Latest Mass Tort News and Updates

An opioid trial in Georgia state court against drug distributors brought by the families affected by opioid addiction has been delayed due to a lawyer conflict.

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Teva Pharmaceuticals and its several affiliates have agreed on a settlement worth more than $100 million with Rhode Island over the company's role in the opioid crisis.

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The four U.S. drug companies involved in the $26 billion national opioid settlement might use certain tax benefits for their settlement expenses.

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A couple has been awarded $8.5 million in an asbestos lawsuit, followed by another $25.5 million in punitive damages against Ford Motor Co., for making asbestos-…

The parties involved in thousands of 3M Combat Arms Earplugs lawsuits have made considerable progress and are moving steadily ahead in the U.S. District Court…

On Friday 30, Allergan PLC made a $5 million settlement with two Ohio counties involved in the ongoing bellwether cases in multidistrict opioid litigation.

Dr. David A. Kessler, a former Food and Drug Administration Commissioner, may testify at an upcoming multidistrict litigation bellwether trial against Sanofi-Aventis US LLC over allegations that the drugmaker should have warned patients…

On Friday 6, Mallinckrodt, a U.K. based pharmaceutical company, said that it would pay $24 million and donate up to $6 million in generic drugs to two Ohio counties to resolve their claims in the upcoming October 21 trial over the…

On August 20, U.S. Magistrate Judge Joel Schneider made it mandatory for all Valsartan lawsuits to be filed along with a short-form complaint that will help in tracking and coordinating the cases. The order also requires the seven-page…

Cleveland County District Judge Thad Balkman ordered drugmaker Johnson & Johnson (J&J) and its subsidiary Janssen Pharmaceuticals Inc. to pay $572 million after finding that the consumer products giant fueled the state's…