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...
Oklahoma Accuses J&J of Dodging Liability for ‘Cunning’ Opioid Drug Push July 16, 2019 By Jef Feeley Even after illegally promoting opioid painkillers to reap billions of dollars in profit over the past two decades, Johnson &...