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  While they wait on opioid jackpot, plaintiffs firms take federal loans during pandemic

  By Daniel Fisher | Wednesday, Jul 8, 2020 @ 9:33am

  Law firms leading multidistrict litigation against the opioid industry have borrowed as much as $102 million under the federal Paycheck Protection Program designed to preserve jobs amid the COVID-19 pandemic. The law firms said the loans were needed to pay some 3,000 employees.

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  Johnson & Johnson claims FDA's new asbestos testing based on 'faulty assumptions'

  By Daniel Fisher | Friday, Mar 6, 2020 @ 9:25am

  WASHINGTON (Legal Newsline) - Johnson & Johnson says a Food and Drug Administration panel charged with designing new standards for detecting asbestos in talc used “faulty assumptions” and failed to reflect scientific consensus in its draft recommendations.

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