Latest Mass Tort News and Updates

Plaintiffs involved in Monsanto's weed killer Roundup litigation opposed the federal judge's proposal to bifurcate upcoming bellwether trials into separate general causation and specification trials and called the decision as "…

As per a joint status report submitted by the parties of Proton Pump Inhibitors (PPI) litigation on December 14, there are currently 16,000 tolling argument claims submitted. If the arrangement is not extended, each of these claims may…

As per a notice posted at the Federal Registry, members of the U.S. Food & Drug Administration's (FDA)  Obstetrics and Gynecology Devices Advisory Committee will soon convene a meeting on February 12, 2019, to discuss…

In an order submitted on December 10, the New York Supreme Court rejected Colgate-Palmolive's motion for summary judgment in a Cashmere Bouquet talcum…

In a December 14 ruling, 7th Circuit of U.S. Court of Appeals Judge Amy St. Eve stated the Boeing Co.‘s removal of an asbestos-linked mesothelioma case to federal court…

Attorneys representing the family of a man who died of mesothelioma three years ago are requesting the court to uphold a $13 million asbestos verdict…

On December 12, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)’s National Center for Health Statistics published a National Vital Statistics Report warning that the…

Johnson & Johnson recently agreed to pay more than $400 million to settle some product liability cases concerning Pinnacle hip-replacement devices. The officials indicated an average of about $125,000 per case to resolve about 3,300…

In an order submitted on December 18, defendants must furnish eight exemplary samples for ten different variations of Ethicon Physiomesh at the earliest by next month. The Court expects some of the samples to be kept for other purposes…

In a drug safety alert sent out on December 20, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) warned that systemic use of fluoroquinolone antibiotics like Levaquin…