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Coverage of class actions and MDL, often targeting the design, manufacturing and marketing of defective products.
By Amanda Bronstad | May 4, 2017
A federal jury in New Orleans deliberated for less than two hours before coming back this week with a defense win in the first bellwether trial over the blood thinner Xarelto. That's a bona fide slam dunk--even for lead defense counsel Beth Wilkinson, who's notched a streak of trial victories in her career.
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By Amanda Bronstad | May 4, 2017
Hoping to reverse a $502 million loss, lawyers for Johnson & Johnson are attacking Houston attorney W. Mark Lanier. But he says the campaign "fails to tell the whole story."
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By Amanda Bronstad | May 4, 2017
In five trials over the safety of its talcum powder, Johnson & Johnson has racked up four losses. Thursday's verdict from a Missouri jury was the biggest blow so far.
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By Max Mitchell | May 4, 2017
The state Supreme Court has decided not to take up Volvo's appeal of a decision last year that overturned a defense verdict in a crashworthiness case against it. The justices denied allocatur Thursday in . The lawsuit was seen as a case that might have allowed the high court to address product liability issues in the wake of the Supreme Court's game-changing ruling in .
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By Charles Toutant | May 3, 2017
AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals and Bristol-Myers Squibb were hit with 14 suits in the District of New Jersey on Tuesday claiming that users of diabetes drug saxagliptin face elevated risks of heart failure as a result of using the drug.
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By Amanda Bronstad | May 3, 2017
Johnson & Johnson subsidiary Janssen Pharmaceuticals Inc. and Bayer brought in powerhouse litigator Beth Wilkinson of Washington, D.C.'s Wilkinson Walsh + Eskovitz to lead the defense team in the first of four bellwether trials.
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By Charles Toutant | May 2, 2017
A state appeals court tossed a $25 million verdict against Hoffmann-La Roche in a suit over acne drug Accutane after finding that the trial judge improperly restricted duplicative testimony from two defense experts.
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By C. Ryan Barber | May 2, 2017
"While we hear a lot of fabricated outrage about the impact of regulations, there is far less genuine discussion about the real costs of a failure to act," Elliot Kaye, a U.S. Consumer Product Safety commissioner, said recently in voting with the majority to advance new regulations for table saws. Democrats still hold a majority at the product-safety commission, posing one block on the Trump administration's deregulatory agenda.
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By Max Mitchell | May 1, 2017
Three weeks before the latest Risperdal case was tossed out midtrial, one of the jurors initially tasked with evaluating the claims collapsed while a plaintiff's expert was testifying on the stand.
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By Zack Needles | April 28, 2017
A 12-member Philadelphia jury handed up a $20 million verdict—including $17.5 million in punitive damages—against Johnson & Johnson subsidiary Ethicon in the third pelvic mesh case to go to trial in the city.
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