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The jury in Bayer AG’s third Roundup weedkiller trial was urged by a plaintiffs’ lawyer to consider socking the company with $1 billion in damages as punishment for covering up the health risks of the herbicide for decades. The aggressive...

West Virginia has reached a $37 million settlement with the drug distributor McKesson in a lawsuit accusing the company of shipping millions of suspicious painkiller orders to the state as it was being ravaged by the opioid epidemic. Interested in Opioid...

By Dorothy Atkins Law360 (April 17, 2019, 10:30 PM EDT) — An agricultural economist told a California jury Wednesday that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency approved the weedkiller Roundup in the 1970s based on fraudulent cancer studies implicated in the...

By Daniel Siegal Law360 (April 22, 2019, 7:58 PM EDT) — Johnson & Johnson has agreed to pay $9.9 million to settle the state of Washington’s allegations that its Ethicon subsidiary downplayed the risks of its surgical mesh devices in...

By Daniel Siegal Law360 (April 22, 2019, 10:17 PM EDT) — Asbestos hidden for decades in talcum powder products made by Johnson & Johnson and Colgate-Palmolive gave a 61-year-old woman mesothelioma, leaving her only months to live, her attorney told...