Latest Mass Tort News and Updates

Last Friday, Biomet Inc. filed a pair of briefs seeking a judgment or a new trial over a federal jury’s $3.55 million judgment in a lawsuit brought by a couple alleging the company's…

On Monday, Bristol-Myers Squibb and Sanofi S.A. were ordered to pay more than $834 million to the state of Hawaii over failure to warn the patients about the risk associated with the blood thinner…

Last week, a document was submitted to the court by the attorneys representing plaintiffs who have filed lawsuits over Valsartan exposure indicating that a group of 28 cases has…

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR), issued on Friday, indicated that from 2013 to 2019, the age-…

U.S. District Judge Landya McCafferty of the United States District Court for the District of New Hampshire, overseeing all Atrium C-Qur hernia mesh lawsuits, rescheduled the…

U.S. District Judge Richard Story, presiding over all federal hernia mesh lawsuits involving Ethicon Physiomesh, has released a trial schedule with the first case starting in March.

Johnson…

Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) trial staff has urged that the commission should not delay the virtual trial slated for April 13 against the tobacco manufacturer Altria's $12.8 billion investment in electronic cigarette company…

A Louisiana woman reached a settlement with Allergan USA Inc. over a lawsuit filed against the company over its allegedly defective Natrelle Style 410 FX implants, which had to be removed after they got ruptured.

According to the lawsuit…

On January 22, U.S. District Judge Todd W. Robinson of the Southern District of California favored Johnson & Johnson (J&J) Consumer Inc. and Bausch Health US LLC over a lawsuit that claimed the defendants for misleading representations in…

On January 25, U.S. District Judge M. Casey Rodgers, presiding over the 3M earplugs multidistrict litigation, issued an order stating that trial for the three cases that were…