Latest Mass Tort News and Updates

A recent asbestos trial concluded with a New York Supreme court for Erie County announcing $7 million in favor of the plaintiffs representing James Stock Jr., now a 60-year-old and a former laborer at Jenkins Brothers Valve Company. The…

Johnson & Johnson’s Talcum powder supplier Imerys Talc America has agreed to settle the claims made by a plaintiff that years of…

Amidst recent U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) warnings regarding flesh-eating infections due to Invokana and similar diabetes drugs, a product liability lawsuit…

A majority opinion issued recently by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit rejected the class action lawsuit, filed by Mona Estrada in April 2014, claiming economic damages for all the women who purchased Johnson &…

A California Jury asked Johnson & Johnson to pay $29.2 million as damages along with punitive damages in the sixth talcum powder trial concerning…

The U.S. District Vince Chhabria presiding over the Roundup multidistrict litigation has assigned 4 cases for Spring 2019 trial and has ordered all…

The defendant involved in the Stryker LFIT V40 Femoral Head MDL submitted a brief on September 6, requesting Massachusetts federal judge to deny the…

Judge Vince Chhabria, overseeing the Roundup litigation has circulated a draft of a plaintiff fact sheet (PFS) after both the parties weighed in with…

The U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation (JPML)  will consider oral arguments on whether to consolidate all Gadolinium Deposition…

In the September 21 order issued by Chief Judge Glenn T. Suddaby for the Northern District of New York, a $1 million Risperdal verdict was overturned indicating…