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Coverage of class actions and MDL, often targeting the design, manufacturing and marketing of defective products.
By Max Mitchell | May 4, 2017
The state Supreme Court has decided not to take up Volvo's appeal of a decision last year that overturned a defense verdict in a crashworthiness case against it. The justices denied allocatur Thursday in . The lawsuit was seen as a case that might have allowed the high court to address product liability issues in the wake of the Supreme Court's game-changing ruling in .
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By Charles Toutant | May 3, 2017
AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals and Bristol-Myers Squibb were hit with 14 suits in the District of New Jersey on Tuesday claiming that users of diabetes drug saxagliptin face elevated risks of heart failure as a result of using the drug.
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By Amanda Bronstad | May 3, 2017
Johnson & Johnson subsidiary Janssen Pharmaceuticals Inc. and Bayer brought in powerhouse litigator Beth Wilkinson of Washington, D.C.'s Wilkinson Walsh + Eskovitz to lead the defense team in the first of four bellwether trials.
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By Charles Toutant | May 2, 2017
A state appeals court tossed a $25 million verdict against Hoffmann-La Roche in a suit over acne drug Accutane after finding that the trial judge improperly restricted duplicative testimony from two defense experts.
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By C. Ryan Barber | May 2, 2017
"While we hear a lot of fabricated outrage about the impact of regulations, there is far less genuine discussion about the real costs of a failure to act," Elliot Kaye, a U.S. Consumer Product Safety commissioner, said recently in voting with the majority to advance new regulations for table saws. Democrats still hold a majority at the product-safety commission, posing one block on the Trump administration's deregulatory agenda.
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By Max Mitchell | May 1, 2017
Three weeks before the latest Risperdal case was tossed out midtrial, one of the jurors initially tasked with evaluating the claims collapsed while a plaintiff's expert was testifying on the stand.
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By Zack Needles | April 28, 2017
A 12-member Philadelphia jury handed up a $20 million verdict—including $17.5 million in punitive damages—against Johnson & Johnson subsidiary Ethicon in the third pelvic mesh case to go to trial in the city.
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By P.J. D'Annunzio | April 28, 2017
Pointing to vagaries in the landmark Pennsylvania products liability ruling, , a federal judge has granted one strict liability claim and dismissed another in a defective hip implant lawsuit.
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By Max Mitchell | April 26, 2017
Does the Fair Share Act require juries in strict liability cases to determine the portion of liability to be imposed against each defendant, or can a judge simply apportion liability equally? The issue is a question of law trial courts have struggled with across Pennsylvania, and one that was squarely before the state Superior Court when it heard arguments Tuesday in
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By Amanda Bronstad | April 25, 2017
The federal judge in the Volkswagen diesel emissions litigation has denied 244 motions for attorney fees but lifted an earlier injunction which had prevented law firms from suing their own clients for payment.
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