Massachusetts Expands Listeria-Tainted Tuna Salad Recall
DPH Expanded Tuna Salad Recall The Massachusetts Department of Public Health (DPH) expanded this week’s tuna salad recall and is now advising consumers not to eat any deli-prepared tuna salad purchased from July 26th to August 10th. The tuna salad was recalled over concerns of potential Listeria monocytogenes contamination in bulk … [Read more...]
Two Massachusetts Nursing Home Employees Accused of Posting Humiliating Videos of Resident Abuse on Snapchat
Two nursing home employees in Lowell, Massachusetts, are accused of abusing residents of the facility and posting humiliating videos of the abuse on Snapchat. Lowell Police were called to Wingate at Belvidere Nursing Home on Wentworth Avenue around 2 p.m. on July 31, after relatives told police that inappropriate videos of nursing … [Read more...]
Another Massachusetts Compounding Pharmacy Recall
Compounding Pharmacy Products Are Being Recalled. Compounding pharmacy Pallimed Solutions Inc., of Woburn, Mass., issued a voluntary recall on Monday of sterile compounding products after “foreign matter” was found in some drug vials. The contamination was discovered during an unannounced inspection by state and federal officials, … [Read more...]
Massachusetts Girl Awarded $63M for Side Effects Injuries Caused by Motrin
Jury Awarded a State Teen In A Lawsuit. A Boston jury has awarded a state teen and her parents $63 million for the life-threatening side effects she suffered after taking Children’s Motrin several years ago. According to an AP and CBS report, Samantha Reckis was diagnosed with toxic epidermal necrolysis (TEN) and lost 90 percent … [Read more...]
More Massachusetts Pharmacy Companies Closed
Massachusetts pharmacy companies closed. The Commonwealth of Massachusetts continues to respond legislatively to the deadly meningitis outbreak earlier this year that claimed 36 lives and sickened hundreds by announcing sanctions against three more pharmacy companies operating in the state. According to a Reuters report, … [Read more...]
Massachusetts is the Latest State Considering a BPA Ban
Growing Uprising Against The Toxic Bisphenol A - BPA. In the growing uprising against the toxic, estrogenic, and highly ubiquitous chemical, bisphenol A—BPA—Massachusetts has become the latest state to consider action. Health officials in Massachusetts are in talks to determine if pregnant women and young children should, at the very … [Read more...]
Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick Signs A Health Bill with Strong Gifts-to-Doctors Rules
Bill With Gifts-to-Doctors Strong Rules. According to a recent Associated Press report, Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick just signed a bill created, in part, to help reduce that state’s increasing health care costs. The bill will require “hospitals and doctors to adopt a statewide electronic records-keeping system by 2015” and … [Read more...]
19 Hurt in Mass. Commuter Train-Truck Crash
Train Struck A Truck Injured 19 People. A commuter train heading into Boston struck a flatbed truck that had bottomed out on a railroad crossing, injuring 19 people Monday morning, authorities said. The driver of the truck, which was hauling construction equipment, had walked up the tracks to try to warn the approaching train, but … [Read more...]
Massachusetts Sues Prudential Over Brokers’ Trades
Prudential Short-Term and Late Trading of Shares. Prudential Securities was sued by Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth William Galvin for failing to supervise brokers who allegedly engaged in short-term and late trading of mutual-fund shares. The civil complaint says three former brokers in the firm's Boston office Martin … [Read more...]
N.Y., Mass Investigate Morgan Stanley
Officials Are Investigating Morgan Stanley. New York and Massachusetts officials are investigating whether Morgan Stanley improperly pressured brokers and branch managers to sell proprietary mutual funds to clients and misled regulators investigating the practice. Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth William Galvin and New … [Read more...]
Massachusetts Goes After CSFB Over Stock Reports
CSFB Massive Accounting Fraud. Some Credit Suisse First Boston stock-research analysts had an internal code to describe which stocks to avoid, but there was one problem: They didn't let all investors in on the secret, Tuesday's Wall Street Journal reported. That is one of the allegations made Monday by Massachusetts state … [Read more...]
Massachusetts May File Fraud Charges Against Credit Suisse First Boston
Charges Against Credit Suisse First Boston. Massachusetts state securities regulators plan to file civil fraud charges against Credit Suisse First Boston, intensifying the scrutiny of alleged conflicts that may have tainted the firm’s technology research under investment- banking star Frank Quattrone, Monday’s Wall Street Journal … [Read more...]
