By Amanda Bronstad | June 25, 2018
Plaintiffs lawyers have told a New Jersey federal judge they want to depose a Johnson & Johnson representative to address why the company lost or destroyed talcum powder samples that they could have tested in cases alleging women got ovarian cancer from prolonged use of its baby powder.
By Amanda Bronstad | June 8, 2018
A federal panel reviewing a $1.04 billion hip implant verdict appeared skeptical about Johnson & Johnson's arguments that a Dallas judge had…
By Katheryn Tucker | June 6, 2018
“It's easy to do legal work for people you believe in,” Earl McCall said. “Whether you're on the defense side or the plaintiff's side, it just adds a little extra joy for me if you believe in the people you are representing.”
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By Amanda Bronstad | June 6, 2018
Johnson & Johnson “rigged the tests” to avoid conceding that its baby powder contained asbestos, causing 22 women to get ovarian cancer, plaintiffs lawyer Mark Lanier told a St. Louis jury in opening statements on Wednesday in the most high-volume talcum powder trial to date.
By Amanda Bronstad | June 1, 2018
An appeals court has upheld an injunction freezing the assets of Stanley Chesley—once known as the "master of disaster" for his work in mass tort litigation—after concluding that the disbarred Cincinnati plaintiffs attorney is likely to continue what it called a “high-stakes shell game.”
By Amanda Bronstad | May 24, 2018
A California jury has awarded $25.75 million to a woman diagnosed with mesothelioma due to asbestos exposure from using Johnson & Johnson's baby powder thousands of times.
By Amanda Bronstad | May 3, 2018
A LA judge has tentatively cleared the way for a Johnson & Johnson motion to toss out about 100 out-of-state plaintiffs from the coordinated talcum powder litigation in California in light of the U.S. Supreme Court's jurisdictional decision last year in Bristol-Myers Squibb v. Superior Court of California.
By Amanda Bronstad | May 1, 2018
Ted Leopold and Michael Pitt, co-lead counsel for the lead class action brought on behalf of Flint residents, have asked U.S. District Judge Judith Levy, who is based in Ann Arbor, Michigan, to remove Hunter Shkolnik as one of two lawyers serving as liaison counsel to the individual cases.
By Pamela C. Hicks | May 1, 2018
When I first started working on aviation cases 20 years ago, it was not uncommon for my time to be spent defending lawsuits related to commercial airline…
By John Schneider | April 30, 2018
A multi-billion dollar verdict involving breaches of fiduciary duty scores the top award in the 2017 list by NLJ-affiliate VerdictSearch.
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