Topic: Mass Torts
The FDA has announced that it will be hosting an open meeting about the agency’s safety communications on medical devices to take place on November 17, 2020 at 1:00 PM – 3:30 PM ET. The objective of the meeting is to share with the public the current practices the FDA’s has in place to communicate […]
On Friday, September 11th, Hopatcong Borough filed a federal lawsuit against 3M on alleged charges of contamination of their water supply with PFAs. PFAs, or “forever chemicals”, are known for their failure to break down and their ability to remain in the environment and in the human body. Scientific research has shown that these chemicals […]
The Washington state attorney general has filed a lawsuit in King County Superior Court against Juul Inc., alleging that the company knowingly targeted minors in its marketing campaign on social media in an effort to push its products on young consumers. In the suit, Attorney Bob Ferguson claimed that in using young models, brightly colored […]
On August 27, plaintiffs’ counsel in the multi-district litigation involving Monsanto and its widely used weed killer Roundup, advised the court that parent company Bayer AG appeared to be going back on the settlement agreement announced in June. At that time, the company had agreed to settle about 75% of the 125,000 claims filed by […]
On August 25, BSA filed a 148-page motion asking the Delaware bankruptcy court to schedule a hearing on its request to restrict a number of ongoing advertising campaigns it says are deviating from the language previously approved in the Bar Date Order issued by the court in May. BSA claims that the advertisements are going […]
On August 20, Bayer AG announced that it had reached a settlement in the Essure contraceptive device litigation. The settlement will resolve approximately 90% of the nearly 39,000 claims filed in the U.S. by women alleging injury as a result of using the birth control device coils. The deal will cover both resolved and pending […]
The FDA announced on Tuesday, August 18th, that it is beginning the review of the application submitted by JUUL Labs on an electronic nicotine delivery system (ENDS) product. JUUL Labs submitted the application in order to receive approval to continue selling its products. In the company’s announcement, JUUL stated that included with their application, is […]
On August 5, a three judge panel from the New Jersey state appeals court reversed a 2016 summary judgment granted in favor of defendants, talc manufacturer Johnson & Johnson and talc miner Imerys Talc America in cases brought by two women who allege J&J’s talc products caused their ovarian cancer. In its opinion, the panel […]
The FDA has issued warning letters to a number of e-cigarettes companies, demanding they remove from the market their flavored disposable e-cigarettes and other e-liquid products that appeal to children because of their failure to comply with the pre-market authorization. Mitch Zeller, J.D., director of the FDA’s Center for Tobacco Products, stated that although the […]
On Monday, July 20, a California appellate court upheld a jury’s finding in 2018 that Monsanto’s popular weed killer, Roundup, was responsible for causing plaintiff DeWayne Johnson’s cancer. Appearing before a three-judge Court of Appeals panel, Monsanto, a subsidiary of Bayer AG, argued that the plaintiff had failed to prove either liability or causation; they […]
