So-called “popcorn lung” is a serious lung disease that causes inflammation and scarring in the airways and eventually leads to permanent lung damage. The disease was so-named because back in the 1990s, an abnormally large number of microwave popcorn factory workers were diagnosed with “bronchioliti
In December 2015, the U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation (JPML) consolidated all federally-filed Bair Hugger warming blanket lawsuits into one court in the District of Minnesota for pre-trial proceedings. Since then, the litigation has grown, with over 1,000 cases now pending. Currently
More than 20,500 Xarelto lawsuits are pending in consolidated litigation in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana, and another 1,400 are pending in a mass tort in Philadelphia. Plaintiffs claim that after taking the blood-thinning medication, they developed serious side effec
On November 6, 2017, LivaNova Deutschland GmbH and Sorin Group USA, Inc. filed a motion with the U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation (JPML) to request the consolidation of all federally-filed personal injury lawsuits involving the 3T Stockert Heater-Cooler in one court in the U.S.…
In June 2014, the U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation (JPML) consolidated all federally-filed testosterone replacement lawsuits into one court in the Northern District of Illinois. District Court Judge Matthew Kennelly is overseeing the pre-trial proceedings. The lawsuits before Judge Ke
The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIH) found that in 2016, attitudes among American students had improved when it came to drug abuse. Past-year use of illicit drugs other than marijuana declined, to the lowest level in the history of the survey. The discouraging news…
In April 2017, the U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation (JPML) consolidated all federally-filed Stryker LFIT hip implant lawsuits into one court in the District of Massachusetts. Since then, the parties have been working toward preparing a select group of cases to go to early…
The National Women’s Law Center (NWLC) states that after a detailed gender analysis of U.S. Census poverty, income, and health insurance data from 2015, they found that women’s poverty rates were substantially above the poverty rates for men. More than one in eight women lived…
On October 17, 2017, an Iowa family filed a new Stockert 3T heater-cooler infection lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Iowa. The plaintiff claims that he was exposed to Mycobacterium chimaera (M. chimaera) bacteria and developed a dangerous infection, as…
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) states that in a nationally representative survey, nearly one in five women and one in 71 men reported experiencing rape at some point in their lives. About one in 20 women and men experienced sexual violence other…
The makers of the Stockert 3T Heater-Cooler Systems (“3T System”) have filed a motion with the U.S. Judicial Panel of Multidistrict Litigation (“JPML” to “Panel”) asking the Panel to transfer and consolidate all pending and forthcoming 3T System lawsuits filed in federal court into one…
In December 2015, all federally-filed Bair Hugger warming blanket lawsuits were consolidated into one court in the District of Minnesota. At the time there were about 50 cases pending in various districts, but now, that number has increased to more than 3,500. After almost two…
