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Monsanto's Bid To Block Evidence From Roundup Trials Denied
On Monday, January 28, U.S. District Judge Vince Chhabria of the Northern District of California denied Monsanto's bid to exclude vital evidence from an upcoming bellwether trial linked to Roundup's carcinogenic nature.
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False Misrepresentation Claim For Greenfield Filter Tossed
In an order issued on January 23, 2019, Chief Judge David C. Nye of the U.S. District Court for the District of Idaho dismissed a fraudulent misrepresentation claim filed by a plaintiff against Boston Scientific Corporation,…
CDC Warns About Gastroschisis Risk Linked To Opioid Use
According to a study published by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on January 18 in its Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR), there exists a possible link between…
Ethicon Physiomesh Bellwether Trial Schedule Released
In an Amended Practice and Procedure Order issued on January 17, 2019, Judge Richard Story announced a scheduling order for the preparation of cases for the first Ethicon…
Bayer Files Motion to Bifurcate An Upcoming Roundup Trial
On January 15, Bayer asked California Superior Judge Winifred Smith to split an upcoming Roundup trial involving claims filed by a couple linked to Roundup's…
New Order Issued For 3M Earplug Lawsuit
The adoption of Master Complaint and Short Form Complaint over all federal 3M Combat Arms earplug lawsuits, filed by the veterans alleging hearing loss and tinnitus…
Glyphosate Will Soon Be Banned In Thailand
On Tuesday, Thailand's National Hazardous Substances Committee approved a ban on three highly controversial pesticides: glyphosate, paraquat, and chlorpyrifos, which will be effective from December 1, 2019.
The ban is the result…
Valsartan Recall Urges Some Drug Makers To Increase Prices
When two generic companies manufacturing valsartan recalled hundreds of lots of the blood-pressure medicine last July, Alembic Pharmaceuticals was unaffected by…
AG Negotiate A $700M Deal With Reckitt Over Suboxone
British pharmaceutical company Reckitt Benckiser Group PLC along with the attorneys general for New York, California, Indiana, Ohio, Virginia, and Washington, negotiated a $700 million deal over Suboxone, a drug that helps reduce…
Lawsuit Alleges GBCAs Cause Disabling Injuries
In a complaint filed by a plaintiff in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana, she suffered an allergic reaction in July 2018, after being injected with various…