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...
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...
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...
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...
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.,...
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...
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...
The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi dismissed with prejudice a personal injury claim arising from an alleged defect in an intraocular lens manufactured by CIBA Vision...
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...
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...
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...
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’...
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....
Just weeks before this case was slated for trial, the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama granted summary judgment in favor of Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation in the...
Novartis Pharmaceuticals secured dismissal of punitive damages demands in the Middle District of Florida, joining the vast majority of other courts in the Aredia/Zometa litigation in holding that New Jersey...