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  Federal judge tosses some accusations vs testosterone drug makers on eve of Androgel bellwether trials

  By Dan Churney | Tuesday, May 16, 2017 @ 3:34pm

  A Chicago federal judge has dismissed several. but not all of the claims against the maker of a testosterone boosting drug, advanced by several plaintiffs chosen as bellwethers in a class-action lawsuit brought by more than 2,000 plaintiffs from around the U.S. against multiple drug manufacturers, including Besins, AbbVie, Eli Lilly and GlaxoSmithKline.

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  Big U.S. sales of Androgel sink Belgian drugmaker Besins' try to toss 'Low T' drug class action suit

  By Dana Herra | Friday, Oct 14, 2016 @ 9:30am

  A federal judge has denied a Belgian drug maker’s attempt to remove itself from a massive class-action lawsuit that claims testosterone replacement drugs caused harm to patients taking them for off-label conditions.

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  Canadian Pacific takes Quebec train disaster cases from Cook County to federal court

  By Jonathan Bilyk | Friday, Oct 2, 2015 @ 4:48pm

  Families of victims of a fiery oil-fueled train derailment and explosion that claimed 47 lives in a town on the eastern edge of Canada’s Quebec Province will need to press their wrongful death claims in federal court, after lawyers for Canadian Pacific Railway and other corporate defendants asked to transfer cases from local to federal jurisdiction.

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