Latest Mass Tort News and Updates

Wright Medical Technology, Inc., named as the defendant in a hip implant lawsuit filed by a plaintiff, was granted a partial motion to dismiss a part of the plaintiff's complaint but denied the motion to strike her request for punitive…

U.S. District Judge M. Casey Rodgers, overseeing the Abilify gambling multidistrict litigation No. 2734, granted plaintiffs' omnibus motion request to remand 21 cases to California…

Pursuant to the January 2018 decision by a three-judge-panel in Pennsylvania Superior Court, plaintiffs can now seek punitive damages in lawsuits filed over male breast growth caused by side effects of…

The parties involved in the Ethicon hernia mesh litigation filed a notice on November 5 in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia,…

In an order issued on November 19, Judge Catherine Blake of the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland tossed 12 complaints filed over defects of Smith & Nephew Birmingham Hip Resurfacing system, stating the statute of…

On November 20, agribusiness giant Monsanto filed a notice of Appeal in San Francisco Superior Court challenging the $78 million verdict in favor of a cancer-stricken California man who blamed the company's…

On November 13, a California jury awarded $30.2 million to a former construction worker who was diagnosed with mesothelioma, a rare form of cancer caused due to…

Last week, a Connecticut federal court granted summary judgment to General Electric over an asbestos case, stating there was no material fact that the company’s products…

Mediator Ken Feinberg, appointed by the court last May for court-mandated settlement talks over allegations that Bayer AG’s glyphosate-based Roundup weed killer caused…

FDA will hold a meeting next month to discuss testing methods for the baby powder, following a nationwide recall after federal regulators found segments of asbestos…