3M
3M can’t avoid any part of its alleged liability in massive multidistrict litigation over injuries purportedly caused by its Combat Arms Earplugs, a Florida federal judge ruled, saying the company cannot shift the blame to its codefendant.  This came after 3M was denied a new trial earlier after a jury awarded a veteran Green Beret $50 million in his suit alleging the company’s Combat Arms earplugs gave him tinnitus and hearing loss, with a Florida federal judge ruling that the verdict is “substantially supported” by the trial evidence. 


Talc
A Los Angeles jury has awarded a 76-year-old woman and her husband more than $50 million in damages for the cancer she said she got from using Avon cosmetics containing asbestos-tainted talc, according to a pair of verdicts.  Consumers from across the country filed more than 100 lawsuits over the recalled devices.  


CPAP Foam
Philips RS North America LLC asked a Pennsylvania federal court to throw out the latest complaint in multidistrict litigation alleging the company sold faulty ventilators.  Consumers from across the country filed more than 100 lawsuits over the recalled devices.  The plaintiffs’ attorneys said the dismissal motions are without merit and should be denied.  “Philips knew about the serious health risks posed by its now-recalled CPAP, Bi-PAP, and mechanical ventilator devices as early as 2015, but failed to warn consumers or alert the proper authorities until years later,”.


Hernia Mesh
A Hawaii man won $4.8 million in a hernia mesh lawsuit.  Becton, Dickinson and Co’s C.R. Bard Inc subsidiary must pay the $4.8 million to Paul Trevino, who said he suffered serious complications after being implanted with the company’s hernia repair mesh.  The Rhode Island attorney who served as the lead counsel for Trevino said that he is “delighted by the verdict” and that “the jury system worked” for his client. Earlier in the year, an Ohio federal jury awarded $250,000 in damages to a man alleging injuries from a defective C.R. Bard hernia mesh patch.


Boy Scouts of America
A bankruptcy judge approved a $2.46 billion reorganization plan by the Boy Scouts of America. It will enable it to keep operating while it compensates tens of thousands of men who say there were sexually abused as children while involved in the Scouts.  The Coalition of Abused Scouts for Justice called confirmation of the final approval of the plan historic for “tens of thousands of survivors of childhood sexual assault.”  Over 82,000 men have filed claims saying they were abused as children by troop leaders across the country.


These are just some of the cases worth looking forward to for the new year!

Happy New Year from CMTAS to you and your families!

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A law firm recently hit a dead-end on a product liability case in which they had the correct and current contact information for their client, but she was completely unresponsive to their attempts to reach her by phone or by mail.  Puzzled, the lawyers turned to us for help.  

We launched a search and tracked down the sister of their client, who shed light on the seriousness of the situation:  The client was in the hospital recovering from a major surgery due to her various illnesses and not doing very well.  She had no spouse nor children, which meant her sister was her primary contact and kin.  We connected the lawyers to her sister, through whom the case was finally able to continue.

A South Carolina federal judge overseeing litigation over claims that firefighting foam contaminated groundwater said that 3M knowingly withheld information about the risks associated with so-called forever chemicals for decades, and denied its bid for a government immunity defense.

The government did not know the chemicals were present in the foam until 2000.  But for years 3M had carried out more than a thousand studies on chemicals such as perfluorooctane sulfonic acid, or PFOS, and their effects on human health and the environment that it did not disclose.

Fred Thompson of Motley Rice LLC, told Law360, “We have always believed the AFFF story is an egregious case of corporate malfeasance.  The actions of these defendants resulted in an ongoing man-made environmental disaster that is being addressed at great cost.  They have contaminated the environment and deceived the government and the public about it for decades.  They still deny this.” (Law360)

Cromwell Mass Torts finds your missing clients and a phone number to reach them or their guardian. We can also obtain their signatures or medical records!

A Hawaii man won $4.8 million in a hernia mesh lawsuit.  Becton, Dickinson and Co’s C.R. Bard Inc subsidiary must pay the $4.8 million to Paul Trevino, who said he suffered serious complications after being implanted with the company’s hernia repair mesh.  The Rhode Island attorney who served as the lead counsel for Trevino said that he is “delighted by the verdict” and that “the jury system worked” for his client.
 
The verdict came after a month-long trial, and BD is facing more than 30,000 similar lawsuits over its hernia mesh devices.
 
Mesh devices have been the subject of many legal challenges over the years, proving to be one of medical technologies greatest modern failures.  Pelvic mesh products in particular have caused a lot of trouble. (Reuters) (BizJournals)
 
Settlements are coming, let’s find all your missing clients!

CMTAS finds your clients and a phone number to reach them or their guardian.  We can also obtain their signatures or medical records!

We’ve have been finding people since 1983 and difficult mass tort clients since 2006.
 
Lets have a call and see how we can expedite your cases!

Your clients may be having trouble obtaining proof of military service; form DD214.  It can be a long process, exhausting and highly frustrating.  Most vets will be routed to the national archive free records request system.  It is a manual process that requires you to print, sign, stamp, and mail or fax a confusing application to the government and then wait weeks for your documents in the mail.  Vets can also try their luck with other avenues.  There are 100s of records repositories across the US.  But unfortunately, no matter which they try, too many requests are met with complications, long waiting periods or dead ends.
 
Most US military records are not yet digitized, and this has created a needle in the haystack situation.  Vets can’t count on their local national agent to go the extra mile to help them.  There are 51 separate agencies housing national guard records across 50 states and D.C.  But they don’t collaborate well, nor do they have access to records of all the army, navy, marines, air force, coastguards etc. simultaneously.  If the record you’re looking for is housed in one of these locations, you have to contact each location individually until you find the correct one housing your record.  If you reach out to a national agency requesting a record located elsewhere, you will simply get a letter asking you search elsewhere.  The process of attempting this task on your own is often fruitless and endless.
 
We have a team that is highly familiar with government protocol and procedure, as well as record retrieval.  We even physically stand in line at repositories, and also have a rapport with government personnel.
 
Once we locate your client, we will confirm their current phone number, back up contacts, home address and email.  We will also collect their signature and all the information required to obtain the DD214.  We can also help them obtain Proof of Injury.