New court documents in the ongoing Roundup non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma litigation indicate Bayer subsidiary Monsanto paid chemical lobbyists to claim the popular herbicide weed killer was safe despite significant scientific evidence that Roundup causes cancer. Email correspondence between Monsanto officials and the American Council on Science and Health (ACSH) reflect how the industry group campaigned for […]
Monsanto is now facing a Roundup class action lawsuit that is calling for resolution on the prevailing question about the connection between the weed killer’s active ingredient, glyphosate, and cancer. The claim asserts that this resolution is critical to saving hundreds of thousands of hours of court time and resources investigating claims from individuals who […]
A new study indicates that Roundup exposure may cause generational toxic damage, meaning that individuals may pass on health problems from the weed killer to their children. Scientific Reports published the study this week. Washington State University (WSU) researchers say they found “dramatic increases in pathologies” in the grandchildren and great grandchildren of female rats […]
A new lawsuit against Johnson & Johnson (J&J) and its Ethicon unit indicates that the manufacturers concealed significantly dangerous Proceed hernia mesh design defects to boost profits and protect market share. Robert Esbrandt filed the lawsuit earlier this month in New Jersey Superior Court. He is naming J&J and Ethicon as defendants, alleging that the […]
The FDA announced Tuesday that it was taking action to protect women from painful and debilitating injuries from transvaginal mesh by ordering manufacturers to immediately stop selling the surgical implants. After receiving more than 100,000 reports of permanently debilitating and painful complications from transvaginal mesh and years of consumer advocates demanding the removal of the […]
Following the first two trials in the ongoing Roundup litigation ending in decisive victories for plaintiffs with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma from exposure to the popular weed killer, the District Judge overseeing the federal litigation has cancelled a bellwether trial scheduled for next month and ordered the parties to enter into Roundup settlement discussions as part of […]
A new Roundup lawsuit indicates that a former landscaper developed fatal lymphoma from regular exposure to the popular weed killer and paid for Monsanto concealing Roundup’s cancer risks with his life. The deceased landscaper’s wife, Ellen Scotto, filed the complaint April 4 in the Supreme Court of New York for Nassau County. As the administrator […]
The Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation (JPML) has decided to consolidate and centralize all military earplug lawsuits against 3M pending in the federal court system due to striking similarities in the allegations that the standard U.S. military issue Combat Arms earplugs’ significant defects caused permanent hearing damage. More than 635 military earplug lawsuits have been […]
A recent Zostavax neuropathy lawsuit claims side effects of the shingles vaccine caused a Kentucky woman to develop painful and irreparable nerve damage. Rita Bishop file the complaint late this past month in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. She alleges that Merck & Co. sold a dangerously defective shingles vaccine and deliberately failed to warn […]
Global medical tech company LivaNova PLC agreed to pay $225 million to settle lawsuits over heart surgery infections caused by 3T heater-cooler systems. On March 29, LivaNova released a statement declaring the company agreed to resolve approximately 75% of pending 3T heater-cooler system lawsuits filed across the U.S. over the past few years. However, Livanova’s […]
New court documents in the ongoing Roundup non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma litigation indicate Bayer subsidiary Monsanto paid chemical lobbyists to claim the popular herbicide weed killer was safe despite significant scientific evidence that Roundup causes cancer. Email correspondence between Monsanto officials and the American Council on Science and Health (ACSH) reflect how the industry group campaigned for […]
Monsanto is now facing a Roundup class action lawsuit that is calling for resolution on the prevailing question about the connection between the weed killer’s active ingredient, glyphosate, and cancer. The claim asserts that this resolution is critical to saving hundreds of thousands of hours of court time and resources investigating claims from individuals who […]
A new study indicates that Roundup exposure may cause generational toxic damage, meaning that individuals may pass on health problems from the weed killer to their children. Scientific Reports published the study this week. Washington State University (WSU) researchers say they found “dramatic increases in pathologies” in the grandchildren and great grandchildren of female rats […]
A new lawsuit against Johnson & Johnson (J&J) and its Ethicon unit indicates that the manufacturers concealed significantly dangerous Proceed hernia mesh design defects to boost profits and protect market share. Robert Esbrandt filed the lawsuit earlier this month in New Jersey Superior Court. He is naming J&J and Ethicon as defendants, alleging that the […]
The FDA announced Tuesday that it was taking action to protect women from painful and debilitating injuries from transvaginal mesh by ordering manufacturers to immediately stop selling the surgical implants. After receiving more than 100,000 reports of permanently debilitating and painful complications from transvaginal mesh and years of consumer advocates demanding the removal of the […]
Following the first two trials in the ongoing Roundup litigation ending in decisive victories for plaintiffs with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma from exposure to the popular weed killer, the District Judge overseeing the federal litigation has cancelled a bellwether trial scheduled for next month and ordered the parties to enter into Roundup settlement discussions as part of […]
A new Roundup lawsuit indicates that a former landscaper developed fatal lymphoma from regular exposure to the popular weed killer and paid for Monsanto concealing Roundup’s cancer risks with his life. The deceased landscaper’s wife, Ellen Scotto, filed the complaint April 4 in the Supreme Court of New York for Nassau County. As the administrator […]
The Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation (JPML) has decided to consolidate and centralize all military earplug lawsuits against 3M pending in the federal court system due to striking similarities in the allegations that the standard U.S. military issue Combat Arms earplugs’ significant defects caused permanent hearing damage. More than 635 military earplug lawsuits have been […]
A recent Zostavax neuropathy lawsuit claims side effects of the shingles vaccine caused a Kentucky woman to develop painful and irreparable nerve damage. Rita Bishop file the complaint late this past month in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. She alleges that Merck & Co. sold a dangerously defective shingles vaccine and deliberately failed to warn […]
Global medical tech company LivaNova PLC agreed to pay $225 million to settle lawsuits over heart surgery infections caused by 3T heater-cooler systems. On March 29, LivaNova released a statement declaring the company agreed to resolve approximately 75% of pending 3T heater-cooler system lawsuits filed across the U.S. over the past few years. However, Livanova’s […]
