Plaintiff lawyers massively increased spending on ads soliciting clients to sue over Zantac after a Delaware judge ruled there was enough evidence to proceed with more than 70,000 suits claiming the once-popular heartburn medicine causes cancer.
WILMINGTON, Del. (Legal Newsline) - A commercial laboratory that the judge overseeing thousands of Zantac lawsuits acknowledges lies at the core of the scientific debate over whether the heartburn medicine causes cancer was paid $2 million for its work, court filings show.
WILMINGTON, Del. (Legal Newsline) - Weaving through a maze of different state laws, a Delaware judge dismissed some of more than 150 claims that Syngenta’s paraquat weed killer causes Parkinson’s disease, although other claims remain intact.
WILMINGTON, Del. (Legal Newsline) - Saying it was not her role to “step into the heart of technical debate between opposing scientists,” a Delaware judge refused to exclude plaintiff expert witnesses vital to some 75,000 lawsuits claiming Zantac causes a variety of cancers.
WILMINGTON, Del. (Legal Newsline) - Delaware has presented enough evidence to proceed with its lawsuit accusing BP, ExxonMobil and several other oil companies of misleading consumers about the dangers of global warming, although it can’t sue over damages stemming from out-of-state emissions, a state court judge ruled.
The family of a 46-year-old Florida man has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against Panera Bread Co., alleging that the man’s consumption of large quantities of the bakery chain’s caffeinated lemonade beverage led to his cardiac arrest.
WILMINGTON, Del. (Legal Newsline) - A Delaware judge has decided how 77,000 lawsuits filed in the state over the heartburn medicine Zantac will proceed, while a California court prepares for the first trial in the country.
WILMINGTON, Del. (Legal Newsline) - A company that made equipment to grind automobile brakes must face trial in Delaware on claims it failed to warn mechanics about the risk of inhaling asbestos fibers, a judge ruled, after determining Ohio law applied to the case and the state’s highest court would have allowed it to proceed.
WILMINGTON, Del. (Legal Newsline) - Saying there was evidence a long-bankrupt manufacturer of asbestos gaskets had valuable insurance policies when it was dissolved, a Delaware judge reversed the cancellation of the company’s corporate status and ordered a receiver to be appointed to investigate further.
WILMINGTON, Del. (Legal Newsline) - The fact the Justice Department sued Amerisource Bergen for allegedly fueling the opioid crisis isn’t enough to reopen a shareholder derivative lawsuit seeking money from the company’s officers and directors, a Delaware court ruled.
WILMINGTON, Del. (Legal Newsline) - A woman who slipped and fell in a Bonefish Grill, then lost her case after a four-day jury trial, also lost her argument the restaurant denied her a fair trial by failing to disclose there were multiple video cameras in the building at the time of her accident.
WILMINGTON, Del. (Legal Newsline) - Plaintiffs claiming medical negligence caused a loved one to commit suicide must prove their injuries created an “uncontrollable impulse” to kill themselves, not a looser “but for” standard, a Delaware court ruled in the case of a farmer who died after suffering a severe infection.
WILMINGTON, Del. (Legal Newsline) - The conservative TV network Newsmax must defend itself against a multibillion-dollar lawsuit claiming it knowingly broadcast false claims the election software company conspired to steal victory from former President Donald Trump in the 2020 election.
DOVER, Del. (Legal Newsline) - A judge upheld the University of Delaware’s refusal to respond to a Freedom of Information Act request for papers President Joseph Biden donated to his alma mater, finding the school had provided sufficient evidence to conclude they weren’t purchased or stored with state funds.
A judge dismissed Delaware Attorney General Kathy Jennings’ lawsuit against Monsanto and two other companies over PCB pollution, reaffirming the legal holding that public nuisance law isn’t applicable to the sale of legal products.
WILMINGTON, Del. (Legal Newsline) – Fox News has lost its motion to dismiss the defamation lawsuit filed by US Dominion Voting Systems that alleges the channel provided a platform for people to claim voting machines were rigged on Election Day 2020.
WILMINGTON, Del. (Legal Newsline) - A young man who failed an eye examination needed to participate in the Special Olympics deserves another hearing on whether the Delaware Human Rights Commission improperly rejected his parents’ complaint of discrimination.
WILMINGTON, Del. (Legal Newsline) - A Delaware hospital must defend itself against claims it is responsible for a mother’s transmission of HIV to her son during birth and it can’t present expert testimony that the baby was most likely infected while still in the mother’s womb.
GEORGETOWN, Del. (Legal Newsline) – A Delaware judge has approved the $65 million class action settlement that resulted from a lawsuit against a chicken farm in Millsboro.
WILMINGTON, Del. (Legal Newsline) – AstraZeneca has received a positive ruling in Delaware in a lawsuit that alleges it failed to warn users of side effects of the blood sugar drug Farxiga.
