Civil Justice Magazine

On its Tuesday broadcast, the CBS Evening News reported on former Ranbaxy executive Dinesh Thakur, who “was asked by his boss to investigate allegations of fraud at the company” in 2004. He soon “uncovered disturbing problems with the data required by the FDA to prove the effectiveness of Ranbaxy drugs.” According to Thakur, the company had “gotten approvals from […]

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Source: Takejusticeback.com This Thanksgiving, Big Asbestos really has something to be thankful for: the U.S. House of Representative is voting on H.R. 982, a bill which if enacted would violate asbestos victims’ privacy and allow Big Asbestos to delay and deny justice until asbestos victims die. Asbestos diseases is one of the longest-running public health […]

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Originally published on publicintegrity.org  Among the most prominent denizens of this world are the attorneys in the federal black lung unit of the law firm Jackson Kelly PLLC. For almost two centuries, the firm has served the coal industry. It is the go-to place for many of the industry’s giants when they want to beat back […]

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Congratulations to Marc Kunen and Amanda Kessler of The Ferraro Law Firm in obtaining a $300,000.00 verdict in Broward County, Florida against Exxon Mobil for  George Johnson for exposure to Dum Dum caulking. Exxon offered no money to settle and Mr. Johnson is a 60 year old gentleman who has pleural plaques which is a […]

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Congratulations to Richard DeLisle, and his attorney, David Jagolinzer, who defeated both big asbestos, Crane Co., and big tobacco, Lorillard and H&V, after a 4-week trial culminating in nearly 5 days of jury deliberations. Jagolinzer tried the case against Jim Lowery for Crane, Ricardo Cedillo for Lorillard, and Carl Rowley for H&V. Under recently adopted […]

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The New York Times (10/17, Protess, Silver-Greenberg, Subscription Publication, 9.61M) reports that JPMorgan Chase has reached an agreement with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) under which the bank will pay $100 million and “make a groundbreaking admission of wrongdoing” to settle a probe into alleged market manipulation involving multibillion-dollar trading losses in London. The CFTC targeted […]

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