Under oath to Congress, two teens revealed a JUUL representative came into their high school classroom and called JUUL e-cigarettes “totally safe”. These claims came up July 25 during the first of two hearings presented by the House Oversight Subcommittee on Economic and Consumer Policy to investigate JUUL’s involvement in lending to the nicotine addiction […]
A U.S. federal judge reexamined and reduced a landmark $2 billion jury verdict awarded to a California couple claiming their cancers were caused by exposure to Bayer AG’s Roundup weedkiller. The final verdict was reduced to $86.7 million. Judge Winifred Smith of the California Superior Court in Oakland ruled that the jury’s original $2 billion […]
Groundbreaking documentary Don’t Tell Anyone shares the voices of sexual abuse survivors in Poland as they bravely fight back against their alleged abusers in the Catholic Church. BBC News reports the first-hand accounts of Polish Catholic Church sexual abuse victims featured in the film. “I didn’t know about things like masturbation and touching. I had […]
Breast implant manufacturer Allergan Inc. instigated a recall worldwide for its textured breast implant model after findings of breast implant-caused cancer. The FDA states studies revealed Allergan’s Biocell breast implant was tied to cases of a rare lymphoma, with 80% of the over 500 confirmed lymphoma cases being tied to the Allergan implants. CBS News […]
The U.S. District Judge presiding over all Roundup lawsuits in the Roundup multidistrict litigation recently determined Monsanto Company should pay over $25M of the damages awarded to a Roundup cancer victim in the first bellwether trial. In a recently released court order, U.S. District Judge Vince Chhabria decided to uphold the jury’s full awarded amount […]
U.S. MILITARY MEMBERS FILING EAR INJURY CLAIMS OVER 3M COMBAT ARMS DUAL-SIDED EARPLUGS Increasing numbers of U.S. military veterans are filing lawsuits against corporate giant 3M as soldiers discover hearing injuries tied to their use of 3M Combat Arms earplugs. One of the most recent, Army vet James C. Boyd, filed a lawsuit against 3M […]
Recently unveiled research provides compelling casual evidence for how talcum powder can cause ovarian cancer in consumers. Scientists from Wayne State University’s Karmanos Cancer Center in Detroit presented findings in early June indicating that talc in baby powder can stimulate mutations in genes tied to ovarian cancer. Currently, corporate giant Johnson & Johnson faces over […]
After a court hearing on Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Vince Chhabria announced his plan to reduce an $80 million damage award to a man who alleged his cancer was caused by the glyphosate in weedkiller Roundup. On March 27, 2019 a federal jury awarded plaintiff Edwin Hardeman $5 million in compensatory damages and $75 million […]
Product liability lawsuits against generic valsartan manufacturers continue to file in at an alarmingly rapid rate as more patients seek compensation for useless drugs, medical monitoring, and serious injuries caused by impure valsartan. One lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey alleges that valsartan patient James Moss’s liver cancer […]
BARD, ETHICON, AND ATRIUM NAMED AS DEFENDANTS IN INJURY CLAIMS The number of hernia mesh lawsuits filed in the United States continues to steadily and rapidly increase as hernia mesh lawyers review and file more hernia mesh patients’ claims. In the past month alone, over 1,000 new product liability lawsuits were filed for complications with […]
