Posted on January 6, 2014
Let’s say a product is made in China. But the product doesn’t meet American health and safety standards. Can an American law reach across the Pacific and force the Chinese manufacturing company to comply with U.S. law?
Apparently yes.
In September, the Chanler Group, an...
Posted on January 3, 2014
Earlier this year, Gov. Gerald “Jerry” Brown signed into law AB 711, banning lead in hunting ammunition. Lead is a known carcinogen and reproductive toxin, and is also harmful to the environment and wildlife. According to the Washington Post, there is little doubt that lead...
Posted on January 3, 2014
The United States has intervened in a False Claims Act case against Florida-based Health Management Associates, Inc. (HMA), after uncovering allegations of unlawful kickbacks and improper billing claims to federal healthcare entities such as Medicare and Medicaid, the Atlanta Business Chronicle...
Posted on January 2, 2014
The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) reported that the number of toy recalls has decreased dramatically since 2008, due in part to an increase in port seizures. The CPSC strives to protect consumers, especially children, from harmful products that may be laced with chemicals....
Posted on December 31, 2013
Russell Brimer and Whitney Leeman--clients of The Chanler Group--served sixteen new 60-Day Notices of Proposition 65 Violation last week. The notices were served to companies offering products such as hand tools, bags and accessories and musical equipment for sale in California containing...
Posted on December 31, 2013
St. James Healthcare (St. James) and its parent company, Sisters of Charity of Leavenworth Health System (Sisters of Charity), have agreed to pay $3.85 million to resolve allegations that they violated the False Claims Act, the Anti-Kickback Statute and the Stark Law, the Department of Justice...
Posted on December 30, 2013
Excerpted from full article at Environmental Leader:
Two recent Proposition 65 settlements with Chinese companies are likely the beginning of a trend, in which foreign firms get taken to court over the products they sell in the US, according to an attorney familiar with such cases.
In September,...
Posted on December 30, 2013
Taylor Bean & Whitaker Mortgage may pay the United States more than $320 million to resolve allegations that they violated the False Claims Act submitting false mortgage claims, Bloomberg Businessweek announced earlier this month.
The settlement would resolve allegations that Taylor Bean...
Posted on December 30, 2013
A new study shows that fetal deaths in Washington, D.C. increased during 2000-2003 and 2007-2009, when the city’s tap water was highly contaminated with lead.
Lead is an extremely toxic heavy metal, long known to the State of California to cause birth defects and reproductive harm. ...
Posted on December 27, 2013
The majority of public drinking water wells tested on Cape Cod, Mass. are contaminated with pharmaceuticals, consumer product chemicals, and other contaminants, according to a recent report by Silent Spring Institute. Septic systems are likely the main source of the contamination.
Researchers...
