CHARLESTON – Double doses of Digitek heart medicine didn't kill anybody, but national class action and wrongful death litigation over the drug keeps growing.
Robreno PHILADELPHIA – U.S. District Judge Eduardo Robreno aims to purge the national asbestos docket of lawsuits that started in mass X-ray screenings.
CHARLESTON -– A company named as a defendant in an asbestos lawsuit is fighting back, alleging the complaint against it should be dismissed because it had no choice other than to follow the U.S. Navy's strict specifications when it manufactured products for a ship.
Goodwin CHARLESTON – Drug companies Actavis Totowa and Mylan Pharmaceuticals claim they have detected bogus lawsuits in national litigation over heart medicine Digitek.
CHARLESTON -– Lawyers alleging that sloppy practices at an Actavis Totowa drug factory led to adulteration of heart medicine Digitek have gained permission to find out if sloppy practices spoiled other pills at the factory.
Robreno PHILADELPHIA – U.S. District Judge Eduardo Robreno has cleared away more than half a million asbestos suits this year and he plans to keep up the pace.
PHILADELPHIA -- A prominent national asbestos law Motley Rice law firm implores U.S. District Judge Eduardo Robreno not to turn asbestos litigation into an investigation of false X-ray reports.
PHILADELPHIA – Motley Rice lawyers represent themselves and not clients in their bid to block court review of X-ray reports behind tens of thousands of asbestos suits, according to a General Electric attorney.
Joyce WASHINGTON - Aside from ranking judicial hellholes, the American Tort Reform Foundation is highlighting what it feels is a movement by plaintiffs attorneys to influence elected officials.
Goodwin CHARLESTON – U.S. District Judge Joseph Goodwin, who ignored advice from a Louisiana lawyer about Wheeling attorney Teresa Toriseva, chooses also to ignore an affidavit from Barry Hill of Wheeling about how he fired Toriseva.
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (Legal Newsline) - The landmark tobacco settlement of 1998 is good for both the participating states and the tobacco companies that got in on the ground floor, a lawsuit recently filed by the sixth-largest tobacco company in the country says.
Toriseva CHARLESTON – U.S. District Judge Joseph Goodwin, ignoring a Louisiana lawyer's advice to mistrust Wheeling attorney Teresa Toriseva, has chosen her to lead a national committee of plaintiff lawyers suing over Digitek heart medicine.
Bell CHARLESTON – U.S. District Judge Joseph Goodwin resolved a dispute among 125 lawyers around the nation by choosing Harry Bell of Charleston to coordinate lawsuits against companies that made heart medicine Digitek.
McGraw CHARLESTON -- First came the class-action lawsuit, followed by state attorneys general using the power of their office in connection with private plaintiff lawyers to pursue such lawsuits. Millions of dollars from ensuring settlements poured into state coffers.