An MDL coordinates cases; it does not decide every claim.
Products, evidence and federal cases
Understand the litigation without losing the medical story
Follow major product and injury cases through the drug, device, exposure, diagnosis, court record and evidence that make each one different.
What to know first
Start with the distinction that matches the record in front of you.
Allegations, scientific evidence and regulatory action answer different questions.
Product identity, timing and individual records still matter.
Dated developments belong beside durable practical guides.
Top guides
Strong starting points for the questions readers are most likely to recognize.
Depo-Provera litigation
The Depo-Provera cases focus on meningioma risk and warning history
What the federal court, FDA labeling record and original research establish—and what they do not.
Read the guide →GLP-1 litigationThe GLP-1 cases separate injury allegations from drug-specific evidence
A readable guide to MDL 3094, FDA labels and the limits of the current federal record.
Read the guide →Proton-pump inhibitor litigationThe PPI cases turn kidney-risk signals into contested causation claims
Plaintiffs allege proton-pump inhibitors caused kidney injuries. FDA labeling and observational evidence have important limits.
Read the guide →Explore by situation
Choose a product, event, diagnosis or practical question—not a legal term you may not know yet.
Drug-specific evidence, labeling and alleged injuries.
Exact product, placement, removal and device records.
Population evidence, exposure history and disputed causation.
- The Roundup cases turn disputed science into individual legal questions
- The PFAS MDL includes different injuries, properties and public-water claims
- The paraquat cases ask courts to weigh a genuinely contested Parkinson's record
- The talc cases sit between disputed product history and evolving cancer evidence
- The hair-relaxer cases turn an epidemiological association into a contested legal question
Careful reporting around children, families and sensitive health records.
Latest guides
Recently reviewed additions to this source-backed collection.
Reviewed 2026-08-27
The GLP-1 cases separate injury allegations from drug-specific evidence
A readable guide to MDL 3094, FDA labels and the limits of the current federal record.
Reviewed 2026-08-27The Paragard cases focus on breakage during removal
What plaintiffs allege, what FDA labeling says and why neither resolves an individual case by itself.
Reviewed 2026-08-27The Bard port cases test allegations about catheter materials and device failure
A careful guide to the implanted-port allegations, broader catheter evidence and dated federal record.
Different records answer different questions
Follow major product and injury cases through the drug, device, exposure, diagnosis, court record and evidence that make each one different.
A court filing records a party’s allegation. A ruling records what a court decided. An agency page can explain a regulatory action. A medical study can describe a population and its limits. None of those records should be made to say more than it supports.
Build a reliable starting file
- Name the exact product, event, court, agency or document.
- Write down dates without inventing precision.
- Preserve originals and record where each item came from.
- Separate what a person alleges from what a source establishes.