Latest Mass Tort News and Updates

On Tuesday, the United States Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation (JPML) issued a transfer order, stating that the panel finds the…

In the December issue of Pediatrics, a study was published by the researchers with Children’s National Hospital and the University of Texas at Austin, indicating that…

On Monday, the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit affirmed a Tennessee federal court's decision to dismiss a woman's product liability claim against Johnson & Johnson (J&J) Healthcare Systems Inc. and its subsidiary…

Earlier this month, U.S. District Judge Edmund A. Sargus Jr., presiding over C.R. Bard Inc.'s hernia mesh lawsuits, ruled that the manufacturer cannot present its Ventralight…

On Tuesday, the 2nd Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals dismissed the Mirena multidistrict litigation after finding that the plaintiffs lacked evidence over the allegations that the birth…

On December 7, plaintiffs involved in the lawsuits over hearing loss from 3M Combat Arms (CAEv2) earplugs filed a motion asking the presiding U.S. District Judge, Casey…

On Monday, Bayer, the manufacturer of the controversial birth control device, Essure, issued the…

On December 4, U.S. District Judge Claire C. Cecchi, overseeing the proton pump inhibitor (PPI) drugs litigation, issued a case management order (CMO)…

The first bellwether jury trial of Bard hernia mesh lawsuit has been rescheduled to begin on April 19, 2021, by the U.S. District Judge considering the ongoing pandemic.

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On Wednesday, U.S. District Judge Janet Bond Arterton in Hartford, Connecticut, at a hearing held via videoconference, sentenced a former Insys Therapeutics Inc. sales manager to three years of probation for his role in paying doctors kickbacks…