Fertility giant Monash IVF settles class action with more than 700 patients over inaccurate embryo screening test

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-08-22/monash-ivf-class-action-lawsuit-settlement-embryo/104256328

#auslaw #auspol #healthlaw #settlement

Melbourne surgeon failed to tell patient he invented ‘experimental’ device used to replace jaw joints, court documents claim
Dr George Dimitroulis, who is being sued in a Victorian court by a former patient, denies any injuries were caused by negligence or the prosthesis https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/article/2024/aug/05/melbourne-surgeon-failed-to-tell-patient-he-invented-experimental-device-used-to-replace-jaw-joints-court-documents-claim #healthlaw #auslaw #auspol

Shock, out of stock and secret supplies: what we found when we tried to buy vapes in Australia
The federal government has banned tobacconists, vape shops and convenience stores from selling vapes. But are they sticking to the rules? https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/article/2024/jul/02/shock-out-of-stock-and-secret-supplies-what-we-found-when-we-tried-to-buy-vapes-in-australia #auslaw #auspol #vaping #healthlaw

Is there asbestos in your makeup? Why women with cancer are suing big beauty brands
law https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/article/2024/jun/10/is-there-asbestos-in-your-makeup-why-women-with-cancer-are-suing-big-beauty-brands
As tens of thousands of
suits related to Johnson & Johnson’s Baby Powder flood US courts, many women are coming forward claiming that talc-based makeup gave them asbestos-related mesothelioma
#healthlaw #liability #asbestos

Smoking ban in doubt after exclusion from Commons schedule https://www.theguardian.com/society/article/2024/may/23/uk-election-tobacco-vapes-bill-smoking-commons-parliament

Tobacco and vapes bill left out as Penny Mordaunt lists final business in Commons before prorogation

#UKpol #smoking #vaping #healthlaw #UKelection

A Submission on the Therapeutic Goods and Other Legislation (Vaping Reforms) Bill 2024 (Cth) - Professor Matthew Rimmer - Community Affairs Legislation Committee - Australian Senate https://works.bepress.com/matthew_rimmer/434/
#ecigarettes #vaping #law #litigation #lawreform #healthlaw #consumerlaw #advertisingregulation #auslaw #auspol

NSW Health launched just 12 prosecutions for illegal vape sales over 18 months, penalties labelled 'ludicrously low' https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-04-03/nsw-vapes-illegal-sale-penalties-described-ludicrously-low/103629114 #vaping #ecigarettes #enforcement #healthlaw #auslaw #auspol NSW Health Minister flags raising penalties in NSW.

Big Tobacco is back with avengenace - Independent MP for Kooyong Monique Ryan https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/mar/21/big-tobacco-is-back-aided-and-abetted-by-the-nationals-we-cant-let-them-win-on-vapes #auspol #auslaw #vaping #ecigarettes #healthlaw #childrensrights

When a seriously ill Sydney raver ‘set off alarm bells’, a DJ stepped in to avert a nightmare scenario https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/jan/31/when-a-seriously-ill-sydney-raver-set-off-alarm-bells-a-dj-stepped-in-to-avert-a-nightmare-scenario #health #safety #music #festivals #healthlaw

Major OxyContin case headlines December session https://www.scotusblog.com/2023/11/major-oxycontin-case-headlines-december-session/ 'The justices will hear oral argument on Dec. 4 in one of their highest-profile bankruptcy cases in recent memory: Harrington v. Purdue Pharma, a challenge to the approval by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit of a bankruptcy plan for Purdue Pharma, the maker of OxyContin.

Faced with thousands of lawsuits accusing it of having deceptively marketed the highly addictive drug, Purdue Pharma filed for bankruptcy in 2019. It proposed a reorganization plan that would remake the company as a nonprofit devoted to addressing the public health problems caused by the opioid epidemic. But the plan would also release members of the Sackler family, which owned the company and had taken billions of dollars out of the company in recent years, from any future liability for claims against them.

The U.S. Trustee, the division of the Department of Justice that oversees the administration of bankruptcy cases, came to the Supreme Court over the summer, asking the justices to put the plan on hold. The justices agreed to do so and set the case for oral argument in December.

There are two main questions before the court. The first is whether the U.S. Trustee or the Canadian creditors challenging the plan have a right to do so at all, while the second question is whether the court of appeals was correct to confirm the plan. And more broadly, the case raises questions about whether and when it is appropriate to resolve mass tort cases – that is, lawsuits brought by a group of people who have been harmed in a similar way, such as in a plane crash or by a defective product – through the bankruptcy system.'
#SCOTUS #opioids #bankruptcy #liability #healthlaw

Health Ombudsman v Mainwaring
[2022] QCAT 351 https://www.queenslandjudgments.com.au/caselaw/qcat/2022/351 #healthlaw

More than 300,000 vapes seized from Perth warehouse in record-breaking WA haul https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-08-14/vapes-and-nangs-seized-from-perth-warehouse-in-record-wa-haul/102725616 via @ABCaustralia #vaping #ecigarettes #auslaw #auspol #healthlaw The States are getting serious about law enforcement in respect of illegal vapes in Australia.