Juul Labs has reached a $40 million settlement with North Carolina over its role in promoting vaping to youths. This marks the first time a state has settled with the embattled brand.

The settlement, which was announced Monday by North Carolina Attorney General Josh Stein, claims that Juul aggressively marketed its e-cigarettes to youths with “sleek devices and sweet flavors,” fueling a wave of teen vaping addiction that reversed a “historic decline” in teen nicotine use, Raleigh News & Observer reported.

Stein sued Juul in 2019 for “designing, marketing, and selling its e-cigarettes to attract young people and for misrepresenting…

The U.S. District Court For The Western District of Pennsylvania has rejected the amended complaint of Susan and Carl Antonucci in an ongoing lawsuit regarding Boston Scientific’s pelvic mesh products. This amendment would have expanded the number of products that the Antonuccis alleged caused the injuries of Susan Antonucci.

According to the opinion published June 28, 2021, Susan Antonucci was implanted with Boston Scientific’s Lynx Suprapubic Mid-Urethral Sling System in 2006 to address bladder prolapse and incontinence associated with age and perimenopause. …

Fifteen states have chosen to accept Purdue Pharmaceuticals and their associates’ $4.5 billion settlement offer. In addition to the settlement money, Purdue will also release corporate documents, sign over charity funds for opioid abatement and an additional $50 million from the family itself.

In 2019, Purdue Pharmaceuticals and the Sackler family entered a bankruptcy proceeding in the face of a mounting pile of lawsuits related to their role in the opioid epidemic, which has claimed over 500,000 people. Initially, the Sackler family proposed paying $3 billion to settle the litigation. …

The U.S. Supreme Court has refused to hear a final appeal from Johnson & Johnson, allowing a $2.1 billion baby powder cancer verdict against the company to stand, NBC News and other outlets reported.

Last week’s denial ends Johnson & Johnson’s attempts to overturn a record $4.7 billion 2018 verdict in favor of 22 women who claimed that talc in the company’s baby powder was contaminated with asbestos and caused their ovarian cancer.

In November the Missouri Supreme Court likewise refused to consider Johnson & Johnson’s appeal of a lower court decision upholding the original finding of liability while reducing…

A Florida woman’s pelvic mesh lawsuit against Johnson & Johnson subsidiary Ethicon will be able to move forward, according to a decision issued Monday by a federal judge in Philadelphia, Reuters reported.

U.S. District Judge Mark Kearney decided that Theresa Drumheller, the plaintiff, did not need to provide the following details for her pelvic mesh lawsuit to proceed:

· The exact date when Drumheller’s pelvic mesh injuries began

· What medical conditions the pelvic mesh was intended to address

· The specific Ethicon pelvic mesh products that were implanted in Drumheller

Drumheller’s pelvic mesh lawsuit, which was filed in December…

A federal jury has awarded $7.1 million to three army veterans who alleged that defective 3M military earplugs caused their permanent hearing damage.

Friday’s verdict bodes poorly for 3M, which now faces up to 240,000 similar claims from service members, veterans and some civilians in what’s now the largest mass tort in U.S. history. The lawsuits claim 3M’s earplugs have caused constant ringing in the ears known as tinnitus as well as partial and total hearing loss.

Jurors in the first bellwether trial awarded $2.1 million in punitive damages to each veteran and a total of $830,500 in varying compensatory…

Nearly 70 lawsuits have been filed against global agricultural giant Syngenta and other manufacturers of the toxic chemical herbicide paraquat, including a record six lawsuits filed in one day earlier this month.

The lawsuits allege that exposure to paraquat caused the claimants’ Parkinson’s disease and that manufacturers have known about the risk for decades, Law360 and Law.com reported.

Chevron Chemical Company, Growmark, and the Adama group are also named in some lawsuits as manufacturers and distributors of paraquat-containing products.

Paraquat is marketed under the brand name Gramoxone by Syngenta and by other companies as Para-SHOT, Helmquat, Parazone, Firestorm, Ortho-Paraquat, Quick-Quat…

The rapid and disproportionate spread of COVID-19 in nursing homes has led to increased concerns about nursing home quality among researchers. MedTruth has summarized some of the latest findings for our readers:

• Nursing homes with the lowest profit margins were more likely to be cited for problems with infection control and prevention compared to nursing homes with the highest profit margins. …