Mass Tort News

Axiron bellwether trial dates, scheduled to begin on January 29 and March 5 this year, were vacated by the federal court after being informed by the counsels of the respective parties that a global settlement of all the claims was decided. The…

Johnson & Johnson (J&J) has decided to stop selling its talcum products in the U.S. and Canada due to declined consumer demand and misinformation about the safety of the…

A number of international scientists who were part of the World Health Organization's International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) team involved in the independent research about the potential cancer risks associated with…

A California appeals court looks ready to uphold the nation’s first Roundup verdict but will likely reduce the $78.5 million judgment, which favored the plaintiff as the…

The federal court system has identified the third “wave” of Roundup lawsuits amidst the thousand of unsettled cases alleging that the weedkiller leads to developing non-…

The first New Jersey Pelvic Mesh Trial convened before Bergen County Superior Court Judge James DeLuca awarded $35 Million to the Plaintiff as punitive damages, a day after the jury had announced $33 Million as compensatory damages to the…

C.R. Bard Inc. was ordered to pay $33 million as compensatory damages to the plaintiff by the New Jersey state court in the first C.R. Bard Transvaginal Mesh…

On February 27, Sangamon County filed a lawsuit against the opioid manufacturers and distributors due to the growing opioid crisis in Illinois, which resulted in 27 deaths…

The rising number of Hernia Mesh cases against C.R. Bard urged a group of plaintiffs to file a motion with the JPML to centralize all Bard Ventralex and Bard Perfix hernia mesh lawsuits in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio…

The jury overseeing the two-month-long Mesothelioma trial ordered J&J and its talc supplier to pay $80 million in punitive damages to a man and his wife seeking compensation for his diagnosis of mesothelioma (a cancer of the lung) allegedly…