by | Apr 23, 2018 | Community Involvement
CMBG3 Law wishes to congratulate team members Matt Lite and John Gardella, who on Monday finished the 2018 Boston Marathon for seperate charities. This was Matt’s second marathon and John’s third. Matt ran the marathon on behalf of the Massachusetts...
by | Apr 20, 2018 | Prop 65
California’s Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act of 1986 (commonly referred to as “Proposition 65” or “Prop 65”) was passed with the intention of providing consumers with information regarding cancer-causing agents in products that would allow consumers to...
by | Apr 11, 2018 | Asbestos, Talc, Toxic Tort
Moments ago, the New Jersey jury that last week hit Johnson & Johsnon and Imerys with $37 million in compensatory damages concluded that the companies should pay $80 million in punitive damages to a plaintiff who claimed that his mesothelioma was caused by...
by | Apr 9, 2018 | Community Involvement
In Rhode Island, tens of thousands of low-income residents are unable to afford legal representation when facing life-changing legal problems such as domestic violence, immigration issues, drug and alcohol addiction, housing issues, foreclosures, or denial of...
by | Apr 9, 2018 | Asbestos, Toxic Tort
At the end of 2017, Brazil passed a law that bans the mining, use, and commercialization of asbestos. The ban will have an immediate impact on the United States, as roughly 95% of all asbestos imported and used by the United States in 2016 was imported from Brazil....
by | Apr 6, 2018 | Community Involvement
On April 4th, 2018, CMBG3 Law attorneys Kendra Bergeron, Nicholas Blei and Clifford Pascarella volunteered to judge law student oral arguments as part of the 2L Legal Writing Class at New England Law | Boston. The students’ oral arguments and written briefs were...
by | Apr 6, 2018 | Asbestos, Talc, Toxic Tort
Just one day after beginning deliberations, a New Jersey jury found Johnson & Johnson and Imerys responsible for a plaintiff’s mesothelioma, which plaintiff alleged resulted from his use of asbestos-contaminated talcum powder products. The jury’s verdict awarded...
by | Apr 5, 2018 | Events
CMBG3 Law Shareholder Bryna Misiura, co-chair of the Toxic Torts Committee for the Massachusetts Defense Lawyers Association (Mass. DLA), assisted with the organization of a brown bag lunch hosted by the Mass. DLA on the opioid epidemic. The lunch, to take place on...
by | Apr 4, 2018 | Events
CMBG3 Law Shareholder Kendra Bergeron will speak at the American Bar Association’s (ABA’s) Blowout At the Biltmore: Hot Topics In Toxic Torts & Environmental Law at the Arizona Biltmore Resort & Spa in Phoenix, Arizona on April 6, 2018 from 1:55...
by | Apr 4, 2018 | Asbestos, Talc, Toxic Tort
Nearly two months ago, CMBG3 Law reported on a trial against Johnson & Johnson in New Jersey involving allegations that the company’s talcum powder product was contaminated with asbestos fibers and caused plaintiff Stephan Lanzo II’s mesothelioma. The plaintiff...
