Mass Tort News

In an order submitted on September 14, the New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division, First Department confirmed a trial court's order granting additur in a 2017…

In a case management order issued on September 19, C.R. Bard’s hernia mesh multidistrict litigation (MDL) Judge Edmund A. Sargus appointed two attorneys as…

U.S. District Judge M. Casey Rodgers presiding over Abilify gambling lawsuits has finalized six individual cases for a “fast-tracked” discovery process. As per the…

According to an order issued on September 11 by U.S. District Judge Richard Story presiding over all Ethicon physiomesh cases, the discovery deadlines have been extended for two and a half months; this will push the start of the first…

Judge Arnold New on Friday allowed two boys to pursue punitive damages linked to their claims against Johnson & Johnson unit that they were not given an appropriate warning about the alleged breast growth due to…

In an order issued on September 12, Judge Pamela Reeves of the U.S District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee allowed product liability claims by Plaintiff Martha Karen Jones against Davol, Bard in Davol Dulex…

In an order issued on September 10 by Judge Joan Ericksen of the U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota, design, manufacturing, negligence, and breach of warranty claims by an Ohio resident Nancy Axline against…

A recent asbestos trial concluded with a New York Supreme court for Erie County announcing $7 million in favor of the plaintiffs representing James Stock Jr., now a 60-year-old and a former laborer at Jenkins Brothers Valve Company. The…

Johnson & Johnson’s Talcum powder supplier Imerys Talc America has agreed to settle the claims made by a plaintiff that years of…

Amidst recent U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) warnings regarding flesh-eating infections due to Invokana and similar diabetes drugs, a product liability lawsuit…