Latest Mass Tort News and Updates

Last month 86 different plaintiffs filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California against Gilead Sciences alleging side effects of tenofovir disoproxil fumarate (…

Judge Robert L. Miller Jr. overseeing the Biomet M2a hip implant multidistrict litigation transferred 46 cases to the plaintiffs' home courts to resolve case-specific issues such as timeliness and spoliation. The judge opined in a…

Closely following Actavis and Endo, AbbVie Inc. recently filed a statement in Illinois federal court about reaching on a tentative deal to settle all Testosterone lawsuits pending in the multidistrict litigation against them.

Ethicon Inc. and Johnson & Johnson have submitted a request on September 6 with the 7th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals to reconsider their motion for summary judgment and a new trial for a Prolift…

A plaintiff, who sued Johnson & Johnson for his alleged mesothelioma from asbestos exposure, agreed to dismiss his claims on the eve of a South…

Middlesex County Superior Judge Heidi Brieger told the jury that a plaintiff's late husband developed lung cancer as a result of smoking cigarettes and exposure to…

The Fourth District Appellate Court upended a $4.6 million verdict awarded to a plaintiff who claimed to develop mesothelioma (lung cancer) from inhaling …