On January 25, U.S. District Judge M. Casey Rodgers, presiding over the 3M earplugs multidistrict litigation, issued an order stating that trial for the three cases that were consolidated for the…
Last week, Judge Robert B. Kugler of the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey, overseeing the blood pressure drug valsartan MDL, rejected bids from the defendants over the dismissal of…
Talcum powder giant Johnson & Johnson (J&J) and its subsidiary Johnson & Johnson Consumer Inc. filed a response over the Plaintiffs’ Steering Committee's (PSC) motion to add a spoliation…
On Thursday, the New Jersey attorney general said that Insys Therapeutics founder has agreed to pay $5 million to the state to resolve a lawsuit that claimed that the founder bribed doctors of the…
A pair of orders were released on January 17 and 18 in which U.S. District Judge M. Casey Rodgers, presiding over the 3M earplugs multidistrict litigation, ruled in favor of two plaintiffs over the…
Last week, U.S. District Judge Brian R. Martinotti, presiding over all Elmiron lawsuits, was presented with a proposal by a group of attorneys to appoint a group of 25 plaintiffs’ leadership…
Last week, U.S. District Judge Vince Chhabria, overseeing all Roundup cancer lawsuits, denied Monsanto’s motion to exclude the testimony of expert witnesses and for summary judgment in a lawsuit…
Last week, a new study was published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) in which researchers indicate that the rates of neonatal abstinence syndrome (NAS) and maternal opioid-…
Last week, the New York Supreme Court for New York County awarded summary judgment to the defendant, Nissan North America, Inc. (NNA), in an asbestos case after finding that the evidence did not…