By Amanda Bronstad | November 17, 2022
U.S. District Judge Denise Cote, on Wednesday, approved the plaintiffs' leadership team in lawsuits against Tylenol manufacturer Johnson & Johnson and more than a dozen retailers, including Walmart Inc. and CVS Pharmacy Inc.
By Amanda Bronstad | November 17, 2022
A defense letter outlines that retailers aren't responsible for a drug's warning label, and that the "litigation-driven" claims have no scientific support. "Indeed, every regulatory body and credible medical organization to weigh in on this issue has agreed with FDA, and has refuted plaintiffs' claims," Barnes & Thornburg's Kristen Richer, a partner in Los Angeles, wrote in the Nov. 10 letter.
By Amanda Bronstad | November 16, 2022
Johnson & Johnson has petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court to reverse a $344 million transvaginal mesh verdict for the state of California in a bench trial against its Ethicon unit.
By Amanda Bronstad | November 15, 2022
Walmart Inc. agreed to pay $3.1 billion to resolve thousands of lawsuits by cities, counties, Native American tribes and states alleging its pharmacists failed to regulate opioid prescriptions, leading to a public health crisis in their communities.
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By Justin Henry | November 14, 2022
"We could have done mass torts at Baldwin Matzus … but we would have needed a couple of years before we started to do that," Kila Baldwin said, citing the hundreds, "if not thousands," of clients needed for a mass torts inventory.
By Christine Charnosky | November 10, 2022
The Maurice A. Deane School of Law at Hofstra University has officially launched the Perry Weitz Mass Tort Institute, which provides exposure and training on cutting-edge technology modeled off the most advanced courtrooms in New York.
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By Ross Todd | November 10, 2022
"It's going to create a very formidable plaintiffs bar in our country going forward given the level of expertise provided to a new group of younger lawyers," says Jayne Conroy of Simmons Hanly Conroy, one of the three co-leads of the plaintiffs' executive committee in the National Prescription Opiate Litigation MDL.
Litigation Daily | Conversation
By Ross Todd | November 10, 2022
"It's going to create a very formidable plaintiffs bar in our country going forward given the level of expertise provided to a new group of younger lawyers," says Jayne Conroy of Simmons Hanly Conroy, one of the three co-leads of the plaintiffs' executive committee in the National Prescription Opiate Litigation MDL.
By Amanda Bronstad | November 9, 2022
On Wednesday, a Missouri jury came out with the sixth defense verdict in a row for Monsanto in a trial over its Roundup pesticide.
By Amanda Bronstad | November 9, 2022
Thousands of Roundup cases remain unsettled, leading to a new spate of Roundup trials in California, Missouri and Oregon.
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