U.S. District Judge Vince Chhabria of the Northern District of California, presiding over all Roundup lawsuits, issued a pretrial order on Wednesday, February 6, indicating that Monsanto must take the deposition of a man dying of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma (NHL) within 28 days of the order. The…
What Happened In The MassTorts World Last Week? 2019-Feb-11
On Thursday, January 31, Delaware Superior Court Judge Ferris W. Wharton denied Ford Motor Company's request to overturn a $9.1 million asbestos verdict awarded to the widow of an auto mechanic who died in 2014 owing to mesothelioma. The company's request for a new trial was denied by the…
Personal Injury News: Pick of Last Month: Feb-2019
The parents of a 3-year-old girl who fell to death at an Anaheim hotel in 2015, reached a tentative settlement, ending the lawsuit blaming the hotel's owners and the property management company for the incident.
What Happened In The MassTorts World Last Week? 2019-Feb-04
On January 15, Bayer asked California Superior Judge Winifred Smith to split an upcoming Roundup trial involving claims filed by a couple linked to Roundup's alleged carcinogenic nature into two phases. The scheme would bar the plaintiffs from presenting evidence related to Monsanto's…
What Happened In The MassTorts World Last Week? 2019-Jan-28
According to a recent complaint filed on January 17, 2019, by a Louisiana man in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey, AstraZeneca, Merck, and Procter & Gamble failed to provide an adequate warning regarding gastric...
What Happened In The MassTorts World Last Week? 2019-Jan-21
According to an order issued on January 7, 2019, Judge Alice Gibney of the Rhode Island Superior Court found that the claims filed by a plaintiff in a hernia repair patch case were timely as the device manufacturers fraudulently promoted the Ventralex hernia patch as safe to use.
What Happened In The MassTorts World Last Week? 2019-Jan-07
According to an order issued on December 31 by federal Judge Dan Polster, lawsuits filed by Cabell County Commission and City of Huntington are the next to go for trial among hundreds of other opioid lawsuits claiming extreme side-effects of the prescription pill overdose.
Personal Injury News: Pick of Last Month: Jan-2019
A Clarence High School Teacher won nearly $750,000 in a lawsuit filed against the Town of Amherst after a three-vehicle crash in 2011 left her with severe injuries, recurring headaches and shoulder injuries for which she underwent arthroscopic shoulder surgery.
What Happened In The MassTorts World Last Week? 2018-Dec-31
On December 19, attorneys for a plaintiff filed a petition with the U.S. Supreme Court requesting to determine whether her claims were preempted because federal law prevents GlaxoSmithKline from adding a suicide warning label in Paxil taken by her deceased husband as an antidepressant.
What Happened In The MassTorts World Last Week? 2018-Dec-24
Johnson & Johnson recently agreed to pay more than $400 million to settle some product liability cases concerning Pinnacle hip-replacement devices. The officials indicated an average of about $125,000 per case to resolve about 3,300 lawsuits pending against the company over design defects...
What Happened In The MassTorts World Last Week? 2018-Dec-17
In a case management order submitted on December 3 in the U.S. District Court, District of New Jersey Judge Claire C. Cecchi, overlooking the proton pump inhibitors (PPI) lawsuits, stated the parties had submitted competing proposals for the upcoming bellwether trials.