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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 4, 2018
Claims of 22 women are set to be tested in the case, the first scheduled to go to trial since the Supreme Court's 2017 decision in "Bristol-Myers Squibb v. Superior Court of California," which made it harder for nonresident litigants to pursue claims in multiplaintiff lawsuits.
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
The U.S. solicitor general has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to review a case that addresses one of the most significant federal pre-emption issues for brand drug companies since Wyeth v. Levine.
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 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.
By Amanda Bronstad | April 24, 2018
Merck has moved to coordinate dozens of lawsuits brought over injuries allegedly caused by its shingles vaccine, Zostavax.
By Amanda Bronstad | April 23, 2018
Plaintiffs who lost all three bellwether trials over Xarelto last year have asked an appeals court to vacate the decisions, saying the judge improperly excluded evidence and gave jurors incorrect instructions.
By Greg Land | April 2, 2018
A federal jury in Arizona's verdict included $2 million in punitive damages against the makers of an implanted blood filter that broke apart and left fragments in a woman's heart and lodged in her artery. More than 3,000 suits have been filed against C.R. Bard over the devices.
By Amanda Bronstad | March 29, 2018
Theodore Leopold and Michael Pitt, lead counsel in a consolidated class action in Michigan federal court, say Hunter Shkolnik has been swiping their clients by forcing them to sign unlawful retainer agreements with excessive fees.
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