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 Syngenta and Chevron were hit with six more suits in federal courts in California, Illinois and Pennsylvania over allegations that the herbicide paraquat causes Parkinson’s disease, as the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation prepares to decide whether to consolidate the litigation. The Pennsylvania suits are the first ones filed in the state over paraquat, according […]

The Ninth Circuit on Thursday ordered the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to ban the use of the pesticide chlorpyrifos on food unless the EPA can find that it’s safe for children. A split three-judge panel said the EPA has studied chlorpyrifos’ effects for more than a decade and has found, again and again, that it

Exercise machine company Peloton Interactive Inc. and two of its executives were hit Thursday with an investor’s proposed class action after the company decided not to recall or halt sales of one of its products, despite a federal regulator’s warning about children and pets being “sucked beneath” the devices. In her lawsuit in federal court

The New York attorney general on Thursday announced an investigation into baby food makers, including Gerber Products Co. and Beech-Nut Nutrition Co., over high levels of inorganic arsenic in their food, months after a congressional report revealed high levels of toxins in major baby food brands. New York Attorney General Letitia James said that she

The Fourth Circuit let Covil Corp. keep its win in a wrongful death suit alleging that its asbestos products caused a man’s death from mesothelioma, finding there was scant evidence to support allegations that Covil’s products caused the cancer. In a published opinion Tuesday, the panel affirmed a summary judgment that ended claims by Darrell

Monsanto on Wednesday asked the Eleventh Circuit to disregard a letter sent by three third-party attorneys aiming to stop an appeal in one of the suits alleging its Roundup weedkiller caused cancer, saying they have no grounds to torpedo a settlement that led to the appeal. In the response brief, Monsanto Co., a subsidiary of

The Food and Drug Administration is expected by next week to grant expanded emergency use authorization to allow children as young as 12 to receive the coronavirus vaccine developed by Pfizer and German firm BioNTech, according to three federal officials familiar with the situation. The agency is still working on the authorization, said the officials,

 A Johnson & Johnson representative testified Wednesday that the drugmaker promoted its opioids heavily in California, not only to doctors but directly to insurers and payors who held the keys to place opioids on all-important lists of covered drugs called formularies. Janssen and J&J corporate rep Kimberly Deem-Eshleman, a regional business director, appeared via video

A California federal judge on Tuesday trimmed consumers’ putative class actions against a J.M. Smucker Co. unit that sold pet food containing a sedative, finding that the unit must face claims that the food labels were false or misled consumers. In a 62-page partially redacted order on Big Heart Pet Brands’ motion to dismiss, U.S.

Three men allegedly injured by lead paint as children urged the full Seventh Circuit to rehear their claims against Sherwin-Williams and other paint makers after an appellate panel reversed their $6 million trial win. The men — Cesar Sifuentes, Glenn Burton Jr. and Ravon Owens — argued in a petition for an en banc rehearing