Latest Mass Tort News and Updates

On November 1, Special Master Joel Pisano, appointed by the U.S. District Judge Freda L. Wolfson presiding over all federal talcum powder lawsuits, approved a supplemental…

Last week, a California appellate court declared the $13 million verdict made by a lower court jury in favor of a mesothelioma victim's family.

According to the court memorandum, the victim was affected by the rare and deadly…

In a motion filed on January 16, 2019, Bristol-Myers Squibb Co and Otsuka Pharmaceutical Company requested the judge overseeing the multidistrict litigation for the antipsychotic drug Abilify to toss gambling lawsuits filed by 550…

According to the January 16 ruling of a federal judge, Pennsylvania courts can now have jurisdiction over talcum powder lawsuits since the defendant followed state law…

On January 15, U.S. District Judge David Campbell of the District of Arizona, overseeing thousands of lawsuits involving C.R. Bard's IVC filter, denied the…

The Missouri Supreme Court passed an order on Monday, January 14, which temporarily paused an upcoming talcum powder trial involving claims filed by 13…

A Missoula City Council committee agreed to join the opioid lawsuit filed by other governments in Montana, including Great Falls and Lake County, against the…

On January 14, 2019, a woman and her husband filed a product liability lawsuit against Johnson & Johnson and its Ethicon subsidiary in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana as the woman suffered painful and…

Jerry Garguilo, a New York state court judge, on Wednesday, set a trial date of January 20 for the lawsuits brought by the state attorney general and the Long Island counties of Nassau and Suffolk against a group of…

On January 9, 2019, the federal Court overseeing the coordinated pretrial proceedings for hundreds of Onglyza lawsuits issued the second Case Management Order, which…