The FDA has announced updates to its approach to the monkeypox disease. According to the announcement on July 29, the agency has issued new explanations of the diagnostic, vaccine, and therapeutic responses and an FAQ page. According to the CDC, monkeypox is a rare viral condition similar to smallpox. However…

3M announced it will create a $1 billion trust fund and declared bankruptcy of one of its subsidiaries to resolve approximately 250,000 hearing damage claims. The claims have been filed mostly by U.S. …

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has released new draft guidance on the potential expansion of the agency’s remote regulatory assessments (RRAs), which arose during the COVID-19 pandemic in order to examine an establishment or records entirely remotely. …

3M, DuPont and other makers of PFAS chemicals are facing a class action lawsuit filed by 23 firefighters and their spouses who claim that they developed cancer and other health problems caused by long-term exposure to the so-called “forever chemicals.” Filed on July 15, the lawsuit also names Honeywell, Carrier…

A Minnesota federal judge has summarily dismissed the lawsuit of a California woman who alleges that the Coloplast Corporation’s vaginal mesh product caused her significant injuries. …

A division of the New York Supreme Court reversed a 2019 decision that awarded a woman $120 million in damages for her cancer that she claimed was caused by long-term exposure to Johnson & Johnson’s talc-based products. Talc is a mineral that is naturally formed in veins that grow near…

The federal judge overseeing the 3M Combat Arms Earplugs version 2 (CAEv2) multidistrict litigation (MDL) has shot down 3M’s attempt to have 9 of its 10 trial losses retried because of delayed depositions made by scientists who did not originally testify in the trials. Judge Casey Rodgers of the U.S…

The federal judge who is overseeing tens of thousands of Roundup weedkiller personal-injury lawsuits against Monsanto and its owner, Bayer AG, recently approved a $45 million class-action settlement to resolve false advertising and failure to warn claims. U.S. District Judge Vince Chhabria signed off on the settlement late last month…

A federal appellate court upheld a lower court’s decision in favor of Missouri’s largest peach farmer who was awarded $15 million in compensatory damages over claims that the Monsanto Corporation’s pesticide, Dicamba, drifted onto his farm from an adjacent field and destroyed his crop, Claims Journal reported. The St. Louis…