Judge Halves Jury’s $1 Billion Punitive Damages Award in J&J Hip Implant Case January 4, 2017 By Jef Feeley Johnson & Johnson won a ruling cutting almost in half a $1.04 billion jury award to patients who accused the...
J&J Hit with $1 Billion Verdict in Hip Implant Product Liability Case December 2, 2016 By Jef Feeley and Tom Korosec Johnson & Johnson was ordered by a Texas jury to pay more than $1 billion to patients who claimed the...
Insurers to Fund $27 Million Duke Energy Accord Over Ouster of CEO November 14, 2016 By Jef Feeley Duke Energy Corp. agreed to a $27 million settlement of claims that directors wrongfully concealed their plan to fire Chief...
U.S. Judge Allows Class Action Alleging State Farm Bankrolled Judge September 20, 2016 By Jef Feeley Some customers of State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co. claim the company conspired to help elect an Illinois Supreme Court...
Two Johnson & Johnson Talc Cancer Lawsuits Dismissed by New Jersey Judge September 6, 2016 By Jef Feeley Johnson & Johnson persuaded a New Jersey judge to throw out two women’s lawsuits blaming the health-care company’s talcum powder...
Blankenship Headed to Jail After Judge Denies Appeal Request May 13, 2016 By George Hohmann and Jef Feeley Former Massey Energy CEO Donald Blankenship is headed to prison even as he appeals his conviction for conspiring to flout...
J&J Faces 1K More Talc-Cancer Suits After Verdict for South Dakota Woman May 4, 2016 By Jef Feeley, Margaret Cronin Fisk and Tim Bross Johnson & Johnson must pay $55 million to a 62-year-old South Dakota woman who blamed her ovarian cancer on the...
Court Upholds NFL’s $765 Million Concussion Settlement as ‘Fair’ April 19, 2016 By Jef Feeley and Sophia Pearson The National Football League’s $765 million concussion settlement was found by a federal appeals court to be fair, if imperfect....
Massey Ex-CEO Blankenship Sentenced to 1 Year in Jail for Fatal Mine Explosion April 6, 2016 By Jef Feeley Former coal baron Donald Blankenship was sentenced to a year in prison for evading mine-safety rules in one of the...
6 Years After Upper Big Branch Tragedy, Ex-CEO of Mine Faces Sentencing April 6, 2016 By George Hohmann and Jef Feeley Six years after 29 miners were killed in a West Virginia coal dust explosion, the man who ran the mining...