A California jury awarded $25.75 million in damages to a plaintiff who alleged that she developed mesothelioma after being exposed to asbestos in Johnson & Johnson’s Baby Powder talc-based products. The jury awarded $21.75 million in compensatory damages and an…
Medical device company, C.R. Bard, suffered a huge loss in New Jersey court over its pelvic mesh products. A Bergen County jury awarded the plaintiff, Mary McGinniss, $33 million in compensatory damages and $35 million in punitive damages against C.R.…
For decades, talc – a mineral found in various industrial and cosmetic products – has been the subject of mass tort litigation. Industrial talc, which is used in rubber, plastics, and ceramics, has been widely alleged to be contaminated with…
Autonomous vehicles pose a number of liability-related questions, reaching into areas of tort, insurance, and even criminal law. One of the largest questions facing the self-driving vehicle revolution is: Who is responsible if a hidden defect in an autonomous…
An emergent class action suit against the agrichemical giant, Monsanto, has recently been centralized in the United States Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation. A growing number of lawsuits have been filed against Monsanto by farmers and other chemical manufacturers in…
Expert witness testimony can oftentimes make or break a case. In particularly publicized trials, with high stakes both in and out of the courtroom, an expert witness can sway the jury while also garnering favorable (or unfavorable) public opinions. From…
Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals is the seminal case involving the admission of scientific expert testimony. The plaintiff party consisted of the parents of two minor children who claimed that the mother’s ingestion of Benedictin caused the children to have…
Intel, Apple, and AMD currently find themselves facing what may be the most far-reaching class action lawsuits of our time. The class actions all focus on two major security flaws, dubbed “Meltdown” and “Spectre,” which affect nearly all Intel processors…
The United States District Court in the District of Arizona is scheduled for its first bellwether trial against C.R. Bard, the manufacturer of an IVC filter alleged to have caused serious injuries to thousands of patients. Over 3,000 lawsuits against…
In the wake of an inarguable opioid epidemic throughout the United States, manufacturers of prescription pain medications may need to pay out sooner than expected. Last month, the United States Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation ruled to centralize the pretrial…