U.S. Opens Criminal Probe Into J&J Denials of Cancer Risks from Baby Powder July 15, 2019 By Jef Feeley The U.S. Justice Department is pursuing a criminal investigation into whether Johnson & Johnson lied to the public about the...
J&J Gets New Trial After Jury Awards $417 Million in Baby Powder Talc Suit July 11, 2019 By Jef Feeley and Edvard Pettersson Johnson & Johnson deserves a new trial after a jury ordered the world’s largest maker of health-care products to pay...
Chemours Suit Claims DuPont’s Clean-Up Liability Estimates ‘Spectacularly Wrong’ July 1, 2019 By Jef Feeley and Michael Leonard Chemours Co. claims its former parent DuPont Inc.’s estimates on liabilities the spun-off company should cover were “spectacularly wrong” and...
Judge Open to ‘Novel’ Idea of Local Government Class for Opioid Settlement Talks June 26, 2019 By Jef Feeley A judge backed a push by U.S. cities and counties suing opioid makers such as Purdue Pharma LP and Johnson...
At Oklahoma Trial, J&J Opioid-Sales Tactics Called a ‘Smart Strategy for Drug Dealer’ June 13, 2019 By Jef Feeley Johnson & Johnson used promotional gimmicks for its opioid painkillers that are similar to how criminal drug dealers try to...
Jury Orders J&J, Colgate to Pay Almost $10 Million in Talc Case June 13, 2019 By Margaret Cronin Fisk, Jef Feeley and Robert Burnson Johnson & Johnson and Colgate-Palmolive Co. must pay almost $10 million to a dying California woman who blamed the companies’...
Doctor in Oklahoma Trial Says J&J Pushed Opioids Even After Abuse Became Known June 11, 2019 By Jef Feeley and Andrew Harris Oklahoma’s star witness told a state judge that Johnson & Johnson pressed doctors to prescribe its painkillers even as the...
Opioid Maker Insys Files for Bankruptcy in Wake of Bribery Convictions, Probe Settlement June 10, 2019 By Riley Griffin and Jef Feeley Drugmaker Insys Therapeutics Inc., whose former executives were convicted of bribing doctors to prescribe its highly addictive opioid, filed for...
Insys Agrees to $225 Million Settlement of U.S. Claims of Illegal Opioid Sales June 6, 2019 By Jef Feeley and Riley Griffin Insys Therapeutics Inc., grappling with the prospect of bankruptcy after its founder was convicted on racketeering charges, agreed to pay...
J&J Told to Pay $300M More by Manhattan Talc-Cancer Jury June 3, 2019 By Jef Feeley and Margaret Cronin Fisk Johnson & Johnson was ordered by a jury to pay $300 million in punitive damages to a woman who blamed...