16.02.2017
- DuPont and Chemours (the US chemical giant’s former Performance Materials segment) have agreed to jointly pay $670.7 million in cash to settle out of court around 3,550 personal...
04.05.2016
- US healthcare giant Johnson & Johnson plans to appeal a US jury’s award of $55 million in damages to Gloria Ristesund, who blamed her ovarian cancer – now in remission – on the...
01.02.2016
- Beginning in April 2017, DuPont could face 40 trials a year brought by plaintiffs claiming to have developed cancer or other diseases from exposure to perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA...
12.04.2015
- Japanese pharmaceutical company Takeda has offered more than $2.2 billion to settle thousands of US lawsuits over the diabetes drug Actos, the news agency Bloomberg reports. The...
18.07.2013
- The U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Monday that an Indiana farmer violated agribusiness company Monsanto's patent for a type of soybean. In a case closely watched by the biotechnology...
12.06.2013
- Pfizer said Teva Pharmaceuticals Industries and Sun Pharmaceutical Industries would pay $2.15 billion to settle a patent suit related to its acid-reflux drug. This is the first...
07.06.2013
- U.S. health advisers voted on Thursday to recommend relaxing market restrictions on GlaxoSmithKline's diabetes drug Avandia, the former blockbuster at the center of one of the...
25.05.2013
- Ista Pharmaceuticals pleaded guilty on Friday to charges it used kickbacks and improper marketing to boost sales of a drug meant to treat eye pain and agreed to pay $33.5 million...
