Mass Tort News

On Wednesday, February 13, a federal judge indicated that he might toss a Roundup lawsuit involving claims filed by a plaintiff claiming that Monsanto…

The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana declined to award punitive damages to a plaintiff who was granted $3 million in compensatory damages in the third Cook…

In a case management order issued on February 8,  U.S. District Judge David G. Campbell agreed to consider a proposal submitted by C.R. Bard, requesting the court to establish a separate track for…

In an order issued on February 6, Arkansas federal Judge Timothy Brooks denied summary judgment request filed by Smith &  Nephew in a lawsuit involving its Synergy Stem artificial hip, finding questions of fact whether the hip…

A Philadelphia Judge dismissed claims filed against Colgate-Palmolive Co. that the company's Cashmere Bouquet talcum powder was the reason for a woman'…

On Monday, Oct.14, Johnson & Johnson's (J&J) subsidiary Janssen Pharmaceutical announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved Xarelto (…

U.S. District Judge Vince Chhabria of the Northern District of California, presiding over all Roundup lawsuits, issued a pretrial order on Wednesday,…

On Wednesday, a California state court jury cleared Johnson & Johnson (J&J) in a lawsuit filed by a woman alleging the company’s talc-based products contained…

A new analysis by the U.S. Public Interest Research Group (U.S. PIRG) indicates that the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) took a long time to evaluate the safety of …

On Thursday, the Sixth Circuit rejected the efforts by the Ohio attorney general and drug companies to impede an upcoming opioid trial accusing drugmakers of fueling the…