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…
The Eleventh Circuit affirmed Novartis’s summary judgment win in Jones v. Novartis Pharm. Corp., No. 17-1106 (11th Cir. Apr. 30, 2018). The Court, in a per curiam opinion issued only three weeks after oral argument, affirmed…
The Eastern District of Tennessee recently narrowed the coverage defenses of insurance carrier American Guarantee & Liability Insurance Company (“American Guarantee”) while allowing Norfolk Southern Corporate and Norfolk Southern Railway Company (collectively “Norfolk Southern”) to continue…
Firm partner Matthew Malinowski appeared in the 23rd Judicial District Court in Ascension Parish, Louisiana to argue SABIC Petrochemicals’ motion for summary judgment. The case involved numerous personal injury claims brought by contract workers allegedly injured…
The 11th Circuit rejected the efforts of Liberty Surplus Insurance Corporation (“Liberty”) to avoid its obligation to Norfolk Southern Railway Company (“Norfolk Southern”) under the insuring agreement of its Railroad Protective Liability (“RPL”) policy. The court…
Judge Virginia Hopkins of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama granted Novartis’s motion for summary judgment and entered final judgment in Jones v. Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corp., No. 2:13-cv-00624-VEH, 2017 WL 553134 (N.D.…
Judge Mark Hornak granted complete summary judgment to firm client Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation after plaintiffs failed to satisfy their proximate cause burden in a failure-to-warn lawsuit alleging that the prescription drugs Aredia and Zometa caused osteonecrosis…
The Louisiana Court of Appeal, Fourth Circuit, found that the trial court erred in granting plaintiff’s motion for partial summary judgment and reversed the judgment on the ground the trial court had misapplied the law of…
Williams v. CIBA Vision Corporation, No. 13-cv-00368 (S.D. Miss. April 27, 2015)
Judge Vicki Miles-LaGrange of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma dismissed SAIC Energy, Environment & Infrastructure LLC’s (“SAIC EE&I”) from cases brought by neighboring property owners alleging groundwater contamination at a former…
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit affirmed a summary judgment ruling in favor of CIBA Vision Corporation (now part of Alcon), holding that the plaintiff had failed to prove that the CIBA contact…
Judge Michael W. Fitzgerald of the District Court for the Central District of California held, for the second time, that plaintiff’s claims are time-barred under California law and that plaintiff is unable to take advantage of…
Judge Mark R. Hornak of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania granted summary judgment in favor of Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation in three cases alleging that plaintiffs’ treatment with Novartis’s drug Zometa caused…
The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio held that federal law preempted punitive damages under both Ohio and New Jersey law in Monroe v. Novartis Pharm. Corp. Plaintiffs in Monroe filed their complaint…
Garrison v. Novartis Pharm. Corp., 2:11-cv-00589 (M.D. Ala. July 2, 2014)
