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...
Purdue’s Sackler Family Must Face Opioid Suits in New York June 26, 2019 By Chris Dolmetsch The billionaire owners of Purdue Pharma LP must face a New York lawsuit claiming they triggered the U.S. opioid epidemic,...
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...
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...
Father Testifies in J&J Opioid Marketing Trial on Death of His College Football Star Son May 30, 2019 By Jef Feeley Austin Box was a home-grown football star at the University of Oklahoma in 2010 when back surgery to repair an...
Oklahoma’s Opioid Trial Against Drugmakers J&J, Teva Set to Begin May 24, 2019 By Nate Raymond Gail Box vividly remembers the day in May 2011 when she first learned her 22-year-old son Austin, a University of...
J&J Strikes Out in Bid to Transfer State Talcum Suits to Federal Court May 10, 2019 By Jef Feeley and Margaret Cronin Fisk Johnson & Johnson failed to get 2,400 state-court cancer lawsuits tied to its baby powder immediately transferred to a federal...
Reuters: J&J Refocused Baby Powder Marketing on Minority, Overweight Women April 10, 2019 By Chris Kirkham and Lisa Girion Pressure was mounting on Johnson & Johnson and its signature Baby Powder. In 2006, an arm of the World Health...
Arkansas Judge Refuses to Dismiss Claims Against Opioid Drug Makers April 7, 2019 An Arkansas judge has rejected a request to dismiss the state’s lawsuit against three drugmakers that alleges they made false...
Purdue Pharma Owners Sued by New York Over Opioid Addiction Epidemic March 29, 2019 By Erik Larson The billionaire owners of Purdue Pharma LP were sued by New York state for allegedly triggering a U.S. addiction epidemic...