J&J Plunges After Plan to Settle Baby Powder Suits Fails April 1, 2025 By Steven Church, Jonathan Randles, Jef Feeley and Damian Garde Johnson & Johnson shares fell the most in five years after the company’s plan to settle thousands of talc-related lawsuits...
DOJ Reports $2.9B Recovered in False Claims Act Litigation January 16, 2025 Litigation under the False Claims Act generated more than $2.9 billion in settlement and judgments the last fiscal year, according...
US Chamber of Commerce: Nuclear Verdicts’ Amount, Frequency Continue to Increase June 10, 2024 By Chad Hemenway A recent report from The U.S. Chamber of Commerce Institute for Legal Reform (ILR) has found that nuclear verdicts of...
Class Action Settlements Flooded With Fraudulent Claims by Scammers May 3, 2024 By Diana Novak Jones Artsana, a maker of child car booster seats, last year agreed to settle claims that it had misled customers about...
Supreme Court Opinion on Maritime Law Solidifies Insurer’s Choice-of-Law Clause March 1, 2024 By Chad Hemenway A dispute between an insurer and a yacht owner went all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court with a...
Boeing Sued by Alaska Air Passengers Over 737 Max 9 Door Blowout January 16, 2024 By Madlin Mekelburg Boeing Co. was sued by passengers on an Alaska Airlines Inc. flight that was forced to make an emergency landing...
Class Action Numbers Dip in 2023, but Settlements Still Costing Billions January 11, 2024 By Jim Sams Class-action and government enforcement lawsuits continued to take a toll on corporate defendants in 2023, with ten $1 billion settlements...
Florida Suit Over Charged Lemonade Death Puts New Focus on Energy Drink Safety December 28, 2023 By Chris Dolmetsch, Bloomberg Panera Bread Co. must face a lawsuit over a death allegedly linked to its new line of “charged” lemonades, which...
South Carolina Prosecutors Want to Limit Minority Leader’s Sway Over Judges October 25, 2023 COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Nine of South Carolina`s 16 elected prosecutors are asking to remove all legislators who are lawyers...
Michigan Fruit Grower Who Opposes Same-Sex Marriage Wins Ruling Over Access to Public Market August 23, 2023 EAST LANSING, Mich. (AP) – The rights of a Michigan fruit grower were violated when a city barred him from...