Mass Tort News

A group of attorneys has struck a $6 billion deal with the Sackler family, who is the owners of Purdue Pharma LP, over widespread litigation fueling the opioid epidemic.

A famous American dermatologist conducted awful experiments from 1951 to 1974, like injecting the African American prisoners with asbestos and…

New Hanover County was the first North Carolina County that sued major pharmaceutical manufacturers and distributors over their roles in fueling the nationwide opioid crisis.

The overdose rate…

A Vietnam War veteran who got diagnosed with pleural mesothelioma due to the daily use of Old Spice Talcum Powder for 22 years has been issued a $4.8 million verdict against Whittaker Clark & Daniels, a talc supplier.

On April 16, 2021…

The soon-to-be concluding 3M earplugs trial will impact settlement negotiations if any or affect the proceedings of hundreds of thousands of 3M combat arms earplugs lawsuits pending across the United States.

On March 29, the first…

On Monday, a petition was filed with the U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation (JPML), requesting consolidation of Belviq cancer claims filed by the former users of the…

On Monday, an order was filed in which U.S. District Judge Gershwin A. Drain released Argon Medical Devices Inc. from an…

Last Friday, a three-judge panel from the Third Circuit restored a lawsuit filed by a Louisiana man who alleged LivaNova’s 3T Heater-Cooler System for contracting…

On April 1, an order was filed by the U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation (JPML) in which the panel…

On Friday President Biden's administration released a plan, which called for a nearly 25 percent increase in discretionary funding to fight against the COVID-19 pandemic and the opioid…