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Court Appoints Special Masters For Valsartan Settlement
Last week, U.S. District Judge Robert B. Kugler, overseeing the valsartan multidistrict litigation docket (MDL), along with…
Valsartan MDL Judge Denies Defendants' Preemption Motion
On December 18, U.S. District Judge Robert B. Kugler, overseeing the valsartan multidistrict litigation docket (MDL), denied three dismissal motions filed by the defendants stating…
Study Links Zantac Problems To Degradation Of Ranitidine
A study was published this month in the medical journal Organic Process Research & Development in which U.K. researchers working with…
12 JUUL Injury Claims Selected For Bellwether Discovery Pool
Earlier this week, the parties involved in JUUL lawsuits pending in the federal court system issued a Joint Notice regarding the 12 randomly selected cases to be included in the bellwether trial…
JPML Agrees To Centralize Elmiron Cases Over Vision Problems
On Tuesday, the United States Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation (JPML) issued a transfer order, stating that the panel finds the…
Study Indicates Teenage Vaping Increases Cigarette Use Later
In the December issue of Pediatrics, a study was published by the researchers with Children’s National Hospital and the University of Texas at Austin, indicating that…
6th Circ. Affirms Summary Judgment To J&J In Mesh Lawsuit
On Monday, the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit affirmed a Tennessee federal court's decision to dismiss a woman's product liability claim against Johnson & Johnson (J&J) Healthcare Systems Inc. and its subsidiary…
Bard’s 'Lifesaving' Assertion Over Hernia Mesh Barred
Earlier this month, U.S. District Judge Edmund A. Sargus Jr., presiding over C.R. Bard Inc.'s hernia mesh lawsuits, ruled that the manufacturer cannot present its Ventralight…
Mirena MDL Over Idiopathic Intracranial Hypertension Tossed
On Tuesday, the 2nd Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals dismissed the Mirena multidistrict litigation after finding that the plaintiffs lacked evidence over the allegations that the birth…
3M Plaintiffs Seek To Combine 5 Cases For A Single Trial
On December 7, plaintiffs involved in the lawsuits over hearing loss from 3M Combat Arms (CAEv2) earplugs filed a motion asking the presiding U.S. District Judge, Casey…