(Reuters) —Johnson & Johnson faces over 20,000 lawsuits from women who used the company’s baby powder product and developed ovarian cancer. Amidst these thousands of suits, Reuters reported that several sources familiar with the pending litigation have confirmed J&J is…
Read More Johnson & Johnson Considers Bankruptcy Amidst Talc-Containing Baby Powder Suits
Blue Cross Blue Shield has started notifying class members via email about the recent subscriber settlement. Class representatives in the Blue Cross Blue Shield antitrust lawsuit for subscribers reached a $2.67 billion settlement in October 2020. Subscribers in the…
INDIANAPOLIS – Anthem, the largest for-profit managed health care company in the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association, finalized their agreement with InnovaCare Health for the acquisition of InnovaCare’s Puerto Rico subsidiaries, including MMM Holdings and its Medicare Advantage plan, Medicaid…
Read More Anthem Acquires Puerto Rico’s largest Medicare Advantage Plan
Washington, D.C. - On June 21, 2021, the Supreme Court of the United States ruled in favor of collegiate athletes against the NCAA (“NCAA”). Athletes filed suit against the NCAA in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of…
Read More The Supreme Court of the United States: “The NCAA is Not Above the Law”
PERRYSBURG, Ohio - Owens-Illinois Glass announced that its subsidiary, Paddock Enterprises, LLC, has reached a tentative agreement for a Chapter 11 Plan of Reorganization that will establish an asbestos bankruptcy trust with $610 million in initial funding. Owens-Illinois, Inc. has…
Read More Owen-Illinois’ Subsidiary forms $610 million Asbestos Bankruptcy Trust
SAN FRANCISCO - In early June, federal Judge Chhabria rejected Bayer’s proposed $2 billion settlement proposal for future potential claims in the Roundup weedkiller litigation. This proposal was Bayer’s second proposal to resolve potential future claims of Roundup users who…
Read More U.S. District Court Rejects Bayer’s Proposed Settlement for Future Roundup Claims
Washington, D.C. – On June 1, 2021, the Supreme Court of the United States denied Johnson & Johnson’s request for review of the $2.1 billion verdict against the company. In May 2018, a jury awarded the plaintiffs in Ingham v.…
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - On March 05, 2021, U.S. District Judge R. David Proctor in the Northern District of Alabama issued an Order in MDL No. 2406 for the Provider Track of the Blue Cross Blue Shield Antitrust suit regarding the…
Read More BCBS Antitrust Litigation: Revisiting the Appropriate Standard of Review
NEW ORLEANS – On January 22, 2021, Judge Barbier issued the Settlement Program Wind Down Order for the Deepwater Horizon Economic and Property Damage Settlement Agreement, one of the largest class action settlements in history, created in response to one…
CINCINNATI – On Jan. 15, Judge Matthew W. McFarland of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio consolidated four COVID-19 business interruption coverage actions against Cincinnati Insurance Company. The four plaintiffs included in this consolidation are Troy…
