Articles Posted in Mass Torts

AFFF firefighting foam has been used for decades to put out fires fueled by chemicals like gasoline. New research has shown that prolonged exposure to the chemicals in AFFF can cause cancer, leading to thousands of lawsuits across the country. Anyone who served in the Navy had a high risk of being exposed to AFFF. In this post, we will look at the connection between AFFF and cancer and why men and women and who were in the Navy may have been exposed to AFFF.

About AFFF Firefighting Foam

AFFF (Aqueous Film-Forming Foam) is a type of firefighting foam that is specifically designed to extinguish liquid fuel fires, particularly those involving jet fuels such as JP-5 and JP-8 used in aircraft. AFFF works by forming a film or blanket of foam over the fuel, which suppresses the fire by separating the fuel from oxygen and cooling the fuel surface.

New evidence has established that exposure to the chemicals in hair relaxers or hair straightener products can cause uterine cancer and other conditions resulting in a hysterectomy. Lawsuits are now being filed against cosmetic companies that manufacture hair relaxers. A hair relaxer class action lawsuit could come as early as this week. Our lawyers are currently seeking hair relaxer hysterectomy cases.

This post will look at who might qualify to bring a hair relaxer hysterectomy lawsuit and the potential settlement value of these cases.

Our law firm is now taking chemical hair relaxer uterine fibroids and hysterectomy lawsuits.  Call us today at 800-553-8082 or contact us online for a free consultation.

Product liability lawsuits are being filed alleging that the popular baby formula Similac caused premature infants to develop a serious gastrointestinal infection called necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC).

Our national product liability and mass tort firm is seeking potential Similac lawsuits against the formula manufacturer, Abbott Laboratories Inc., for failure to warn about the risks of NEC associated with Similac.

If you bring a successful baby formula NEC lawsuit, you could receive significant financial compensation.  Our attorneys offer a free online consultation. You can also call us at 800-553-8082.

Our firm does not buy mass tort leads for many reasons, not the least of which is that we do not believe mass tort lead generation companies deliver quality claims. But it goes deeper than that. There is nothing morally or ethically wrong with buying mass tort leads. But it just feels icky, at least to us.

That said, I follow the pricing pretty closely. Why? It is the closest thing we have to a free market economy that produces the expectations associated with certain pieces of mass tort litigation.

July 2024 Lead Cost Numbers Out of Kilter

The National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (VICP) is a special federal program that provides no-fault compensation to individuals who are injured by a vaccine. The VICP is often referred to as Vaccine Court, and it offers people who are harmed by a vaccination an alternative compensation system outside of a traditional civil lawsuit.

The Vaccine Court and the VICP process are largely unfamiliar to most people, including many lawyers. In this post, we will explain the basics of vaccine court and the process for obtaining compensation under the VICP.

Our lawyers provide you with recent updates on vaccine lawsuits and then delve into the details of these cases.

Beech-Nut brand baby foods contained excessively high levels of toxic heavy metals. Consuming these products may have caused some children to develop neurologic disorders such as autism or ADHD. Parents who feed their children Beech-Nut and other toxic baby food products are now filing product liability lawsuits.

Our lawyers are handling toxic baby food autism lawsuits for families who have a child who has autism as a result of baby food products contaminated with harmful heavy metals. Our law firm handles these toxic baby food lawsuits in all 50 states.

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Paraquat is a commercial-grade herbicide used in the agriculture industry. Over the last decade, new scientific research has shown that frequent use or exposure to Paraquat can increase the risk of Parkinson’s disease. This discovery has prompted thousands of Paraquat lawsuits by individuals who used or were around Paraquat in an occupation setting and subsequently developed Parkinson’s disease.

The Paraquat lawsuits were consolidated into a class action MDL in the Southern District of Illinois (In re: Paraquat Prod. Liab. Lit. – 3:21-MD-3004).  The Paraquat MDL is now heading into its 3rd year and 2024 could potentially be a pivotal year for this mass tort. The first round of bellwether test trials were basically canceled after the MDL Judge excluded most of the plaintiffs’ key expert witness testimony. Now the parties are quickly preparing a new group of test cases for bellwether trials, which probably won’t happen until early 2025 (or even later).

This page talks about where this litigation is in June 2024, and what we can expect moving forward.

Johnson & Johnson Consumer Inc. has been defending a series of class action lawsuits claiming that the company’s OGX line of shampoos and conditioners contains chemicals that cause hair loss. The lawsuits accuse J&J of marketing OGX hair products as afe and capable of repairing, nourishing, and reviving hair. According to the plaintiffs, however, these products contain chemicals such as formaldehyde and DMDM, which are known to be harmful and can cause hair loss.

This page is about lawsuits involving OGX shampoo. We provide you with numerous details here that our lawyers believe may be helpful to you, including the current status of the pending litigation. But our law firm is not handling these cases.

OGX Hair Products

Our lawyers are reviewing EzriCare lawsuits in all 50 states after artificial tears eye drops have been linked to an outbreak of bacterial infections.  Our lawyers have handled many vision loss and infection lawsuits so we are jumping on this litigation.

One person has died from the infection, and other victims have suffered blindness, vision loss and disturbances,  and other complications from an infection.  There have been more than 55 reports of adverse events.

How did this happen?  We don’t know.  But we think an investigation will show negligence.  These eye drops lawsuits could bring large settlement payouts because the injuries for many will be very significant.

The Zantac litigation continues to move forward in state court. The Zantac state court litigation will have a slightly more narrowed focus compared to the initial class action MDL in federal court. The Zantac litigation will focus more on specific types of cancer that have the strongest evidence linking them to NDMA and Zantac use.

What kind of cancer does NDMA cause?

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