Latest Mass Tort News and Updates

On August 20, Bayer officials disclosed in a press release that the company had reached an agreement with plaintiff law firms to pay approximately $1.6 billion to settle nearly 39,000 …

The safety and effectiveness of inferior vena cava (IVC) filters were questioned once again when a new study suggested that IVC filters might increase the risk of venous thromboembolism when used in patients with…

A small victory came in for a pelvic mesh litigation case for an Ohio woman. The case had proceeded to the damages hearing post losing out to the defendant Johnson & Johnson's Ethicon, last month. Judge Michael Erdos reasoned that there was…

J&J's Ethicon faces another pelvic mesh defective product case for two of its mesh products: TVT-SECUR and TVT (tension-free vaginal tape), at the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas. This is the sixth trial faced by the manufacturer so far.…

Another Transvaginal Mesh manufacturer, Endo International plc (Endo), announced this August that it was setting aside an additional $775 million rounding off to a near total of $2.6 billion to resolve the remaining 22,000 Transvaginal Mesh…

Ethicon's Physiomesh Flexible Composite Mesh lawsuits are moving ahead at a structured pace; this comes after the centralization of all the federally-filed Physiomesh lawsuits in the Northern District of Georgia…

The U.S. District Judge Robin L. Rosenberg, presiding over all Zantac litigation, indicated that the court would weigh on the admissibility of expert witness testimony concerning the…

In early 2015, a Philadelphia jury had passed a verdict of $2.5 million in damages to be paid to a Risperdal plaintiff which was also the first verdict for the antipsychotic drug Risperdal's alleged side effect of abnormal breast growth in males…

J&J's Janssen Pharmaceuticals has more than 800 product liability cases across the nation for its anti-diabetic drug Invokana. This news is confirmed by J&J's quarterly financial filing with the Securities and…

On August 20, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) released a report indicating…