Latest Mass Tort News and Updates

On Tuesday, March 26, the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New York upheld the dismissal of 60 Eliquis lawsuits targeted at Bristol-Myers Squibb and Pfizer Inc., related to the dangers of their blood thinner drug.

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A favorable settlement amounting to a total of $775 million was announced on Monday by Bayer AG and Johnson & Johnson’s subsidiary Janssen Pharmaceuticals to resolve over 25,000 lawsuits pending in the U.S. courts over…

More than 500 cities, counties and Native American tribes sued eight members of the billionaire Sacker family, who own Purdue Pharma, in the Southern District of New York, accusing them of the…

The first bellwether trial, underway in Louisiana federal court against Sanofi-Aventis U.S. LLC over claims that the chemotherapy drug Taxotere causes patients to…

Los Angeles County is the latest to issue a ban on the infamous glyphosate-based weed killer, Roundup after a San Francisco federal jury ruled in the…

Johnson & Johnson's attempt to get all out-of-state plaintiffs dismissed, from the Ethicon pelvic mesh litigation in Philadelphia, was rejected…

According to an order issued on April 1, the federal court overseeing the hernia mesh injury claims, targeted at C.R. Bard's polypropylene products,…

Johnson & Johnson (J&J) filed an appeal with the Oklahoma Supreme Court on Wednesday over an Oklahoma judge's $572 million order against the company and its subsidiaries for fueling the state's…

Purdue Pharma LP's owners, the billionaire Sackler family, asked a Massachusetts judge to dismiss state Attorney General Maura Healey’s lawsuit which blames them for the national…

On Tuesday, U.S. District Judge M. Casey Rodgers dismissed 149 cases linked to the side effects of the antipsychotic drug Abilify due to plaintiffs' failure to…