August 07, 2015
Attorneys following the General Motors ignition switch defect litigation are particularly interested in the scope of Jenner & Block chairman Anton Valukas' upcoming deposition, while trial lawyers will pay close attention to the first bellwether case in the Lipitor multidistrict litigation as well as the performance of the Zoloft plaintiffs' key expert witness. Here, Law360 eyes the cases product liability attorneys will be tracking in the second half of the year.
August 06, 2015
Johnson & Johnson unit Ethicon Inc. sought Thursday to pare down the evidence a plaintiff can bring at an upcoming trial over injuries allegedly caused by one of the company's pelvic mesh slings.
June 16, 2015
A West Virginia federal judge ruled on Friday that 26 suits in a massive multidistrict litigation against Johnson & Johnson's Ethicon Inc. over pelvic mesh products should be consolidated and go to trial on their design defect claims.
February 17, 2015
Johnson & Johnson has withdrawn its discovery motion to pursue its allegations that the plaintiffs' attorneys in transvaginal mesh multidistrict litigation had engaged in illegal plaintiff solicitation and filed lawsuits without legitimate claims.
January 23, 2015
A Johnson & Johnson request for additional discovery to ferret out fraudulent lawsuits is nothing more than a delaying tactic, plaintiffs' attorneys in transvaginal mesh multidistrict litigation said Thursday, arguing the company has offered no proof they were involved in illegal plaintiff solicitation.
January 14, 2015
Johnson & Johnson argued Tuesday that a judge overseeing transvaginal mesh multidistrict litigation should require plaintiffs to expeditiously prove they have viable claims, saying that illegal plaintiff solicitation by "unscrupulous" individuals, combined with often hyperbolic attorney advertising, have inflated the number of "questionable" lawsuits.
March 26, 2014
The U.S. Department of Justice should conduct a criminal probe into whether Johnson & Johnson and its top executives intentionally destroyed tens of thousands of documents relevant to multidistrict litigation over vaginal mesh injuries, a consumer advocacy group said Wednesday.
February 14, 2014
A West Virginia federal judge on Thursday barred a plaintiff from telling the jury in a bellwether trial against Johnson & Johnson over vaginal mesh injuries that the company lost potential evidence, even though a magistrate judge recently ruled it had done so.
February 05, 2014
A West Virginia magistrate judge on Tuesday ordered Johnson & Johnson to pay a penalty for failing to preserve documents related to multidistrict litigation over alleged transvaginal mesh injuries, finding it disadvantaged plaintiffs' attorneys during discovery.
December 02, 2013
Johnson & Johnson unit Ethicon Inc. has lost or destroyed at least tens of thousands of documents that could be relevant to ongoing product liability multidistrict litigation over its vaginal mesh implants despite a decadelong litigation hold to preserve such documents, MDL plaintiffs claimed Monday.