Last week, parties involved in the talcum powder litigation submitted a Status Report and Proposed Joint Agenda for the status conference scheduled for today to review the progress of the bellwether cases.
Personal Injury News: Pick Of Last Month: Nov-2020
A lawsuit involving an autistic boy killed in a golf cart crash on a school campus last year has settled, and the mother of the child will receive $7.5 million from the school district, as noted by the family's attorneys.
What Happened In The MassTorts World Last Week? 2020-Nov-09
Last week, a jury with the Louisiana Civil District Court for Orleans Parish awarded $10.3 million to a plaintiff who was diagnosed with mesothelioma and had claimed the reason as exposure to raw asbestos while working as a longshoreman in the 1960s.
What Happened In The MassTorts World Last Week? 2020-Nov-02
On September 18, the European Medicines Agency (EMA) issued a press release confirming its prior recommendations dated April 3, 2020, to suspend ranitidine throughout the European Union due to the presence of low levels of an impurity called N-nitrosodimethylamine (NDMA). The suspension confirmation is the result of a request made by one of the…
What Happened In The MassTorts World Last Week? 2020-Oct-26
Last week, Bayer's arguments to review the first Roundup-cancer verdict maintaining that the plaintiff who filed the lawsuit failed to establish the company's liability for his non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma was rejected by the California Supreme Court.
What Happened In The MassTorts World Last Week? 2020-Oct-19
On October 8, a study was published in the New England Journal of Medicine where the researchers from the Netherlands indicated that patients with a transcatheter aortic valve implant (TAVI) who were administered with a combination of aspirin and…
What Happened In The MassTorts World Last Week? 2020-Oct-12
On September 18, the European Medicines Agency (EMA) issued a press release confirming its prior recommendations dated April 3, 2020, to suspend ranitidine throughout the European Union due to the presence of low levels of an impurity called N-nitrosodimethylamine (NDMA). The suspension confirmation is the result of a request made by one of the…
What Happened In The MassTorts World Last Week? 2020-Oct-05
Judge Vince Chhabria, overseeing the Roundup multidistrict litigation docket, in a case management conference held via zoom, indicated that he would retain the stay on the controversial weedkiller's litigation until November 2 and asked the parties to provide an update on the proposed more than $10…
Personal Injury News: Pick Of Last Month: Oct-2020
A $1 million settlement has been approved by the city of Phoenix over a March 2016 wrongful death lawsuit involving a pregnant mother who, along with her unborn baby, died from a blood clot during a medical emergency.
What Happened In The MassTorts World Last Week? 2020-Sep-28
U.S. District Judge William H. Orrick III, overseeing the federal JUUL multidistrict litigation (MDL), issued an order establishing the method for the parties to choose the cases that will be prepared for the first bellwether trials, which is set to begin in early 2022…
What Happened In The MassTorts World Last Week? 2020-Sep-21
On September 9, U.S. District Judge Freda Wolfson, overseeing the talcum powder lawsuits, rejected Johnson & Johnson's (J&J) request to appoint court-approved experts to assist jurors in upcoming bellwether trials, stating that the move would interfere with the independent assessment of the…
What Happened In The MassTorts World Last Week? 2020-Sep-14
Last week, Metalclad Insulation LLC's counsel, Sheila G. O'Gara, in response to the complaint made in an ongoing online asbestos trial that Metalclad's expert witnesses never got whole documents, said that the documents would be presented to the jury during the witness' examination and the limitations…