Mass Torts News

On Thursday, the New Jersey attorney general said that Insys Therapeutics founder has agreed to pay $5 million to the state to resolve a lawsuit that claimed that the founder bribed doctors of the state to boost sales of its powerful…

A pair of orders were released on January 17 and 18 in which U.S. District Judge M. Casey Rodgers, presiding over the 3M earplugs multidistrict litigation, ruled in favor of two plaintiffs over the…

Last week, U.S. District Judge Brian R. Martinotti, presiding over all Elmiron lawsuits, was presented with a proposal by a group of attorneys to appoint a group of 25 plaintiffs’ leadership positions to…

Last week, U.S. District Judge Vince Chhabria, overseeing all Roundup cancer lawsuits, denied Monsanto’s motion to exclude the testimony of expert witnesses and for summary judgment in a lawsuit brought by…

Last week, a new study was published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) in which researchers indicate that the rates of neonatal abstinence…

Last week, the New York Supreme Court for New York County awarded summary judgment to the defendant, Nissan North America, Inc. (NNA), in an asbestos case after finding that the evidence did not support…

On Tuesday, Judge Robert B. Kugler of the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey, presiding over the blood pressure drug valsartan lawsuits, said that consumers in the multidistrict litigation…

Last month, a study was published in the medical journal Microbiome, in which researchers noted that chronic exposure to…

Last week, the 4th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals in Richmond, Virginia, reversed a jury decision to award $1.25 million to the family of a now-deceased West Virginia woman alleging Boehringer Ingelheim's blood thinner…

Allergan USA Inc. filed a supplemental brief on January 5 in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey, asking the federal judge to dismiss claims against its…