There are 17 active lawsuits we currently work with, holding 156,897 claims in the federal court system. Some are still taking new claimants. Some have already reached settlement. One or two closed years ago and are still being advertised elsewhere as if they hadn’t. This page tells you which is which.
Most people arrive here with a diagnosis and a suspicion, not a docket number. Working out which of the 17 cases below fits — and whether any of them does — is our job, not yours.
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You know the product
Find the drug, device or product in the board below and check its status, docket size and filing window before you speak to anyone.
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You know the injury, not the cause
One diagnosis can sit in several lawsuits. Uterine cancer appears in the hair relaxer docket; meningioma in Depo-Provera; gastroparesis in the GLP-1 cases.
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You know neither
Describe what happened in plain words. We check it against all 17 active dockets and against the filing deadline in your state, then tell you either way.
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17 lawsuits shown · sorted by our filing priority
DrugsSettlement in principle
Depo-Provera Lawsuit
Meningioma — brain tumors linked to the contraceptive injection
6,294Cases pending
MDL 3140N.D. Florida Judge M. Casey Rodgers
Pfizer and plaintiffs’ leadership reached a global settlement in principle before any bellwether trial. Terms have not been made public and the December trial date came off the calendar.
Ovarian cancer and mesothelioma from talc-based body powder
68,914Cases pending
MDL 2738D. New Jersey Judge Michael A. Shipp
Johnson & Johnson offered $5.5 billion to resolve roughly 69,000 federal and state claims — about 99.75% of everything still outstanding. The deal requires at least 95% of claimants to take part.
Uterine, endometrial and ovarian cancer after years of relaxer use
11,779Cases pending
MDL 3060N.D. Illinois Judge Mary M. Rowland
Fact discovery closed on the 32-case bellwether pool and Judge Rowland selected the first three trial cases. A special master is running settlement talks; trials have moved to 2027.
Gastroparesis, bowel obstruction and NAION vision loss
4,128Cases pending
MDL 3094 · 3163E.D. Pennsylvania Judge Karen S. Marston
A second docket — MDL 3163 — was created for NAION vision-loss claims and already holds 200 cases, separating eye injuries from the 3,928 gastrointestinal claims.
Kidney cancer, testicular cancer, thyroid disease and ulcerative colitis
15,246Cases pending
MDL 2873D. South Carolina Judge Richard M. Gergel
Public water-system claims settled for more than $14 billion, but that money never reached individuals. The personal injury track is unresolved, with 28 bellwether cases in case-specific discovery.
MDL 3004S.D. Illinois Chief Judge Nancy J. Rosenstengel
A bellwether set for earlier this year resolved before reaching a jury. Settlement framework discussions continue while state court cases move on their own schedule.
Bayer has committed more than $10 billion across earlier settlement rounds. What remains on the docket is largely opt-outs and newly filed claims — the litigation did not end with those deals.
Lung cancer, asbestosis and other asbestos-related disease
State courtsNot in an MDL
No active MDLState courts Plus bankruptcy trust funds
Asbestos claims are not consolidated in an active federal MDL. Recovery usually comes through state court and from asbestos bankruptcy trust funds — a second, separate route most claimants never hear about.
Malignant mesothelioma caused by asbestos exposure
State courtsNot in an MDL
No active MDLState courts Plus bankruptcy trust funds
Mesothelioma cases are tried individually rather than pooled, and courts routinely expedite them because of the diagnosis. Many claimants can pursue a lawsuit and a trust fund claim at the same time.
Two dockets are running in parallel — Bard/Davol in Ohio with 23,321 cases and Covidien in Massachusetts with 2,449. Bellwether trials have already produced plaintiff verdicts.
Catheter fracture, migration, infection and blood clots
3,734Cases pending
MDL 3081D. Arizona Judge David G. Campbell
The docket has grown steadily through 2026 as more implanted-port failures are identified and traced back to the device rather than the underlying illness.
Severe tooth decay and dental injury from the dissolving film
1,827Cases pending
MDL 3092N.D. Ohio Judge J. Philip Calabrese
Filings followed the FDA’s 2022 warning that buprenorphine films can cause serious dental problems. Discovery is under way and the docket continues to add cases.
Necrotizing enterocolitis in premature infants fed cow’s-milk formula
825Cases pending
MDL 3026N.D. Illinois Judge Rebecca R. Pallmeyer
State court trials have split sharply — a $495 million verdict against Abbott in Illinois, defense verdicts elsewhere. That divide is why federal settlement talks have not resolved.
Depression, anxiety, eating disorders and self-harm in adolescent users
3,137Cases pending
MDL 3047N.D. California Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers
A Los Angeles jury found Meta and Google negligent in the first bellwether and awarded $6 million including punitive damages. Snap and TikTok settled confidentially before that trial began.
Child sexual exploitation and grooming by predators on the platform
177Cases pending
MDL 3166N.D. California Chief Judge Richard Seeborg
Judge Seeborg appointed former Associate Attorney General Thomas J. Perrelli as settlement master. Roblox has separately paid about $54 million to resolve claims brought by five state attorneys general.
Compulsive use disorder in minors from engagement-driven game design
State courtsNot in an MDL
No MDL yetState courts No federal consolidation
Filed individually against Roblox, Epic Games, Microsoft and Activision. No federal consolidation has been ordered yet, which means this is early-stage litigation with far less competition for claims.
Sexual assault and harassment by Uber and Lyft drivers
4,469Cases pending
MDL 3084 · 3171N.D. California Judge Breyer · Judge Lin
Uber’s docket has passed 4,300 cases and a separate Lyft MDL now holds 72. Both sit in the Northern District of California and both are still taking new filings.
We work with more cases than the 17 listed here, and new dockets open regularly. Tell us what happened and a claim specialist will check it against every active lawsuit.
Ten largest dockets we work with, by claims pending in federal court on 3 August 2026. The shape of this chart is the single most useful thing to understand before you file.
Talcum Powder68,914
Hernia Mesh25,770
PFAS & AFFF15,246
Hair Relaxer11,779
Paraquat6,665
Depo-Provera6,294
Rideshare Assault4,469
Ozempic & Wegovy4,128
Roundup3,932
Bard PowerPort3,734
Bar length is relative to talcum powder at 68,914 claims. Counts are federal filings only — several of these cases also have large state court dockets running alongside.
44%
Talc’s share
Nearly half of every claim on this page sits in one docket — the one that just drew a $5.5 billion offer.
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Under 4,000 claims
Smaller dockets are not weaker cases. They are usually newer, which often means less competition for a place in line.
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Smallest active docket
The Roblox litigation opened in December 2025. Early filers in a young docket help shape how it gets valued.
Closed & settled dockets
Four Cases That Are Over
Plenty of sites still run ads for these. They are archived here, honestly labeled, because “is the {case} lawsuit still open?” deserves a straight answer.
If you were told one of these is still open, you were told wrong
We will not take an intake for a docket that cannot pay out. If your situation touches one of the four below, there may still be a different route — a state court claim, a trust fund, or a related active lawsuit. Ask us and we will tell you either way.
Settled 2023
3M Combat Arms Earplugs
Resolved through a $6 billion settlement. Of 391,225 cases ever filed, just 2 remain on the docket. Payments are being distributed to people who filed in time; no new claims are accepted.
MDL 2885 · N.D. Florida2 of 391,225 cases still open
Window closed
Camp Lejeune
The Camp Lejeune Justice Act gave a two-year window to file, and it shut on 10 August 2024. Claims filed before that date are still moving through the Eastern District of North Carolina. Nothing new can be brought.
CLJA · E.D. North CarolinaDeadline passed 10 Aug 2024
Largely resolved
Philips CPAP
The recall and personal injury claims have been resolved through settlement. 624 cases remain on the docket, mostly working through the claims administration process rather than seeking new claimants.
MDL 3014 · W.D. Pennsylvania624 cases pending
Claims excluded
Tylenol Autism & ADHD
The court excluded the plaintiffs’ general causation experts, and the federal claims were dismissed on that basis. 58 cases remain while the ruling is appealed. This docket is not accepting claims.
MDL 3043 · S.D. New York58 cases pending appeal
Latest developments
What Actually Moved This Year
Four things that changed a claimant’s position in 2026 — including one that closed a door.
Talcum powder
27 July 2026
J&J offers $5.5 billion to close the talc litigation
The offer covers roughly 69,000 federal and state claims — about 99.75% of everything outstanding — but only takes effect if 95% of claimants sign on.
Read the full update
PFAS & AFFF
3 August 2026
$14 billion settled for water utilities. Nothing yet for people.
The headline PFAS settlements reimbursed public water systems, not individuals with cancer. That personal injury track is still open and unresolved.
Read the full update
Roundup
3 August 2026
Roundup did not end with Bayer’s $10 billion
3,932 claims remain on the docket — largely people who opted out of earlier rounds and those who filed after them. The litigation is still live.
Read the full update
Camp Lejeune
10 August 2024
Camp Lejeune’s filing window has closed
The Justice Act gave a two-year window and it shut in August 2024. Cases filed in time still move forward; nothing new can be brought. Ads say otherwise.
Nearly every case on this page sits inside a multidistrict litigation. It is the single most misunderstood part of this process, and the confusion costs people money.
One judge, thousands of cases
When many people sue over the same product, the Judicial Panel sends every federal case to a single judge for the pretrial phase. Discovery happens once instead of ten thousand times. That is the whole purpose — efficiency, not merger.
Your case stays your case
Filing in an MDL does not fold your claim into anyone else’s. Your damages are assessed on your own medical records, your own losses, your own history. Two people in the same docket routinely recover very different amounts.
Bellwethers set the price
A handful of representative cases go to trial first. Those verdicts do not bind anyone else, but they tell both sides what a jury thinks a case is worth — which is what actually drives a settlement number.
Mass Tort or Class Action?
People use the terms interchangeably. They pay out completely differently.
Mass tort — what these are
Each claimant keeps an individual case and individual damages
Compensation reflects your specific injury and losses
Serious injuries can recover six or seven figures
You must actively file — nobody is enrolled automatically
Class action — what these are not
One case covers everyone in a defined class
A single pot is split, so individual injury barely matters
Per-person payouts are often small — sometimes a coupon
Suited to money lost, not bodies harmed
The part nobody warns you about
An Open Docket Is Not the Same as an Open Deadline
Every card above shows a filing window, and for most of these it says open. That is the docket’s deadline, not yours. Your own clock is set by your state’s statute of limitations, and it started running the day you were injured — or the day you reasonably should have connected the injury to the product.
Most states allow two to three years for a personal injury claim — a few allow one.
The discovery rule can restart it from your diagnosis date rather than your exposure date.
Wrongful death claims usually run from the date of death, on a separate clock.
Miss it and the strongest case in the docket is worth nothing. There is no appeal from a missed deadline.
Not sure how long you have?
Tell us your state, what happened and roughly when. We will tell you whether you are still inside the window — before you spend time on anything else.
You do not need to know which docket you belong in — that is our job. Describe what happened and a claim specialist will check it against every active case above.
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Common questions
Questions About Joining a Lawsuit
Can I still join one of these lawsuits?
In most cases, yes. Fifteen of the seventeen lawsuits on this page are still accepting new claimants, and the two with settlements — Depo-Provera and talcum powder — have not closed to new filings either. What actually decides it is your own state’s statute of limitations, not the docket. A specialist can confirm your deadline in a single call.
Does a settlement mean it is too late for me?
Not automatically. A settlement in principle means the parties have agreed to resolve claims, but the eligibility criteria, the amounts and the claims process are usually worked out afterwards. Talc’s $5.5 billion proposal, for example, is conditioned on 95% of claimants participating — which means claimants still have to come forward and be counted.
How much is my claim worth?
Nobody can tell you honestly at this stage, and be wary of anyone who names a figure before seeing your records. Value comes from your diagnosis and its severity, your medical costs, lost income, how long you used the product, and where you file. Our case value calculator gives a working range based on those inputs.
What does it cost to use this service?
Nothing. There is no charge to be connected with an attorney, and the lawyers we work with take these cases on contingency — they are paid a percentage of a recovery, so if there is no recovery there is no fee. You are also under no obligation to hire anyone who contacts you.
Will I have to go to court?
Almost certainly not. Out of the 156,897 claims pending in these dockets, only a handful will ever be tried — those are the bellwether cases, and they are chosen by the court and the lawyers. The overwhelming majority resolve through settlement. You will need to provide medical records and answer questions, but a courtroom is unlikely.
How often is this page updated?
Case counts are refreshed at the start of every month from the JPML’s published docket report — the figures here are from the 3 August 2026 edition. Litigation milestones are added as they happen. When a docket closes we move it to the archive section rather than deleting it, so the answer to “is that lawsuit still open?” stays available.
Still Not Sure Which One Applies to You?
That is the normal position to be in. Most people arrive knowing something went wrong and not much else. Describe it in plain words and we will do the matching.