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New Jersey Law Journal

Nod Given To $100M Settlement of NuvaRing Litigation Against Merck

By | February 07, 2014
A New Jersey state judge signs off conditionally on a settlement that requires Merck to pay $100 million to settle mass litigation over its allegedly unsafe NuvaRing birth control device.
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New Jersey Law Journal

Litigation Over Anti-Clot Drug Plavix Continues To Mount in New Jersey

Lawsuits alleging health and financial injury from the anti-blood-clot drug Plavix are piling up in New Jersey following the U.S. Judicial Panel on Multi-District Litigation's decision to centralize them here.
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Daily Business Review

High-Low Tactic Pays Off For Client Who Lost Fingers In Saw

Attorney Hyram Montero won $947,000 in a Palm Beach Circuit products liability case, which was just $3,000 shy of the agreed-upon maximum judgment.
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New Jersey Law Journal

Judge Criticizes Withholding of Evidence in Asbestos Cases

A bankruptcy judge overseeing a gasket maker's insolvency proceeding found that some plaintiffs lawyers have had a practice “to withhold evidence of exposure to other asbestos products and to delay filing claims against bankrupt defendants' asbestos trusts."
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The Legal Intelligencer

Toilet-Tipping Prank Results in $5 Mil. Settlement in Sullivan County Court

A man who was rendered quadriplegic when two of his relatives accidentally tipped over the portable toilet he was using in an attempt to play a practical joke on him has settled with the toilet's manufacturer and installer, as well as the two relatives, for a total of $5 million in the Sullivan County Court of Common Pleas.
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New Jersey Law Journal

Bellwether Trial Opening in Vaginal Mesh MDL

The first bellwether trial in the multidistrict litigation over the Ethicon vaginal mesh pelvic repair system is slated to open next Monday in the Southern District of West Virginia.
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New Jersey Law Journal

Global Settlement Struck in Biomet Hip Implant MDL

Litigation over the Biomet hip replacements has resolved in a global settlement calling for several-hundred plaintiffs to receive a base award of $200,000 for each hip they have had replaced.
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New Jersey Law Journal

Consumer Product Safety Commission Mulls Changes to Voluntary Recall Process

The federal Consumer Product Safety Commission is considering a new rule to govern when companies undertake voluntary recalls to get their unsafe products off the market.
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New Jersey Law Journal

Fourth Circuit Finds Federal Law Preempts Drug Plaintiff's Claims

A plaintiff who alleged harm from the use of a generic drug has had her claim preempted as a result of recent U.S. Supreme Court rulings.
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New Jersey Law Journal

Plaintiffs Said To Be Failing to Prosecute Their Claims in Nexium MDL

Lawyers for defendant drug makers in litigation over the heartburn drug Nexium say that more than 730 plaintiffs have failed to get done the paperwork necessary to their claims of bone damage and fractures.
3 minute read

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