Latest Mass Tort News and Updates

On Tuesday, Thailand's National Hazardous Substances Committee approved a ban on three highly controversial pesticides: glyphosate, paraquat, and chlorpyrifos, which will be effective from December 1, 2019.

The ban is the result…

When two generic companies manufacturing valsartan recalled hundreds of lots of the blood-pressure medicine last July, Alembic Pharmaceuticals was unaffected by…

British pharmaceutical company Reckitt Benckiser Group PLC along with the attorneys general for New York, California, Indiana, Ohio, Virginia, and Washington, negotiated a $700 million deal over Suboxone, a drug that helps reduce…

In a complaint filed by a plaintiff in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana, she suffered an allergic reaction in July 2018, after being injected with various…

Johnson & Johnson and its DePuy Orthopaedics unit are about to resolve a large number of lawsuits targeted at their metal-on-metal Pinnacle hip implants.

Plaintiff lawyer Mark Lanier told that the consumers and the…

U.S. District Judge F. Dennis Saylor denied GlaxoSmithKline PLC’s request to dismiss hundreds of birth defect lawsuits filed by women, who used Zofran as an anti-…

On Monday, two Ohio counties and four drug companies reached a tentative settlement of roughly $260 million at the eleventh hour to avoid an opioid trial.

The deal…

In a lawsuit filed on January 30, 2019, in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Arkansas, a plaintiff claimed that taking generic valsartan…

The plaintiffs involved in lawsuits filed against Johnson & Johnson over problems with the Ethicon Prolene Hernia System (PHS) have filed a request in New Jersey…

In an opinion issued on February 4, 2019, Superior Judge Mary M. Johnston gave a green signal to Delaware Attorney General to pursue claims against drug manufacturers who downplayed the addictive nature of…