By Ross Todd | July 15, 2022
Following a three-month bench trial last summer, a federal judge in West Virginia last week handed a major victor to defense teams for the three largest wholesale distributors of prescription painkillers led by Paul Schmidt of Covington & Burling, Enu Mainigi of Williams & Connolly and Robert Nicholas of Reed Smith.
By Charles Toutant | July 14, 2022
Since the District of New Jersey enacted a local rule in June 2021 mandating the disclosure of any third-party litigation funding arrangements, many such arrangements have come to light in high-profile mass tort suits in New Jersey, said Anthony Anastasio, president of the New Jersey Civil Justice Institute.
By Ross Todd | July 14, 2022
The veteran trial star teamed with new partners Chantale Fiebig and Liz Ryan, who both joined the firm last year, to represent regional grocery and pharmacy chain Giant Eagle in the first bellwether trial involving pharmacy defendants in the national opioid MDL.
By Amanda Bronstad | July 12, 2022
The two drug companies have agreed to pay $54 million to settle San Francisco's opioid trial on Tuesday, but closing arguments continue against a third defendant, Walgreens.
By Amanda Bronstad | July 6, 2022
The July 1 defense verdict, from a federal jury in Denver, follows two other pelvic mesh verdicts in March, in Arizona and West Virginia, for Johnson & Johnson's Ethicon.
By Amanda Bronstad | July 6, 2022
The July 1 defense verdict, from a federal jury in Denver, follows two other pelvic mesh verdicts in March, in Arizona and West Virginia, for Johnson & Johnson's Ethicon.
By Amanda Bronstad | July 5, 2022
U.S. District Judge David Faber, in a bench trial that concluded last year in the Southern District of West Virginia, sided with distributors McKesson, Cardinal Health and AmerisourceBergen in a 184-page decision about the opioid crisis.
By Amanda Bronstad | July 1, 2022
The Official Committee of Talc Claimants filed an opening brief on Thursday before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, challenging a Feb. 25 order refusing to dismiss the bankruptcy of LTL Management, a newly created subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson.
By Amanda Bronstad | June 30, 2022
Mikal Watts predicted hundreds of thousands of cases. "Indeed, counsel anticipate that this will be one of the largest multidistrict litigations in the history of the United States," he wrote in a motion this month before the U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation.
By Amanda Bronstad | June 29, 2022
Tuesday's ruling by U.S. District Judge William Orrick, in San Francisco, found that differences in the specific advertisements that individual class members saw, costs they suffered, or their "nicotine journey," did not overwhelm the common issues among all class members—namely, the allegedly deceptive marketing of Juul's products.
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