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…
Because states have great latitude in whether, which, and how they cap damages, state laws on caps vary widely: Some states cap economic damages only, some cap non-economic damages only, some cap both, some neither. In addition, some states exempt…
On November 16th, a federal jury in Dallas, TX told Johnson & Johnson and their subsidiary DePuy that they need to pay six patients a total of $247 million due to hip implants that turned out to be defective. The…
The Expert Institute’s Third Annual Best Legal Blog Contest has drawn to a conclusion, with more than fifty thousand votes cast for blogs in each of the contest’s nine categories. The contest’s three grand prize winners, as well as the…
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…
As many attorneys know firsthand, practicing law can require adapting to new technology. Nowadays, there are a vast number of ways to utilize technology in the courtroom. This can range from artificial intelligence document review software to iPad trial presentation…
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…