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Gerber Products Co., other baby food manufacturers, and parents on Tuesday urged the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation not to consolidate suits over allegedly high levels of toxic heavy metals in baby foods because the suits are too different and centralization would be inefficient. In separate motions, parents and the companies said the panel should […]

The Seventh Circuit has reversed a $6 million verdict against The Sherwin-Williams Co. and two other paint makers, undoing a trial on allegations that they sold lead-based paint that caused brain damage to three men as youths, finding the district court had improperly expanded Wisconsin liability law. On Thursday, a three-judge panel found that while

A California federal judge on Tuesday largely left intact multidistrict litigation claiming Juul Labs Inc. intentionally marketed its harmful tobacco products to young people, rejecting the second wave of motions to dismiss from the e-cigarette maker’s part-owner Altria Group Inc.  Juul and Altria are battling claims they misleadingly told the public that e-cigarettes are safer

Two of the plaintiffs among those who have filed at least 14 federal lawsuits accusing Syngenta and Chevron of selling the herbicide paraquat despite knowing it causes Parkinson’s disease have asked the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation to consolidate the cases for pretrial proceedings. The lawsuits are spread across six different federal district courts, and

A Michigan federal judge has trimmed claims from a woman’s suit alleging the maker and seller of an inferior vena cava, or IVC, filter broke apart and injured her after implantation, saying that several of her claims were not made with specific enough allegations. In an order filed Monday, U.S. District Judge Gershwin A. Drain

The Third Circuit revived a heart surgery patient’s suit against the former Sorin Group USA over claims that its heating-cooling device put him at risk of contracting bacterial infections, saying a lower court’s dismissal wrongly kept him from proceeding with his allegations in any court. Last year, the lower court tossed plaintiff Kyle Hamer’s case

A Los Angeles judge has thrown out more than 500 claims in a coordinated proceeding alleging that diabetes drugs made by Novo Nordisk, Merck, Eli Lilly and Amylin Pharmaceuticals cause pancreatic cancer, saying the plaintiffs’ experts failed to take into account all the available scientific literature on the subject. In a 42-page ruling filed Tuesday,

Federal health officials on Tuesday recommended a pause in the administration of Johnson & Johnson’s single-dose COVID-19 vaccine pending a review of six U.S. cases of rare and serious blood clots among more than 6.8 million Americans who received the vaccine. The blood clot condition is called cerebral venous sinus thrombosis and appeared in the

A smoker’s widow asked the Florida Supreme Court on Wednesday to reinstate a $5 million punitive damages award against R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co., arguing that a law limiting punitive damages does not apply because the cause of action predates the 1999 law. David Sales, who represents widow Mary Sheffield, told the justices in oral argument

The Kraft Heinz Co. was hit Tuesday with a proposed class action claiming the company has unlawfully failed to inform its customers that its boxed macaroni and cheese product could contain harmful chemicals that could cause adverse health effects if consumed. New York resident Gabrielle Stuve and Florida resident Jessica Nicodemo say that Chicago-based Kraft