Congratulations to Co-lead Counsel Tom Klein and Jason Itkin and the entire plaintiffs’ legal team on a major win against Johnson & Johnson in a case over its drug Risperdal. Attorneys obtained $8 billion in rarely awarded punitive damages, which are meant to punish a…
We have seen this legal question arise before: Should injured plaintiffs be required to provide information about funding they are receiving during the course of their lawsuit? A recent opinion in the Valsartan contamination litigation, which denied the defendants a free pass to look at…
There is talk of a multibillion-dollar settlement to end the 18,000 lawsuits surrounding the Roundup-cancer connection.
Motley Rice’s achievement last week is the epitome of a “never back down” approach that should inspire us all. After nearly 20 years, the firm reached a $305 million settlement in litigation that found that Sherwin-Williams, NL Industries, and ConAgra Grocery Products Company created a…
Journalist Carey Gillian’s 17-year career of covering Monsanto, combined with the Roundup cancer litigation, has brought to light the trust and transparency issues we often see with major corporations.
In case you aren’t already aware, let me be the first to tell you that Fidelma Fitzpatrick, Esq. is a plaintiffs’ superhero. In addition to her legal work at Motley Rice and her involvement in Women En Mass (an annual gathering of the top female…
The FDA is updating its requirements to ensure new products “either account for advances in technology or demonstrate that they meet more modern safety and performance criteria.”
The popular heart drug valsartan may have been contaminated with carcinogen NDMA for as long as four years before anyone discovered the problem.
Transvaginal mesh litigation ranks as one of the largest mass tort cases in U.S. history. Trial lawyers have taken mesh manufacturers to task after 100,000 women suffered injuries from having these defective mesh products surgically implanted to repair pelvic organ prolapse. Last week, a long-overdue…
The wrongful death lawsuit against the U.S. Smokeless Tobacco Company for “killing a baseball legend” has concluded in San Diego Superior Court.