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Continue reading the post titled Franchise LawyersZofran: The Dangers of Off-Label Drug Use
The Class Actions team at Siskinds LLP recently commenced a new case against the pharmaceutical manufacturers of Zofran. The class action claim alleges that the drug manufacturers failed to warn that off-label use of Zofran is unsafe for pregnant women. Zofran is a powerful anti-nausea medication approved by Health Canada to treat nausea and vomiting...
Continue reading the post titled Zofran: The Dangers of Off-Label Drug UseGroup of popular arthritis drugs may pose risk of heart problems, blood clots, cancer and death, says Health Canada
Update: On November 1, 2022, Health Canada published multiple safety alerts to notify the general public and medical community about new warnings required for the Canadian labels for all Janus Kinase Inhibitors concerning risks of serious heart-related problems, fatal blood clots and cancer, including a Public Advisory and Health Professional Risk Communication. Β Β Β An entire...
Continue reading the post titled Group of popular arthritis drugs may pose risk of heart problems, blood clots, cancer and death, says Health CanadaCanadians can now claim under $20 million OxyContin class actions settlement
On May 27, 2023, a claims filing process becomes open to Canadians to apply for compensation for injuries suffered from addictions to OxyContin and OxyNEO. Β The claims process gives Canadian opioid victims the chance to receive funds from a $20 millionΒ SettlementΒ to resolve longstanding Oxycontin class action litigation across Canada.Β The news has been highly anticipated...
Continue reading the post titled Canadians can now claim under $20 million OxyContin class actions settlementDrummond on environment, how helpful?
Last week, we posted chapter 13 of Don Drummond’s report, theΒ Commission on the Reform of Ontarioβs Public Services, the section onΒ the Ministry of the Environment. Here, in brief, are his recommendations. Other than the general good advice that the MOE should eliminate duplication and charge more for its fee-based services, none of the recommendations will...
Continue reading the post titled Drummond on environment, how helpful?If it looks like a franchise, itβs a franchise
By Peter Dillon for AdvocateDaily.com In anotherΒ decisionΒ in the line of βaccidental franchisorβ cases, Justice Mary E. Vallee, of the Ontario Superior Court of Justice, granted summary judgment on the basis of non-disclosure to plaintiffs who purchased the rights to operate an alcohol delivery service under anΒ established trademark. This decision reiterates that a business relationship may...
Continue reading the post titled If it looks like a franchise, itβs a franchiseCrypto-Platforms hit with eleven coordinated class actions
Crypto-currency trading platforms (βCrypto-Platformsβ) received an unwelcome surprise last month, when eleven of them were hit with coordinated class action suits in America by two law firms.Β The class actions target some of the largest crypto-currency exchanges in the world: Binance, Bibox and KuCoin, along with several individual defendants. Crypto-Platforms are online trading platforms that generally...
Continue reading the post titled Crypto-Platforms hit with eleven coordinated class actionsThe SCCβs decision in Uber signals modernization of Canadian workersβ rights
On June 26, 2020 the Supreme Court of Canada released its decision in Uber Technologies Inc. v. Heller 2020 SCC 16. In an eight-one majority, the SCC held that the plaintiff Uber driver could proceed with his class action against Uber, despite the mandatory arbitration clause contained in a standard form contract he had signed...
Continue reading the post titled The SCCβs decision in Uber signals modernization of Canadian workersβ rightsWhat are your environmental rights in Ontario? An overview of the Environmental Bill of Rights, 1993, S.O. 1993, c 28
Is there a right to a healthful environment in Ontario? Who has that right and what does it entail? Does the public have any say in the governmentβs ability to make environmentally significant decisions? These questions are the subject of longstanding and ongoing debates in Canadian environmental law. While no Canadian court has recognized constitutional...
Continue reading the post titled What are your environmental rights in Ontario? An overview of the Environmental Bill of Rights, 1993, S.O. 1993, c 28Retrial: lower fines for environmental consultant
In 2011, we wrote about the record $161,000 in fines imposed upon an environmental consultant and his company. In addition, $40,500 in fines were imposed on their clients, Mr. James Sinclair and his company Sinclair Landing, owner of a contaminated site. Following an appeal andΒ retrial, the fines imposed on geo-environmental firm Bruce A. Brown Associates...
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