Latest Mass Tort News and Updates

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) declared that the Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategy (REMS) for transmucosal immediate-release fentanyl (TIRF) medications was updated on March 27, in view of implementing a new…

A day after a California jury awarded $80 million to a man suffering from cancer due to Roundup use, an Oakland jury heard opening statements for a…

U.S. District Judge Richard Story, presiding over all federal Ethicon Physiomesh lawsuits, in the Northern District of Georgia, recently announced an almost two-month delay for the beginning of the first Ethicon Physiomesh Trial. 

To settle the ongoing legal battle over the opioid overdose crisis, Johnson & Johnson (J&J) announced a $20.4 million deal with Cuyahoga and Summit counties…

On Wednesday, March 27, in three separate trials held in Oklahoma, Los Angeles and New York, J&J confidentially settled three women's lawsuits which blamed…

Four online networks, operating a total of 10 websites, have come under the radar of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), who have jointly issued warning letters to each network…

A California man was awarded $80 million in damages in the first federal trial against Monsanto, as the jury found that glyphosate exposure from Roundup…

On Friday, a 12-member California jury in Los Angeles passed a $40.3 million verdict in favor of a couple. The jury held Johnson & Johnson (J&J) liable for causing the woman to develop mesothelioma.

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U.S. District Judge Edmund A. Sargus, presiding over all federal hernia mesh lawsuit issued a case management order on March 22, approving 12 cases selected by…

OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma and its owners, the Sackler family, agreed to pay $270 million to escape from a state court trial over the company's involvement in the opioid…