December 9, 2022
Juul Labs Inc. has agreed to pay $1.2 billion to resolve about 10,000 lawsuits targeting the e-cigarette maker as a major cause of a US youth-vaping epidemic, according to people familiar with the matter. The accord, which hasn’t yet been …
October 18, 2022
Amazon.com Inc. must face a claim that it failed to protect New York City warehouse workers and their families from COVID-19, a U.S. appeals court ruled on Tuesday while dismissing the bulk of the workers’ 2020 lawsuit. The 2nd U.S. …
September 6, 2022
A court order that requires Sherwin-Williams Co. to pay $101 million into a lead paint abatement fund amounts to “damages” that are recoverable through a Lloyd’s of London insurance policy, an Ohio appellate court ruled Thursday. The Eighth Appellate District …
August 11, 2022
Walgreens Boots Alliance contributed to the opioid epidemic in San Francisco through its sale of prescription drugs in the city, a federal judge concluded on Wednesday. U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer in San Francisco said that Walgreens failed to properly …
July 13, 2022
DOVER, Del. (AP) — A Delaware Superior Court judge on Monday dismissed a lawsuit filed by the state’s Democratic attorney general against agricultural giant Monsanto Co. over environmental damage from now-banned toxic chemicals known as PCBs. In recent years, PCBs …
July 6, 2022
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A federal judge on Monday ruled in favor of three major U.S. drug distributors in a landmark lawsuit that accused them of causing a health crisis by distributing 81 million pills over eight years in one …
May 26, 2022
A federal judge on Wednesday threw out a lawsuit by a group of gun manufacturers, distributors and retailers challenging the constitutionality of a New York law that allows the state and people affected by gun violence to sue the industry. …
April 26, 2022
Walgreens Boots Alliance and Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. ignored the health risks when they created new markets for opioids, a lawyer for the city of San Francisco told a judge on Monday during opening statements of the first trial to …
April 25, 2022
San Francisco will square off on Monday against Walgreens Boots Alliance and three other companies accused of fueling an opioid crisis in the city, the first trial to target manufacturers, distributors and pharmacies over the addictive pain medicines. San Francisco …
April 22, 2022
The same state court system that allowed local governments to sue lead paint manufacturers for promoting a hazardous product many decades ago won’t force insurers to pay for the end result. A panel of the California 1st Division Court of …