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4 Oct 2010, 5:04 am by Sean Wajert
McGovern is well known to our readers, having served as special master or mediator in dozens of major mass torts, including several asbestos matters, DDT toxic exposure litigation, the Dalkon-Shield controversy, and silicone gel breast implant litigation. [read post]
5 Sep 2017, 6:59 pm by Schachtman
In re Silicone Gel Breast Implant Product Liability Litigation. [read post]
2 Jan 2014, 8:08 am by Schachtman
In the silicone gel breast implant litigation, one defense expert witness conducted and published his meta-analysis of autoimmune disease outcomes. [read post]
31 Oct 2010, 5:02 pm by Schachtman
  Michaels founded SKAPP with funding by plaintiffs’ counsel from monies left over from the silicone gel breast implant litigation. [read post]
5 Nov 2007, 12:58 pm
Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, 911 F.2d 941, 958-58 (3d Cir. 1990); In re Silicone Gel Breast Implants Products Liability Litigation, 318 F.Supp.2d 879, 893 (C.D. [read post]
17 Jun 2021, 12:29 pm by admin
Supreme Court breathed fresh life into the trial court’s power and obligation to review expert witness opinions and to exclude unsound opinions.[7] Several months before the Supreme Court charted this new direction on expert witness testimony, the silicone breast implant litigation, fueled by iffy science and iffier scientists, erupted.[8] In October 1994, the Judicial Panel on Multi-District Litigation created MDL 926, which consolidated the federal breast… [read post]
4 Oct 2007, 8:10 am
See Goss, et al, "Clearing Away The Junk: Court-Appointed Experts, Scientifically Marginal Evidence, & The Silicone Gel Breast Implant Litigation," 56 Food & Drug L.J. 227 (2001) (describing the findings of the court-appointed experts). [read post]
14 Nov 2020, 10:11 am by admin
Plaintiffs, plaintiffs’ counsel, and plaintiffs’ advocacy groups have funded studies, often surreptitiously, in many litigations, including those involving claims of harm from Bair Hugger, asbestos, silicone gel breast implants, welding fume, Zofran, isotretinoin, and others. [read post]
14 Nov 2020, 10:11 am by Schachtman
Plaintiffs, plaintiffs’ counsel, and plaintiffs’ advocacy groups have funded studies, often surreptitiously, in many litigations, including those involving claims of harm from Bair Hugger, asbestos, silicone gel breast implants, welding fume, Zofran, isotretinoin, and others. [read post]
15 May 2015, 7:03 am by Schachtman
Furthermore, many scientific disputes, which find their way into the courtroom, will not have the public profile of silicone gel breast implants, and for which there may be no body of scientific community opinion from which lawyers could select “outliers,” even if they wished to do so. [read post]
23 Oct 2011, 9:06 am by Schachtman
According to SKAPP’s website, the organization enjoyed past support from the Common Benefit Trust, a fund established pursuant to a court order in the Silicone Gel Breast Implant Products Liability litigation. [read post]
10 Feb 2014, 3:35 pm by Schachtman
The American Public Health Association (APHA) is a significant organization ostensibly committed to the improvement of public health. [read post]
18 Apr 2012, 4:40 pm by Schachtman
  They point to litigations, such as the Bendectin and silicone gel breast implant cases, where the defense challenges were supported in part by a body of “exonerative” epidemiologic studies. [read post]
26 Oct 2007, 11:35 am
The court held that this kind of warning liabilty was too broad to be permitted:If I accept plaintiffs' argument, the law will be permitting recovery for a risk that the plaintiff assumed because the plaintiff might have made a different decision as a result of knowing of other risks for which the plaintiff did not experience any harm.In re Silicone Breast Implant Litigation, 64 D. [read post]
7 Jun 2012, 12:37 pm by Schachtman
In the silicone gel breast implant litigation, plaintiffs corralled a herd of rheumatologists who were sympathetic to their claims of connective tissue disease, and who would support their “creative” causation theories. [read post]
2 Feb 2011, 6:30 pm by Schachtman
Absent from Professor Rabin’s historical discussion is any mention of the silicone gel breast implant litigation, which took hold with the advocacy of expert witnesses, described by Judge Jack Weinstein as “charlatans,” B. [read post]
3 Mar 2012, 5:36 pm by Schachtman
August 16, 2001) (excluding causation opinion testimony given contrary epidemiologic studies; noting that sufficient epidemiologic evidence requires relative risk greater than two) In re Silicone Gel Breast Implant Litig., 318 F. [read post]