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In a special, two-part feature on IVC filters aired on Sept. 2 and 3, 2015, NBC reporters spoke with a 45-year-old IVC filter recipient who “flat lined” when a fragment from her Recovery® IVC filter broke off and pierced her heart, as well as with a veteran regulatory specialist who was hired by device manufacturer C.R. Bard to help its Recovery® IVC filter pass FDA approval.

On June 30, 2015, Judge Royce C. Lamberth of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia appointed Motley Rice LLC as lead counsel in a proposed consolidated class action against the IRS for annual license fees charged to tax return preparers.

On July 30, 2015, a proposed class of investors brought suit against American Express, alleging that the credit card company concealed the financial impact of its co-branding relationship with the U.S. operations of Costco Wholesale Corp.

On August 5, 2015, Malaysian Prime Minster Najib Razak confirmed that a piece of debris found on the coast of the French Island La Réunion in the Indian Ocean is a piece of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370.

A jury has found a former landlord negligent for the conditions in which he kept a home that caused a former tenant to be poisoned by lead-based paint.

On June 24, 2015, the FDA updated its website following a review of the Essure^® permanent birth control system in response to reports from women stating “that they have experienced pain or other health problems after Essure placement.”

Following the FDA's warning in April 2014 regarding the 1-in-350 risk of uterine fibroids being cancerous and the potential for the surgical device known as a power morcellator to spread that cancerous tissue during the removal process, key figures involved in the controversy over the safety of morcellation devices have stated that the FBI is investigating the devices’ largest manufacturer: Johnson & Johnson. A formal FBI investigation, however, has not been publicly announced.

An Air Force F-16 Fighting Falcon jet collided with a civilian Cessna 150C at approximately 11 am EST on Tuesday, July 7, 2015, near Lewisfield Plantation in Moncks Corner, about 25 miles north of Charleston, South Carolina.

Motley Rice attorney Kevin Dean was interviewed by WSB-TV Atlanta reporter Jim Strickland about potentially deadly Tataka airbags in a segment that aired on July 2, 2015.

A sightseeing floatplane carrying eight Holland America Line MS Westerdam passengers and a pilot fatally crashed about 25 miles northeast of Ketchikan, Alaska.