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There are several areas of litigation worth keeping an eye on over the year ahead, with five in particular we’re working on that stand out to me in large part due to the urgent consumer and public health needs they hope to address. I’ve listed these five below, including my take on why they are noteworthy.

Jennie Scudder-Levin primarily represents clients harmed by environmental contaminants and is involved in the firm’s medical device and opioid epidemic litigation.

Motley Rice is pleased to announce that six of the firm’s Mt. Pleasant, S.C.-based, associates have been promoted to Senior Counsel. The attorneys selected have experience working in the firm’s various practice areas.

Fundamental human rights include personal freedom and the right to determine the fate of one’s own mind and body. Such rights are all too often stripped away from millions of people worldwide, including what statistics indicate to be countless innocent children.

A three-judge panel reversed in part the dismissal of a lawsuit brought under the False Claims Act by a former United Airlines employee, who was fired after blowing the whistle about United’s alleged fraudulent repairs and inspections on the Air Force’s fleet of C-17 cargo jets.

A class of Riot Blockchain, Inc. shareholders, represented by Motley Rice, filed an amended complaint alleging the company and its officers orchestrated a pump-and-dump scheme to misled shareholders about the company’s supposed transformation from a maker of veterinary products to a miner of cryptocurrency.

Motley Rice was one of five firms nationally to be named a 2018 Law360 Consumer Protection Group of the Year.

The N.Y. Court of Appeals affirms litigation filed on behalf of a former seaman who tragically lost his life to mesothelioma should be allowed to proceed against Chevron Corporation under the Jones Act.

The SEC’s Office of the Whistleblower recently announced that it awarded $168 million to 13 whistleblowers in 2018 — that is more than half of the total $326 million awarded to whistleblowers since the program was created in 2010 under the Dodd-Frank Act.

Claims alleging anti-nausea medication Zofran® caused life-threatening birth defects in unborn children will be allowed to move forward following a ruling Feb. 5, 2019 denying summary judgment.

The U.S. Supreme Court is expected this term to resolve conflicting opinions in False Claims Act (FCA) whistleblower litigation regarding whether an extended statute of limitations should apply to cases in which the government declines to intervene.

Recognizing his work representing plaintiffs, the Roger Williams University School of Law named attorney Robert McConnell one of its 2019 Champions for Justice.

American Honda recently announced a recall of 1.1 million vehicles due to a defective airbag inflators. This recall is for replacement airbags that were previously installed in the vehicles in the wake of the Takata airbag scandal.

U.S. District Judge Mary Scriven has allowed plaintiffs to move forward with allegations that the cancer care company jeopardized the private health information of millions of patients by failing to prevent a data breach.

Oklahoma Attorney General announced a settlement in the opioid litigation with Purdue Pharma and the Sackler family. This is a significant step in the effort of the governmental entities to address the opioid epidemic.

One hundred and forty-nine passengers and eight crew members were killed when their plane, Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302, crashed. The plane, a new Boeing 737 MAX 8, was en route to Nairobi, Kenya, and carrying passengers of 35 different nationalities.

As the U.S. military’s sole supplier of earplugs, 3M and its predecessor Aearo Technologies, Inc., sold an estimated 2 million Dual-Ended Combat Arms Earplugs, Version 2 (CAEv2) for use during military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. The devices, however, were allegedly defective in design and failed to meet…

Motley Rice is co-class counsel in the case in which plaintiffs allege Twitter Inc. knowingly concealed and made false statements about key operating metrics, allegedly in violation of the federal securities laws.

Allegations were recently raised that in the midst of VW’s attempts to restore broken trust, the company and its subsidiary Audi were secretly lying to customers and regulators by selling pre-production vehicles to the public that legally should have been headed for the junkyard. It’s a classic case of irony.

Making an informed decision on purchasing a vehicle is impossible without crucial details, such as known defects, that manufacturers are expected to provide. Allegations have been raised, however, that Audi, a Volkswagen subsidiary, withheld information from customers about timing chain tensioner defects in certain…