Mass Tort News

The jury selection for the much-talked-about first bellwether trial involving Bayer AG Monsanto and a 70-year old plaintiff began as scheduled on February 25, in San Francisco, California.  

The plaintiff, who used…

On August 16, 2021, New Orleans District Attorney agreed to a $2 million settlement for an exonerated man who had spent 23 years in prison on rape and murder charges.

Jason Williams, New Orleans Paris District Attorney, states that the…

A California jury has cleared four major drug companies from liabilities in the opioids epidemic litigation that demanded the companies to pay tens of billions of dollars to compensate for the opioid crisis…

Last week, a study was published in the medical journal Cancers, which indicated that users of the recalled heartburn drug Zantac…

On December 16, the New York Supreme Court for New York County awarded summary judgment to East Manufacturing Corp., a trailer manufacturer, after finding that the plaintiffs' counsel failed to establish that the plaintiff’s decedent was exposed…

On December 15, Health Canada, the department of the Government of Canada responsible for the country's federal health policy, released a report titled …

The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has sued Walmart over the illegal distribution of opioids that has fueled the opioid crisis throughout the nation.

The federal government…

Last Friday, Biomet Inc. filed a motion in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri, asking a federal judge to overturn the $21 million verdict awarded to a woman and her husband last month over claims alleging that the…

Last week, U.S. District Judge Robert B. Kugler, overseeing the valsartan multidistrict litigation docket (MDL), along with…

On December 18, U.S. District Judge Robert B. Kugler, overseeing the valsartan multidistrict litigation docket (MDL), denied three dismissal motions filed by the defendants stating…