In addition to the personal injury and class action lawsuits recently consolidated by the JPML, JUUL is now facing litigation brought by several school districts. The school districts have sued JUUL over increased costs associated with a rise in the use of e-cigarettes by their students. The suits were filed by Francis Howell School District […]
Amid an increasing number of reports of vaping-related illnesses and deaths, Juul announced that Kevin Burns has stepped down as CEO and will be replaced by K.C. Crosthwaite, a former executive at Altria, which owns a 35% stake in Juul, who has previously served as an observer to Juul Labs Board of Directors. According to […]
Every day seems to bring new developments in the Juul story, with none of them good for Juul. On September 9, the U.S. Food and Drug administration issued a warning letter to Kevin Burns, the CEO of e-cigarette manufacturer JUUL Labs, Inc., for allegedly marketing the Juul device as a “modified risk tobacco product” without […]
JUUL Labs, Inc. recently filed a motion with the Joint Panel on Multidistrict Litigation (the “JPML”) to transfer cases against it for consolidated pretrial proceedings and further requested that the MDL be assigned to the Northern District of California. Juul is based in San Francisco. Reply briefs are due later this month and the motion […]
We all know smoking is bad for your health and the good news is that adult smoking rates in the United States have declined from a high of 45% in the 1950s to the current rate of approximately 15%. But, in its place we have seen the rapid rise of vaping, led principally by the […]
