On June 17, 2022, a Missouri woman filed a new Medtronic HeartWare Ventricular Assist Device (HVAD) lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri. The device at issue is the same one that Medtronic recalled on November 19, 2020, due to…
On May 31, 2022, a North Carolina Marine Corps veteran filed a new lawsuit against several manufacturers of firefighting foams, including 3M Company, Chemguard, and Dupont. He claims that during his service at Camp Lejeune, a military base in North Carolina, he was exposed to toxic…
According to a recent CNN report, a former employee at infant formula manufacturer Abbott Nutrition filed a whistleblower complaint about the company’s plant in Sturgis, Michigan, back in February 2021. This was a year before Abbott shut down its facility to address contamination issues. The…
About a year ago, the U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation (JPML) ordered that all federally filed paraquat lawsuits be consolidated in the Southern District of Illinois. Since then, the parties have been working toward selecting a small number of cases to be prepared for…
A new paper published in The Lancet indicates that road safety around the world could be improved by adopting interventions targeting four key risk factors for road injuries. If countries did this, it could save up to half a million lives per year, the authors…
An Illinois woman recently filed a new paraquat lawsuit on behalf of her husband, who has passed away. She claims that her husband’s exposure to the herbicide paraquat contributed to his Parkinson’s disease diagnosis, which in turn, led to his death. She seeks compensatory and…
A Missouri couple recently filed a new paraquat lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Illinois. One of them suffers from Parkinson’s disease (PD), which he blames on his exposure to paraquat, a popular herbicide. Plaintiff Used Paraquat on Farms for…
Today, Exactech, a Gainesville, Florida medical device manufacturer, added 40,000 hip implants to its list of defective medical implant recalls. Exactech had already recalled over 90,000 hips,140,000 knees, and about 2,500 ankles. All of the recalls related to a failure of the polyethylene parts in…
A devastating accident in northern Kern County claimed two lives and left three other victims badly injured. The California Highway Patrol says the accident occurred on Sunday morning sometime before 2 a.m. outside of Delano on Highway 155/Garces Highway. KGET-TV reported the collision happened along…
After a lot of back-and-forth in Congress, the Camp Lejeune Justice Act of 2022 (S.3373) has finally been signed into law. President Biden signed the bill on Wednesday, August 10th, 2022. The Act will allow military veterans, their families, and civilian residents who lived or…
