Court: Massachusetts Superior Court, Middlesex County - A Massachusetts jury awarded plaintiff Janice Paluzzi $8 million in damages against defendant Johnson & Johnson and Johnson & Johnson Consumer Inc. (collectively, J&J)....more
Court: Civil District Court for the Parish of Orleans, State of Louisiana - As previously reported HERE in the Asbestos Case Tracker, a Louisiana jury on May 7 returned a plaintiff’s verdict against talc manufacturer Johnson...more
Jurisdiction: Civil District Court for the Parish of Orleans, State of Louisiana - A Louisiana Jury returned a plaintiff’s verdict May 7 after an eight-week trial against Johnson & Johnson and Pecos River Talc LLC....more
On Jan. 6, a Pittsburgh jury concluded a month-and-a-half long trial involving a suit asserting that decedent Michaeleen Lee developed mesothelioma from exposure to asbestos-containing talcum powder products made by Johnson &...more
In two significant recent opinions, the Delaware Chancery Court ruled against the buyers of life sciences companies, holding that they failed to apply commercially reasonable efforts to achieve earnout milestones. In Fortis...more
In recent months, the Delaware Court of Chancery has decided four significant cases regarding merger agreement earnout provisions. Most notably, in one of the largest judgments ever awarded by the Court, it found Johnson &...more
Rasmussen Instruments, LLC (“Rasmussen”) won a $20M jury verdict against DePuy Synthes (“Depuy”), a part of Johnson & Johnson Medical Devices Companies. Rasmussen asserted Patent Nos. US 9,492,180 (‘180 patent) and US...more
Last October, I reported on the $8 billion punitive verdict returned by a Philadelphia jury against Johnson & Johnson in a case alleging that the company had failed to warn that its antipsychotic drug Risperdal could cause...more
Welcome to the second 2019 issue of Product Lines – our quarterly e-newsletter that focuses on toxic torts and products liability issues. For this edition, we are reporting on several important and timely legal issues. As...more
It’s almost inevitable; once a company grows its market to a certain size, its stakeholders are likely to face class-action litigation. Despite a downward trend in class-action defense expenditures from 2011 to 2014, spending...more
Lawsuit No. 4 in the case against Johnson & Johnson and its ovarian-cancer-linked talc product has headed to the courtroom in Missouri. It is the fourth in a series of baby powder lawsuits filed nationally. Defense attorneys...more