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Product Liability - December, 2012

197 articles

• Judge Unseals FCA Suit Against Millennium, Schering
• NECC Buckles Under Meningitis Suits, Files For Ch. 11
• PG&E Can Charge Customers $299M For Pipeline Safety: CPUC
• Push For More Animal Antibiotics Data Could Expose Secrets
• FDA Pushes Genetically Modified Salmon Closer To Approval
• Gasket Co. Asks Justices To Hear Maritime Asbestos Case
• Ear Ringing Plaintiffs Win Class Cert. In RingStop Suit
• BMW Tries To Avoid 7 Series Roll-Away Defect Class Action
• RI Judge Finds Aredia Suit Against Novartis Time-Barred
• Fla. Court Clears $15M Engle Win Against Lorillard
• Pfizer To Pay $1M Over Ore.'s Claims It Flouted Ads Pact
• Neutrogena Will Pay $1.8M To Settle 'Natural' False Ad Suit
• CPSC Will Continue Its Aggressive Approach In 2013
• Ohio Enacts Law To Boost Asbestos Trust Transparency
• NFL Taps Clement For Concussion MDL
• 'Elder Scrolls' Defect Case Canned By 11th Circ.
• GSK Tells 3rd Circ. Thalidomide Row Belongs In Fed. Court
• GAO Says CPSC Needs Chance To Work With Foreign Agencies
• Nelson Mullins Welcomes Back Insurance Vet
• 10th Circ. Revives Thyssen Mine Collapse Coverage Suit
• Feds Sue Sunland To Stop Production After Salmonella Outbreak
• Atty Dodged Paying $8M After Joint Fen-Phen Work, Suit Says
• Ky. AG Can't Escape Merck Outside Counsel Case
• 7th Circ. Snubs Sears' Bid To Reconsider Faulty-Washer Class
• FDA Slaps New Warning On Vertex's Hep C Drug After Deaths
• 11th Circ. Provides Leverage On Warning Labels
• Beware Discovery In 3rd-Party Litigation Funding
• States Push FDA To Hone Compounding Oversight Plan
• LG Calls Back Top-Loading Washers Due To Injury Risk
• Brazil Looks To Augment $150M Chevron Oil Spill Settlement
• EU Proposes Tough New Tobacco Laws
• Transocean Says BP Win Would Exhaust Its Spill Coverage
• Study Finds No Clear Cancer Link For 9/11 Responders
• 2nd Circ. Upholds Cirrus' Win In Yankees Pitcher Crash Suit
• Bard Survives Bid To Remand Vascular Filter Defect Suit
• Battle Over Labeling Genetically Modified Food Continues
• Daimler Can't Quash Suit Over Faulty Mercedes Air Systems
• FDA Signals Fresh Scrutiny Of Opioid Painkillers
• Nintendo's New Wii Controllers Faulty, Class Action Claims
• ConAgra Gets Deceptive-Labeling Class Action Pared
• Momentive Gets Partial Win In Brazil Spill Coverage Suit
• Tobacco Cos. Recoup $1.65B In Payment Deal With States
• General Mills' Steamers Not 100% Natural, Suit Claims
• Seller Of Fake Diabetic Test Strips Gets 5 Years Probation
• Anheuser-Busch Unit Sues Insurer Over Resort Mold Damage
• FDA Says 5 Eye Care Providers' Lasik Ads Mask Risks
• Ex-Takeda Contractor Loses Bid To Revive 2 FCA Suits
• $69M Settlement OK'd Over Leaky Volkswagen Sunroofs
• Amgen Cops To Aranesp Misbranding, Will Pay $762M
• Texas No Longer 'Judicial Hellhole,' Tort Reform Group Says
• Lockheed Fights For Shooting Death Defense Costs In 3rd Circ.
• Toyota Fined Record $17.4M For Delay In Reporting Defect
• Jury Grants Siren Co. Win In Firefighter Hearing Loss Case
• Potential Emerging Risk Of Concussion Claims To Insurers
• Calif. High Court's 2nd Stab At Henkel Could Help M&A
• Expected Asbestos Losses For Insurers Climb By $10B
• Patton Boggs' $22M Chevron Bond Suit Can Still Move To NY
• Miss. Gov. Asks 5th Circ. To Uphold Noneconomic Damages Cap
• Novartis Gets Expert Testimony Blocked In Aredia-Zometa MDL
• Utica Denied Injunction In Reinsurer Confidentiality Row
• O'Quinn Law Firm Botched Silica Exposure MDL, Suit Claims
• Drug Supplier Possibly Lied About FDA Docs, Judge Says
• Western Pa.'s Take On Carbon Dioxide Liability Claims
• Calif. Court Brings Architects Back Into Condo Defect Case
• Aalto's Faulty-Vial Suit Belongs In Fed. Court, Wheaton Says
• Chevron Closing In On $150M Brazil Oil Spill Settlement
• Olin Asks 2nd Circ. To Uphold $14M Award In Pollution Suits
• Drug Co. Misrepresented Products' FDA Status, SEC Says
• Fla. Engle Tobacco Case Revived After Plaintiff's Death
• Jury Clears Southern Union In $56M Suit Over Refinery Fire
• 1st Circ. Won't Rehear Meat Co.'s Case Over E. Coli Outbreak
• Joint Juice Maker Removes $155M False Marketing Suit
• Taser Beats Heart Attack Victim's Failure To Warn Suit
• 5th Circ. Lets Seacor Duck Deepwater Firefighting Suit
• Diversion Scheme Faked Origin Of $440M In Drugs, US Says
• Caronia And The 'New' 1st Amendment Safe Harbor
• Calif. Jury Throws Out Factory Worker's 'Popcorn Lung' Case
• US Targets Vein Treatment's Marketing In FCA Suit
• NY High Court Allows Benefits For NYPD 9/11 Responders
• UK Supreme Court Upholds Scottish Tobacco Restrictions
• Avon Loses Bid To Nix Claims It Concealed Animal Tests
• Class Action Targets Monster's Energy Drink Labeling
• Merck Must Hand Over Vioxx Gov't Docs, NJ Judge Says
• FDA Directs Drugmakers To Make Drugs Less Confusing
• Continental Fights Bad Faith Claims In FCA Coverage Battle
• Product Liability MVP: Jones Day's Stephanie Parker
• J&J Balks At Ark.'s $181M Risperdal Legal Fee Request
• Landmark Class Action Case To Be Heard In Supreme Court
• A Fresh Look At Diversity In ADR
• Philip Morris Case Gives Defendants Hope For Lower Damages
• BASF Beats Suit Alleging Fraud In Asbestos Injury Defense
• Plaintiffs Drop Accutane Suits Booted From Philly Tort System
• In UK Howden Ruling, A Warning For Forum Shopping Insurers
• LA Landfill Neighbors Sue Browning-Ferris Over Pollutants
• Pfizer Chantix Trials Show More Heart Troubles In Users: FDA
• Ill. Judge Won't Reinstate $10B Philip Morris Verdict
• 9th Circ. Asks Calif. Court If Stores Need Defibrillators
• Product Liability MVP: O'Melveny's Charles Lifland
• Contractor Loses $1.5M FCCI Steel Railing Coverage Fight
• Pfizer Reaches $42.9M Accord With States In Marketing Row
• Judge Seeks More Info In Enviro Suit Coverage Battle
• Roche Says NJ Judge Biased In Accutane Mass Tort Litigation
• Pfizer Pays $55M For Off-Label Promotion Of Wyeth's Protonix
• Noteworthy Lessons From FDA Suspension Of Sunland
• Honda Recalls Nearly 900K Vehicles Over Rollaway Risk
• EU Panel Wants Formaldehyde Rated As 'Presumed' Carcinogen
• Product Liability MVP: Covington's Michael Imbroscio
• Judge Won't Clarify Federal Modified Crop Farming Ruling
• 2nd Circ. Says Interstate Must Defend Welding Co.
• Supreme Court Asked To Weigh Nonparties' Ability To Appeal
• Ex-BP Exec Gets Deepwater Obstruction Trial Bumped
• GSK Asks Supreme Court To Weigh Double Avandia Damages
• Ex-NFL Commish Vacates Saints Players' Bounty Suspensions
• Meningitis Plaintiff Seeks To Bar NECC From Shredding Docs
• Indian Harbor Loses Bid To Keep $2.3M Landfill Dispute In SC
• US Must Give Medicare Info In $726M Heart Implant FCA Suit
• CT Summary Judgment Wins Give Hope To Asbestos Defendants
• Exxon, Valero's $9M Hot Fuel MDL Deal Wins Court OK
• Tobacco Cos. Lose Challenge To RI City's Advertising Law
• CPSC Scraps Database Appeal, Leaving Gripes Unsettled
• Yoplait Yogurt Dispute Belongs Before The FDA, Judge Says
• Zimmer Loses Bid To Pare Suit From Knee Implant MDL
• NHTSA Proposes Requiring 'Black Boxes' In All New Cars
• Product Liability MVP: Kaye Scholer's James Herschlein
• 2nd Circ. Backs Another Eli Lilly Win In Zyprexa MDL
• Honeywell, 2 Others Sued Over Deadly Ireland Plane Crash
• Chrysler Slides Faulty Sunroof Case To NY Bankruptcy Court
• Ky. Residents Sue Over Train Derailment, Chemical Fire
• NY Court Upholds Union Carbide's Asbestos Coverage Ruling
• Lincoln Manufacturing Can't Escape Afghan Well Piping Suit
• Mass. Pharmacies Now Under Greater Scrutiny
• Newspapers' Bid To Unseal Pa. Fracking Deal Revived
• Jury Awards Pa. Family Record $109M In Power Line Death
• Insurer Says Chinese Drywall Coverage Row Belongs in Fla.
• Calif. Wal-Marts To Pull Products With Possible Carcinogens
• Faulty Shingle Class Seeks Approval Of $100M Settlement
• Calif.'s Prop 37 And Food Policy: What Happens Next?
• Lawmakers Want Compounding Group To Cough Up Docs
• Zurich Wants Out Of Covering Aluminum Co.'s Defect Defense
• Product Liability MVP: Greenberg Traurig's Hilarie Bass
• Pharma Groups Take On Calif. County's Drug Disposal Rule
• USDA Can't Mandate Almond Processing, Growers Tell DC Circ.
• Ex-BP Exec Wants Delay In Obstruction Trial Over Gulf Spill
• Free Speech Protects Unapproved Drug Marketing, 9th Circ. Told
• Meningitis Plaintiffs Likely To Get Peek At NECC Facility
• NY Appeals Court Bars Intentionally Withheld Evidence
• Insurer Balks At NewPage Ch. 11 Plan Over Asbestos Policies
• 39 Nexium Bone Density Suits Consolidated By MDL Panel
• Toyota Wins Rollover Injury Case In Calif.
• Insurer Fires Back At MLB Club's 6th Circ. Fatality Appeal
• House Dem Pushes For Health IT Funding, New FDA Office
• House Dems Float Compounding Oversight Bill
• Objectors Lose Bid To Delay Pella Defect Settlement Notice
• NY, NJ Transport Execs Stress Need For Storm Mitigation Aid
• Landmark 2nd Circ. Decision Means Victory For Pharm Cos.
• Kia Hit With Class Action Over Inflated Mileage Claims
• Ecuadoreans Renew Bid To Toss Chevron Fraud Claims
• Hotel Demolition Stopped In Builder's Suit Against MGM
• RIM Wins Arbitration In BlackBerry Service Outage Row
• Mazda Crash Suit Belongs In Utah, Calif. Court Says
• FAA Orders Inspections Following Boeing Dreamliner Fuel Leaks
• CPSC Sues Maker Of Baby Recliner Following Deaths
• Chrysler Beats Class Action Over Brake Warranties
• Walgreen Demands Toss Of Suit Over Joint Products Labeling
• Pa. High Court Rejects Sherwin-Williams Privilege Appeal
• Bayer Blasts Expert In Vitamin False Ad Class Action
• DC Circ. Won't Rehear Tobacco Warning Label Case
• Good News For Defense In NY Asbestos Litigation
• Implications Of EPA Rule On Cadmium In Consumer Products
• 2nd Circ. Ruling Presents Risks For Drug Cos. In Litigation
• Iowa's Construction Insurance Ruling May Sway Other States
• Cosmetics Co. Coty Sued Over Eyelash Growth Claims
• Funeral Directors Urge 3rd Circ. To Reinstate Regulations
• Residents Sue Developer Over $600M NJ Condo Community
• Utility Co. Inks $370M Settlement In Calif. Wildfire Fight
• Pfizer Tells 8th Circ. Generic Drug Injury Claims Fail
• Ex-Gibson Dunn Partner Joins CPSC As General Counsel
• Maritime Law Applies In $50M Drilling Rig Suit, Judge Says
• Travelers, St. Paul Fight Coverage of W.Va. 'Pill Mill' Suit
• Texas Cancer Center Not Immune From Lead Dust Liability
• Airlines Denied Win In Lessee's Suit Over 9/11 Destruction
• Ranbaxy Hit With Class Action Over Generic Lipitor Recall
• The Mediation Advocate's Bill of Rights
• Loss Doctrine Bars Misrepresentation Claims, Judge Says
• 2nd Circ. Shields Drugmakers From Gov't Marketing Probes
• Southern Union Owes $19M For Plant Fire, Insurers Tell Jury
• KBR Tells 3rd Circ. It's Not Liable For Soldier's Death
• Spanair Crash Suit Belongs In US, 9th Circ. Hears
• Jury Orders Lockheed Pay $3M To Fla. Community Group
• FDA Defends Delay In Putting Food Safety Rules Into Action
• GCs Name Most Arrogant Law Firms
• Co-Op To Sue NYC For 'Wasteful' $20M Asbestos Cleanup
• BP Sues Contractors Over Steel Used In Refinery Revamp
• Endo Claims Opana Generic Versions Ripe For Misuse, Abuse
• Supreme Court Won't Examine Fen-Phen Atty's Fraud Conviction
• OneBeacon Sues Kone, Liberty Mutual Over Asbestos Coverage
• Acosta V. Shell: An Expert's Study May Be Irrelevant