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3M Earplug Lawsuit: Parties Propose Single-Track Litigation
Attorneys representing plaintiffs and defendants associated with 3M Earplug lawsuits have requested to allow individual personal injury claims and class action complaints to proceed on a single litigation track.
The U.S…
J&J's $417M Talc Verdict Case Gets New Trial
Johnson & Johnson (J&J) has been granted a new trial, after an initial $417 million verdict was tossed by Judge Maren E. Nelson and appealed by the estate of a woman who alleged that the company’s…
J&J's $465M Opioid Verdict Overturned
$465 million opioid judgment that was earlier ruled against Johnson & Johnson (J&J), alleging that the company illicitly marketed drugs that resulted in the opioid…
Reckitt Benckiser Agrees To Pay $1.4B To End Opioid Crisis
Reckitt Benckiser (RB), a British pharmaceutical company, agreed to pay up to $1.4 billion to settle a long-running probe with the U.S. federal government over sales and marketing of the…
J&J's Talcum Powder Lawsuits' Proceedings Halted
A U.S. bankruptcy judge has halted the court proceedings of Johnson & Johnson's (J&J) talcum powder lawsuits and has transferred the cases to a federal court in New…
J&J's Unsealed Emails Highlight Manipulated FDA Reports
Johnson & Johnson's (J&J) unsealed emails over the years have highlighted the efforts of the company to avoid the warnings about the linkage of its talcum baby powder…
GSK Warning-Label Verdict: Widow Fails To Reclaim $3M
An attempt to reinstate a $3 million verdict made by the wife of a law firm partner has been rejected by an Illinois federal judge on July 11.
The husband, a law firm partner, had consumed the generic version of…
J&J Talc Problem: Federal Authorities Launch Criminal Probe
Pharmaceutical giant Johnson & Johnson (J&J) is facing a criminal probe by the U.S. Department of Justice, stating that the company knew about problems with …
U.S. District Judge Reduces Roundup $80M Verdict To $25M
On July 15, U.S. District Judge Vince Chhabria reduced the $80M Roundup verdict to $25 million against Bayer AG owned Monsanto after finding that punitive damages component of $75 million awarded to a plaintiff was unreasonably high.…
Calif. Attorney General’s Pelvic Mesh Lawsuit Set In Motion
A trial has commenced, against Johnson & Johnson (J&J) and it's subsidiary Ethicon brought by a state attorney general and attorneys for the state of California for allegedly deceiving up to 50,000 California women and hiding…