by Halley Porter | Sep 8, 2022 | JUUL & E-Cigarettes, Nicole Guntner, Samuel Geisler, Vaping
PENSACOLA, Fla. — The Juul settlement announced Tuesday may be just the beginning of payouts over the company’s e-cigarettes. The company agreed to pay nearly half a billion dollars, and change its marketing techniques. A two-year bipartisan investigation...
by Halley Porter | Sep 6, 2022 | Top Cases, Baby Formula Recall, Samuel Geisler
Abbott’s lawyers at Jones Day negotiated secret settlements and used scorched earth tactics with families whose infants fell ill after consuming powdered formula. Early on a Saturday morning in 2013, Mark Bennett, a federal judge, walked into his chambers in the...
by Halley Porter | Aug 31, 2022 | Chelsie Warner, 3M Defective Earplugs, Bryan Aylstock, Caitlyn Miller, Douglass Kreis, Jennifer Hoekstra, Neil Overholtz, Top Cases
(Reuters) – The federal judge overseeing the record-breaking mass tort litigation against 3M Co over its military-issue earplugs has ordered the company to sit down with plaintiffs’ lawyers for mediation, since a bankruptcy judge refused to stop the...
by Halley Porter | Aug 30, 2022 | Top Cases, Daniel Thornburgh, Product Liability, Talcum Powder
Earlier this month, the United States-headquartered multinational Johnson & Johnson (J&J) announced that it would discontinue its talc-based baby powder products globally in 2023. The company will drop talc — a mineral that is mined — from its baby powder...
by Halley Porter | Aug 26, 2022 | Top Cases, Mary Liu
AWKO files complaint against Meta & Snap Mary Liu of Aylstock, Witkin, Kreis & Overholtz, PLLC, Margaret Mabie of Marsh Law Firm PLLC, and Hillary Nappi of Hach & Rose LLP filed a products liability lawsuit against Meta and Snap for designing their social...
