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MI Judge Refuses To Dismiss A Biomet Hip Replacement Case

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Last week, Judge Hala Y. Jarbou of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Michigan denied dismissing a lawsuit brought by a woman against Biomet Orthopedics LLC over its allegedly defective…

3M Co. Cleared In Asbestos Case Involving Its Respirator

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The Washington Superior Court for King County jury reached a defense verdict for 3M Co., in an in-person trial held at the reconfigured Bellevue Convention Center, which is now being used for civil trials, over a lawsuit that alleged the company'…

Human Gut Microbiome Species Impacted By Glyphosate: Study

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On November 14, newly published scientific papers were made available, which illustrated that 54 percent of the species in the core human gut microbiome…

Biomet's Motion For Mistrial Over Punitive Damages Denied

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On Wednesday, U.S. District Judge Stephen Clark of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri rejected Biomet Inc.'s motion for mistrial in the punitive damages phase of an…

Talcum Powder MDL Status Conference To Be Held Today

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Last week, parties involved in the talcum powder litigation submitted a Status Report and Proposed Joint Agenda for the status conference scheduled for today to review the progress…

Demand Letter, Verified Bill of Particulars, Threshold Motion

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Our drafted PI Demand Letter begins at the point of impact and ends with the medical chronology of treatment. It guides the adjuster through all that the claimant has lost as a result of the insured's negligence.

In PI matters, we are…

Purdue's Former President Denies Responsibility For Opioid Crisis

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Purdue Pharma's former president and board chair of the company claimed that he, his family, and the company are not responsible for the opioid crisis throughout the United States.…

Tasigna Lawsuits Consolidated In New Jersey Multicounty Litigation

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New Jersey’s Supreme Court has announced centralization of all Tasigna lawsuits across the country before Superior Court Judge Rachelle Harz in Bergen County for coordinated pretrial proceedings.

Reviewing a Dismissed Zoloft Birth Defect Case Denied by PA Court

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A petition to review a Zoloft birth defect case dismissed earlier when the plaintiffs’ causation expert was excluded by the trial court was denied by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court.…

Bard Proposes Ventralight ST & Ventralex Claims For Initial Trials

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C.R. Bard and its Davol, Inc. subsidiary have proposed that from over a thousand lawsuits faced by them, claims related to Bard Ventralight ST and Bard Ventralex mesh be the first to go before a jury later this year.

The company…