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A leadership team is about to be appointed to move hernia mesh lawsuits through federal pretrial proceedings and discovery, while taking actions that will benefit each of the approximately 600 (and growing) plaintiffs. The leadership plan was proposed by Covidien...

Eddie Peterson is just one Marine veteran waiting for his day in court after being exposed to toxic drinking water at Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune in the 1970s and contracting Parkinson’s disease. More than 93,000 other veterans, family members,...

Legislators want to ensure New York City civilian employees exposed to toxins during the World Trade Center terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001 know about the benefits they are entitled to, after the state Assembly and Senate unanimously passed a...

A recently completed government survey has found almost half of U.S. tap water is contaminated with cancer-causing ‘forever chemicals,’ named because the man-made toxins do not break down in nature or the human body, and accumulate over time. The U.S....

Weeks after San Francisco school district lawyers in federal court accused Altria Group Inc. (MO.N) of hooking a new generation of young people with its vaping products, Altria announced a settlement. On May 10, 2023, Altria agreed to pay $235...

The prescription epilepsy drug gabapentin is under fire from the consumer safety group Public Citizen, claiming in a Food and Drug Administration (FDA) petition that some users get high on it, leading to overdoses, addiction, and sometimes death. The consumer...

In the wake of the train crash in East Palestine, Ohio that sent plumes of acrid smoke and toxic chemicals into the environment, residents have joined in filing at least four class-action lawsuits against Norfolk Southern railway for toxic exposure...

More plaintiffs came forward in October in a sexual misconduct lawsuit filed last summer against the former University of San Francisco Dons baseball coaches Nino Giarratano and Troy Nakamura, USF, and the NCAA. The original complaint cites that the coaches...

The pesticide industry, like Big Oil and Big Tobacco before it, has for decades used deception to sell the message that its products are safe and necessary to expand world food production. But global studies prove otherwise. Pesticides, the blanket...

In the wake of hundreds of layoffs in November and thousands of lawsuits over its vaping products, Juul Labs has secured an equity investment, dodging bankruptcy as it reaches settlements in more than 5,000 cases. About 10,000 plaintiffs, including e-cigarette...