Tyco Fire Products, a major manufacturer of aqueous film forming foam (AFFF), and two other companies agreed to pay $17.5 million to settle a class action lawsuit over per and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS contamination in the Peshtigo and Marinette areas in Wisconsin.
What Happened In The MassTorts World Last Week? 2021-Feb-01
Talcum powder giant Johnson & Johnson (J&J) and its subsidiary Johnson & Johnson Consumer Inc. filed a response over the Plaintiffs’ Steering Committee's (PSC) motion to add a spoliation of evidence claim to the First Amended Master Long Form Complaint.
What Happened In The MassTorts World Last Week? 2021-Jan-25
Last week, a new study was published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) in which researchers indicate that the rates of neonatal abstinence syndrome (NAS) and maternal opioid-diagnosis (MOD) increased by 82% and 131%, respectively, in the U.S.…
What Happened In The MassTorts World Last Week? 2021-Jan-18
Last week, the 4th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals in Richmond, Virginia, reversed a jury decision to award $1.25 million to the family of a now-deceased West Virginia woman alleging Boehringer Ingelheim's blood thinner Pradaxa for the woman's gastrointestinal bleeding.
What Happened In The MassTorts World Last Week? 2021-Jan-11
Allergan USA Inc. filed a supplemental brief on January 5 in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey, asking the federal judge to dismiss claims against its breast implants on the grounds that the consolidated lawsuits are preempted by federal law.
What Happened In The MassTorts World Last Week? 2021-Jan-04
The federal government filed a lawsuit against the retail giant, claiming that the company forced the pharmacists to fill the opioid prescriptions. The lawsuit even claims that Walmart failed to detect and report distrustful prescriptions to the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration. Jason Dunn, the U.S. attorney for Colorado, informed that…
What Happened In The MassTorts World Last Week? 2020-Dec-21
Earlier this month, U.S. District Judge Edmund A. Sargus Jr., presiding over C.R. Bard Inc.'s hernia mesh lawsuits, ruled that the manufacturer cannot present its Ventralight ST device as "lifesaving" during the upcoming bellwether trial.
What Happened In The MassTorts World Last Week? 2020-Dec-14
On December 4, U.S. District Judge Claire C. Cecchi, overseeing the proton pump inhibitor (PPI) drugs litigation, issued a case management order (CMO) indicating that by agreement of the parties, the number of bellwether discovery cases has been reduced to…
Personal Injury News: Pick Of Last Month: Dec-2020
A motorcyclist who was severely injured in a 45-vehicle pileup in 2018 received a massive $411,726,608 verdict from a jury of Florida’s Second Circuit Court.
According to the court documents, the 45-vehicle pileup crash occurred on westbound I-10 in Tallahassee, Florida, on July 24, 2018. It was a stormy day, and due to heavy rain, the…
What Happened In The MassTorts World Last Week? 2020-Dec-07
On November 14, newly published scientific papers were made available, which illustrated that 54 percent of the species in the core human gut microbiome might be impacted by glyphosate, the main ingredient of the weedkiller…
What Happened In The MassTorts World Last Week? 2020-Nov-30
Earlier this month, U.S. District Judge Wendy Beetlestone issued an opinion, stating that claims filed seeking vision monitoring program by the former users of Elmiron residing in the U.S. cannot be litigated as a nationwide class action.