Jazlowiecki & Jazlowiecki Teaming Up Against E-Cigs Manufacturers
Kansas health officials have confirmed their first death in the state related to vaping. According to the Centers for Disease Control, this brings the total number of people who have died from vaping-related illnesses to six The FDA is blaming Juul, a company who sells e-cigarettes, for illegally marketing their product as safer than cigarettes. In a letter to the company, the FDA says Juul sells their products as modified risk tobacco products with an FDA order. Even worse, the FDA alleges Juul tells kids in school that Juul is 99% safer than cigarettes. “The toxicity you might think of with tobacco smoking you don’t see in vaping until recently,” says Dr. Michael Teiger, a Pulmonary Physician. “We found that there are a lot of additives being added to materials and that includes marijuana, that includes Vitamin D additives…It could be that those products or other products that are added…
Jazlowiecki Law Joins National Effort to Sue e-Cigarette Manufacturers
BRISTOL, CT (WFSB) — A Connecticut attorney is starting the process of legally attacking the e-cigarette and vaping industry. This legal action will take aim at stopping the growth of the industry that’s accused of targeting teens. “What they are doing is, they are getting kids addicted and children’s lungs and brains are more sensitive to the bad chemicals,” said attorney Edward Jazlowiecki. He also believes adults are falling prey to the addictive nature of e-smoking. Jazlowiecki is now involved in a national effort to join legal forces with firms in California, Texas, Alabama, and Missouri, to sue manufacturers like Juul and others. “We are signing up people to be plaintiffs, people that have health problems, people that are addicted,” Jazlowiecki said. The plan is for a massive class action suit. The attorney says he expects the first of the suits to come within days in California and the other…
Judge Cuts $2 Billion Verdict Against Bayer in Tentative Ruling on Monsanto Roundup Lawsuit
Bloomberg: Bayer AG is poised for a reduction of more than 90% in the $2 billion verdict it was hit with in the most recent trial over its Roundup weedkiller. Jazlowiecki and Jazlowiecki is currently representing clients who have become sick due to exposure to RoundUp, the most widely used herbicide in America, which is manufactured by the chemical conglomerate Monsanto. There is an alleged link between cancer rates and the use of the Monsanto weed killer (herbicide) Roundup which contains the active ingredient, Glyphosate, a probable carcinogen. The cancers most often found in the alleged linkage are, Hodgkin’s Lymphoma, Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma, Leukemia, Myeloma, or Soft Tissue Carcinoma, as well as cancers of the tongue, throat, esophagus and thyroid. If you or someone you know has been diagnosed with cancer or are ill AND have worked at a Monsanto Roundup manufacturing plant, OR have used the weed and grass…
JURY AWARDS $3.4 MILLION in Products Liability Trial
[His] life has never been the same, said lawyer Edward Jazlowiecki, whose firm successfully represented Crutchfield in a civil suit against Stanley Works and Home Depot. On Thursday, a Superior Court jury in Hartford awarded Crutchfield $3.4 million after it found New Britain-based Stanley Works partly responsible for Crutchfield’s brain injury, which left him partially paralyzed. The jury found that Crutchfield was 55 percent liable for his injuries because he was firing the nail gun into metal rather than wood. The accident occurred while Crutchfield, 51, of Hartford was standing on a lift, 25 feet in the air, in the rafters of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints in Ludlow. Crutchfield underwent six hours of surgery at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center in Worcester. He is permanently paralyzed on the left side of his body. The married father of four had worked as a carpenter for 20…
$2.9 Million Dollar Verdict Upheld in Bicycle Injury Lawsuit
Edward Jazlowiecki, Blonski’s lawyer, said his client had to have a rod placed in her neck. She is able to walk, he said, but “she’s lucky she didn’t die.” “She’s extremely happy” about the ruling, he said. The state Supreme Court has upheld a $2.9 million judgment against the Metropolitan District Commission, saying the regional water and sewer authority was not entitled to immunity from a claim filed by a bicyclist who was seriously injured on its property more than a decade ago. The ruling resulted from an appeal of a lawsuit filed by Maribeth Blonski, who was biking on a trail on MDC property in 2002 when she struck a gate that blocked a path in the Talcott Mountain Recreation Area in West Hartford. The MDC had decided to keep its gates closed at all times after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. Blonski broke her neck. She…
California Jury Slams Monsanto With $2B Verdict
From National Public Radio: A California jury has awarded a couple more than $2 billion in a verdict against Monsanto, a subsidiary of Bayer. This is the third recent court decision involving claims that the company’s Roundup weed killer caused cancer. The jury in Alameda County, just east of San Francisco, ruled that the couple, Alva and Alberta Pilliod of Livermore, Calif., contracted non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma because of their use of the glyphosate-based herbicide. They were each awarded $1 billion in punitive damages and an additional $55 million in collective compensatory damages. Many legal experts believe the damages will be drastically reduced on appeal. The verdict represents the third such legal setback for the company in California since mid-2018. In March, a San Francisco jury awarded $80 million to a man who blamed his cancer on his extensive use of Roundup. In August 2018, another San Francisco jury awarded $289 million…
CT Judicial Branch Announces Intent to Close Bristol Courthouse
From the CT Judicial Branch: Chief Court Administrator Patrick L. Carroll III today announced the Judicial Branch’s intent to close the Bristol Geographical Area No. 17 Courthouse, effective at the end of the business day on Friday, August 30, 2019. Effective Tuesday, September 3, 2019, all cases from Bristol will be heard at the New Britain Judicial District courthouse (the New Britain Geographical Area No. 15 Courthouse). Judge Carroll noted that the Judicial Branch has already starting working with Bristol Mayor Ellen Zoppo-Sassu, Chief State’s Attorney Kevin T. Kane and Chief Public Defender Christine Perra Rapillo to facilitate the closing of GA 17, located at 131 N. Main St., and transfer of the cases to the New Britain courthouse at 20 Franklin Square. “We are very grateful to Mayor Zoppo-Sassu for understanding why this move is necessary and beneficial to all parties,” Judge Carroll said. “Moreover, given the daily challenges…
Lawsuit: Monsanto Roundup Attacks Healthy Gut Bacteria
Jazlowiecki & Jazlowiecki currently represents numerous victims diagnosed with certain kinds of cancers that have been linked to extnded exposure to Monsanto RoundUp. To learn more information check out our Monsanto Lawsuit section or call to speak with a Connecticut Monsanto Lawsuit lawyer at (860) 674-8000. Via Bloomberg: Monsanto Co. has been sued by thousands of farmers and others who blame their cancers on its massively popular Roundup weedkiller. Now Germany’s Bayer AG, which bought the agriculture giant last year, faces a claim that it deceived home gardeners about Roundup’s impact on their gut bacteria and their health. The lawsuit, filed Wednesday in federal court in Kansas City, Missouri, claims that labels on products such as Roundup’s Weed & Grass Killer falsely assured consumers that they target an enzyme not found “in people or pets.” According to the suit — which names three consumers as plaintiffs seeking unspecified monetary damages…
Pugnacious Lawyer Rambles On In Case of the Stolen “Stairway”
Fascinating read from Philadelphia Magazine profiling the brash, bright and at times reckless lawyer trying to prove that legendary Rock group Led Zeppelin stole “Stairway to Heaven. “In late September of last year, the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in favor of Malofiy’s appeal of the 2016 “Stairway to Heaven” verdict and ordered a new trial on the grounds that the court “abused its discretion” when the judge refused to allow Malofiy to play a recording of “Taurus” for the jury. (Members were only allowed to hear an acoustic-guitar rendition played from sheet music.) The retrial is expected to begin in the next year, and Page and Plant, along with bassist John Paul Jones, are again anticipated to take the stand. Copyright experts say Led Zeppelin — which has a long history of ripping off the ancient riffs and carnal incantations of wizened Delta bluesmen and only giving…
Did Johnson & Johnson Know About Asbestos in Talcum Powder?
Contact Jazlowiecki & Jazlowiecki at (860) 674-8000 to learn about their Talcum Powder Lawsuit (Baby Powder Lawsuit) against Johnson & Johnson. New York (CNN Business) – Johnson & Johnson’s (JNJ) stock fell as much as 11% on Friday — on track for its worst day since 2002 — after a Reuters report said the company knew for decades that asbestos was in its baby powder. The company has been grappling with lawsuits alleging some of its talcum powder products caused cancer. But the Reuters report cites documents and other evidence that indicate company executives, mine managers, scientists, doctors and lawyers knew about the problem and failed to disclose it to regulators or the public. The plunge in J&J’s shares rippled across Wall Street. J&J is among the most widely held stocks and it’s also a member of the Dow. Reuters said it examined documents, including depositions and trial testimony, that show that from at least 1971 to…
