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NEW ORLEANS – Negligent failure-to-warn claims brought against the contractor defendants in the Federal Emergency Management Agency trailer formaldehyde products liability litigation in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana were dismissed in an order entered Jan. 18; separate orders issued Jan. 17 and Jan. 19 severed cases for jury trials starting [...]

Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp. and plaintiffs’ counsel in four Canadian Vioxx class actions announced Jan. 19 that they have agreed to settle the litigation for up to $ 36.3 million (Mignacca, et al. v. Merck Frosst Canada Ltd, et al., No. 04-CV-045435CP, Ontario Super. Ct. of Justice; Pelletier v. Merck & Co. Inc., et [...]

Janssen Pharmaceuticals, a subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson, will pay $158 million to settle litigation filed by the state of Texas and a whistleblower over allegedly false marketing of the anti-psychotic drug Risperdal for Medicaid patients. View full post on Law.com – Newswire

A bitter battle between Alcatel-Lucent and Microsoft that lasted more than a decade came to an end Tuesday with a one-paragraph order by a San Diego federal district court judge. Though Alcatel-Lucent twice won multimillion-dollar awards at trial, any final recovery will probably remain a mystery. View full post on Law.com – Newswire

In a decision this week that could be a harbinger of things to come, a Dutch court has approved a collective securities settlement brought by shareholders of the Swiss reinsurance company Converium Holding AG, providing a forum for non-Dutch shareholders of a non-Dutch company. View full post on Law.com – Newswire

Hundreds of lawsuits alleging that the manufacturers of type 2 diabetes prescription drug Actos failed to disclose a risk of bladder cancer have been coordinated in Louisiana, Illinois and California. The suits name Takeda Pharmaceuticals North America, several related entities and Eli Lilly & Co. View full post on Law.com – Newswire

NEW ORLEANS – The federal judge in Louisiana presiding over the Chinese drywall multidistrict litigation on Jan. 10 preliminarily approved a settlement that would resolve thousands of claims involving defective drywall manufactured by Knauf Plasterboard Tianjin (KPT) (In re: Chinese-Manufactured Drywall Products Liability Litigation, No. 2:09md02047, E.D. La.). View full post on LexisNexis® Mealey’s™ Daily [...]

The team heading up Credit Suisse’s litigation finance unit has struck out on its own in New York under the name Parabellum Capital, becoming the latest independent outfit to enter the growing field of third-party litigation funding in the United States. View full post on Law.com – Newswire

NEW YORK – Chevron Corp.’s Jan. 3 motion in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York to attach the proceeds from the $ 18 billion judgment against it entered in a Lago Agrio, Ecuador, court was denied Jan. 6 (Chevron Corp. v. Steven R. Donziger, et al., No. 11-691, S.D. N.Y.). [...]

The parent company of the EMI label claims that since it struck a licensing deal with Grooveshark in 2008, the digital music service hasn’t made any royalty payments. EMI’s suit follows a copyright infringement suit brought against Grooveshark by Universal, Sony and Warner. View full post on Law.com – Newswire