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A jury recently found Meta and Google responsible for a California woman’s depression and anxiety. The plaintiff reported using social media compulsively as a child, and the courts awarded her a $6 million verdict, including punitive damages, based on the...

Personal injury case preparation is often a labor-intensive endeavor for your firm’s paralegal and administrative staff. Gathering evidence, like medical records, police reports, and financial documents that show lost wages, is crucial to the success of your client’s claim. The...

Even today, BP is still associated with its calamitous 2010 oil spill, which spewed over 100 million gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico. The disaster polluted the ocean, coastlines, and animals living in those environments and caused medical...

Attorneys for Camp Lejeune contaminated water victims are pleading foul against the government for attempting to ban jury trials that the Camp Lejeune Justice Act of 2022 presumably grants so injured parties can be heard by juries. Lawyers in a...

The judge in the consolidated multidistrict litigation, which claims painkiller Tylenol can cause autism in children if their mothers take it during pregnancy, dealt plaintiffs a potentially fatal blow by barring their expert witness testimony in a December 18 hearing...

A Washington State judge ruled for plaintiffs in defective hip implant litigation by consolidating their cases into a single case in King County Superior Court. The defendant, Depuy Orthopedics, a subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson, had argued the cases were...

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,...

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...