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Johnson & Johnson will pay more than $100million to settle over 1,000 lawsuits that allege the company’s talc-based baby powder caused cancer. The company faces more than 19,000 lawsuits from consumers and suvivors who claim the company’s talc products caused cancer due to contamination with asbestos, a known carcinogen. However, the company maintains its talc … Read more
Blunders on maternity wards are costing the NHS nearly £1billion a year, the former Health Secretary warns today. Jeremy Hunt has revealed that almost twice as much is spent on lawsuits following poor care of mothers and babies as on the combined pay of all the labour doctors in England’s hospitals. The expenditure was part of … Read more
Bayer AG has agreed to pay up to $10.9 billion to settle thousands of US lawsuits claiming that its widely-used weedkiller Roundup causes cancer. The German drug and pesticide maker says it has come to terms with about 75 percent of the 125,000 filed and unfiled claims overall, according to a statement published on Wednesday … Read more
The surviving relatives of four of the victims who died in the January helicopter crash that killed Kobe Bryant and his 13-year-old daughter in Calabasas, California, have filed separate wrongful death lawsuits against the company which owned the aircraft. The families of John Altobelli, 56; his wife, Keri Altobelli, 46; and their daughter, Alyssa Altobelli, … Read more
Labour Party could be ‘bankrupted’ by multi-million pound lawsuits over a leaked antisemitism report Sources close to whistleblowers and complainants whose identities were revealed by the leak say Labour could face a legal bill as high as £8million An 860-page internal report into its handling of antisemitism complaints under Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership was leaked The … Read more