Latest Mass Tort News and Updates

Lawsuits alleging Wright Medical Technology Inc. and MicroPort Orthopedics Inc. over defective hip implants have been consolidated in the Eastern District of Arkansas by the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation (JPML).

The proposal…

Last Wednesday, Johnson & Johnson (J&J) filed an application for transfer asking the Missouri Supreme Court to reverse the $2.1 billion talc verdict, stating that the lower…

Last month, Columbian researchers published a study in the medical journal Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery-Global Open (PRS) stating that brands other than Allergan and Mentor were found to be associated with breast implant-associated…

On August 31, Massachusetts General Hospital researchers published a single-center observational cohort study in the medical journal JAMA Neurology, indicating…

Last Monday, a New York woman, filed a lawsuit against Teva Pharmaceuticals USA Inc. and the Cooper Companies Inc. in the state's federal court, alleging that the ParaGard…

Allergan, Inc. filed a motion on August 7 in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey involving its Biocell textured breast implant, seeking…

Last week, the 6th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel reinstated an Ethicon pelvic mesh lawsuit, ruling that the trial court misjudged the claim as time-barred under…

The Oklahoma state judge approved the $85 million deal between Teva Pharmaceuticals and the state of Oklahoma, over the company’s alleged role in the opioid epidemic…

The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a $3.6 million jury award over C.R. Bard's IVC filter, after finding that state-law duty to warn was not preempted by federal edicts.…

On August 12, Johnson & Johnson (J&J) sent a letter asking U.S. District Judge Freda Wolfson, overseeing the talcum powder lawsuits, to appoint court-approved experts to…