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Top 10 class action settlements of 2020
Adam Hochroth 2021-01-12 10:46 pm By Spencer Fowler Steen Melbourne

Payouts in class actions in 2020 largely kept pace with the previous year despite the financial strain of the COVID-19 pandemic, with companies and other defendants paying more than $696 million to settle class actions last year.

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Judge blocks lawyers’ access to docs in stayed Monsanto class action
Agriculture 2020-12-22 4:58 pm By Miklos Bolza Sydney

Lawyers for the lead applicant in a stayed class action against Bayer-owned Monsanto over its weedkiller Roundup cannot access discovered documents in a separate class action against the agricultural giant in advance of mediation next year.

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J&J ordered to pay $40M in pelvic mesh class action costs as stay bid tossed by court
Appeals 2020-12-21 1:03 pm By Christine Caulfield Sydney

A unit of Johnson & Johnson has been ordered to pay around $40 million in legal costs to the lead applicants in a class action over pelvic mesh implants after a judge dismissed the company’s bid to stay the costs until after a high profile appeal is heard next year.

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Class action against Bayer’s Essure contraceptive drops claims against two manufacturers
Bayer 2020-11-20 5:40 pm By Miklos Bolza Sydney

The lead applicant in a class action against Bayer over allegedly defective Essure contraceptive devices will ask the court to discontinue its claims against two makers of the controversial medical implants.

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Shine to get 2.1M documents from US pelvic mesh litigation
Baker McKenzie 2020-11-05 2:28 pm By Cat Fredenburgh

American Medical Systems will hand over around 2.1 million documents produced in long-running US multidistrict litigation to Shine Lawyers in its class action against the Boston Scientific unit over its allegedly defective pelvic mesh products.

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Common fund order issue can’t be decided in ‘evidentiary vacuum’, NSW appeals court says
Ashurst 2020-10-30 11:06 pm By Christine Caulfield Melbourne

The NSW Court of Appeal has passed on the question of whether a judge can make a common fund order when a class action settles to ensure a certain return to litigation funders, but the issue is not going away, whatever the Federal Court’s decision in a parallel case.

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Court approves one of the first video opt out notices in a class action
Amelia Smith 2020-10-30 10:12 pm By Miklos Bolza Sydney

The Federal Court has approved what is thought to be only the second ever audio-visual opt out notice in a class action, a move that will make it easier for group members to find out about class actions they may be eligible for.

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Boston Scientific faces possible pelvic mesh class action
AJB Stevens 2020-10-30 12:08 pm By Miklos Bolza Sydney

A Sydney-based law firm is conducting a class action investigation into medical device manufacturer Boston Scientific’s pelvic mesh products, adding to the growing list of companies facing lawsuit by women who claim they experienced pain and other adverse symptoms due to the implants.

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Judges unclear about Johnson & Johnson unit’s arguments in pelvic mesh appeal
Appeals 2020-10-23 2:57 pm By Miklos Bolza Sydney

A judge due to hear a high profile appeal by Johnson & Johnson unit Ethicon has expressed confusion about the grounds on which the medical device maker is challenging a landmark judgment putting it on the hook for potentially hundreds of million of dollars in damages over faulty pelvic mesh implants.

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Judge rejects Covidien’s bid for security in unfunded pelvic mesh class action
AJB Stevens 2020-10-21 10:57 pm By Christine Caulfield Melbourne

Medical device maker Covidien has lost a bid to have the applicant in a product liability class action over allegedly defective pelvic mesh front $300,000 as security for its legal costs in the event it wins the case.

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