On March 18, 2024, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced a final rule to prohibit ongoing uses of chrysotile asbestos. Chrysotile asbestos, also known as “white asbestos,” has several current uses, such as a disinfectant for water treatment and in certain products, including gaskets, automotive brakes, and linings. It is the only known form …
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A California jury awarded $332 million in the latest Roundup verdict against Monsanto. Jurors in San Diego County Superior Court sided with plaintiff Mike Dennis, diagnosed at age 51 with a form of non-Hodgkin lymphoma. The jury found that Monsanto failed to warn about the health risks of Roundup, a pesticide, and awarded $325 million …
The Justice Department and the Department of the Navy announced a streamlined application process on Wednesday for qualifying veterans who were exposed to toxic water at the Marine Corps base Camp Lejeune to receive financial settlements from the government. The new process is an effort to speed up the crawling pace of resolving the more …
sT. PAUL, Minn., Aug. 29, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — Today, 3M (NYSE: MMM) announced that it has reached an agreement with the court-appointed negotiating plaintiffs’ counsel to resolve the Combat Arms Earplug litigation against Aearo Technologies (Aearo) and 3M. Under the agreement, 3M will contribute a total amount of $6.0 billion between 2023 and 2029, which …
J&J’s subsidiary LTL Management, which absorbed the company’s talc liability in a controversial 2021 spinoff, last week filed a lawsuit in New Jersey federal court asking it to force three researchers to “retract and/or issue a correction” of a study that said asbestos-contaminated consumer talc products sometimes caused patients to develop mesothelioma. One of the …
Johnson & Johnson is trying once again to use the bankruptcy courts to settle tens of thousands of cases that claim its talc products cause cancer. The pharmaceutical company is now willing to pay $8.9 billion to plaintiffs over 25 years, according to CNN. For a second time, a J&J subsidiary called LTL on Tuesday filed for …