Latest Mass Tort News and Updates

A $26 billion national opioid settlement involving drugmaker Johnson & Johnson and three major distributors has been finalized, and the funds would soon be consigned to every state and local…

The state of Washington would get an additional $113 million from Purdue Pharma and the Sackler family over the company and family's role in the opioid crisis across the…

3M has urged a U.S. appeals court to bring an end to the lawsuits brought by service members with allegations that the combat earplugs were defective, resulting in hearing loss for the military service members.

3M has already paid $160…

Kentucky has reached a settlement of $483 million from the $26 billion national opioid settlement with a drugmaker and three major drug distributors of the U.S.

Current…

A group of attorneys has struck a $6 billion deal with the Sackler family, who is the owners of Purdue Pharma LP, over widespread litigation fueling the opioid epidemic.

A famous American dermatologist conducted awful experiments from 1951 to 1974, like injecting the African American prisoners with asbestos and…

New Hanover County was the first North Carolina County that sued major pharmaceutical manufacturers and distributors over their roles in fueling the nationwide opioid crisis.

The overdose rate…

A Vietnam War veteran who got diagnosed with pleural mesothelioma due to the daily use of Old Spice Talcum Powder for 22 years has been issued a $4.8 million verdict against Whittaker Clark & Daniels, a talc supplier.

On April 16, 2021…

The soon-to-be concluding 3M earplugs trial will impact settlement negotiations if any or affect the proceedings of hundreds of thousands of 3M combat arms earplugs lawsuits pending across the United States.

On March 29, the first…

On Monday, a petition was filed with the U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation (JPML), requesting consolidation of Belviq cancer claims filed by the former users of the…