As a U.S. taxpayer, one of the last things that you want to hear is that the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has disagreed with your tax assessment and has imposed penalties for noncompliance. The good news is that the IRS abates…
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/ Administrative Law, Business Organizations, Taxation
Anyone who needs insulin to treat diabetes knows that the cost of the drug has skyrocketed in the last few years. The reason for the sharp increase seems to be simple: corporate greed. Recently, though, the high price of insulin…
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/ Business Torts, Consumer Protection, Health
The recently revised pre-trial schedule in the multidistrict litigation (MDL) against Exactech gives new plaintiffs more time to join the litigation before it heads to trial next year. That is, of course, assuming that the…
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/ Health, Personal Injury, Products Liability
The medical device manufacturer Bard is facing hundreds of lawsuits over its Bard PowerPort device. These lawsuits allege that the device was defectively made and caused significant medical problems when it broke. Furthermore,…
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/ Business Torts, Health, Products Liability
Thousands of lawsuits have been filed against the Ireland-based medical device company Allergan for a unique type of blood cancer that has been linked to its textured breast implant. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)…
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/ Consumer Protection, Health, Personal Injury, Products Liability, Toxic Torts
Thousands of AFFF firefighting foam lawsuits have been filed against the chemical manufacturers behind aqueous film forming foam (AFFF), a common type of firefighting foam that is often used for gasoline and fuel fires. This…
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/ Environmental Law, Health, Toxic Torts
Hundreds of federal Suboxone lawsuits filed across the country against Indivior, Inc. have been consolidated into multidistrict litigation (MDL) instead of having a Suboxone class action lawsuit. This MDL is in the United States…
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/ Civil Procedure, Health, Personal Injury, Products Liability
The social media harm litigation against Meta, Google, ByteDance, and Snap is starting to gain steam. To date, approximately 500 social media addiction lawsuits have been filed throughout the United States, with the majority of…
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/ Communications & Media Law, Consumer Protection, Personal Injury
More plaintiffs are continuing to join the diabetes drug Ozempic lawsuits against Novo Nordisk; and, until a couple of weeks ago, some court watchers were estimating that the total number of federal lawsuits involving Ozempic…
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/ Personal Injury, Health, Products Liability
Class actions and multidistrict litigation (MDL) concerning perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) have led to massive settlements by chemical companies that have totaled in the billions of dollars, and that has…
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/ Environmental Law, Personal Injury, Toxic Torts
Recent events suggest that a global settlement in the longstanding hernia mesh multidistrict litigation (MDL) is on the horizon. Most recently, the parties jointly submitted two case management orders on July 5, 2024—CMO #52 and…
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/ Civil Procedure, Health, Personal Injury, Products Liability
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) expects companies to self-police their environmental compliance efforts. While the EPA regularly conducts inspections focused on assessing environmental compliance, it also relies…
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/ Administrative Law, Business Organizations, Environmental Law
The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has long conducted inspections to assess the efficacy of companies’ environmental compliance programs. However, under the EPA’s Climate Enforcement and Compliance Strategy…
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/ Administrative Law, Commercial Law & Contracts, Environmental Law
Federal law enforcement agencies, including the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), have amped up their investigations into the drug ketamine in recent years, likely in reaction to some high-profile overdose deaths…
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/ Commercial Law & Contracts, Criminal Law, Health
One avenue for whistleblowers to take to report fraud against the government is to file a qui tam lawsuit under the federal False Claims Act. These lawsuits are complex because they have not two, but three parties to them – the…
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/ Commercial Law & Contracts, Labor & Employment Law, Government Contracting
