Judge Ana C. Viscomi of the Middlesex County Division of New Jersey Superior Court granted firm client Avon Products, Inc. (“Avon”) summary judgment on all claims alleged against it. The previous day, Judge Viscomi had issued…
Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation achieved a victory when Judge Jessica Mayer granted Novartis’s motions to exclude a plaintiff’s case-specific expert and for summary judgment in one of four cases selected for potential bellwether trial this Fall. Though…
Judge Jessica Mayer granted the motion of defendant Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation (“NPC”) to apply New Jersey punitive damages law in a pharmaceutical products liability lawsuit filed in New Jersey state court by a Virginia resident for…
After deliberating for fewer than six hours, a New Jersey jury returned a 7-to-1 verdict in favor of Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation in a thirteen-day trial involving Zometa, a bisphosphonate drug given to cancer patients suffering metastases…
The New Jersey Appellate Division affirmed judgment in favor of Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation, rejecting plaintiffs’ appeal of a 2010 defense verdict in the first bellwether trial arising out of the Aredia/Zometa consolidated litigation in New Jersey…
After two hours of deliberation, a New Brunswick, New Jersey jury returned a 7-2 verdict in favor of Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation in a ten-day trial involving Aredia and Zometa, bisphosphonate drugs given to people whose cancer…
