Turn on your TV, and you’re likely to be bombarded with slick ads promoting “the latest” in new drugs and drug devices to treat a variety of illnesses, diseases and disorders. Let’s take a brief look at how these treatments get approved. Here’s a much-condensed version of how the FDA’s…
When it comes to child safety, most of my work revolves around two areas of law: Defective products and sexual abuse of minors – whether in a school setting or a clergy setting. Plaintiffs’ injury lawyers sounded the alarm on such issues a long time ago. I’m proud to say…
A Missouri jury has ruled that Bayer must pay $1.56 billion to four plaintiffs who claimed that the company’s Roundup weed killer caused them serious physical injuries, most importantly, cancer. Bayer has long claimed Roundup’s active ingredient, glyphosate, is safe for human use. So far, the evidence doesn’t support this…
While the 1990’s saw a string of very large settlements from class actions against various individual tobacco companies and the tobacco industry in general. One class action settlement in particular involved hundreds of millions of dollars paid to state governments that sued the tobacco industry for the hundreds of millions…
In Part One of my post on this subject, I discussed what Roundup is, what the history of these cases is, how cases are being brought to the courts, and what the possible values of these cases might be for people who have been exposed to it and have developed…
A good number of my clients have called in to ask me about the Roundup cases that they’ve seen either on TV ads, or on the internet & social media. It seems that anyone who has ever used this product has a lot of questions about it, so I’ll try…
I’ve blogged previously on the topic of the potential dangers of “energy” drinks. Still, seemingly every supermarket I shop in these days, I see these drinks proliferating left & right. Without doubt, these drinks and similar products can potentially injure you. Very high levels of caffeine can cause serious health…
I wrote in this blog recently of the many suits filed in the past few years against Johnson & Johnson alleging that its famous baby powder products cause cancer in women. That fight remains ongoing. But J&J’s legal woes over its products aren’t in any way limited to over-the-counter consumer…
At this stage, more than 5,000 lawsuits have been filed against the iconic baby powder manufacturer Johnson & Johnson, most alleging that cases of ovarian cancer and mesothelioma were caused by asbestos contained in the pharmaceutical giant’s baby powder & talc products. There is even a new shareholder lawsuit that…
As many people have read or heard in the past few months, a rapidly growing number of cases have been filed by women who have contracted ovarian, uterine and vaginal cancers that they claim were caused by an ordinary, everyday item found in almost all homes in the United States: …