Latest Mass Tort News and Updates

Taxotere: – MDL No. 2740; in Re: Taxotere (Docetaxel) Products Liability Litigation, created on October 4, 2016, under Judge Kurt D. Engelhardt in the Eastern District of Louisiana; the bellwether trials will begin on January 28, 2019; April 8,…

U.S. District Judge Dan Aaron Polster, overseeing the Opioid multidistrict litigation (MDL) No: 2804, released a court order on May 8, requiring the Drug Enforcement…

Los Angeles has now joined several others to fight the Opioid epidemic battle. Recently, a Los Angeles city attorney filed a lawsuit in the California district court against a group of…

In April, a group of plaintiffs affected by C. R. Bard's hernia mesh products had filed a motion for centralization before the JPML, requesting all Bard polypropylene…

Federally-filed Smith & Nephew Birmingham Hip Replacement litigation is witnessing a steady growth in size with additional cases being filed by plaintiffs. As of April, there were more than 250 cases filed as a part of this…

The U.S. FDA announced a recall for Terumo’s Sarns TCM and TCM II Cooling and Heating Systems used for regulating patient body temperature during surgery. The FDA was prompted to take this decision after Terumo sent a letter to…

A safety alert by hip implant manufacturer Stryker reveals that certain sizes of their LFIT V40 Hip implant may rupture. The company received a higher than…

Whittaker Clark & Daniels, Johnson & Johnson Talcum Powder supplier, submitted an appeal to dismiss an asbestos-in-talc lawsuit filed against them,…

Last week, Johnson & Johnson's (J&J) subsidiary Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc. filed a response over the centralization of Elmiron lawsuits, indicating that the company…

Decorah Community School District, a rural public school district located in Decorah, Iowa, filed a lawsuit against manufacturers of JUUL e-cigarettes, claiming that they targeted children by employing illegal marketing tactics, which resulted in…