Latest Mass Tort News and Updates

A Denver federal jury awarded $383.5 million to the families of three patients who died of cardiac arrest after treatment at DaVita Dialysis Center. The jury granted each of the three parties $125 million in punitive damages and compensatory…

Chief Justice Leo E. Strine Jr. reversed the dismissal verdict of a "take-home" asbestos case involving the death of a worker’s spouse due to regular…

Bayer and Johnson & Johnson are seeking interlocutory appeal over Xarelto lawsuits filed against them, asking the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit to dispose of claims…

U.S. District Judge William Duffey who overlooked Wright Medical Technology Inc.'s defective hip implants MDL, released an order on June 22, to close 

As per the U.S. District Court, District of New Jersey court order released on June 20, 2018, the first bellwether trial for the kidney injury lawsuits against Nexium and…

U.S. District Judge M. Casey Rodgers ordered parties involved in the Abilify gambling litigation to reach on a common agreement regarding the selection of trial cases by the end of…

Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas Judge Paula Patrick issued an opinion on Wednesday to Pennsylvania Superior Court to uphold the $77 million Risperdal verdict stating…

In a supplemental memorandum filed on June 18, the plaintiffs in the DePuy hip multidistrict litigation requested permission to conduct trial preservation depositions for 11 defense witnesses. The plaintiffs asserted that the ongoing…

Testosterone Replacement Therapy (TRT) provider AbbVie Inc. recently managed to overturn a $140.1 million verdict for a man who accused the company of hiding the adverse…

A case management order issued by Judge Matthew Kennelly on June 29, confirmed that Actavis has agreed to settle all Androderm lawsuits filed by men claiming they suffered a heart attack, stroke or other injuries as side effects of…