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Yesterday, a St. Louis jury just absolutely crushed Johnson & Johnson again in another baby powder lawsuit. Twenty two women[and their families] filed suit claiming that the baby powder they had used for years was the source of their ovarian cancer. The jury agreed and awarded the group $550 million dollars in compensatory damages AND $4.14 billion in puni… Read More

I saw this online story by Rachel Seigel of the Washington Post a couple weeks ago. Jeanette Ortiz worked at a California Chipotle for 14 years. She had moved up to a General Manager position and was making around $72,000 a year. Chipotle’s practice going back several years, was to have armored cars swing by and swap out large bills for smaller bills. On… Read More

Wow. A North Carolina jury absolutely walloped the worlds largest pork producer last week over its disposal practices. Ten neighbors filed suit against Kinlaw Farms, a large pork production facility located in North Carolina. Kinlaw is owned by Murphy-Brown LLC [a subsidiary of Chinese-owned Smithfield Foods]. The focus of the plaintiffs’ case was the tr… Read More

In 2016, the scientific community was optimistic about a new drug – Nuplazid – that appeared to promise some relief to patients who had to endure the misery of Parkinson’s psychosis – a symptom of Parkinson’s disease that caused patients to experience hallucinations and delusions. The drug, made by Arcadia Pharmaceuticals had show… Read More

Johnson & Johnson got crushed – again – in a talcum powder lawsuit. Stephan Lanzo used Johnson & Johnson products like Shower to Shower and Baby Powder for over 30 years. Those products likely contained talc – one of the softest minerals on earth. That talc is found in rock deposits – and those rock deposits are often found near… Read More

According to this article by Evonne Liu in Crains, Jim Karas – celebrity personal trainer [pictured above]- is going after three fitness trainers who used to work for him at Jim Karas Intelligent Fitness. Karas has filed suit to stop the three trainers from poaching his clients. Karas, who has trained Hugh “Wolverine” Jackman, Candice Bergman… Read More

[Image by Milwaukee Journal Sentinel] The State of Wisconsin recently agreed to pay nearly $19 million to Sydni Briggs, a young woman who suffered serious brain damage after a suicide attempt at the Copper Lake School For Girls – part of a troubled Wisconsin juvenile prison system. Briggs was just 16 when she was placed at Copper Lake for breaking into a… Read More

I receive regular emails from certain bar associations with links to recent appellate court decisions. I clicked on a link to the Ledeaux v. Motorola Inc. decision, which referred to a lawsuit filed by multiple Motorola workers on behalf of their children. The workers are alleging they were exposed to toxic products while at Motorola and their children suffere… Read More