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...
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 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...
On November 10, a federal judge in Charlotte, NC who is overseeing Johnson and Johnson’s bankruptcy trial temporarily halted approximately 38,000 talc-related personal injury lawsuits pending in state and federal courts, ruling the cases are more properly venued in...
Johnson and Johnson Creates Talc Litigation Spinoff and Places It into Chapter 11 On October 14, pharmaceutical giant Johnson and Johnson sought Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in the Western District of North Carolina for its newly created spinoff LTL Management. ...
Monsanto has lost its appeal to overturn the Roundup litigation jury trial results and an $87 million award to plaintiffs Alberta and Alva Pilliod. The Court of Appeal of the State of California, First Appellate District, sided with trial judge Alameda Superior Court...
On July 29, in an update to investors on its five point plan addressing future litigation, agrochemical manufacturer Bayer AG announced that it would end U.S. residential sales of its glyphosate-based herbicides, including its flagship product, Roundup, and would...
In a complaint filed on June 21, manufacturer Neutrogena Corporation is facing claims that its sunscreen products are contaminated with “dangerously high levels of benzene”, a “carcinogenic impurity linked to leukemia and other cancers”. Stating that both the...
On June 7, the U.S. Judicial Panel on Multi-District Litigation centralized the paraquat litigation pending against defendants Syngenta and Chevron involving the herbicide in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Illinois, citing in its order “the...
On the eve of a decision to determine whether the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation (JPML) will consolidate related lawsuits, defendants Syngenta and Chevron are the targets of six more lawsuits alleging that the herbicide Paraquat causes Parkinson’s...
