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Study: Low Risk On Using Philips' CPAP and BiPAP Machines

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Philips has completed safety studies on several of its equipment nearly two years after first publicly raising concerns about the possible disintegration of the polyester-based polyurethane foam included in many of its…

Weekly Mass Torts Bulletin 2023-January-2

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Local governments in Northwest Florida and Miami-Dade County have filed lawsuits against the multinational consulting company McKinsey & Company for prior work in assisting with the marketing of opioids.

FedEx Driver Sued For Killing A 7-Year-Old Girl

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The father of a 7-year-old girl has accused a FedEx delivery man in Texas of murdering his daughter.

He filed the claim in Wise County court several weeks after his daughter was discovered dead in a body of water in Boyd, roughly 10 miles…

Full Review Of 11th Cir. Ruling Sought By Monsanto

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An Eleventh Circuit panel revised but did not overturn a previous ruling that federal law does not preempt a Georgia doctor's claim that Monsanto failed to warn people about the alleged cancer risks of its…

Study Finds Vaping Results In Long-term Addiction

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Although the makers of JUUL and other popular e-cigarettes have marketed their products as safer than smoking tobacco cigarettes, a new study suggests that vaping actually…

Judge To Meet Hernia Mesh MDL's Lawyers For 2023 Trial

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The United States District Judge presiding over all federal hernia mesh lawsuits involving Bard products will meet with lawyers involved in the litigation next week as…

CDC’s New Opioid Guidelines Rejected By Florida

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The Florida Department of Health has rejected the new CDC guidelines for opioid prescribing, citing the ongoing opioid crisis and the recent fentanyl explosion.

The CDC updated…

Veterans Ask Court To Lift Stay On 3M's Earplugs Cases

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A group of plaintiffs has asked the court to lift the stay on the earplug hearing loss lawsuits and allow the cases to proceed.

Plaintiffs in 13 cases asked the judge on…

Roundup Leads To Antibiotic Resistance In P. aeruginosa

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According to the researchers, glyphosate in Roundup may lead to hazardous germs growing resistant to existing antibiotics, resulting in serious damage or death.

The study…

3M Needs To Take Firm Decision To Resolve Earplug Lawsuit

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3M Co. failed a bankruptcy court gambit to resolve almost 230,000 military earplug defect complaints and is now finding another road through mass tort litigation…