Latest Mass Tort News and Updates

U.S. District Judge William B. Shubb confirmed on June 11 that Roundup and other glyphosate-based weedkiller products in the state of California need not…

A 15 member Massachusetts jury ruled in favor of Boston Scientific over its pelvic mesh litigation, indicating that a plaintiff was given a proper warning about the adverse effects of the…

The plaintiffs and defendants involved in the Stockert 3T Heater Cooler System Litigation submitted a case management plan on June 19, 2018, for…

U.S. District Judge Aaron Polster, overseeing the opioid litigation, denied the request put forth by attorneys to form a separate MDL track for babies with neonatal abstinence…

A Denver federal jury awarded $383.5 million to the families of three patients who died of cardiac arrest after treatment at DaVita Dialysis Center. The jury granted each of the three parties $125 million in punitive damages and compensatory…

Chief Justice Leo E. Strine Jr. reversed the dismissal verdict of a "take-home" asbestos case involving the death of a worker’s spouse due to regular…

Bayer and Johnson & Johnson are seeking interlocutory appeal over Xarelto lawsuits filed against them, asking the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit to dispose of claims…

U.S. District Judge William Duffey who overlooked Wright Medical Technology Inc.'s defective hip implants MDL, released an order on June 22, to close 

As per the U.S. District Court, District of New Jersey court order released on June 20, 2018, the first bellwether trial for the kidney injury lawsuits against Nexium and…

U.S. District Judge M. Casey Rodgers ordered parties involved in the Abilify gambling litigation to reach on a common agreement regarding the selection of trial cases by the end of…