Latest Mass Tort News and Updates

Last week, the 6th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel reinstated an Ethicon pelvic mesh lawsuit, ruling that the trial court misjudged the claim as time-barred under…

The Oklahoma state judge approved the $85 million deal between Teva Pharmaceuticals and the state of Oklahoma, over the company’s alleged role in the opioid epidemic…

The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a $3.6 million jury award over C.R. Bard's IVC filter, after finding that state-law duty to warn was not preempted by federal edicts.…

On August 12, Johnson & Johnson (J&J) sent a letter asking U.S. District Judge Freda Wolfson, overseeing the talcum powder lawsuits, to appoint court-approved experts to…

On August 20, Bayer officials disclosed in a press release that the company had reached an agreement with plaintiff law firms to pay approximately $1.6 billion to settle nearly 39,000 …

The safety and effectiveness of inferior vena cava (IVC) filters were questioned once again when a new study suggested that IVC filters might increase the risk of venous thromboembolism when used in patients with…

A small victory came in for a pelvic mesh litigation case for an Ohio woman. The case had proceeded to the damages hearing post losing out to the defendant Johnson & Johnson's Ethicon, last month. Judge Michael Erdos reasoned that there was…

J&J's Ethicon faces another pelvic mesh defective product case for two of its mesh products: TVT-SECUR and TVT (tension-free vaginal tape), at the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas. This is the sixth trial faced by the manufacturer so far.…

Another Transvaginal Mesh manufacturer, Endo International plc (Endo), announced this August that it was setting aside an additional $775 million rounding off to a near total of $2.6 billion to resolve the remaining 22,000 Transvaginal Mesh…

Ethicon's Physiomesh Flexible Composite Mesh lawsuits are moving ahead at a structured pace; this comes after the centralization of all the federally-filed Physiomesh lawsuits in the Northern District of Georgia…