.

Each year, the SSA received over 2 million claims for disability benefits. The odds of getting a claim approved are not very good. Only about 35% of all SSDI claims are ultimately approved, and only 30% of disability applications are approved at the initial stage. In some cases, disability claims are properly denied because the applicant is not truly disabled and simply does not meet the eligibility requirements. In many other cases, however, claims are denied for technical reasons, usually involving an incomplete application or insufficient medical documentation.

Chances of Disability Claim Success at Each Level

Continue reading

by

On this page, our national sex abuse lawyers will discuss lawsuits against dating app companies for negligently failing to protect users from sexual assault or abuse. These dating app sex abuse lawsuits are getting filed across the country in large numbers and they assert that dating apps like Tinder, Hinge, OkCupid and others have negligently failed to screen potentially dangerous users.

Dating Apps

These days dating apps are the primary way that single people meet each other and start relationships. Research has shown that more relationships originate from dating apps now than from traditional venues like bars, church, school, etc. That means that literally millions of people and finding and meeting each other through dating apps.

Continue reading