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Allergan Settles Botox Pediatric Poisoning Case 4 Days Into Oklahoma Trial
OKLAHOMA CITY - Four days into trial in an Oklahoma federal court, Allergan Inc. on Feb. 25 agreed to settle a mother's claim that her young son was permanently injured after receiving a Botox...
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Creditors' Committee Seeks To Delay Hearing On K-V Discovery's Reorganization...
NEW YORK - The Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors in the Chapter 11 bankruptcy of pharmaceutical company K-V Discovery Solutions Inc. on Feb. 28 moved in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the...
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Materiality Not Prerequisite In Aranesp Class Certification, U.S. High Court...
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Materiality is not a prerequisite to class certification in a securities class action lawsuit where the plaintiffs are seeking monetary damages for alleged violations of Sections...
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Drug Companies Tell High Court That Reverse-Payment Settlements Are Lawful
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Several drug companies told the U.S. Supreme Court in their merits briefs on Feb. 21 that the court should analyze antitrust challenges to reverse-payment settlements of patent...
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Kidney Dialysis Anemia Drug Omontys Recalled After Severe, Fatal Reactions
ROCKVILLE, Md. - Affymax Inc. and Takeda Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd. have voluntarily recalled all lots of their Omontys brand peginesatide anti-anemia drug after new post-marketing reports of serious...
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Customer Of TV Ratings Firm Nielsen Lacks Antitrust Standing, 11th Circuit Rules
ATLANTA - A customer of Nielsen Media Research Inc. failed to establish that it was an efficient enforcer of antitrust laws because it did not demonstrate that any potential competitors were willing...
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3rd Circuit Rejects Claim That Arbitration Ruling Was Tainted
PHILADELPHIA - A South Carolina man failed to prove that the arbitrator hearing his age discrimination claims, agreed to by both him and his former employer, was biased based on campaign contributions...
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4th Circuit: ERISA Doesn't Preempt Post-Distribution Suits Against Beneficiaries
RICHMOND - The Employee Retirement Income Security Act does not preempt a waiver provision in a property settlement agreement after the plan proceeds have been distributed by the administrator, the...
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Split 11th Circuit Upholds Overtime For Alien, Workers That Didn't Pay Taxes
ATLANTA - A split 11th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on March 6 upheld a verdict for unpaid overtime wages for two workers despite their failure to properly report their wages to the federal government...
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Trigger Of Coverage For Asbestos Claims Is Clarified By Illinois Appeals Court
CHICAGO - Coverage for asbestos-related personal injury claims is triggered upon proof of exposure, sickness or disease and not all three, the First District Illinois Appellate Court, Second Division,...
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Judge Orders Pa. To Restore Tobacco Settlement Money To Low-Cost Health Program
HARRISBURG, Pa. - A Pennsylvania state court judge on March 4 permanently enjoined the governor from enforcing two state laws that took away tobacco settlement money from a low-income health insurance...
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Federal Judge Partially Dismisses FDIC Action Against Escrow Agent
CHICAGO - A federal judge in Illinois on March 4 dismissed two counts from a suit the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. filed as the receiver for a failed bank alleging that an escrow agent breached its...
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Panel Finds Tort Bad Faith Claim, Damages Not Available Under Tennessee Law
NASHVILLE - Because the plaintiffs in a coverage dispute over an accident caused by an unlicensed minor based their bad faith claim in tort rather than the state's bad faith penalty statute, a...
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Judge: Fact Issues Exist On Reliance On Insurance Agent's Crop Insurance...
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - There are issues of fact regarding farmers' justifiable reliance on an insurance agent's statements concerning crop insurance that did not end up covering the farmers' damages, an...
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Pilots: Dispute Interferes With American Airlines Bankruptcy, US Airways Merger
NEW YORK - A group of pilots for US Airways Group Inc. on March 6 filed an adversary complaint in the Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceeding of AMR Corp., contending that another group of pilots should not...
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Solar Millennium To Cut $212.89M In Claims By Unnamed Amount In Solar Trust Case
WILMINGTON, Del. - The restructuring officer of bankrupt alternative energy company Solar Trust America AG on March 5 filed a brief supporting the settlement of claims among Solar Trust, the Committee...
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U.S. Government Objects To Southern Air Holdings Plan Of Chapter 11...
NEW YORK - The U.S. government on March 6 filed a brief in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware contending that the Chapter 11 reorganization plan of bankrupt Southern Air Holdings...
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Butter Flavoring Makers Denied Summary Judgment In Suit Filed By Popcorn...
SIOUX CITY, Iowa - Three artificial-flavoring manufacturers accused of exposing a consumer diagnosed with bronchiolitis obliterans to diacetyl in microwave popcorn were denied summary judgment on March...
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Delaware Federal Judge Moves Patent Dispute To California Court
WILMINGTON, Del. - U.S. Judge Gregory Sleet of the District of Delaware agreed March 6 to transfer a dispute over a technology patent to the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California...
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Judge: Tribunal Properly Applied New York Law In Arbitration
NEW YORK - A New York federal judge on March 4 denied a petition to vacate and granted a motion to confirm an arbitration award, finding that a tribunal did not err when it applied New York law to an...
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