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Are attacks against BPA unfounded?

news | September 21, 2012

In an article published in Law360, Hollingsworth LLP spotlights the ban on BPA in a growing number of states.

A Texas federal judge . . . ruled against a cancer patient who sued Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corp. over a jaw injury she allegedly sustained after taking Zometa, handing Novartis the latest of several wins in multidistrict litigation over the bone drug in the past several months.

A Maryland federal judge ruled Wednesday that a woman cannot pursue punitive damages under New Jersey law for an injury allegedly caused by Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corp. bone drugs because they are preempted by federal law, a decision that makes it more difficult for plaintiffs in product liability actions to seek such damages from New Jersey-based drugmakers, experts say.