$500K in Punitives against Tobacco Cos. Push Verdict for Smoker’s Widow to $1.5M
Oct 8, 2015
The nation’s two largest tobacco companies were each hit Tuesday with $250,000 punitive awards for their role in the death of a Florida man who smoked for more than 50 years.
Oct 7, 2015
A state court judge overseeing a potentially $2 billion trial over the alleged bladder cancer risks of Takeda's blockbuster diabetes drug Actos announced a tentative resolution of the case on Wednesday.
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Oct 5, 2015
Johnson & Johnson scored a major win Monday in a $9.5 million products liability suit over its Prosima pelvic mesh system, when a state court jury rejected a woman’s claim that the device was defectively designed.
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Oct 3, 2015
Jurors Friday awarded $1 million, plus potential punitives, to a Florida widow who claimed two of the nation’s leading tobacco companies were responsible for her husband’s death following a half-century of smoking.
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Dennis Seay v. 3M Company, et al.
Sep 29, 2015
A South Carolina state court jury slammed Texas-based materials company Celanese Corp. with a $14 million verdict on Thursday in a lawsuit brought by the family of a machinist who died of cancer after being exposed to asbestos while working at a p...
Sep 25, 2015
In this tobacco litigation proceeding, John Gordon claims defendant tobacco companies concealed the dangers of smoking cigarettes, causing Helen Gordon's nicotine addiction, and, ultimately, her smoking-related illness.
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Sep 25, 2015
The nation’s two largest tobacco companies prevailed Tuesday in a suit over the lung cancer death of a Cuban-born furniture upholsterer who smoked for more than three decades.
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Sep 23, 2015
Johnson & Johnson landed a major win Monday in a $9.5 million products liability suit over its Prosima pelvic mesh system, when a Texas state court jury rejected a womans claim that the device was defectively designed in the first case over t...
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First Tylenol Liver Damage Trial Against J&J Begins In New Jersey
Sep 23, 2015
The first case to go to trial over claims that Johnson & Johnson subsidiary McNeil Consumer Healthcare failed to give adequate warnings about the risks of taking high doses of Tylenol began Monday in New Jersey state court.
Sep 22, 2015
A New Jersey state court jury cleared Johnson & Johnson subsidiary McNeil Consumer Healthcare of all liability on Friday in the first of hundreds of lawsuits to go to trial alleging the company failed to adequately disclose the risks of liver ...
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Sep 22, 2015
A state court jury heard opening statements Tuesday in the first case to go to trial over Johnson & Johnson subsidiary Ethicon Inc.’s allegedly defective Gynecare Prosima Pelvic Floor Repair System.
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Sep 21, 2015
In this tobacco litigation proceeding, Gertrude Marchese claims defendant tobacco companies concealed the dangers of cigarettes, fueling the nicotine addiction of Salvatore Marchese, causing his smoking-related illness.
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