Latest Mass Tort News and Updates

In a case management order issued on June 28, Judge David Campbell presiding over the established Bard IVC filter MDL confirmed three lawsuits as the next bellwether trials. The trials are scheduled for September 2018, November 2018,…

According to a recent stipulation order, a process has been established to allow Plaintiffs' counsel to toll the statute of limitations concerning potential Nexium, Prevacid…

Several plaintiffs filed a transfer motion on June 19 with the U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation (JPML) indicating a multidistrict litigation (MDL) be formed for…

A Missouri Court of Appeals dismissed a $55 million verdict against Johnson & Johnson over a lawsuit filed by a plaintiff, claiming her diagnosis of ovarian cancer was due to J&J's…

The pharmaceutical giant AbbVie owes $448 million in an antitrust case after U.S. District Judge Harvey Bartle ruled that the AndroGel partner used sham litigation to block the generic versions of their testosterone replacement therapy…

U.S. District Judge Robin Rosenberg, of the Southern District of Florida, issued an order on July 9, granting part permission to the plaintiffs in the Tasigna lawsuit to…

A lawsuit filed by a plaintiff in the New Jersey Supreme Court against Ethicon Prolene manufacturer Johnson & Johnson and its subsidiary Ethicon, alleges that the hernia patch led to a series of complications ever since it was…

Colgate-Palmolive recently announced to settle a lawsuit filed by a 67-year-old man who claims asbestos in Colgate's…

In a response filed on July 11, Zimmer Biomet expressed opposition to a motion filed by the plaintiffs to consolidate Zimmer hip lawsuits over the…

Following numerous reports on the risk of hypoglycemic (low blood sugar) coma associated with the antibiotic class fluoroquinolones, the U.S. FDA announced the…