Mass Tort News

A study was published this month in the medical journal Organic Process Research & Development in which U.K. researchers working with…

Earlier this week, the parties involved in JUUL lawsuits pending in the federal court system issued a Joint Notice regarding the 12 randomly selected cases to be included in the bellwether trial…

On Tuesday, the United States Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation (JPML) issued a transfer order, stating that the panel finds the…

In the December issue of Pediatrics, a study was published by the researchers with Children’s National Hospital and the University of Texas at Austin, indicating that…

On Monday, the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit affirmed a Tennessee federal court's decision to dismiss a woman's product liability claim against Johnson & Johnson (J&J) Healthcare Systems Inc. and its subsidiary…

Earlier this month, U.S. District Judge Edmund A. Sargus Jr., presiding over C.R. Bard Inc.'s hernia mesh lawsuits, ruled that the manufacturer cannot present its Ventralight…

On Tuesday, the 2nd Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals dismissed the Mirena multidistrict litigation after finding that the plaintiffs lacked evidence over the allegations that the birth…

On December 7, plaintiffs involved in the lawsuits over hearing loss from 3M Combat Arms (CAEv2) earplugs filed a motion asking the presiding U.S. District Judge, Casey Rodgers…

On Monday, Bayer, the manufacturer of the controversial birth control device, Essure, issued the…

On December 4, U.S. District Judge Claire C. Cecchi, overseeing the proton pump inhibitor (PPI) drugs litigation, issued a case management order (CMO)…