IN THE NEWS

The Justice Department and the Department of the Navy (DON) today announced the finalization and publication of a voluntary process, called the “Elective Option,” to help veterans and others more quickly resolve qualifying claims under the Camp Lejeune Justice Act (CLJA) of 2022.

3M Co. has tentatively agreed to pay more than $5.5 billion to resolve over 300,000 lawsuits claiming it sold the US military defective combat earplugs, people familiar with the deal said.

A record $100 million in settlements have been reached between former students and a now-shuttered boarding school in West Virginia.

Church & Dwight agreed to pay $2.5 million to resolve claims that Batiste dry shampoo products are contaminated with benzene, a human carcinogen.

A U.S. judge on Friday shot down Johnson & Johnson’s second attempt to resolve tens of thousands of lawsuits over its talc products in bankruptcy, imperiling a proposed $8.9 billion settlement that would stop new lawsuits from being filed.

This week, a Circuit Court awarded the plaintiff known only as “N.D.” a total of $40 million dollars in damages in connection with N.D’s claims that the Defendant, Keneth L. Apana, raped and sexually abused her in 1992 when she was just 12.