by Anthony Braaten | Nov 11, 2020 | MASS TORTS, PRODUCT RECALLS
Nostrum Laboratories, Inc., is recalling two lots of 500mg metformin HCl extended-release tablets and two lots of 750mg metformin HCl extended-release tablets because they were found to contain unsafe levels of NDMA (N-Nitrosodimethylamine), a probable human...
by Anthony Braaten | Oct 8, 2020 | MASS TORTS
A vape manufacturer cannot challenge a Maryland federal judge’s ruling that tightened a deadline for vape companies to submit premarket applications to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals found. Vapor Stockroom, a major...
by Anthony Braaten | Oct 1, 2020 | MASS TORTS
The North Hills School District near Pittsburgh became the 10th school district in the Western District of Pennsylvania to take legal action to hold vape giant JUUL accountable for the vaping epidemic in its schools. The nine previous cases were recently transferred...
by Anthony Braaten | Sep 17, 2020 | MASS TORTS
The Cherokee Nation has filed a lawsuit against JUUL Labs alleging the vape maker engaged in an “insidious marketing practice” that targeted Native American children and used them as “guinea pigs” in the early stages of its product development. The lawsuit, filed...
by Anthony Braaten | Sep 15, 2020 | MASS TORTS
Washington State Attorney General Bob Ferguson is suing vape giant JUUL for flooding social media channels with vibrant ads and young social media influencers popular with teens from August 2016 to April 2018 and, as a result, luring thousands of Washington youth to...
by Anthony Braaten | Sep 11, 2020 | MASS TORTS
Efforts to curb the sharp growth of vaping among teens appear to have paid off, according to the 2020 National Youth Tobacco Survey (NYTS), a joint effort between the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The...