Latest Mass Tort News and Updates

On Wednesday, November 6, a federal bankruptcy judge extended the temporary protection for Purdue Pharma and members of the Sackler family against the opioid lawsuit until…

A French Court canceled Bayer's license for Monsanto's controversial weed-killer Roundup Pro 360 following a court ruling that the regulators…

In an order issued on January 7, a Louisiana federal Court Judge denied summary judgment requests filed by two asbestos defendants and concluded that…

The recent $33 million verdict by a Philadelphia jury to a woman who was injured using a blood filter manufactured by the company Rex Medical has resulted in Cook Medical to release a statement defending their IVC filter devices.

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The 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a summary judgment motion granted to C.R. Bard in a hernia mesh lawsuit filed by the estate of a victim who died…

According to an order issued on January 7, 2019, Judge Alice Gibney of the Rhode Island Superior Court found that the claims filed by a plaintiff in a hernia…

An analysis published on January 14, 2019, in the peer-reviewed journal, Environmental Sciences Europe, challenges the 2017 decision of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) to tag glyphosate as safe to use and non-…

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recently reported that around 9% of rural residents received an opioid prescription in recent years as…

The widow of a factory worker who died of pleural mesothelioma due to exposure to asbestos while working in a chemical company was awarded $2.38 million in compensatory damages on Tuesday by a New Jersey state court jury. The second…

Johnson & Johnson and its DePuy Orthopaedics unit agreed on Tuesday, January 22, to pay $120 million to resolve defective hip implant claims filed by 46 U.S. states over the company's metal-on-metal (MoM) hip implant complications…