Latest Mass Tort News and Updates

Bayer, the manufacturer of Roundup, has lost a third appeal against the U.S. court verdicts over the case of glyphosate weedkiller. The court has awarded damages to customers…

A jury awarded a settlement in a sexual harassment lawsuit filed by six women doctors of Yale University against a male physician at the Ivy League school.

The accused is a former anesthesiologist and professor at Yale University who lost…

A Judicial Panel has refused to centralize Belviq lawsuits against Eisai Inc. and Arena Pharmaceuticals Inc. in an MDL stating there are too few lawsuits filed against the…

A settlement of up to $24.9 million is approved by the Lucas County commissioners in the statewide opioid lawsuits against the distributors and manufacturers.

Many…

On August 10, 2021, the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation centralized 18 Tasigna lawsuits in multi-district litigation for a coordinated discovery of testimony and…

A 70-year-old Californian woman has sued Bayer by making allegations that after regular usage of the company's Roundup weedkiller, she developed Non-Hodgkin lymphoma.

As per…

A jury awarded $11.5 million in medical malpractice to an 18-month-old girl in Massachusetts. In April 2009, the girl, now 11, was brought to Newton-Wellesley Hospital in Massachusetts by her father after she started vomiting and showed…

The U.S. District Judge rejected an appeal from Merck that requested the court to dismiss a claim of the Zostavax vaccine lawsuit considering the statute of limitations clause.…

West Virginia's lawsuit against several drugmakers alleging the manufacturers of misguiding information about the painkiller drugs opioid will go to trial next April, as indicated by…

U.S. District Judge Ed Kinkeade bestowed $245 million on six plaintiffs involved in the lawsuits against Johnson & Johnson and its DePuy Orthopaedics, over the alleged Pinnacle Hip Implant defects. The verdict was declared in…