As cryptocurrency has become more prominent in both digital and financial realms, it has also given rise to potential and actual lawsuits. Because cryptocurrencies cannot be separated from the digital platforms and coding that create and sustain them, legal battles…
In Bergen County, New Jersey, a jury handed down a $15 million verdict against Ethicon, a company owned by Johnson and Johnson, based on defective pelvic mesh implants that caused plaintiff Elizabeth Hrymoc chronic pain. Pelvic mesh implants are used…
When the credit score giant, Equifax, announced in September 2017 that their site had been hacked, the reveal was of precedent-setting magnitude. The security breach compromised the data of over 143 million customers, potentially exposing personal information such as names,…
A Pennsylvania state court recently ordered Bayer AG and Johnson & Johnson to pay $27.8 million in damages for failing to warn users that Xarelto, a blood thinner made by the companies, could cause internal bleeding. The plaintiff in the…
It is no secret that opioid use (and abuse) has reached an all-time high in the United States over the past decade. Over 92 million individuals were prescribed opioid pain medication in 2015, representing 38% of the total U.S. population.…
Both the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) and the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act of 2009 (HITECH) sought in part to improve medical recordkeeping. Both had the effect of encouraging “the adoption…
In the span of a week, appeals courts in both Missouri and California – two epicenters of the expansive class action litigation against Johnson & Johnson’s talcum powder products – have overturned plaintiff verdicts worth nearly $500 million, dealing a…
EpiPen Price Hiking by Mylan (2:17-md-2785) Mylan NV, a large pharmaceutical company is now dealing with a class action lawsuit regarding the price of EpiPen allergy medication that went up from $100 to $600 in recent years. The EpiPen assists…
On September 7th, a Philadelphia jury awarded plaintiff Elle Ebaugh a $57 million award in her case against Johnson & Johnson subsidiary Ethicon Inc., manufacturers of a of an allegedly defective pelvic mesh product that left Ebaugh with permanent damage…
A number of proposed class actions are rapidly accruing against the credit report company, Equifax, after personal information of its 143 million U.S. consumers had been compromised by a cybersecurity breach. In a bombshell news story that hit the media…