Litigation Builds Against Insurers Over Coronavirus Business Interruption April 8, 2020 By Jef Feeley and Katherine Chiglinsky Barbara Snowden dreamed of opening a wig shop to help women who’d lost their hair during chemotherapy feel better as...
Judge Orders J&J to Pay $344 Million Over Vaginal Mesh Implants Marketing February 3, 2020 By Jef Feeley and Bill Callahan Johnson & Johnson was ordered to pay $344 million for misrepresenting the risks of vaginal-mesh implants to consumers in California,...
Musk Holds Out As Other Tesla Directors Settle Investors’ SolarCity Claims for $60M January 30, 2020 By Jef Feeley and Dana Hull All Tesla Inc. directors except Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk agreed to a $60 million settlement to resolve shareholder lawsuits...
McKesson Board Settles with Investors for $175M Over Distributor’s Role in Opioid Crisis January 26, 2020 By Jef Feeley McKesson Corp.’s board reached a $175 million settlement with investors who claimed directors failed to maintain adequate internal systems for...
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...