A New Jersey nursing home that made headlines in April after an anonymous tip led investigators to discover 17 bodies packed into a tiny morgue is now facing a class action lawsuit. The lawsuit, filed in the Sussex County division…
The announcement comes just months after Bayer agreed to a $12.1 billion plan in June to settle various lawsuits it had inherited from its $63 billion acquisition of Monsanto. This most recent deal was reached to settle a portion of…
Maryland has become the most recent state to adopt the Daubert standard for determining when a jury can hear expert witness testimony. In its August 28, 2020 decision in Rochkind v. Stevenson, the Maryland Court of Appeals ruled that the…
In early August 2020, Nevada lawmakers passed a controversial bill to issue COVID-19 health protections within the state’s hospitality industry. Senate Bill 4, signed into law by Governor Steve Sisolak on August 11, 2020, provides a number of health and…
Now, more than ever, people are reliant on the internet to communicate with each other and retain some level of normalcy in an uncertain time. From remote work to virtual doctor’s visits, there’s seemingly no facet of our lives that…
The Class I recall, the most serious type of FDA recall, announced the regulatory agency’s discovery that the insulin pumps were incorrectly dosing insulin and that use of the devices could cause serious injury or death. At least two lawsuits…
On August 12, 2020, the U.S. Judicial Panel for Multidistrict Litigation denied a request for consolidation of hundreds of business interruption insurance lawsuits. Business interruption insurance litigation has been steadily rising since the onset of the pandemic when many businesses…
In June 2020, a preliminary settlement order for $7.5 million was issued in a class action against the now-defunct social media platform, Google+, pending the judge’s final approval in November. The order is the culmination of a roughly two-year-old lawsuit…
On Wednesday, August 19, 2020, Facebook received preliminary approval from a federal court to settle a lawsuit claiming it collected and stored biometric data without users’ consent. Judge James Donato of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of…
Amidst the bankruptcy proceedings for Purdue Pharma LP, filings have revealed that several U.S. states seek $2.2 trillion from the drugmaker giant for its role in the opioid crisis. The filings, which were made public in mid-August 2020, detail claims…