New Jersey Law Journal | Analysis
By Bruce H. Nagel | July 26, 2019
Trial attorneys must be aware of the often overlapping claims of informed consent and breach of standards of care in order to make strategic decisions regarding which issues will be tried.
By Amanda Bronstad | July 18, 2019
Plaintiffs lawyers suing over the breast cancer drug Taxotere filed motions this week to ensure that the first bellwether trial against Sanofi-Aventis U.S. LLC is not about them.
By Amanda Bronstad | July 16, 2019
The trial opened Monday with a lawyer for the state of California claiming Ethicon misrepresented the safety of its products and thus should pay $700 million in penalties. A defense lawyer said 2,000 studies have looked at the safety of mesh products and that a “cottage industry” of plaintiffs lawyers and experts were behind the lawsuit.
The Legal Intelligencer | News
By Max Mitchell | July 15, 2019
A unanimous three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit ruled July 12 to uphold a decision from January that barred the federal government from enforcing a version of the ACA that allowed for greatly expanded exceptions to the requirement that companies help cover the cost of contraceptives.
By Max Mitchell | July 3, 2019
A Baltimore jury handed up the nine-figure verdict in a case over allegations that health care providers gave the mother inaccurate predictions about the possible outcome of the birth after she began to experience preeclampsia.
By Charles Toutant | June 26, 2019
The justices found that no reasonable trier of fact could conclude that the man's employer or co-workers should have known he was engaged in a sexual relationship with a minor.
By Charles Toutant | June 24, 2019
The appeals court said a psychiatrist could not be found liable for the death of a bicyclist because there was no evidence the drugs prescribed caused the fatal collision.
New Jersey Law Journal | Analysis
By Daniela P. Catrocho | June 21, 2019
Effective Aug. 1, 2019, New Jersey will be the eighth jurisdiction in the country to allow terminally ill patients to end their own lives in a humane and dignified manner.
By Amanda Bronstad | June 12, 2019
A class action alleges that Nagel Rice and the Potts Law Firm filed pelvic mesh lawsuits on behalf of 1,450 plaintiffs with retainer agreements that are invalid under New Jersey law.
By Robert Storace | June 11, 2019
In the wake of a massive data breach, New Jersey-based laboratory testing company Quest Diagnostics is facing investigations from the attorneys general of Connecticut and Illinois, as well as a putative class action in New Jersey.
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