A bill that targets the country’s current asbestos injury compensation system has been quietly reintroduced by a Texas federal lawmaker who is hoping President Trump is more receptive than his predecessor. U.S. Rep. Blake Farenthold, a Republican who serves on the House Judiciary Committee and the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, re-submitted the …
Lawrence Moody said he is satisfied that he and 3,550 other people are finally getting justice. “You just can’t do that to people,” the Washington County man said after DuPont and its spinoff company Chemours agreed to pay nearly $671 million to Mid-Ohio Valley people affected by a chemical used to make Teflon that causes cancer and a host of other health problems. The settlement was announced …
Now it’s getting interesting. A new court filing made on behalf of dozens of people claiming Monsanto Co.’s Roundup herbicide gave them cancer includes information about alleged efforts within the Environmental Protection Agency to protect Monsanto’s interests and unfairly aid the agrichemical industry. The filing, made late Friday by plaintiff’s attorneys, includes what the attorneys represent …
A Missouri jury is now hearing evidence in the state’s fourth trial involving the alleged link between Johnson & Johnson talcum powder products and ovarian cancer. During opening statements last week, a plaintiff’s attorney asserted that Johnson & Johnson’s “love of money” led it to ignore a growing body of research linking the genital application of …
Lawyer Harvey Strosberg is encouraging his clients — diluted chemotherapy victims — to object if they’re outraged over the proposed $2.375-million class-action settlement his firm helped negotiate. “They’re my clients, I love them, even though they’re angry at me,” the prominent Windsor class-action lawyer said this week, as a Dec. 7 deadline loomed for the 1,202 members of the diluted chemo …
A LaSalle woman is speaking out against a proposed settlement in a class action lawsuit involving diluted chemotherapy treatments. Sarah Johnson blames the incident for her cancer coming back and she says the settlement doesn’t cover her pain and suffering. This story goes back to 2012, when it was discovered that over 1,200 cancer patients allegedly received diluted chemotherapy.
$2.4 million settlement reached in diluted chemotherapy drug lawsuit Posted: November 9, 2016 09:55:24 AM Last updated: November 9, 2016 11:01:11 AM Category: Ontario Tags: cancer, cancer drug, chemotherapy, hamilton, marchese health care, new brunswick, ontario A tentative settlement of nearly $2.4 million has been reached in a class-action lawsuit filed after cancer patients were given …
A St. Louis jury has awarded a California woman more than $70 million in her lawsuit alleging that years of using Johnson & Johnson’s baby powder caused her cancer, the latest case raising concerns about the health ramifications of extended talcum powder use. The jury ruling Thursday ended the trial that began Sept. 26 in the case brought by Deborah Giannecchini of Modesto, …
A Falmouth physician who is terminally ill with Stage 4 metastatic prostate cancer filed a lawsuit this week in Suffolk Superior Court in Boston, asserting that he has a constitutional right to obtain a lethal dose of medication, with the help of his doctor, to die when he chooses and avoid needless suffering. The lawsuit was filed by Dr. Roger M. Kligler, a …
Frank Kelly delievrs closing arguments on behalf of Philip Morris, at trial over Robiel Chacon’s lung cancer death. Miami—Jurors Thursday found a smoker failed state citizenship requirements for purposes of class action membership against the nation’s tobacco companies, clearing Philip Morris of liability for his lung cancer death. Chacon v. Philip Morris, 08-102-CA-09.