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Coverage of class actions and MDL, often targeting the design, manufacturing and marketing of defective products.
By Amanda Bronstad | May 12, 2017
Five plaintiffs who saw a $502 million jury verdict cut to $150 million last year say the state law unconstitutionally discriminates against the old and the poor.
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By Zack Needles | May 11, 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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By Amanda Bronstad | May 10, 2017
On Wednesday, Armstrong Teasdale partner Thomas Weaver asked the Missouri Court of Appeals to reverse a $72 million award—one of four hefty verdicts against Johnson & Johnson cases linking its baby powder to ovarian cancer.
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By Max Mitchell | May 10, 2017
The juror who collapsed during the last Risperdal trial, and the plaintiff's expert's subsequent role in providing aid to the collapsed woman in front of the other jurors, was a sufficient reason for the jury as a whole to be excused without further questioning, Janssen Pharmaceuticals argued in an effort to preserve a recent defense win.
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By Jenna Greene | May 9, 2017
It's almost a given: the more horrific the injury, the more appalling the negligence, the more likely the inevitable lawsuit will settle on confidential terms. And so went the lawsuit against a Kansas City, Kansas amusement park, where 10-year-old Caleb Schwab was decapitated on a waterslide last year. Until The Kansas City Star got involved, that is.
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By Greg Land | May 8, 2017
A final, confidential settlement with Ford Motor Co. has ended a multidefendant suit involving a woman injured when a tire that was supposed to have been recalled nearly 12 years earlier blew out.
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By P.J. D'Annunzio | May 8, 2017
The Pennsylvania Superior Court has upheld the exclusion of a causation expert in a lawsuit alleging consumption of Pfizer's flagship antidepressant Zoloft caused a child to be born with his intestines on the outside of his body.
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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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