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After Avoiding Ohio Trial, Drug Firms Turn to Local Government Opioid Lawsuits
Oct 22 2019 // Four large drug companies could resume talks on Tuesday to try to reach a $48 billion settlement of all opioid litigation against them, after agreeing with two Ohio counties to a $260 million deal to avert the first...
Settling Opioid Suits Probably Won’t End the Crisis: Viewpoint
Oct 21 2019 // Imagine you’re the chief executive officer of a large pharmaceutical corporation with an important drug that’s under attack. More than 2,500 lawsuits have been filed against your company. The plaintiffs...
County in Washington Files Lawsuit Against JUUL
Oct 21 2019 // A Washington state county has filed a lawsuit against e-cigarette maker JUUL after a dozen confirmed cases of vaping-related lung illness in the state. KOMO-TV reports that King County’s claim accuses JUUL and its...
Update on Opioid Lawsuits Against Drugmakers, Distributors
Oct 21 2019 // On Monday, two Ohio counties reached a last-minute settlement with four companies they accused of fueling the nationwide opioid epidemic. The counties were seeking billions of dollars to cover the cost of addiction...
Financial, Legal Advisors Scamming Elderly Has Become Big Business
Oct 21 2019 // Terry Ann McIntosh’s financial nightmare began four years ago, soon after she hired a caregiver through a family services website. McIntosh, then 75 and in a wheelchair, had assumed that the young woman who...
Russia Aims to Boost Arctic Shipping by Subsidizing Higher Costs, Including Insurance
Oct 21 2019 // Russia wants to make its Arctic waters more attractive to shippers than the Suez Canal and could be willing to compensate for potential risks to make that happen. President Vladimir Putin has made development of the Arctic...
Iowa School District Settles 3rd Firing-Related Lawsuit for $1M
Oct 18 2019 // The Waukee, Iowa, school district has settled the last of three lawsuits filed by former employees who alleged they were retaliated against for exposing wrongdoing by the district’s former chief operating...
Idea Exchange: Missouri Court Rulings Conflict with Insurer Right to Intervene Protections
Oct 18 2019 // The Western District of the Missouri Court of Appeals recently issued opinions that effectively strip any practical effect from a Missouri amendment made to provide certain protections to insurers. In Aguilar v. GEICO Cas....
Wisconsin Jury Awards $450K in Sandy Hook Defamation Lawsuit
Oct 17 2019 // A jury in Wisconsin has awarded $450,000 to the father of a boy killed in the 2012 Sandy Hook school shooting after he filed a defamation lawsuit against conspiracy theorist writers who claimed the massacre never...
Formosa Plastics Agrees to Pay $50M to Settle Texas Water Pollution Suit
Oct 16 2019 // Petrochemical manufacturer Formosa Plastics has agreed to pay $50 million to settle a lawsuit in which a judge ruled the company illegally dumped billions of plastic pellets and other pollutants into Lavaca Bay and other...
Suit Challenges Michigan Insurance Director Fox over $250K Benefit Cap
Oct 16 2019 // The administrator of a plan that covers the medical expenses of uninsured non-drivers who are injured in car crashes is suing the state of Michigan, alleging that a regulator’s recent orders conflict with the...
Ryan Specialty Group Acquires Assets, Operations of Pennsylvania’s The Suitelife
Oct 16 2019 // Ryan Specialty Group LLC has acquired the assets and operations of The Suitelife, a program manager specializing in boutique hotels, premier and full service hotels, hotel management companies, condo hotels and resorts...
Good Grief: Dollywood Sued by Copyright Owners of Charlie Brown Christmas Song
Oct 15 2019 // The copyright owners of the “Charlie Brown Christmas” theme song have sued Dollywood in federal court for copyright infringement. News outlets report the complaint says the East Tennessee theme park named for...
Does the Cloud of Vaping-Related Injuries Portend a Storm of Litigation? – Cannabis Industry Alert
Oct 15 2019 // Electronic cigarettes and vaping have been heralded by many as a safer alternative to smoking traditional cigarettes. A recent outbreak of illnesses allegedly related to vaping, however, has ignited public hysteria and...
Lawsuit: Regulatory Commission Must Pay New York Flooding Costs
Oct 14 2019 // New York is seeking compensation for flood damage in Lake Ontario shoreline communities in a lawsuit against the international body that regulates waterways between the United States and Canada, New York Governor Andrew...
J&J’s Legal Beating May Only Get Worse with Baby Powder, Opioid, Hip and Other Claims
Oct 14 2019 // Johnson & Johnson has taken some costly beatings in court this year. And it could get worse. Just last week, a jury ordered J&J to pay $8 billion for wrongfully pushing doctors to prescribe the anti-psychotic drug...
Bankruptcy Judge Grants Purdue Pharma Time Out from Government Opioid Litigation
Oct 13 2019 // Purdue Pharma LP and its billionaire owners won a temporary reprieve from nearly 2,700 opioid lawsuits, giving the bankrupt drugmaker time to clinch a deal that would atone for its role in America’s addiction...
Alaska Supreme Court Will Hear Youth’s Climate Change Lawsuit
Oct 10 2019 // The Alaska Supreme Court will hear arguments this week in a lawsuit that claims state policy on fossil fuels is harming the constitutional right of young Alaskans to a safe climate. Sixteen Alaska youths in 2017 sued the...
Holocaust Survivors Want Congress to Let Them Sue Insurers Over Nazi-Era Losses
Oct 10 2019 // When David Schaecter was a child in Slovakia in the 1930s, he counted more than 100 people in his extended family. By the end of World War II, he alone survived. The rest had been killed in Nazi concentration camps or by...
Suit Against BNSF over Missouri Railroad Crossing Crash Moved to Federal Court
Oct 9 2019 // A Kansas truck driver alleges in a lawsuit that two rail cars were “uncontrolled” when they struck his semi as he drove over a stretch of unmarked tracks in southwest Missouri in the dark. The Springfield...
