Latest Mass Tort News and Updates

Last week, the California Superior Court for Alameda County jury awarded a retired Navy admiral and his wife over $2.5 million in the conclusion of a virtual asbestos trial against…

Last week, a jury with the Louisiana Civil District Court for Orleans Parish awarded $10.3 million to a plaintiff who was diagnosed with mesothelioma and had claimed the reason as exposure to raw…

A study over the use of e-cigarettes was published in the journal Pediatrics' November edition, indicating that vaping often goes unnoticed by parents as…

Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals Inc. filed a brief in Connecticut Supreme Court indicating that it has reached a global settlement to resolve 2,935 lawsuits brought over by patients alleging failure to warn about the bleeding risks…

California state court's virtual cosmetic talcum powder trial against Johnson & Johnson (J&J) ended in a mistrial after the plaintiff's health worsened, making him unable to…

Last week, U.S. District Judge Matthew F. Kennelly, presiding the Testosterone Replacement Therapy (TRT) products liability litigation, denied Actavis…

Last week, Judge Hala Y. Jarbou of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Michigan denied dismissing a lawsuit brought by a woman against Biomet Orthopedics LLC over its allegedly defective…

The Washington Superior Court for King County jury reached a defense verdict for 3M Co., in an in-person trial held at the reconfigured Bellevue Convention Center, which is now being used for civil trials, over a lawsuit that alleged the company'…

On November 14, newly published scientific papers were made available, which illustrated that 54 percent of the species in the core human gut microbiome…

On Wednesday, U.S. District Judge Stephen Clark of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri rejected Biomet Inc.'s motion for mistrial in the punitive damages phase of an M2a Magnum hip implant lawsuit, which the manufacturer…