Category: Mass Torts

Mass torts and class action lawsuits involve hundreds or thousands of people with the same or similar grievances, pulled together in one consolidated action or lawsuit. It is easy to confuse the two because both lawsuits involve multiple plaintiffs against one or a group of defendants, but they are not the same. How Does Mass

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Bayer recently announced it would not contest a court’s decision to award a groundkeeper $20.5 million. He claimed that exposure to Roundup gave him cancer. Does that mean Bayer is finally accepting Roundup causes cancer? Sadly not. Bayer Continues To Claim Roundup Is Safe To Use Bayer continues to claim Roundup is safe to use despite at

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and product manufacturers frequently recall dangerous or defective drug and medical devices. Patients who suffer harm often join class-action lawsuits to hold manufacturers accountable for their negligence. How Do Individual Lawsuits Differ From Class-action Ones? Mass torts lawsuits, which is another name for class-action lawsuits, function differently from individual lawsuits.

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Age, giving birth to children or a combination of the two can have a damaging effect on women’s urinary continence or ability to have a bowel movement. Conditions like stress urinary incontinence and pelvic organ prolapse, also called pelvic floor disorder, can have dire implications for a woman’s health and quality of life. The medical