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The MDL Plaintiffs' Steering Committee leading the Volkswagen Emissions "Defeat Device" class actions is pleased to announce that they have reached an Agreement in Principle with Volkswagen regarding the claims of 2.0 liter TDI owners and lessees.

Motley Rice aviation attorneys are reviewing the fatal crash of a sight-seeing helicopter on Monday, April 4, 2016 around 3:30 p.m.

On Sunday, an Amtrak train carrying 341 passengers and traveling from New York, NY, to Savannah, Ga., collided with a backhoe on the track south of Philadelphia. Two Amtrak construction workers were killed and 37 people were injured during the crash.

A St. Louis, Missouri, jury awarded the family of a woman who passed away from ovarian cancer $72 million. The woman used Johnson & Johnson’s baby powder for more than 35 years before she was diagnosed with ovarian cancer.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration released the next steps for Essure®, including two multipart actions in effort to provide women and physicians with better information about the potential risks associated with using Essure.

Motley Rice co-founder Joe Rice was appointed to the Plaintiffs’ Steering Committee for <em>In re Volkswagen "Clean Diesel" Marketing, Sales Practices, and Products Liability Litigation</em>, in the U.S. District Court Northern District of California.

Motley Rice LLC, one of the nation’s largest plaintiffs’ firms, has filed two suits for California women against Bayer, Corp., Bayer Healthcare LLC, Bayer Essure, Inc., (formerly known as Conceptus, Inc.), Bayer Healthcare Pharmaceuticals, Inc., and Bayer AG for personal injuries and 10 alleged counts, including fraudulent concealment and negligent misrepresentation of the permanent birth control device Essure®.

Three Motley Rice medical device and drug lawyers have been appointed by federal judges to serve on Plaintiffs’ Steering Committees in national multidistrict litigations (MDL) for Laparoscopic Power Morcellators, IVC Filters and Zofran.

Motley Rice has filed a product liability action on behalf of Randi Johnston of Centerville, Utah. The suit alleges permanent, life-scarring and post-crash injuries as a result of the alleged overly volatile explosion of the Takata PSDI inflator.

A Hawker H25 private business jet crashed into a residential building in Akron, Ohio at approximately 3 pm ET on Tuesday, Nov. 10. Seven passengers and the two pilots were killed.