Have you ever received a letter from your car manufacturer telling you about a recall on your car? If you have, did you look into it? Ensuring your car is meeting safety standards regarding recalls is extremely important. It can even mean the difference between life and death. March 10, 2010 A pediatric nurse, Brooke Melton, in Georgia fell...
Continue ReadingPersonal injury. You have heard the term used many times. But what does it actually entail? A personal injury is typically some sort of harm that is caused by someone or something. Your mind might automatically think of a car accident, which is certainly a common type of personal injury. However, there are many other ways one can obtain...
Continue ReadingHiring an attorney can be quite stressful if you don’t know what questions to ask. You might be unsure of what is appropriate to ask. The truth of the matter is, you can pretty much ask an attorney anything. One thing you need to keep in mind from the very beginning is that honesty with your lawyer or potential...
Continue ReadingJune 15, 2020 — There are 986 cases pending as of June 15, 2020. Reference: “Pending MDL Dockets by District.” Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation, www.jpml.uscourts.gov/sites/jpml/files/Pending_MDL_Dockets_By_District-June-15-2020.pdf.
Continue ReadingJune 18, 2020 — On June 18, 2020, Judge Rosenberg ordered a schedule for discovery and case management in Pretrial Order #30. The schedule runs from June 15, 2020, which was the beginning of fact discovery, to August 3, 2022. Reference: “United States District Court.” 20-MD-2924-Rosenberg – In Re: Zantac (Ranitidine) Products Liability Litigation | Southern District of Florida...
Continue ReadingJune 2020 — In June 2020, Bayer announced a $10.9 billion settlement. Around $8.8 to $9.6 billion was reserved for current claims, and $1.25 billion was reserved for future litigation. Reference: Hoff, Caitlin. “Bayer Agrees to $10.9 Billion Roundup Settlement.” ConsumerSafety.org, 12 Aug. 2020, https://www.consumersafety.org/news/bayer-agrees-to-10-9-billion-roundup-settlement/
Continue ReadingJune 9, 2020 – Forty previous Zantac users with cancer asked a court to consolidate their cases in California. The plaintiffs were alleging that Sanofi-Aventis US LLC, Pfizer Inc., and other pharmaceutical companies hid the risks of heartburn drug Zantac. Linking their cases in a coordinated proceeding to consolidate pretrial and trial phases of the cases would align all of...
Continue ReadingMay 27, 2020 — U.S. District Judge Jane Triche Milazzo dismissed nearly 200 lawsuits by patients, saying the change in the drug’s warning label in 2015 clearly explained its risks. She ruled that the updated Taxotere label was legally adequate as it warned about the risk of the permanent hair loss patients suffered. Judge Milazzo explained that the label...
Continue ReadingMay 5, 2020 — “The Court reset the second bellwether trial for October 19, 2020.” Reference: “United States District Court.” MDL – 2740 Taxotere (Docetaxel) Products Liability Litigation | Eastern District of Louisiana | United States District Court, 28 Dec. 2020, www.laed.uscourts.gov/case-information/mdl-mass-class-action/taxotere
Continue ReadingWhen you think of a personal injury accident, your mind might automatically jump to car accidents. While that is a common one, personal injuries can happen in many types of accidents. For example, in 2017, the Center for Disease Control reports that 64,795 people died from accidental poisonings. Slip-and-fall accidents took 36,338 lives. The actual definition for a personal...
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