Roundup Plaintiffs, Bayer in Talks to Settle Claims For $10 Billion January 23, 2020 By Jef Feeley In an effort to settle tens of thousands of claims that Bayer AG’s Roundup weedkiller causes cancer, lawyers for some...
U.S. Study Questions Baby Powder Link to Ovarian Cancer January 9, 2020 By Robert Langreth and Jef Feeley A study of more than 250,000 women found that those who used talc or other personal-hygiene powders weren’t significantly more...
J&J Reported to Settle Baby Powder Claim for $2 Million January 7, 2020 By Jef Feeley Johnson & Johnson agreed in the middle of a trial to pay more than $2 million to resolve a woman’s...
Ex-DuPont CEO Claims No Intent to Burden Chemours with Unlimited Liabilities October 24, 2019 By Jef Feeley DuPont de Nemours Inc. never intended to saddle its spinoff Chemours Co. with “unlimited exposure” to its liabilities, DuPont’s former...
J&J Settles Claims by 41 States Over Risks of Vaginal Mesh for $117 Million October 18, 2019 By Jef Feeley Johnson & Johnson agreed to pay $117 million to settle 41 states’ claims that it misrepresented the risks of vaginal-mesh...
Appeals Court Nixes J&J $110 Million Baby Powder Verdict October 15, 2019 By Jef Feeley and Peter Hayes Johnson & Johnson persuaded a Missouri appeals court to throw out a $110 million jury award to a woman who...
J&J’s Legal Beating May Only Get Worse with Baby Powder, Opioid, Hip and Other Claims October 14, 2019 By Jef Feeley Johnson & Johnson has taken some costly beatings in court this year. And it could get worse. Just last week,...
J&J Hit with Year’s Largest Jury Award Over Marketing Risperdal Drug to Teens October 9, 2019 By Jef Feeley and Riley Griffin Johnson & Johnson’s Janssen unit was hit with an $8 billion punitive-damages verdict — the largest jury award in the...
Hometown Jury Says J&J Must Pay $37.2 Million for Cancers Linked to Baby Powder September 12, 2019 By Jef Feeley Johnson & Johnson must pay at least $37.2 million to four consumers who blamed asbestos-tainted talc for their cancers in...
Other Opioid Lawsuit Plaintiffs Welcome Oklahoma Ruling Affirming Public Nuisance August 27, 2019 By Jef Feeley and Riley Griffin While some Johnson & Johnson investors were relieved that the company’s $572 million penalty for fueling Oklahoma’s opioid epidemic wasn’t...