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National Law Journal

CDC Director Resigns After Report of Tobacco Stock Trade

Dr. Brenda Fitzgerald resigned Wednesday as director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention less than a day after a Politico report that she bought shares in a tobacco company after assuming office—an apparent conflict of interest for the head of the country's public health agency.
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New Jersey Law Journal

Accutane Suits Rightly Held Time-Barred, Appellate Division Rules

A New Jersey appeals court handed Swiss pharmaceutical giant Hoffmann-La Roche a minor victory when it affirmed a trial judge's ruling that four plaintiffs in the Accutane litigation blew the statute of limitations in filing their product liability lawsuits.
3 minute read

Corporate Counsel

Big Pharma Becoming a Big Target in Shareholder Class Actions: Study

Driven largely by plaintiffs firms Pomerantz & Co., The Rosen Law Firm and Glancy Prongay & Murray, shareholder class-action lawsuits against life sciences companies, particularly those in the pharmaceutical space, were on the rise last year, continuing a decade-long trend, according to a new report.
3 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Products Liability, Mass Torts & Class Action

In the Legal's Products Liability, Mass Torts & Class Action supplement, read about company-generated documents and emails, navigating choppy waters…
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The Legal Intelligencer

Strategic Considerations Before Challenging Personal Jurisdiction in Products Liability Litigation

Over the last seven years, the U.S. Supreme Court has rapidly and dramatically altered the landscape of personal jurisdiction law. Specifically, the court issued six opinions that overturned a lower court's exercise of personal jurisdiction, reinforced due process limitations on state assertions of jurisdiction, and narrowed the scope of constitutionally permissible general and specific personal jurisdiction.
8 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

In J&J's Backyard, Attorneys Paint Contrasting Pictures of Talc's Alleged Link to Mesothelioma

At opening statements Monday in a Middlesex County court for the second suit linking Johnson & Johnson's talc products to mesothelioma, the company offered several alternate theories for the source of the asbestos that caused the plaintiff's illness.
4 minute read

New York Law Journal

NY Reaches Agreement on Lavern's Law Medical Malpractice Bill

Gov. Andrew Cuomo and legislative leaders have reached an agreement on a bill that extends the amount of time a patient has to file a medical malpractice lawsuit for a missed cancer diagnosis.
4 minute read

National Law Journal

Prominent Jenner & Block Pair First to Take on Medicaid Work Mandates

A pair of prominent Jenner & Block partners, Thomas Perrelli and Ian Gershengorn, both former high-ranking federal government lawyers, are representing 15 Kentucky residents in high-stakes litigation challenging the state's newly approved Medicaid work requirements.
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Daily Report Online

$7.6M Nursing Home Trial Award Tees Up Apportionment Wrangle

The jury found the nursing home liable for only 20 percent of the award, but plaintiffs attorney Ken Connor said that because the panel found both professional and ordinary negligence—a claim for which the defense had not sought apportionment—he would seek the entire award.
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New York Law Journal

An Ounce of Prevention Is Worth Tons of Pounds, Euros and Dollars

In his Cross-Border concerns column, Stephen Treglia writes: Time is running out for lawyers representing certain types of business entities, specifically, those in the financial sector and those doing business in the EU, and there is still much work left to do. The window is closing regarding when critical personal data belonging to those businesses that are in a lawyer's possession must be shielded from unauthorized access over the lawyer's computer systems. Incidentally, if your clients are involved in health care, that same window closed a few years ago.
10 minute read

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