“Within the next several months, the court will be closing the Risperdal, Essure and Elmiron mass tort programs, as the lawyers and self-represented parties work through the remaining cases on the docket,” Judge Joshua Roberts, head of the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas Complex Litigation Center, said.
April 01, 2024 at 03:51 PM
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Litigation Reporter
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Nearly half of Philadelphia’s mass tort programs are poised to conclude by the end of the year, according to court administration.
Several of the programs set to close had once been the largest drivers of the court’s mass tort docket, comprising thousands of cases. Their final winding down stands to shrink Philadelphia’s mass tort inventory to its lowest point in over a decade.
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