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New Order Issued For 3M Earplug Lawsuit

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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…

J&J And DePuy To Settle Pinnacle Hip Implant Lawsuits

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Johnson & Johnson and its DePuy Orthopaedics unit are about to resolve a large number of lawsuits targeted at their metal-on-metal Pinnacle hip implants.

Plaintiff lawyer Mark Lanier told that the consumers and the…

GSK Fails To Escape Zofran Birth Defect Lawsuits

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U.S. District Judge F. Dennis Saylor denied GlaxoSmithKline PLC’s request to dismiss hundreds of birth defect lawsuits filed by women, who used Zofran as an anti-…

$260M Tentative Deal To End Opioid Crisis

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On Monday, two Ohio counties and four drug companies reached a tentative settlement of roughly $260 million at the eleventh hour to avoid an opioid trial.

The deal…

Valsartan Lawsuit Filed Over Colorectal Cancer Risk

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In a lawsuit filed on January 30, 2019, in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Arkansas, a plaintiff claimed that taking generic valsartan

Plaintiffs Seek Prolene Mesh Consolidation In New Jersey

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The plaintiffs involved in lawsuits filed against Johnson & Johnson over problems with the Ethicon Prolene Hernia System (PHS) have filed a request in New Jersey…