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By Andrew Denney | October 15, 2018
After a five-week trial and 23 total hours of deliberations spread over four days, a jury of 11 found against cigarette maker R.J. Reynolds on claims of defective design, fraud failure to adequately warn and in favor of the family of the late Louis Summerlin, a longtime smoker who worked for years as an automotive brake mechanic.
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By Law Journal Editorial Board | October 15, 2018
One might make a strong argument that cases involving such cutting edge theories of causality should be assigned specially, as medical malpractice cases once were and as certain commercial disputes presently are, to a particular judge in the venue who would be the most competent to make difficult decisions as were made by the trial judge in Accutane.
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By Michael Booth | October 12, 2018
In a 4-3 ruling, the majority said it was clear that if the employer knows or should have known that employees' clothing dusted with asbestos could be handled by others, there is a clear duty of care.
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By Amanda Bronstad | October 11, 2018
After two mistrials in similar cases that had juries in Los Angeles deliberating for days, a New Jersey jury took just half an hour to decide that Johnson & Johnson's baby powder did not cause a woman to get mesothelioma.
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By Amanda Bronstad | October 10, 2018
San Francisco Superior Court Judge Suzanne Bolanos issued the tentative ahead of a hearing on Wednesday afternoon.
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By Amanda Bronstad | October 9, 2018
U.S. Magistrate Judge David Ruiz on Oct. 5 allowed most of the claims in a key case in a massive MDL against opioid companies to go forward, concluding that the complaint was far from a “fishing expedition.”
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By Amanda Bronstad | October 3, 2018
Another jury in Los Angeles deadlocked on whether Johnson & Johnson's baby powder caused mesothelioma.
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By Amanda Bronstad | October 2, 2018
The lawsuits come on the heels of a $670.7 million settlement with DuPont and Chemours Co. last year involving an MDL over a related chemical that has been linked to cancer and hypertension in pregnant women and other illnesses.
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By John Council | September 12, 2018
The case, Jefferson County v. Farris, concerns the death of James Farris, who served as judge of the 317th District Court from 1977 until his retirement in 1996.
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By Amanda Bronstad | August 30, 2018
A judge has allowed the state of Ohio's case to go forward against several opioid manufacturers in a ruling that plaintiffs lawyers are citing in…
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