By Charles Toutant | January 17, 2020
The appeals court upheld a 2017 ruling barring testimony from experts who linked Accutane to certain side effects.
By Max Mitchell | January 17, 2020
The two-sentence order did not outline the reasoning for drastically cutting the $8 billion jury award but it brings the punitive damages award to 10 times the $680,000 compensatory award.
By Zach Warren | January 10, 2020
As part of the Legalweek 2020 Q&A series, Legaltech News speaks with GSK e-discovery lead Francine French for the how and why her legal department has developed chatbots.
By Phillip Bantz | December 10, 2019
Gottlieb Keller will retire in March after serving as GC for more than a decade. His successor, Claudia Böckstiegel, is being promoted from her post as legal head of Roche's diagnostics division.
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By Zack Needles | November 26, 2019
The Pennsylvania Superior Court has ruled that a $70 million jury verdict against Johnson & Johnson subsidiary Janssen and in favor of a child allegedly injured by antipsychotic drug Risperdal was not excessive, and has also remanded the case for a second look at whether there should be a punitive damages trial.
By Charles Toutant | November 25, 2019
Merck's opportunity for a new hearing is a victory for lawyers from King & Spalding, Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom, Fox Rothschild, McCarter & English, Jones Day and Venable.
By Zack Needles | November 20, 2019
The start date of the statute of limitations for bringing products liability claims over antipsychotic drug Risperdal must be determined by a jury following a factual analysis in each individual case, the court ruled.
By Amanda Bronstad | November 8, 2019
In dual orders Friday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit granted interlocutory appeal of a Sept. 11 order by U.S. District Judge Dan Polster approving certification of a "negotiation" class of potentially 33,000 cities and counties suing opioid companies.
By Charles Toutant | November 6, 2019
U.S. Magistrate Judge Joel Schneider ruled that the lawyers' committee that divided up legal fees in the multidistrict litigation treated Gerald Williams and Mark Cuker "fairly and equitably."
By Max Mitchell | October 30, 2019
Tensions ran high during a hearing Wednesday over Johnson & Johnson's accusations that a judge showed pro-plaintiff bias when he posed for photos and allegedly high-fived jurors after the pharmaceutical giant was hit with an $8 billion award.
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