Posted on May 3, 2013
Peter Englander, Whitney Leeman, John Moore, and Laurence Vinocur--clients of The Chanler Group--on May 1 served nine 60-Day Notices of Violation of Proposition 65 on companies offering furniture and other products for sale in California that contain chemicals known to cause cancer or reproductive...
Posted on May 1, 2013
The United States filed a second false claims action against Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corp. alleging that they paid kickbacks to doctors to induce them to prescribe Novartis pharmaceutical products that were reimbursed by federal health care programs, the Justice Department announced last week.
The...
Posted on April 30, 2013
The California Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) has requested relevant information on whether the chemical Trichloroethylene (TCE) meets the criteria for listing as a chemical known to the State to cause reproductive harm. This...
Posted on April 25, 2013
Excerpted from full article at Prop 65 News:
Proposition 65 citizen enforcers Peter Englander, John Moore, and Laurence Vinocur since February, have served more than 150 sixty-day notices of violation on furniture manufacturers, distributors and retailers alleging the presence of flame...
Posted on April 25, 2013
A recent article in The Wall Street Journal reported on the potential risk of phthalates and Bisphenol A (BPA) being released when food is microwaved in plastic containers. Several phthalate chemicals have been designated by California as chemicals known to cause cancer and reproductive harm...
Posted on April 24, 2013
The U.S. government filed its complaint against former cycling champion Lance Armstrong in Washington, D.C., Reuters reported yesterday. Armstrong, now stripped of his seven Tour de France wins, is accused of defrauding his sponsor, the U.S. Postal Service, by taking millions of dollars in...
Posted on April 23, 2013
A study carried out in California’s San Joaquin Valley demonstrated a possible link between high air pollution and birth defects. The results were posted in The American Journal of Epidemiology.
Even adjusted for smoking, maternal age, multivitamin use, and other variables, researchers...
Posted on April 22, 2013
On April 16, the owner and another senior executive of Chicago’s Sacred Heart Hospital and four physicians affiliated with the facility were arrested in connection with a Medicare and Medicaid kickback and fraud scheme, the U.S. Department of Justice reported.
Edward J. Novak, Sacred Heart...
Posted on April 19, 2013
Excerpted from full article at mfrtech.com:
On behalf of its clients, The Chanler Group has also filed lawsuits against nine major manufacturers and retailers, demanding action be taken to properly label their products in compliance with California's Proposition 65. The lawsuits come after...
Posted on April 19, 2013
A Sacramento County judge granted a preliminary injunction today in favor of the American Chemistry Council (ACC) in their case against California’s Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA). The injunction requires that OEHHA remove the chemical Bisphenol A (BPA) from...
