Posted on December 23, 2013
The Connecticut Public Interest Research Group (ConnPIRG) recently released its 28th Annual Trouble in Toyland report, stating that while progress has been made in recent years, dangerous and toxic toys can still be found on store shelves across the United States.
ConnPIRG’s research found...
Posted on December 23, 2013
Genzyme Corp. (Genzyme) has agreed to pay $22.28 million to resolve allegations, under the False Claims Act, that they knowingly marketed and caused false claims to be submitted to federal and state health care programs for use of a “slurry” version of its Seprafilm adhesion barrier,...
Posted on December 20, 2013
Effective today, California’s Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) designated the common plasticizer Diisononyl Phthalate as known to cause cancer.
When OEHHA, the state agency responsible for implementing Proposition 65, designates a chemical as known to...
Posted on December 20, 2013
The Justice Department secured $3.8 billion for settlements and judgments from civil cases involving fraud against the government in the 2013 fiscal year, the U.S. Department of Justice announced today.
This amount, which is the second largest annual recovery of its type in history, brings total...
Posted on December 19, 2013
Cardiologist Dr. Elie H. Korban (Korban) will pay $1.15 million to resolve False Claims Act allegations that he billed Medicare and Medicaid for medically unnecessary cardiac stent placements, the Justice Department announced today.
Cardiac stents are mesh tubes placed in coronary arteries of...
Posted on December 19, 2013
San Francisco may become the first major metropolitan area in the United States to ban the sale of plastic water bottles, reported the San Francisco Chronicle. Board of Supervisors President David Chui introduced a bill last Tuesday that would eliminate the sale of plastic water bottles on...
Posted on December 18, 2013
A new research study has found that holiday garlands and mardi gras beads may contain hazardous chemicals such as lead, flame retardants, and phthalates, which are linked to cancer, birth defects and other reproductive harm.
The study, which was a collaboration between the Ecology Center and...
Posted on December 16, 2013
Firm founder Clifford Chanler was interviewed by Corporate Crime Reporter about the firm's work in enforcing Proposition 65 with Chinese manufacturers of American consumer goods, as well as the firm's enforcement work in general.
“A factory in China does not make products just for...
Posted on December 16, 2013
After a decade-long legal battle, Dr. Van Pena won $1.35 million from the California’s state-run Sonoma Developmental Center for wrongful termination in connection with his attempts to report “gross medical negligence” in 2000, Petaluma360 reported.
Dr. Pena had worked at Sonoma...
Posted on December 13, 2013
Anthony Held, Russell Brimer, and Whitney Leeman--clients of The Chanler Group--served nine new 60-Day Notices of Proposition 65 Violation today. The notices were served to companies offering products such as hand tools, stools, chairs and ottomans for sale in California containing chemicals...
