By Amanda Bronstad | March 27, 2019
After one day of deliberations, jurors in San Francisco found that Monsanto, now owned by Bayer AG, was liable for plaintiff Edwin Hardeman's non-Hodgkin lymphoma. The award includes $75 million in punitive damages.
By Amanda Bronstad | March 12, 2019
Testifying at Tuesday's hearing was a plaintiffs expert in the talcum powder multidistrict litigation against Johnson & Johnson, and the son of an ovarian cancer victim whose husband won a $72 million verdict against J&J.
By Amanda Bronstad | March 6, 2019
According to Law.com data based on federal court records, women took 31 percent of the top MDL positions, both executive committee member and lead counsel combined, compared to 23 percent in 2017.
By Amanda Bronstad | February 27, 2019
“These were not slips of the tongue," wrote U.S. District Judge Vince Chhabria, who ordered plaintiffs attorney Aimee Wagstaff to pay $500 as a sanction for her conduct during opening statements Monday.
By Amanda Bronstad | February 13, 2019
Lawyers predict thousands of lawsuits to be filed on behalf of U.S. service members who allege that 3M's earplugs caused hearing loss.
By Amanda Bronstad | January 17, 2019
An order issued earlier this week sustained a petition filed by Johnson & Johnson to stop the trial, which was to begin in St. Louis on Tuesday.
By Amanda Bronstad | December 7, 2018
The U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation refused to transfer class actions brought on behalf of 40 percent of the nation's opioid-addicted babies, concluding there would be “substantial overlap” with the opioid multidistrict litigation it created a year ago.
By Amanda Bronstad | November 16, 2018
A defense verdict in California gives Johnson & Johnson the upper hand in the litigation alleging its asbestos-containing talcum powder products caused mesothelioma.
By Zach Schlein | November 6, 2018
A multistate team of litigators helped to negotiate a settlement with medical technology firm Stryker Corp. on Friday. Stryker, a Fortune 500 company, had been faced with multidistrict as well as multicounty litigation over damages caused by recalled hip replacement devices.
By Amanda Bronstad | November 2, 2018
Johnson & Johnson has filed motions to toss the verdict, accusing the plaintiffs' lawyer, Mark Lanier, of referencing stillborn babies in his opening statement and showing a drawing of a woman pushed over a ledge into ovarian cancer.
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