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Levin Simes LLP would like to invite you, your family, friends and neighbors, to a Town Hall meeting on Tuesday, November 14th from 5:30 to 6:30pm at the Santa Rosa Veterans Memorial Hall located at 1351 Maple Avenue, Santa Rosa, CA 95404. Please see the flyer below for details. Drinks and snacks will be provided.

A federal judge will ask the US Attorneys Office and the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) to question witnesses regarding potential witness tampering in an ongoing DePuy Pinnacle trial.

You’ve seen the commercials: a pharmaceutical commercial breaks from selling you a new drug to list 30 seconds of side effects. Somewhere in between listing dry mouth and indigestion is a reference to how the drug might kill you.

A federal jury in Illinois found AbbVie Inc. liable for failing to warn of the risks of heart attacks from it’s popular AndroGel testosterone replacement products. Plaintiff Jeffrey Konrad was awarded $140,000.00 in damages for his injuries and the jury awarded an additional 1,000 times in punitive damages. The punitive damages equal $140 million.

The New York Times has a new piece on Johnson and Johnson, baby talcum powder ovarian cancer, and the cases filed around the country by Levin Simes and other law firms. The piece is titled “Risk on All Sides as 4,800 Women Sue Over Johnson’s Baby Powder and Cancer”.

The trial against DePuy involving 8 New York plaintiffs injured by DePuy Pinnacle hip implants has been postponed. The trial was set to occur today on September 5th, 2017 before U.S. District Judge Ed Kinkeade in the Northern District of Texas. Judge Kinkeade currently presides over 9,300 cases alleging DePuy’s Pinnacle hip implants are defective. DePuy has lost 2 prior jury trials in Judge Kinkeade’s courtroom, resulting in over $1.5 billion verdicts against DePuy for its defective him implant products.

On August 25th, 2017 Judge Ed Kinkeade of the District Court for the Northern District of Texas, Dallas Division, ordered the jury trial of eight plaintiffs to begin on September 5th, 2017.

A case report in the May edition of the medical journal Burns notes that failing lithium-ion batteries are responsible for the uptick in new cases of battery explosion burns. Batteries stored in e-cig or vape mod devices can suffer from a run-away chemical reaction and explode.

Last Friday a trial began in St. Louis for the families of three women who contracted ovarian cancer after use of talcum powder baby powder products. Johnson & Johnson and other companies marketed baby powder products containing talcum powder, despite knowing that baby powder increased their customer’s risk of ovarian cancer.