Mass Tort News

Last Wednesday, Eisai Inc., Arena Pharmaceuticals, and CVS Pharmacy filed a joint memorandum of law requesting Judge Philip M. Halpern in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York to dismiss a class-action lawsuit filed on…

On Monday, three major law firms representing several plaintiffs involved in the Roundup litigation indicated that they reached an agreement with the manufacturer, Bayer.

Bayer AG has made the new…

U.S. District Judge Edmund A. Sargus, overseeing the federal multidistrict litigation (MDL) over all hernia mesh lawsuits filed against C.R. Bard, denied the manufacturer's…

U.S. District Judge Richard Story, presiding over all federal Ethicon Physiomesh lawsuits, identified four cases that will be prepared for early bellwether trials set to begin…

On Monday, Bayer officials in a press release about second-quarter earnings indicated that the company has set aside 1.25 billion euros ($1.47 billion) to settle lawsuits brought by thousands of women claiming they suffered devastating injuries…

On Wednesday, a three-judge panel of the New Jersey Superior Court reinstated two lawsuits alleging Johnson & Johnson’s (J&J) talcum powder of causing cancer; the lawsuits…

A motion filed by the manufacturer of Covidien hernia mesh products asking for consolidation was rejected by the U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation (JPML),…

Taxotere lawsuits witnessed a spike with almost 219 cases filed between July and August, bringing the total to almost 1,500 cases pending in the U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana against Sanofi-Aventis. The lawsuits are filed by…

Another report released this August confirms that Monsanto was involved in influencing and curbing the release of damaging scientific data regarding the safety and efficacy of Roundup…

The third straight win for Xarelto defendants in the Xarelto MDL No. 2592 bellwether trial, boosts the defendant's stand regarding the safety and efficacy of Xarelto. Bayer released a statement saying, ''that its FDA-…