Latest Mass Tort News and Updates

Walmart has become the latest major player in the drug industry to announce a plan to settle lawsuits filed by state and local governments across the US over the toll of powerful prescription…

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued a notice that could help increase access to opioid overdose-reversing naloxone drug products without a prescription, paving the way…

Although the makers of JUUL and other popular e-cigarettes have marketed their products as safer than smoking tobacco cigarettes, a new study suggests that vaping actually…

The United States District Judge presiding over all federal hernia mesh lawsuits involving Bard products will meet with lawyers involved in the litigation next week as…

New York will get $116 million from Walmart's $3.1 billion nationwide opioid settlement to settle allegations that it played a role in the nation's opioid crisis.

The…

The Florida Department of Health has rejected the new CDC guidelines for opioid prescribing, citing the ongoing opioid crisis and the recent fentanyl explosion.

The CDC updated…

According to federal regulators, at least 260 deaths have been linked to recalled Philips CPAP sleep apnea machines,…

As part of a multistate settlement with two pharmaceutical companies over their alleged role in the opioid crisis, Massachusetts will receive $130 million.

Teva and Allergan…

The United States District Judge presiding over all Bard hernia mesh lawsuits pending in the MDL (multidistrict litigation) has postponed the next bellwether trial until May…

A group of plaintiffs has asked the court to lift the stay on the earplug hearing loss lawsuits and allow the cases to proceed.

Plaintiffs in 13 cases asked the judge on…