New Jersey Law Journal on Taxotere Centralization
August 23, 2018
Source: New Jersey Law Journal
The New Jersey Supreme Court designated all cases involving allegations of hair loss from
as multicounty litigation, and assigned the group to Superior Court Judge James Hyland in Middlesex County for centralized case management. Chief Justice Stuart Rabner approved the application on Aug. 17.
Rabner said the order would apply to Taxotere-related state court suits against Sanofi-Aventis U.S., Accord Healthcare, Sandoz, Hospira Worldwide, Pfizer, Actavis and Sun Pharmaceuticals.
The plaintiffs lawyers, including those from Napoli Shkolnik PLLC, said designating the suits as multicounty litigation would better enable them to coordinate with multidistrict litigation in federal court, overseen by U.S. District Judge Kurt Engelhardt of the Eastern District of Louisiana.