The following article appeared on August 26, 2026 on Bloomberg Law On July 27, Johnson & Johnson agreed to a proposed $5.5 billion resolution of about 76,000 ovarian cancer talc claims across the federal multidistrict litigation and related state cases, conditioned on 95% claimant acceptance. J&J didn’t lose a trial to get there. It won an evidentiary […]

Last week, as the United Nations marked World Environment Day in Baku, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s rescission of the 2009 Greenhouse Gas Endangerment Finding took effect. Published as 91 Fed. Reg. 7686 on February 18 and operative since April 20, the rescission did more than dismantle federal climate regulation. It removed the factual foundation […]

The following article appeared on November 5, 2025, on Bloomberg Law Across the US, school districts are banding together, and parents are joining mass lawsuits in federal and state courts, looking to hold accountable social media companies whose design choices have made platforms central to everyday teenage life. At a recent education law conference in Sacramento, Calif., […]

Sara Papantonio came onto Cut to the Chase: to discuss all the details of the Camp Lejeune case. One of the unique components of this litigation is the initial phase which requires those that believe they were injured or died as a result of the water contamination to file administrative claims with the Navy JAG […]

While many of us have danced the Texas 2 Step, I am not talking about the country dance step. Instead I am referring to a controversial bankruptcy procedure used recently by Johnson & Johnson in response to the 40,000 lawsuits filed againt J & J involving people allegedly injured or killed by baby powder. On Cut […]

In June of 2019, the pharmacy Valisure tested the popular heartburn drug Zantac (ranitidine) and detected high levels of a cancer-causing agent called N-nitrosodimethylamine or NDMA. Since the study was released, thousands of consumers have been concerned that they could develop cancer from the use of Zantac. Now a new study reveals that these concerns […]

After entering into a previous settlement that covered current claims, Bayer entered into a $2 billion deal that would settle any future claims related to its weedkiller Roundup. Bayer had struggled for months to reach a settlement of claims that Roundup was linked with cases of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, a type of cancer. Bayer inherited the […]

A federal judge restarted dozens of pending cases involving the weed killer Roundup after a settlement totaling $10.9 billion had been reached in other cases. The Roundup litigation had been stayed in order to give Monsanto, now owned by Bayer, the opportunity to negotiate a settlement. Now U.S. District Judge Vince Chabria plans to move […]

More than 95,000 people filed sex abuse claims against the Boy Scouts of America. Now the organization must reach a settlement in its ongoing bankruptcy case in these cases by next summer or risk being unable to operate. The total number of cases was announced in November after a deadline passed for victims to come […]

Purdue Pharma, the maker of OxyContin, pled guilty in November of 2020 to federal criminal charges related to the company’s role in the opioid crisis. The company has also agreed to pay an $8 billion settlement. Unfortunately, the guilty pleas will not result in any prison time for company officials or the Sackler family. However, […]