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Valsartan Manufacturers To Face Fraud Claims
Last Friday, Judge Robert B. Kugler of the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey, presiding over the Valsartan multidistrict litigation (MDL), denied dismissing fraud-based claims against the…
Warranty Claims To Proceed In Valsartan MDL
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…
J&J Opposes Spoliation Of Evidence Claim In Talcum MDL
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 of…
NJ To Receive $5M In Opioid Bribery Lawsuit
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 state to boost sales of its powerful…
Judge Favors 3M Plaintiffs Over Choice Of Law
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…
25 Plaintiffs’ Attorneys To Serve In Elmiron MDL
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 positions to…
Roundup MDL: Final Pretrial Conference Of A Case On Jan. 25
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 brought by…
Report Reveals Opioid-Related Disorders Rose In The U.S.
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…
Summary Judgment Awarded To Nissan In An Asbestos Case
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 support…
Out-Of-State Claims Dismissed In Valsartan MDL
On Tuesday, Judge Robert B. Kugler of the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey, presiding over the blood pressure drug valsartan lawsuits, said that consumers in the multidistrict litigation…