Mass Tort News

In a recently filed product liability lawsuit, Stryker Howmedica Osteonics Corporation's hip implant component Secur-Fit femoral stem and C-Taper LFit…

In an order issued on September 30, 2018, Judge Donald Cabell of the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts, allowed the plaintiff to replead his negligent failure-to-warn claims linked to…

This is the second time in two weeks that a talcum powder lawsuit has ended in a mistrial. On Tuesday, October 3, 2018, a Los Angeles jury was…

In an order issued on September 29, 2018, Judge Alison Nathan of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, tossed a lawsuit filed against C.R. Bard's…

The federal court presiding over the multidistrict litigation constituting of hundreds of heart failure lawsuits linked to Onglyza or Kombiglyze XR medication,…

As per the status conference held on September 27, 2018, U.S. District Judge Freda L. Wolfson indicated that Daubert Motion hearings would commence on June 11, 2019, for ovarian cancer claims linked to…

An Arizona federal judge trimmed claims made by a plaintiff involved in the lawsuit against C.R. Bard’s IVC filter stating that the plaintiff cannot be awarded…

Judge Michael L. Brown of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia sanctioned a manufacturing defect claim in the Zimmer…

In an order issued on October 10, 2018, the U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation (JPML), rejected a centralization motion filed by the plaintiffs involved in the lawsuits filed against the manufacturers of…

A New Jersey federal court on Thursday cleared Johnson & Johnson of a product liability case filed against it by a plaintiff. The deliberations went on for less than a day in New Brunswick, New Jersey, over allegations that…