A Los Angeles Superior Court jury ordered Johnson & Johnson (“J&J”) to pay $417 million to a woman who claims she developed ovarian cancer after using the company’s talc-based products. The Plaintiff, Eva Echeverria (“Plaintiff”), received the largest ...

Shortly after the presidential election in 2016, a federal district court in Texas issued an order halting the United States Department of Labor’s (USDOL or the Department) efforts to significantly raise the minimum salary for exempt employees throughout ...

After twenty years of dormancy, California courts recently regained the authority to impose sanctions against parties for bad faith tactics and frivolous litigation. Unfortunately, the good news for California business owners may be short-lived. --- ...

California Defendants in “take-home” asbestos exposure cases received valuable precedent in the recent California appellate court decision Petitpas v. Ford Motor Company, et al. (July 5, 2017, B245037, -- Cal.App.5th --). In Petitpas , Plaintiffs, Joseph ...

Recent multi-million dollar plaintiffs’ verdicts against Johnson & Johnson in St. Louis, Missouri have provided plaintiffs’ across the nation with a blueprint for establishing a causal link between the development of ovarian cancer and the use of talcum ...