Topic: Mass Torts
Almost a year after Bayer stopped selling Essure, the company has reported that 99% of the unused birth control devices have been returned due to its outreach to patients and health care professionals. Bayer maintains that the reason it took Essure off the market in the U.S. was the 70% drop in sales the company […]
U.S. District Judge Richard Seeborg of the Northern District of California, who is presiding over the Viagra MDL, has ruled that the plaintiffs’ causation experts must be excluded. In an Order filed on January 13, Judge Seeborg pointed out that the plaintiffs had been unable to find any experts other than their own to support […]
On January 9th, only a few days after J&J’s California case settled, the FDA announced that it will hold a day-long public forum to gather information and discuss the testing procedures for detecting asbestos in talc-based cosmetics. The meeting is scheduled to take place on February 4th at FDA’s White Oak Campus in Silver Spring, […]
In an unusual move for the company, Johnson & Johnson has settled the latest case brought against it for asbestos-contaminated talc in the middle of the trial. The plaintiff in the lawsuit, Linda O’Hagan, alleged that asbestos in J&J’s baby powder caused her mesothelioma. (Linda O’Hagan et al. v. Johnson & Johnson et al., case […]
On January 2nd, the Trump administration announced a plan to ban several e-cigarette pods flavors with the exemption of menthol and tobacco flavors and other devices for flavored liquid nicotine. The intention of this partial ban is to take off the market the key flavors that purportedly appeal to youth the most, and thus help […]
A recent ruling by the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania regarding the Risperdal trials has quickly changed the course of the litigation. Risperdal, a drug manufactured by Janssen (a subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson), has been prescribed for years by doctors to treat schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. The drug was approved by the FDA in 1993 […]
On December 20th, Judge Orrick, appointed plaintiff leadership for the JUUL MDL pending in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California. Appointed as Co-Lead Counsel were Sarah London (Lieff Cabraser), Dean Kawamoto (Keller Rohrback), Ellen Relkin (Weitz & Luxenberg) and Dena Sharp (Girard Sharp). Khaldoun Baghdadi (Walkup Melodia) and Leslie LaMacchia […]
The field of mass torts continues to evolve and 2020 will be no exception. One trend we are seeing in mass torts concerns the extension of the statute of limitations, noted in several areas below, in our 2020 mass tort outlook. 3M Combat Arms Earplugs In late August 2019, defense and plaintiff firms entered into […]
In our prior post, we shared how data analytics can help mass tort law firms develop wider claimant pools—either from overlooked populations or by identifying potential claimants in new cases. Using data can also help reduce outreach costs by providing efficiencies in terms of more clearly pinpointing and reaching more injured parties along a range […]
Earlier this week the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit upheld a lower court ruling that the FDA has the authority to regulate e-cigarettes as “tobacco products”. Stating that e-cigarettes are “indisputably highly addictive and pose health risks, especially to youth, that are not well understood”, the Court also upheld a ban on […]
