Latest Mass Tort News and Updates

The first Bellwether trial in Bair Hugger System multidistrict litigation (MDL) commenced on May 14, 2018, in Minnesota Federal Court. According to the plaintiff…

Los Angeles jury announced $4 million as punitive damages on May 24, 2018, in favor of Plaintiff Joanne Anderson, who was diagnosed with mesothelioma and awarded $21.7 million as compensatory damages on May 23. The plaintiff alleged she…

On May 19, Judith Harms from Minnesota filed a product liability lawsuit against the manufacturer of Zimmer Kinectiv Hip Replacement System in…

On May 17, 2018, U.S. District Judge Dennis Saylor ordered both parties involved in the Zofran litigation over birth defects to pick a total of 16 cases to proceed to…

A 68-year old woman was awarded $21.7 million on May 23 by the Los Angeles jury for the lawsuit filed against Johnson & Johnson and its talc supplier Imerys, claiming she was diagnosed with mesothelioma after being exposed to…

Martha Karen Jones filed a complaint against C.R.Bard in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee for the infections caused due to the defectively designed Bard Dulex…

The plaintiffs and defendants involved in Proton Pump Inhibitors (PPIs) kidney injury litigation submitted contradicting proposals last month on how to proceed with the multidistrict litigation (MDL) witnessing a growing number of…

Observing the growing number of Ethicon Hernia Mesh complaints, the Federal Court decided to adopt the Plaintiff and Defendant Fact Sheets, last week, for use…

C.R. Bard filed a motion on April 23, 2018, seeking a new trial after Plaintiff Sherri B was rewarded $4 million in the March IVC Filter bellwether trial by the…

Johnson & Johnson, Imery’s Talc America, and the Rite Aid drug store chain are the defendants named in the Talcum Powder lawsuit that went to trial on May…