Court rejected a motion to dismiss the hair relaxer class action lawsuits, which seek economic damages and medical monitoring for consumers exposed to cancer-causing chemicals in several widely used products.
Illinois and Cook County policies seemed designed to keep victims quiet, rather than address widespread juvenile detention center child abuse, survivors say.
State court trials are likely to begin well before the first federal hair relaxer lawsuits go before a jury involving allegations that products caused women to develop uterine cancer, endometrial cancer, ovarian cancer and other injuries.
Defense verdict comes as GSK faces several additional Zantac trials in Florida, Pennsylvania and Nevada in the coming months, each raising similar allegations that the recalled heartburn drug caused cancer to develop in former users.
Despite agreeing to a number of individual Zantac lawsuit settlements and issuing a massive Zantac recall in 2020, GSK continues to argue that there is no evidence the recalled heartburn drug caused cancers among users.
Systemic problems at the Cook County Juvenile Detention Center are blamed for creating a culture that forced child sexual abuse victims into silence
Verdict comes in a Zantac lawsuit against GlaxoSmithKline and Boehringer Ingelheim, weeks after Sanofi and Pfizer announced agreements to settle thousands of Zantac cancer claims.
Jury is hearing evidence after several prior Zantac cancer lawsuits were settled weeks before trial was set to begin in other courts.
A number of lawsuits have reportedly already been filed against by customers who suffered salmonella food poisoning at Carniceria Guanajuato.
The report is the latest by a state detailing years of child sexual abuse by Catholic priests
