Latest Mass Tort News and Updates

On December 3, 2018, the U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear a petition filed by the parents of a National Hockey League player. The petition stated that the player lost his life due to an overdose of…

As per an order issued on November 20 in the U.S. District Court, Southern District of Ohio, the bellwether trials involving C.R. Bard Inc.'s polypropylene mesh lawsuits will commence in 2020. The plan for three trials has been set with…

On Monday, Cuyahoga County of Ohio announced that a position is created to ensure that all the settlement amount received from the opioid litigation be used to combat the epidemic.

Brandy Carney, the county's former chief of public safety…

Earlier this month, Bayer faced another lawsuit by a laborer who alleged six years of Roundup exposure for his cancer.

According to a court memorandum, the plaintiff…

On November 16, attorneys representing a plaintiff in a lawsuit filed against Monsanto company requested U.S District Judge Vince Chhabria for an expedited trial as the plaintiff has less than six months to live as per his oncologist.…

The U.S. government sided with the German company, Bayer, claiming that the ruling that found the pesticide Roundup causes cancer should be overturned.

According to…

On Friday, Jurors in state court in St. Louis favored Johnson & Johnson (J&J) over a lawsuit brought by a woman alleging that the company’s talcum-based baby powder…

Last month, a Tennessee judge dismissed a lawsuit that labeled Big Pharma opioid manufacturers as drug dealers of opioids. This is the result of lawsuits filed by 14…