Latest Mass Tort News and Updates

On April 19, a Los Angeles County jury awarded $4.4 million to the family of a former bowling alley owner on finding that asbestos supplier Honeywell International Inc. was responsible for his death.

The victim, who co-…

In a pretrial order issued on April 19, Judge Casey Rodgers, laid out the plaintiff leadership structure, asking product liability lawyers representing veterans in the 3M…

On the eve of trial, Johnson & Johnson's subsidiary Ethicon Inc. agreed to pay $9.9 million to settle the first lawsuit brought by Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson accusing the company of downplaying the risks of its…

On April 21, the FDA announced a recall for an Alvogen Fentanyl Transdermal System over mislabeling issues in some cartons. The agency indicated that some cartons labeled as having 12 mcg/h patched were actually containing 50 mcg/h…

After detecting the third cancer-causing impurity, N-Nitroso-N-methyl-4-aminobutyric acid (NMBA), the FDA and Torrent Pharmaceuticals have expanded the nationwide recall for generic losartan pills on April 18, 2019.

The…

In a case management order issued on April 17, Judge Jane Triche Milazzo presiding over all Taxotere hair loss lawsuits announced a schedule for the first…

In a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filing, Bausch Health Companies Inc. (BHC) struck a deal with Johnson & Johnson to cover the costs of litigation involved in personal injury and product liability lawsuits linked to…

On Tuesday, April 23, Monsanto asked a California appeals court to reverse a $78.5 million verdict awarded in the first Roundup trial over the…

On Wednesday, April 24, a Philadelphia jury awarded $120 million to a woman who claimed she suffered incontinence and chronic pain due to Ethicon Inc.'s defectively designed…

With an almost settlement reached between the plaintiffs and the defendant of the Zimmer Knee Implant MDL No. 2272 for an undisclosed amount, there is…