Mass Torts News

The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has sued Walmart over the illegal distribution of opioids that has fueled the opioid crisis throughout the nation.

The federal government…

Last Friday, Biomet Inc. filed a motion in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri, asking a federal judge to overturn the $21 million verdict awarded to a woman and her husband last month over claims alleging that the…

Last week, U.S. District Judge Robert B. Kugler, overseeing the valsartan multidistrict litigation docket (MDL), along with…

On December 18, U.S. District Judge Robert B. Kugler, overseeing the valsartan multidistrict litigation docket (MDL), denied three dismissal motions filed by the defendants stating…

A study was published this month in the medical journal Organic Process Research & Development in which U.K. researchers working with…

Earlier this week, the parties involved in JUUL lawsuits pending in the federal court system issued a Joint Notice regarding the 12 randomly selected cases to be included in the bellwether trial…

On Tuesday, the United States Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation (JPML) issued a transfer order, stating that the panel finds the…

In the December issue of Pediatrics, a study was published by the researchers with Children’s National Hospital and the University of Texas at Austin, indicating that…

On Monday, the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit affirmed a Tennessee federal court's decision to dismiss a woman's product liability claim against Johnson & Johnson (J&J) Healthcare Systems Inc. and its subsidiary…

Earlier this month, U.S. District Judge Edmund A. Sargus Jr., presiding over C.R. Bard Inc.'s hernia mesh lawsuits, ruled that the manufacturer cannot present its Ventralight…