Latest Mass Tort News and Updates

The family of a mentally ill man who got shot by police will be awarded $5.3 million as a settlement from the city of Santa Clara.

According to the court documents, the police were on the fifth call of the day at the same house where the…

A federal jury has awarded $16.5 million to a woman who lost two young daughters in a fiery car crash.

As per the court documents, the woman was driving a minivan around a winding stretch of N. Sunrise Boulevard on Camano Island’s northeast…

A jury awarded more than $1 million in a settlement to a Kearny man who got seriously injured during a motorcycle crash in 2019.

The plaintiff filed the lawsuit in Hudson County Superior Court in July 2019, a month later after the crash.…

A federal jury ordered the owner of the Little Rock convenience store to pay $18 million to the family of a teen who was shot and killed inside the store.

As per the court documents, the boy was a bystander at the store when he was…

Murder victim’s family was granted $30 million by Tuscaloosa County jury, who waited for hours in the emergency room to see a surgeon at DCH Regional Medical Center following a shootout.

On Dec. 27, 2013, a gunfight…

A man filed a wrongful death lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana claiming his mother developed ovarian cancer following the use Johnson & Johnson’s Talcum Baby Powder and Shower-to-Shower product for…

U.S. District Judge M. Casey Rodgers overseeing the Abilify litigation, released a global settlement order (PDF) on May 2, which details the parameters for the mediation…

A product liability lawsuit was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio by the widow of an Ohio man, who claims the use of Onglyza was the reason for the congestive heart failure suffered by her husband before his death…

Judge Casey Rogers’ mediation efforts finally paid off as the parties involved in the first three Abilify-gambling bellwether cases agreed to settle the dispute before the…

On Friday, Oregon Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum made an announcement stating that Johnson & Johnson (J&J) and its subsidiary Ethicon, Inc. agreed to pay $5.5 million over the allegations of deceptive marketing of…