Johnson & Johnson has agreed to pay $116.9 million to settle a series of lawsuits brought against it by several state attorneys general alleging the company deceptively marketed transvaginal-mesh products. Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt announced the settlement Oct. 17, ...

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The Court of Appeals Eastern District ruled Oct. 15 that a St. Louis judge should not have heard a Virginia woman’s claim against Johnson & Johnson, throwing out a $110.5 million verdict in her favor. The verdict was the second-largest ...

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A Missouri appeals court has overturned a $110 million verdict in a case alleging that Johnson & Johnson products containing talcum powder caused a Virginia woman’s ovarian cancer. The appeals court ruling Tuesday reversed a 2017 judgment on behalf of ...

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Johnson & Johnson’s third-quarter profit jumped 23 percent, beating Wall Street forecasts, thanks to higher sales of its key medicines for cancer and immune disorders and an acquisition-related charge a year earlier. The world’s biggest maker of health care products ...

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Johnson & Johnson’s third-quarter profit jumped 23 percent, beating Wall Street forecasts, thanks to higher sales of its key medicines for cancer and immune disorders and an acquisition-related charge a year earlier. The world’s biggest maker of health care products ...

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Johnson & Johnson announced it has reached an agreement worth more than $20 million with two Ohio counties, becoming the latest company to settle a lawsuit to get out of the first federal trial over the nation’s opioids crisis. The ...

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Johnson & Johnson announced it has reached an agreement worth more than $20 million with two Ohio counties, becoming the latest company to settle a lawsuit to get out of the first federal trial over the nation’s opioids crisis. The ...

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An Oklahoma judge on Monday found Johnson & Johnson and its subsidiaries helped fuel the state’s opioid drug crisis and ordered the consumer products giant to pay $572 million to help abate the problem in the coming years. Cleveland County ...

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An Oklahoma judge on Monday found Johnson & Johnson and its subsidiaries helped fuel the state’s opioid drug crisis and ordered the consumer products giant to pay $572 million to help abate the problem in the coming years. Cleveland County ...

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The Missouri Senate has passed a bill that overhauls Missouri’s joinder and venue laws.

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The Missouri Senate has given first-round approval to a bill that would alter Missouri’s venue and joinder laws — in a way far different from what lawmakers had envisioned just two weeks ago.

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