Latest Mass Tort News and Updates

Bayer AG is planning to stop private sales of Roundup herbicide as a part of ongoing settlement talks to resolve thousands that it is facing for causing non-Hodgkin’s…

In an order issued on August 29, 2018, Judge Lorna Schofield stated that the jury found no valid evidence in the allegations by a plaintiff that Janssen Pharmaceuticals is liable for design defects in their antipsychotic drug…

U.S. District Judge John R. Tunheim announced in a pretrial order issued on August 17 that 18 more cases would be included in the second stage of bellwether trials for nerve damages linked to Avelox and Cipro, each party is required to…

As per an order issued on August 24 in Middlesex County Superior court, an initial Case Management Conference for Taxotere lawsuits has been scheduled for October 4…

The U.S Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation (JPML) has decided to consolidate and centralize the growing number of Zantac lawsuits before U.S. District Judge Robin L…

Delaware Superior Court Judge Charles Butler dismissed 200 talcum powder ovarian cancer lawsuits on Monday, which were filed by out-of-state plaintiffs…

Last month 86 different plaintiffs filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California against Gilead Sciences alleging side effects of tenofovir disoproxil fumarate (…

Judge Robert L. Miller Jr. overseeing the Biomet M2a hip implant multidistrict litigation transferred 46 cases to the plaintiffs' home courts to resolve case-specific issues such as timeliness and spoliation. The judge opined in a…

Closely following Actavis and Endo, AbbVie Inc. recently filed a statement in Illinois federal court about reaching on a tentative deal to settle all Testosterone lawsuits pending in the multidistrict litigation against them.

Ethicon Inc. and Johnson & Johnson have submitted a request on September 6 with the 7th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals to reconsider their motion for summary judgment and a new trial for a Prolift…