Tag: Law360
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Woman Lost Independence Due To Strattice Mesh
A Kentucky woman told New Jersey state jurors that LifeCell skipped important safety steps while designing its Strattice surgical mesh, and that those skipped steps caused a hernia to reoccur and ultimately resulted in the loss of her independence. Counsel for the plaintiff said that the company “chased after money without doing their due diligence” and, after…
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L’Oreal, Revlon Can’t Escape Hair Relaxer-Cancer Link MDL
Consumers who allege L’Oreal, Revlon and other companies’ hair relaxers — which are primarily marketed to Black women — cause breast, uterine and other cancers can pursue most of their consolidated claims, an Illinois federal judge ruled. U.S. District Judge Mary M. Rowland largely denied the companies’ bids to dismiss the multidistrict litigation that now…
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Monsanto Hit With $2.25B Verdict In Philly Roundup Trial
A Philadelphia jury on Friday hit the makers of weedkiller Roundup with an astronomical $2 billion punitive damages verdict, along with $250 million in compensatory damages. Friday’s result comes after two previous Philadelphia juries hit Bayer AG unit Monsanto with separate $3.5 million and $175 million verdicts in the mass tort. Thomas R. Kline, who…
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Criminal Litigation And Corporate Malfeasance Topics To Watch In 2024
Criminal litigation and corporate malfeasance topics to watch in 2024: More CPSC Activity Expected In 2023, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission stepped up its enforcement game — including with multimillion-dollar fines issued over injuries caused by defective products — and that trend is anticipated to continue into 2024. The CPSC will continue to evaluate whether cases should…
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Jury Awards $1.56B In Monsanto Roundup Verdict In Missouri!
A Missouri jury awarded $1.56 billion to three people who claimed their cancer was caused by Monsanto Co.’s Roundup weedkiller! Each plaintiff was awarded $500 million in punitive damages and multimillion-dollar compensatory awards of $38 million, $17.5 million and $5.6 million, respectively. The verdict comes weeks after juries in Philadelphia and San Diego slammed the…
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J&J 3rd Bankruptcy May Spark SCOTUS ‘Texas Two-Step’ Scrutiny:
Johnson & Johnson, which twice failed to use bankruptcy to resolve claims its baby powder caused cancer, is plotting a third Chapter 11 filing, with the potential to spark a circuit split that could put the controversial “Texas Two-Step” maneuver squarely in the U.S. Supreme Court’s sights, experts say. After spending millions on two New…
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BREAKING: Monsanto Hit With $175M & $332M Verdicts In 1st Roundup Trials!
A Philadelphia jury slammed Monsanto with a $175 million verdict for a cancer patient who claimed the company didn’t adequately warn customers about carcinogens in the weed killer Roundup, wrapping up the city’s first trial on tort claims over the Bayer AG unit’s signature product! Shortly after, a San Diego jury slammed Monsanto with a…
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Judge OKs Fees For Talc Lawyers In J&J Unit’s First Ch. 11
A New Jersey bankruptcy judge has told counsel for talc tort claimants in the original Chapter 11 of Johnson & Johnson’s talc spinoff that they are due hundreds of thousands of dollars in fees and expenses, saying the payment was justified by the “extraordinary” circumstances of the case. In an opinion filed, U.S. Bankruptcy Judge…
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Vet Says 3M’s $50M Bellwether Verdict Appeal Is ‘Scattershot’
A veteran who was awarded $50 million in compensatory damages over 3M’s allegedly defective earplugs urged the Eleventh Circuit on Friday not to overturn his verdict. Veteran Luke Vilsmeyer told the panel that 3M is “grasping at straws” in its arguments that he failed to prove that the combat earplug caused his hearing damage and that…
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J&J Talc Unit Refiles For Ch. 11 With $8.9B Deal
Johnson & Johnson’s talc unit commenced a new Chapter 11 bankruptcy case Tuesday afternoon, this time coming to court with an $8.9 billion settlement with a group of talc injury claimants whose litigation led to its original insolvency case. In addition to more than 50,000 filed talc injury suits, there are likely to be another 20,000…