‘Dark Waters’ Brings Awareness to PFAS Water Contamination Litigation
A new movie called “Dark Waters,” scheduled to be released in November 2019, is based on the true story of attorney Robert Bilott who discovered…
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Damages Reduced in California Roundup Verdict, but Evidence of Cancer Connection Stands
In March 2019, a California jury awarded plaintiffs in a Roundup lawsuit $80 million in damages. This was the first bellwether Roundup lawsuit to go…
Activists Urge Pennsylvania Governor to Halt Fracking and Study Health Effects
Could fracking cause cancer? That’s what a group of Pennsylvania residents are concerned about. More than a hundred recently signed a letter to Governor Tom…
New Ohio Hospital Reports 10 Patients with Legionnaires’ Disease; 1 Death
An Ohio hospital has recently confirmed that one of its patient’s has died after an outbreak of Legionnaire’s disease in the building. The new Mount…
Uloric Linked with Increased Risk of Heart Attack and Other Cardiovascular Events
The gout medication Uloric (febuxostat) may increase the risk of heart attack, according to recent studies. The FDA recently required manufacturer Takeda Pharmaceuticals place a…
New Study Finds Nicotine in JUUL E-cigarettes Toxic to Living Cells
A new study by researchers from UC Riverside and Portland State University have determined that the nicotine levels in the popular JUUL e-cigarettes are high…
Louisiana Plaintiff Blames Design of Proceed Mesh for Hernia Repair Failure
On January 14, 2019, a Louisiana married couple filed a new Ethicon hernia lawsuit against manufacturers Ethicon, Inc., and parent company Johnson & Johnson (J&J).…
Ohio MDL Sets Protocol for Preserving Explanted Bard Hernia Mesh
Back in August 2018, the U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation (JPML) consolidated all federally-filed Bard hernia mesh lawsuits into one court in the Southern…
Pennsylvania Man Blames Bard Composix Hernia Mesh for Surgical Complications
A Pennsylvania man recently filed a Bard hernia mesh lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio. He claims that after…
Study Shows Hospitals Far Behind on Improving Patient Safety
According to a 2016 study published in the British Medical Journal (BMJ), more than 250,000 deaths occur per year are due to medical errors in…