Latest Mass Tort News and Updates

On July 2, the children of a woman filed a lawsuit against Merck & Co. for the death of their mother allegedly caused due to the side effects of the shingles vaccine…

A plaintiff was awarded $500,000 in damages by the Philadelphia jury in the verdict against Johnson & Johnson’s unit Ethicon on June 28, after finding that the design defects in a…

GlaxoSmithKline has requested the federal judge presiding over all federal Zofran birth defect lawsuits to revisit the preemption defense, based on a recent ruling by…

A recent complaint filed by a plaintiff on June 14 in the U.S. District Court of New Jersey indicated that he received contaminated valsartan pills for…

On June 13, a Florida woman filed a lawsuit against Johnson & Johnson (J&J) and its Ethicon subsidiary for selling defective and substandard hernia mesh…

Johnson & Johnson (J&J) will face a new trial on the issue of punitive damages, following the $12 million awarded in compensatory damages to a plaintiff on June 12, who was diagnosed with mesothelioma due to exposure to…

According to a motion filed this month, Plaintiff  Executive Committee (PEC) indicated that Merck has refused or delayed to provide adverse reports which include details of injuries, complications, and other negative experiences…

According to Monsanto, repeated misconduct by plaintiffs’ counsel influenced jurors who awarded more than $2 billion to a couple in California in the trial over…

On June 17, plaintiffs filed a motion seeking certification for a negotiation class, a new structure that will be representing all 24,500 cities and counties in the United States as part of an…

An in-person status conference was convened by the Southern District Court of Ohio on June 25, with counsel for PSC and counsel for defendants, to discuss various matters on the Bard…