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Whirlpool settles on most claims related to TCE pollution at Fort Smith plant
2015-04-18 00:12:50| Waste Management - Topix.net
Whirlpool officials said Friday they have paid more than $3 million to property owners harmed by pollution around the company's former manufacturing plant in Fort Smith, and have settled claims with all but two property owners near the plant. The company closed the refrigerator manufacturing plant in June 2012, and later that year it was made public that trichloroethyclene - a cancer-causing chemical - was found in and around the plant.
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Court rules GM is shielded from death claims by bankruptcy
2015-04-16 06:39:53| Automakers - Topix.net
This April 21, 2009, file photo shows General Motors world headquarters in Detroit. A federal bankruptcy judge ruled Wednesday, April 15, 2015, that General Motors is shielded from death and injury claims potentially totaling billions of dollars tied to defective ignition switches in certain GM small cars.
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Lawyer in whistleblower case claims police deliberately attempted to infect his system with malware
2015-04-15 15:30:25| Extremetech
A lawyer in Arkansas alleges the Fort Smith police department fought requests for documents and the discovery process. When it finally produced some of the missing emails and documentation, it deliberately handed them out using a portable hard drive infected with multiple keyloggers and trojans.
Approved death claims related to GM ignition switch recall rise to 84
2015-04-13 22:49:09| Automakers - Topix.net
The number of approved death compensation claims related to a recall of a faulty General Motors ignition switch has risen to 84. The claims were approved by a fund set up by GM to compensate victims of a defective part in mid-to-late-2000s model cars that has led to a massive recall and a federal investigation. The number of approved claims stood at 19 in mid-September and had grown steadily to 36 at the beginning of December and then to 42 in January.
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Pfizer Refutes Claims of Zoloft Link to Birth Defects
2015-04-13 06:55:31| Biotech - Topix.net
Pfizer Inc. researchers concluded last year that pregnant women taking Zoloft risked having babies with heart defects, according to evidence made public by a lawyer at the first trial of more than 1,000 lawsuits over the drug. The May 2014 internal report on the antidepressant found that newborns of women taking the mood-altering drug were at risk of suffering congenital anomalies, according to a portion of the report presented by a lawyer for the mother of a boy born with a heart defect.
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