Electronic cigarettes were first developed in the early 1960s, but more than 40 years passed before manufacturers combined a battery, an ultrasonic atomizer, and plastic cartridges with nicotine and flavorants to create the current variants of e-cigarettes. Those components generate moist smokeless air that contains nicotine, flavors, and other substances, supposedly with reduced tar and…
DetailsAfter six days of deliberation and a four-week trial, a California jury found Johnson & Johnson liable for a woman’s pleural mesothelioma and ordered the manufacturer to pay $40.3 million in damages. Plaintiff Used J&J Baby Powder and Shower To Shower for Decades The lawsuit contended that 71-year-old Nancy Cabibi of Hauser, Idaho…
DetailsThe team at Showard Law Firm will be lacing up our sneakers this October 13 to proudly support other Tucson, Arizona community members at the annual AIDS Walk in support of the Southern Arizona AIDS Foundation (SAAF). Now reaching its 31st year, the AIDS Walk is one of SAAF’s main fundraising events. This walk…
DetailsSeptember is Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month. There are many ways to get involved with the national movement if you or someone you love has suffered with ovarian cancer. You can join the conversation on social media using hashtags like: #KnowOvarian, #30DaysOfTeal, or #EndWomensCancer. You can donate or participate in a local event by searching Runwalk.ovarian.org.…
DetailsIn 2009, Uloric (active ingredient febuxostat) became the first prescription gout medication to gain FDA approval in 40 years. Doctors were quick to prescribe the new blockbuster drug, which has generated $1.9 billion in sales for manufacturer Takeda Pharmaceuticals within the last five years alone. Then, in February 2019, the use of this medication…
DetailsScientific research links HIV drugs manufactured by Gilead Sciences Inc. to premature bone loss. Litigation against the manufacturer alleges that Gilead was aware of these risks and downplayed them when marketing the drugs, which net the company billions of dollars in annual profits. The first tenofovir lawsuit was filed against the maker of Truvada in…
DetailsThe medical industry is still absorbing the shock from the Food and Drug Administration’s 2019 announcement that more than 56,000 reports of surgical stapler defects from 2011 through 2018 had been kept from public disclosure in a hidden FDA database. Many of those reports included references to excess bleeding and other surgical complications that resulted…
DetailsFor over a century, Johnson & Johnson has been one of the most trusted brands in American homes, but thousands of people are now allegedly paying the tragic price for that trust. One court recently demanded that Johnson & Johnson pay out $300 Million for punitive damages in the case of a woman who claims…
DetailsOver the past eight years, juries across the country have rendered many verdicts against vaginal mesh manufacturers, after finding the devices caused severe and life-threatening complications. In one of the latest pelvic mesh trials, Ethicon – a subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson – was hit with an $80 million judgement regarding its Prolift mesh implants,…
DetailsMonsanto lost in court a third time in defense of their Roundup weed killer, which allegedly causes cancer, according to at least 1,000 lawsuits consolidated in the Northern District of California, and 12,000 others filed elsewhere around the country. The Oakland jury ordered Monsanto to pay more than $2 billion in damages to a couple…
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