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Keller and Heckman LLP
over 12 years ago
Litigation
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Free Download: Keller & Heckman Litigation Alert: Supreme Court Rules National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act Of 1986 Bars State-Law Design-Defect Claims Against Vaccine Manufacturers
On February 22, 2011, the United States Supreme Court held that the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 1986 (NCIVIA or Act) bars state-law design-defect claims against vaccine manufacturers. The Bruesewitz family sued Wyeth, then the parent company...
Michael Lefkowitz
over 12 years ago
Litigation
Litigation Blog
6th Circuit Reverses Preemption-Based Dismissal Of Diet Drug Negligence Claims
CINCINNATI - (Mealey's) Citing the Supreme Court's rejection of implied preemption of pharmaceutical product liability in Wyeth v. Diana Levine (No. 06-1249, U.S. Sup.; 2009 U.S. LEXIS 1774), the Sixth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on Aug. 18...
Tom Moylan
over 12 years ago
Litigation
Litigation Blog
W.Va. High Court: State Consumer Law Doesn’t Apply To Drug Cases
CHARLESTON, W.Va. - (Mealey's) The West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals on Dec. 17 ruled that plaintiffs must show reliance and ascertainable loss in state consumer fraud cases and said the state law does not apply to prescription drugs ( Shirley...
Tom Moylan
over 11 years ago
Litigation
Litigation Blog
Jury In 5th Prempro MDL Bellwether Finds Wyeth Didn't Fail To Warn About Cancer
JONESBORO, Ark. - (Mealey's) The fifth bellwether trial in the Prempro multidistrict litigation ended in a defense verdict on Oct. 20 in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas after a jury found that Wyeth did not inadequately...
Tom Moylan
over 9 years ago
Litigation
Litigation Blog
Pa. Supreme Court Says Drug Companies Can Be Sued For Marketing Dangerous Drugs
PHILADELPHIA — (Mealey’s) Pennsylvania law allows drug companies to be sued if they fail to stop marketing drugs known to be unreasonably harmful, and the manufacturers are not immune from being sued for damages for lack of due care, the Pennsylvania...
Thomas O. Gorman
over 10 years ago
Litigation
Litigation Blog
2 Actions Target Lucrative Insider Trading Cases
Just when it appeared that the expert network insider trading investigations had come to an end with convictions and guilty pleas, the Manhattan U.S. Attorney's Office and the SEC announced the filing of what may be the most lucrative of insider trading...
Tom Moylan
over 10 years ago
Litigation
Litigation Blog
Connecticut Federal Jury Finds Warning Adequate In Prempro Wrongful Death Suit
BRIDGEPORT, Conn. - (Mealey's) Wyeth is not liable for the breast cancer death of a woman who took the company's hormone therapy drugs Premarin and Prempro, a Connecticut federal jury said May 30, finding that the drugs' labeling contained...
Tom Moylan
over 11 years ago
Litigation
Litigation Blog
U.S. Supreme Court Declines To Hear Prempro/Premarin Punitive Damages Appeal
WASHINGTON, D.C. - (Mealey's) The U.S. Supreme Court on June 20 declined to review a Nevada Supreme Court decision affirming a $35 million punitive damages award in a Prempro/Premarin injury case ( Wyeth LLC, et al., v. Jeraldine Scofield, et al....
Margie Searcy Alford
over 12 years ago
Litigation
Litigation Blog
Toxic Tort Litigator Margie Searcy Alford On Wyeth v. Levine
In this Emerging Issues analysis, toxic tort litigator and author Margie Searcy Alford comments on the U.S. Supreme Court in Wyeth v. Levine (129 S. Ct. 1187 [2009]). The court held that federal law did not preempt state failure-to-warn claims against...
Shane Dilworth
over 12 years ago
Litigation
Litigation Blog
Supreme Court Denies Wyeth's Petition For Certiorari Over Punitive Damages Trial
WASHINGTON, D.C. - (Mealey's) The U.S. Supreme Court on June 21 denied Wyeth's petition for a writ of certiorari seeking reversal of the Eighth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals ruling allowing a punitive-damages-only trial for a woman claiming that...
Tom Moylan
over 11 years ago
Litigation
Litigation Blog
Pennsylvania Jury Awards $72.6 Million To 3 Women In HRT Breast Cancer Case
PHILADELPHIA - (Mealey's) A Pennsylvania state court jury on Dec. 6 awarded $72.6 million to three women who say they developed breast cancer after taking hormone replacement therapy (HRT) drugs made by subsidiaries of Pfizer Inc. ( Susan Elfont,...
Michael Lefkowitz
over 12 years ago
Litigation
Litigation Blog
Supreme Court Hears Arguments Over Vaccine Preemption
WASHINGTON, D.C. - (Mealey's) The extent to which tort claims for alleged vaccine injury are permitted by legislation that created a federal compensation system was brought before the U.S. Supreme Court Oct. 12 ( Russell Bruesewitz, et al. v. Wyeth...
Tom Moylan
over 10 years ago
Litigation
Litigation Blog
Divided 8th Circuit Panel Readmits Plaintiff Expert On Short-Term Prempro Risk
ST. LOUIS - (Mealey's) In a 2-1 ruling July 26, the Eighth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals reversed summary judgment in two Prempro bellwether cases that involve the risk of breast cancer in women who took the hormone replacement therapy drug for less...
Tom Moylan
over 11 years ago
Litigation
Litigation Blog
N.J. Appeals Court: Hormone Replacement Therapy Plaintiffs Didn't Rebut Label Adequacy
TRENTON, N.J. - (Mealey's) A New Jersey appeals court panel on Sept. 29 affirmed summary judgment in two hormone replacement therapy (HRT) cases in which the state's mass tort court found that the plaintiffs failed to present sufficient evidence...
Tom Moylan
over 12 years ago
Litigation
Litigation Blog
Supreme Court Won't Take Up Egregious Fraudulent Misjoinder In Hormone Cases
WASHINGTON, D.C. - (Mealey's) The U.S. Supreme Court on Oct. 12 denied review of a circuit court ruling that 112 hormone replacement therapy (HRT) plaintiffs did not fraudulently misjoin nondiverse defendants in order to keep their cases in Minnesota...
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