J&J ‘Did Everything’ to Push Opioids, Oklahoma Witness Says June 12, 2019 By Andrew Harris and Jef Feeley Oklahoma’s star witness told a state judge that Johnson & Johnson pressed doctors to prescribe its painkillers even as the...
Overdose Victim’s Father Testifies in Oklahoma Opioid Trial of J&J May 29, 2019 By Nate Raymond The father of a university football player who died of a drug overdose provided emotional testimony about the personal cost...
Okla. AG Says Greed Drove Johnson & Johnson to Risk Lives May 29, 2019 By Jef Feeley Johnson & Johnson’s greed for more sales of its addictive opioid painkillers helped create a deadly epidemic in Oklahoma that...
Teva to Pay $85 Million Settlement in Oklahoma Opioid Case May 28, 2019 By Jef Feeley and Anders Melin Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. agreed to pay $85 million to settle an Oklahoma lawsuit claiming that illegal marketing of its...
Drug Makers’ Opioid Liability Tied to Untested Legal Theory May 24, 2019 By Jef Feeley Determining who foots the bill for America’s growing opioid epidemic may depend on how well the state of Oklahoma deploys...
Johnson & Johnson Loses $25 Million Talc Verdict in New York May 22, 2019 By Margaret Cronin Fisk and Jef Feeley Johnson & Johnson was ordered to pay at least $25 million to a woman who said she contracted a rare...
J&J’s Talc Defense Gets Harder After Cases Kept in State Courts May 10, 2019 By Jef Feeley and Margaret Cronin Fisk Johnson & Johnson failed to get 2,400 state-court cancer lawsuits tied to its baby powder immediately transferred to a federal...
J&J Said to Pay About $1 Billion to Settle Metal-Hip Suits May 7, 2019 By Jef Feeley Johnson & Johnson agreed to pay about $1 billion to resolve most lawsuits claiming it sold defective metal-on-metal hips that...
J&J Tries to Use Supplier’s Bankruptcy to Gather Talc Suits April 22, 2019 Johnson & Johnson wants a federal judge to take over more than 2,000 baby-powder lawsuits it faces instead of allowing...
Amid Talc Safety Worries, J&J Aimed Ads at Minority, Overweight Women April 9, 2019 By Chris Kirkham and Lisa Girion LOS ANGELES — Pressure was mounting on Johnson & Johnson and its signature Baby Powder. In 2006, an arm of...