As a result of new science and ongoing research, on June 15 the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued revised health guidelines regarding acceptable levels of PFAS that are much stricter than current ones. They conclude that, since the new levels determined to...
On May 15, 2022, the Nashville-based Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) Executive Committee published a response to the sexual abuse allegations that had been made against “child molesters and other abusers who were in the pulpit or employed as church staff.” The...
At a hearing held on April 29, 2022, a six-member panel of the Second Circuit Court of Appeals in New York was asked by lawyers representing OxyContin manufacturer Purdue Pharma to approve the bankruptcy plan submitted earlier in the year, currently estimated to be...
The Motion to Transfer cases pending against Abbott Laboratories involving injuries allegedly caused by its infant formula was heard at the March 31, 2022 meeting of the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation (JPML). Abbott, with support from Mead Johnson &...
On February 22, 2022, patients of Logan Health Medical Center (formerly Kalispell Regional Healthcare) were notified that some of their personal information may have been subject to a hack on November 18, 2021. The medical center became aware of the breach on November...
There have been a number of recent developments in litigation and proposed legislation arising out of the issues of privacy violations and children’s social media addiction to platforms like TikTok, Facebook, Instagram and Snapchat. Concerned about the negative...
Two juries in separate bellwether cases found against 3M and subsidiary Aearo Technologies and in favor of former service members who claimed that they suffered hearing loss as a result of using 3M’s defective CAEv2 earplugs. Both cases were tried as part of the...
On February 25, generic opioid manufacturer Johnson and Johnson and three major pharmaceutical distributors finalized a $26 billion deal that will settle around 3000 lawsuits filed by state and local governments in the ongoing opioid litigation, some of which have...
On February 25, after a five day trial, U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Michael Kaplan of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of New Jersey, affirmed Johnson and Johnson’s use of a divisive merger known as the “Texas two-step” to resolve the talc-based litigation pending...
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced that in January 2022 it had finalized a settlement in the 2017 data breach involving the credit reporting company, Equifax. The data breach that exposed the personal information of approximately 147 million people was,...
