WILMINGTON, Del. (Legal Newsline) - Johnson & Johnson has borrowed a page from the legal playbook pioneered by breast-implant manufacturer Dow Corning to try to consolidate thousands of talc lawsuits in a single federal court for resolution.
A small group of highly paid experts, one of whom recently testified his firm has made $30 million offering mostly pro-plaintiff testimony, are the key ingredient for more than 10,000 lawsuits claiming talcum powder is laced with deadly asbestos, forming the tip of an inverted pyramid upon which the rest of the cases depend.
BEAUMONT – The family of Jimmy Thomas Jr. have filed an asbestos suit against Chevron USA.
DALLAS – A Dallas-based attorney who has been a trial lawyer about 25 years had no difficulty during a recent interview naming his proudest achievement as an attorney.
HOUSTON – In August, a Texas appellate court found a Jefferson County judge, who retired in the mid ‘90s and died from mesothelioma nearly a decade later, was required to give six months notice after retiring before an asbestos lawsuit could be filed against the county.
BEAUMONT – A recently filed asbestos lawsuit is seeking exemplary damages against dozens of companies.
WASHINGTON (Legal Newsline) - California tops the list of jurisdictions regarded as "Judicial Hellholes" by a national civil justice reform group.
HOUSTON – A California woman is suing an industrial aluminum company following the death of her husband from a rare and aggressive cancer, recent Houston federal court records show.
HOUSTON – Robert E. Shuttlesworth of the law firm Shrader & Associates, L.L.P. in Houston has filed a lawsuit on behalf of a couple who alleges that the husband was recently diagnosed with “malignant” mesothelioma.
ST. LOUIS (Legal Newsline) - Partway through a trial over allegedly asbestos-tainted baby powder that ended with a $4.69 billion verdict against Johnson & Johnson in St. Louis earlier this year, attorney Mark Lanier whipped a knife from out of his pocket and held it over a large block of yellow cheese.
In the Trump administration, at least, the government will no longer look the other way as asbestos lawyers negotiate lenient terms that make it easy for their current clients to get money at the expense of future claimants and federal entitlement programs.
GALVESTON – Three private health insurance companies have asked a federal judge to deny a Houston-based law firm's motion to dismiss the companies' lawsuit over allegations the firm didn't pay its share in asbestos litigation settlement funds.
BEAUMONT – Nearly a dozen corporations have been named in a recently filed asbestos lawsuit.
HOUSTON – A Texas appellate court has opted to keep a deposition offered by one of the state’s most renowned asbestos attorneys on the infamous “Terrell memo” sealed away from the public.
BEAUMONT – More than a dozen companies have been hit with a recently filed asbestos lawsuit.
BEAUMONT – A former sheet metal worker alleges asbestos exposure during his employment caused him to develop cancer and breathing issues.
‘Better get Dick’ hail attorney sued by insurance appraiser, expert says suit exposes biased relationship in mass filings against insurers
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