Latest Mass Tort News and Updates

The plaintiff of the 3rd Xarelto bellwether trial, which went in favor of the Xarelto defendants J&J's Janssen Pharmaceuticals and Bayer in August 2017, faced a defeat again when…

Plaintiffs of the Stryker LFIT V40 Femoral Head Products Liability Litigation have filed the master complaint under MDL No. 2768, trials for which will commence September 16, 2019, onward.…

A federal judge presiding over the Bair Hugger MDL No. 2666 in the District of Minnesota ordered two Bair Hugger warming blanket lawsuits to be ready for the bellwether trials on and after April 30, 2018. Plaintiffs of…

A new Talcum Powder lawsuit has been added to the nearly 5,500 existing talcum powder cases filed against giant conglomerate Johnson & Johnson across the country. This case has been filed in Connecticut by the family of a deceased woman who…

Luzerne County has filed a federal RICO-based lawsuit against various opioid manufacturers and wholesale distributors accusing them of racketeering and illegally marketing painkillers that are highly addictive. The suit is…

The first Philadelphia Xarelto trial began as per schedule this November. The plaintiff, an Indiana woman, alleged she suffered serious internal bleeding while on Xarelto for treating Atrial fibrillation. Compensations have…

After a three week trial, the federal jury ruled in favor of Cook Medical in what was the first trial over the significant injuries caused by their Celect IVC filter brand. The jury failed to find the company at fault…

Although J&J is witnessing a 'win some - lose some' situation in the ovarian cancer lawsuits linked to its Talcum Powder and Shower to Shower talc products, it won the first Mesothelioma case. The decision was taken by a…

J&J and its subsidiary DePuy Orthopaedics were ordered to pay $247 million to a group of 6 plaintiffs by a Texas jury for the alleged injuries linked to their DePuy Pinnacle Hip Implant. The case is the fourth bellwether to go to trial and is…

Mirena lawsuits' MDL 2767 linked to intracranial hypertension also called pseudotumor cerebri were centralized in April 2017 before Judge Paul A. Engelmayer in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.…