Currently, there are about 250 Roundup lawsuits filed against manufacturer Monsanto that are pending in the Northern District of California, where all federally-filed cases have been consolidated. U.S. District Court Judge Vince Chhabria was assigned to oversee the Roundup Multi-District Litigation (“Roundup MDL”). Judge Chhabria…
On August 10, 2017, the FDA released an update alerting health care providers to concerning developments with gastric balloons, which are used to help treat obesity. From 2016 to the date of the update, the FDA had received five reports of deaths linked to these…
An Ethicon Physiomesh lawsuit is pending in New Jersey state court. An Arkansas woman filed the case on August 3, 2017, in Middlesex County, claiming that after she was implanted with the mesh, she suffered from serious injuries. The manufacturer, a subsidiary of Johnson &…
An Arkansas man has filed a new Roundup cancer lawsuit against defendant, manufacturer, Monsanto in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Arkansas. He claims that after being exposed to Roundup and the active ingredient glyphosate, he developed non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma (NAL). This is…
The Ohio Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) sent two Notices of Violation to Rover Pipeline, an Energy Transfer Company, on April 17, 2017. According to the notices, the company is coming under scrutiny because of two recent spills that released over two million gallons of drilling…
A recall announced in February 2017 could affect hundreds of patients who went through total shoulder replacement surgery. Shoulder replacements manufacturer Zimmer recalled a total of 3,662 Zimmer Biomet Comprehensive Reverse Shoulder Humeral components because of higher than expected fracturing rates. These fractures could result…
At the end of January 2017, plaintiffs involved in heater-cooler lawsuits filed a petition with the U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation (JPML) to consolidate all federally filed cases into one court for pre-trial proceedings. They argued that all the current lawsuits share common questions…
Barringer Brothers Roofing, headquartered in Belleville, Illinois, was recently cited by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) for failing to provide fall protection for employees at a construction job site in Glen Carbon. This isn’t the first time the company has been warned about…