Mass Tort News

A majority opinion issued recently by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit rejected the class action lawsuit, filed by Mona Estrada in April 2014, claiming economic damages for all the women who purchased Johnson &…

A California Jury asked Johnson & Johnson to pay $29.2 million as damages along with punitive damages in the sixth talcum powder trial concerning…

The U.S. District Vince Chhabria presiding over the Roundup multidistrict litigation has assigned 4 cases for Spring 2019 trial and has ordered all…

The defendant involved in the Stryker LFIT V40 Femoral Head MDL submitted a brief on September 6, requesting Massachusetts federal judge to deny the…

Judge Vince Chhabria, overseeing the Roundup litigation has circulated a draft of a plaintiff fact sheet (PFS) after both the parties weighed in with…

The U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation (JPML)  will consider oral arguments on whether to consolidate all Gadolinium Deposition…

In the September 21 order issued by Chief Judge Glenn T. Suddaby for the Northern District of New York, a $1 million Risperdal verdict was overturned indicating…

The seventh transvaginal mesh trial in the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas concluded with the jury declaring a deadlock in the case involving…

Judge Catherine C. Blake of the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland appointed John W. Perry Jr. of Perry Dampf Dispute Resolutions as a special mediator to oversee the parties involved in the settlement of Smith &…

An eight-day trial concluded on September 19 with the Tennessee Circuit Court for Maury County jury declaring $2.1 million in an asbestos verdict to…