Latest Mass Tort News and Updates

On Monday, California's third virtual Asbestos trial kicked off with an argument by a former Navy sailor's counsel that the plaintiff was exposed to cancer-causing asbestos,…

U.S. District Judge William H. Orrick III, overseeing the federal JUUL multidistrict litigation (MDL), issued an order establishing the method for…

On Friday, Indivior PLC, a Chesterfield County-based drug company, agreed to pay $600 million after its subsidiary Indivior Solutions Inc., pleaded guilty in federal court in Abingdon over its…

Sanofi-Aventis US LLC and GlaxoSmithKline LLC in a pair of U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filings said that they are facing a probe by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) over allegations that the heartburn drug,…

Last Tuesday, a Missouri appellate court denied Johnson & Johnson's (J&J) motion to relook at its decision that upheld a jury's verdict over the company's talcum powder…

U.S. District Judge Casey Rodgers, presiding over all 3M earplugs lawsuits, issued an order last Friday, rejecting the manufacturer’s government contractor defense…

On Tuesday, the Sixth Circuit Judge, David McKeague, questioned the requirement of the opioid negotiation class after hearing arguments from the manufacturers and distributors who…

Judge Vince Chhabria, overseeing the Roundup multidistrict litigation docket, in a case management conference held via zoom, indicated that he would retain the stay on the…

On Monday, three major law firms representing several plaintiffs involved in the Roundup litigation indicated that they reached an agreement with the manufacturer, Bayer.

Bayer AG has made the new…

Johnson & Johnson (J&J) is facing insurance fraud charges over opioid marketing and downplaying its addiction risks to doctors and elderly patients. The charges were filed by New York’s Department…