A service member's $1.7 million hearing loss settlement in 3M combat earplugs has been sustained by a federal jury in Florida by stating that the company is responsible for the plaintiff's hearing loss. The jury announced that the company was 62% responsible for the service member's hearing loss…
Weekly Mass Torts Bulletin 2021-June-21
A breast cancer survivor's lawsuit alleging Sanofi's chemotherapy drug Taxotere of permanent hair loss has been tossed by the Fifth Circuit upholding a lower court's ruling that claimed the plaintiff delayed in filing the litigation. The panel of three judges who are overlooking the case stated that…
Weekly Mass Torts Bulletin 2021-June-14
New Jersey’s Supreme Court has announced centralization of all Tasigna lawsuits across the country before Superior Court Judge Rachelle Harz in Bergen County for coordinated pretrial proceedings. Novartis, the manufacturer of Tasigna, faces several lawsuits claiming that it failed to warn the users about…
Weekly Mass Torts Bulletin 2021-June-7
A Florida jury has cleared 3M of liability in the second bellwether trial which is a part of 236,000-plaintiff class action claims alleging the earplugs of defective design leading to hearing loss. As per the court documents, an Afghanistan veteran sued 3M claiming that the company's earplugs did…
Weekly Mass Torts Bulletin 2021-May-31
The United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) released data on May 17 regarding Essure birth control implant stating that there is a significant growth in the number of complications suffered by the women after undergoing the implant procedure.
Weekly Mass Torts Bulletin 2021-May-24
On Friday, the federal appeals court supported a $25-million verdict against the maker of Roundup as thousands of litigants blamed the weed killer for causing their cancers.
Weekly Mass Torts Bulletin 2021-May-17
A Massachusetts attorney general has sued Publicis Health, LLC, alleging that the company helped Purdue Pharma in selling more OxyContin by deploying unfair and deceptive marketing schemes resulting in the opioid crisis.
Weekly Mass Torts Bulletin 2021-May-10
A federal jury in Florida has issued an order indicating that 3M will pay $ $7.1 million in damages to three military veterans who suffered from hearing loss due to the defective earplugs that the company manufactured.
Personal Injury News: Pick Of Last Month: May-2021
A federal jury ordered the owner of the Little Rock convenience store to pay $18 million to the family of a teen who was shot and killed inside the store. As per the court documents, the boy was a bystander at the store when he was accidentally shot with bullets. The attorneys assessed the incident and the scenario which concluded that the owner…
Weekly Mass Torts Bulletin 2021-May-03
JUUL Labs Inc. faces several lawsuits and new claims under the RICO argument from more than 4,500 individuals, school districts and municipalities for fueling nicotine addiction among teens and young adults. The company introduced the JUUL pods in 2015, which in no time became much popular among…
Weekly Mass Torts Bulletin 2021-Apr-26
The soon-to-be concluding 3M earplugs trial will impact settlement negotiations if any or affect the proceedings of hundreds of thousands of 3M combat arms earplugs lawsuits pending across the United States. On March 29, the first 3M combat arms earplugs trial started in Florida federal court…
Weekly Mass Torts Bulletin 2021-Apr-19
On Friday President Biden's administration released a plan, which called for a nearly 25 percent increase in discretionary funding to fight against the COVID-19 pandemic and the opioid crisis in the U.S. The administration released a $131.7 billion budget request for the fiscal year 2022 for the U.S.…