Hair care and cosmetics product maker Revlon won’t get the chance to review certain internal communications and other “work papers” related to the studies that have formed the basis of thousands of lawsuits accusing the company of selling hair straightening products that allegedly caused cancer. On July 22, U.S. District Judge Mary M. Rowland rejected Revlon’s request to enforce a…
Advanced-care practitioners treated injured workers in 37% of nonemergency visits for evaluation and management, more than double the 18% reported in 2013, according to the Workers Compensation Research Institute. The institute has been studying the rise of advanced-care practitioners working with injured employees, a trend experts have said is the result of physician shortages, especially in rural areas. Such professionals…
An Illinois state appeals panel has agreed that generic drug makers can’t face lawsuits claiming Zantac causes cancer. Plaintiff Angela Valadez said she developed colorectal cancer, allegedly as a result of treating heartburn from 1995 to 2014 by taking Zantac and ranitidine, its generic equivalent. She sued Zantac-maker GlaxoSmithKline and Boehringer Engelheim, which made and sold the active ingredient ranitidine,…
“Overexertion,” “falls,” and “struck-by and object or equipment” are the costliest workers compensation injuries, accounting for more than half of the $58.8 billion spend, based on 2022 data, Liberty Mutual Insurance Co. revealed in its safety report released Tuesday. The study named “overexertion involving outside sources” as the top cause, accounting for $13.7 billion in costs, largely due to “manual…
In a significant premises liability decision, the Indiana Court of Appeals ruled that victims of the 2022 mass shooting at Greenwood Park Mall may proceed with their lawsuit against Simon Property Group and its security contractor, Universal Protection Service, LLC. On July 17, 2022, a gunman entered Greenwood Park Mall, where he spent over an hour in a restroom assembling…
The Illinois Supreme Court has affirmed a decision allowing a food distributor to proceed with a breach of warranty claim against two produce wholesalers, holding that the wholesalers had sufficient notice of the alleged product defect through existing personal injury lawsuits. The case stems from multiple personal injury suits filed by restaurant patrons who became ill after consuming contaminated cilantro….
Franklyn Neter-Nu, a truck driver, filed a medical negligence lawsuit after complications from an improperly administered IV led to a below-the-knee amputation. The case originated from a 2015 visit to Methodist Hospital in Gary, Indiana, where Neter-Nu sought treatment for nausea and vomiting. During his hospital stay, Nurse Morgan Mittler noticed that the IV line had become detached from Neter-Nu’s…
Saying he has been unfairly victimized in the press, an Ohio abortionist who is being sued for allegedly badly botching an abortion at his Champaign clinic, perforating an Indiana woman’s uterus and leaving half of the aborted fetus in her body, has asked a judge to both force the woman to publicly identify herself and impose a gag order to…
Heat-related workplace injuries double when temperatures rise to just 80 or 85 degrees Fahrenheit and increase more than sevenfold when temperatures exceed 90 degrees, according to a new report by the Workers Compensation Research Institute. Unsurprisingly, such injuries are more common during summer months and disproportionately affect outdoor workers. Men and younger workers are at greater risk, and Southern states…
A judge has axed dozens more lawsuits from the list of thousands pending in Southern Illinois federal court accusing the makers of commercial weed killer Paraquat of allegedly causing Parkinson’s disease. On June 16, U.S. District Judge Nancy Rosenstengel adopted the recommendation of court-appointed special master Randi Ellis and dismissed 69 Paraquat exposure lawsuits for failure to return required plaintiff…
