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...
Drug Maker Endo Skirts Trial, Settles Its Opioid Claims for $11 Million August 21, 2019 By Jef Feeley and Riley Griffin Endo International Plc agreed to an $11 million settlement to avoid going to trial in the first federal court cases...
Bayer Proposes to Settle U.S. Roundup Lawsuits for $8 Billion: Bloomberg August 9, 2019 By Jef Feeley, Joel Rosenblatt and Tim Loh Bayer AG is proposing to pay as much as $8 billion to settle more than 18,000 U.S. lawsuits alleging its...
Kentucky Jury Rejects Talc Powder Asbestos Claims Against J&J, Colgate August 6, 2019 By Jef Feeley Johnson & Johnson and Colgate-Palmolive Co. persuaded a Kentucky jury to reject claims that asbestos in the companies’ talc-based products...
J&J Questions Methods Used by Scientists Who Claim Baby Powder Had Asbestos July 25, 2019 By Jef Feeley Johnson & Johnson, seeking to head off claims by thousands of women that its iconic Baby Powder caused their cancer,...
Roundup Not Only Monsanto Legal Woe For Bayer; PCB Claims Still Coming July 24, 2019 By Jef Feeley and Tim Loh The widening legal nightmare over Roundup weedkillers isn’t the only potential multi-billion-dollar liability Bayer AG inherited last year when it...