What are the Potential Outcomes of Mass Tort Lawsuits?
To understand the potential outcomes of a mass tort litigation, it’s first important to understand how these lawsuits work. Mass tort litigations are an important type of lawsuit in which a corporation or entity is held accountable for physical or...
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What is a Mass Tort?
If you’re unfortunate enough to have been injured by a dangerous product, drug, or medical device, you’ve likely heard the term “mass tort” in reference to your lawsuit. For those who are unfamiliar with the ins and outs of the...
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Earplugs Judge Says 3M Can’t Use Drug Defense
U.S. District Judge M. Casey Rodgers, who is presiding over hundreds of thousands of lawsuits against 3M over allegedly faulty earplugs has ruled that the corporation cannot use testimony from three purported “experts” in its defense. Rodgers said their testimony is scientifically...
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What Happens If Your Case Settles?
The vast majority of mass tort cases, such as those involved in litigations against Bayer-Monsanto, Johnson & Johnson, Philips, Gilead, and other corporations, do not actually go to trial. If they did, the process would take literally hundreds of years. Instead, a relatively...
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14 Baby Deaths Lead to Warning About Baby Rockers, Swings, Recliners
After 14 recent deaths, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) is warning parents to avoid allowing their infants to sleep in inclined baby rockers, gliders, soothers, and swings. The federal agency is also telling parents to never leave babies...
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Exactech Hip and Knee Replacement Recall Lawsuits
What is Behind Exactech Lawsuits? Hundreds of thousands of people who underwent hip and knee replacement surgeries are now eligible to file a lawsuit for their faulty implants. Exactech, headquartered in Gainesville, Florida, has removed all models of hip and...
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A New Low: J&J Tested Talc and Asbestos on Black Prisoners
Recently released documents from prison studies conducted in the 1960s and 1970s have revealed another chink in the armor of Johnson & Johnson's "family friendly" reputation. The baby powder giant was injecting primarily Black prisoners at Holmesberg Prison in Pennsylvania...
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Lejeune Justice Act for Marines with Cancer Passes House, Heads to Senate
Camp Lejeune Justice Bill A bill aimed at helping Camp Lejeune Marines affected by toxic water passed the U.S. House and is on its way to the Senate. If it passes, the Camp Lejeune Justice Act, introduced by U.S Senators...
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Similac PM 60/40 Baby Formula Recalled After Infant Illnesses, Deaths
If your child is suffering a Cronobacter or Salmonella infection after being fed recalled baby formula Similac PM 60/40, EleCare, or Alimentum, contact OnderLaw's child protection unit at (844) 346-3457. The FDA is investigating the illnesses or deaths of five infants...
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J&J Bankruptcy to Move Forward; Trials Halted
See the Court's response to talc-related cancer victims' Motion to Dismiss J&J subsidiary, LTL Management, LLC's bankruptcy. As you can tell, the judge was forced to comply with a loophole in bankruptcy law that is allowing the corporate giant to...
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