Mass Tort News

Last week, Teva Pharmaceuticals and The Cooper Companies, Inc. filed a motion asking the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation (JPML) to reject the consolidation of all …

On September 18, the European Medicines Agency (EMA) issued a press release confirming its prior recommendations dated April 3, 2020, to suspend ranitidine throughout the European Union due to the presence of low levels of an impurity called N-…

Sientra is facing allegations similar to Allergan over its silicone implants by a Tennessee woman who claims that the textured breast implants made in Brazil…

Johnson & Johnson (J&J), the pharmaceutical giant, has agreed to pay over $100 million to resolve about 1,000 lawsuits that allege its Baby Powder and other talcum powder…

Last week, Judge William Ray II of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia issued an order concluding that Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals Inc. has been awarded summary judgment over a…

Last week, the California Superior Court for Alameda County jury awarded a retired Navy admiral and his wife over $2.5 million in the conclusion of a virtual asbestos trial against…

Last week, a jury with the Louisiana Civil District Court for Orleans Parish awarded $10.3 million to a plaintiff who was diagnosed with mesothelioma and had claimed the reason as exposure to raw…

A study over the use of e-cigarettes was published in the journal Pediatrics' November edition, indicating that vaping often goes unnoticed by parents as…

Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals Inc. filed a brief in Connecticut Supreme Court indicating that it has reached a global settlement to resolve 2,935 lawsuits brought over by patients alleging failure to warn about the bleeding risks…

California state court's virtual cosmetic talcum powder trial against Johnson & Johnson (J&J) ended in a mistrial after the plaintiff's health worsened, making him unable to…