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A California federal judge won’t let Juul Labs Inc. and Altria Group Inc. cut the bulk of claims from a teenager’s suit alleging that they deceptively advertised their vaping products to minors, saying there are fact questions about whether the girl saw or was affected by advertising for the e-cigarettes. U.S. District Judge William H. […]

A Florida appeals court won’t let Philip Morris USA Inc. escape a $2.5 million verdict won by the daughter of a smoker who alleged the cigarette maker was responsible for her father’s death, saying trial evidence was enough for the jury to conclude the man relied on the company’s advertising to his detriment. The panel

A New Jersey bankruptcy judge denied a slate of motions seeking to expand the talc claimants committee in the Chapter 11 case of a Johnson & Johnson unit, saying that the panel’s current composition adequately represents the interest of people allegedly injured by the company’s talc products. U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Michael B. Kaplan said the

A Florida federal jury awarded $2.2 million to a service member claiming he suffered hearing loss as a result of faulty earplugs made by 3M, the 15th bellwether verdict in sprawling multidistrict litigation against the company.  The jury awarded Jonathan Vaughn, who served a tour of duty in Iraq and has been using a hearing

A Florida federal jury has hit Coloplast Corp. with a $2.5 million verdict in a suit from a woman saying one of its pelvic mesh products was defective, causing an infection and pelvic pain after it was implanted. The jury found that Virginia Redding and her physician relied on Coloplast’s representations of the mesh as

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced a proposed ban on menthol cigarettes and cigars, following a pledge a year ago to bar the flavor for its outsized impact on minorities. The FDA said that in 2019 there were more than 18.5 million smokers of menthol cigarettes above the age of 12, with high rates

Juul Labs Inc. is facing new lawsuits in a consolidated California state proceeding over its marketing of its vape products as safe alternatives to regular cigarettes, with attorneys for the plaintiffs saying there are more complaints to come. Individual plaintiffs allege that Juul misleadingly marketed its e-cigarette products as safe and targeted youths and young

The New York Court of Appeals threw out a $16.5 million verdict awarded to the estate of a woman who died from mesothelioma that allegedly came from tainted talc, saying her estate’s experts had failed to establish that the amount of asbestos the talc product exposed her to was enough to cause cancer. The judges

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said certain NJOY e-cigarettes can be legally marketed, while determining other vaping products made by the company need to be taken off the shelves. The FDA said it had granted marketing orders to NJOY LLC for its Ace e-cigarette products, which are closed systems and come ready to vape.

 Royal Philips NV has been subpoenaed by the U.S. Department of Justice related to the recall of defective sleep apnea machines and respirators — a recall that’s led to more than 100 lawsuits and multidistrict litigation — the company announced in a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. The company said that Philips Respironics, which manufactured