Now that 2022 is officially over and the holidays are in our rear-view mirrors, there is some actual movement that makes us think 2023 may be the year we see some of them finally settle, and others really take off. Bad News First – Zantac First, the bad news – the Zantac litigation suffered some …
We attended another webinar put on by the good people of Mass Torts Made Perfect and Levin Papantonio Rafferty, this time about the Hair Relaxer litigation. This is one of the bigger cases we are working as we start 2023. While there isn’t an MDL as of today, the expectation is that one will be created shortly after oral arguments on …
By Heather Vogell, ProPublica “Our constituents cannot afford to have anticompetitive — and potentially per se illegal — practices drive up prices for essential goods and services at a time when a full-time, minimum-wage salary does not provide a worker enough money to rent a two-bedroom apartment in any city across this country.” A Texas-based …
By Martha Rosenberg We don’t know if Robert Crimo III, the confessed attacker in the mass shooting at a Fourth of July parade in a Chicago suburb, was on psychoactive drugs when he acted, but we do know that police were called to his home in 2019 for suicidal behavior and that he was remanded …
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By Harlan Schillinger Most lawyers focus on one number: what’s in their wallet. But any modern legal practice is well advised to consider a more valuable metric: one that measures accountability, not just revenue. Egos stand in the way of many things in life. But in the legal profession, arrogance can make a mess of …
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By Martha Rosenberg It’s been more than 20 years since Tamiflu, the first orally active neuraminidase inhibitor to prevent and treat influenza A and B, was rolled out by drugmaker Roche. Not a flu vaccine, Tamiflu (oseltamivir) blocks the flu virus’s neuraminidase protein. The medication is available only by prescription and is often prescribed for …
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By Martha Rosenberg IT ISN’T YOUR IMAGINATION. More and more pharmaceutical drugs are expensive and meant to be injected, and that isn’t counting vaccines. Biologic drugs, also called biologics, are produced from or with living organisms and are made up of blood components, cells, genes, and recombinant proteins such as those found in monoclonal antibodies. …
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By Chelsie Green For many centuries, societal beauty standards have dictated trendy styles in fashion, cosmetics, and, especially, hair care for women. As early as the 1900s, one trend in particular targeted manageability of thicker, coarse, and/or textured hair. More specifically, black women’s hair was deemed unkempt, unprofessional and, overall, just not welcome in society. …
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by Attorney Jeff Keiser Hair Straightener Litigation One of the hottest cases sweeping the country today is the hair straightener litigation, and lawsuits are being filed in federal court due to a new study that effectively proves that hair straighteners increase the risk of uterine cancer, uterine fibroids, breast cancer and endometriosis. A 2022 National …
