Drugs, Devices & Mass Torts
The word that matters in this category is selected. A pharmaceutical or device case still has to be provable for the individual person bringing it, and volume is not a substitute for that.
Selected pharmaceutical and device cases, current investigations and severe injury campaigns.
What drug and medical device cases does The Biggest Cases handle?
Selected pharmaceutical and medical device matters involving severe injury, including cases consolidated into multidistrict or state coordinated proceedings. Each file is worked individually — product identification, use history, medical records and specific causation — rather than as part of an inventory. The practice is licensed in Illinois and Florida and works these matters with co-counsel where the case is brought.
01What belongs in this category
Severe injury attributed to a prescription drug or to an implanted or surgically used device, where the injury is documented, the exposure can be established, and the proposed mechanism has a scientific basis rather than a temporal coincidence.
Not every widely advertised campaign meets that description, and a claim does not become sound because a great many like it were filed. This category is deliberately narrower than the advertising market surrounding it.
02An inventory is not a case
The failure mode of mass tort practice is well known and rarely discussed. Files are signed on a screening call, never verified, and carried until a settlement structure prices them by category. The people in those files are told they have a case for a long time before anyone checks whether they do.
What an individual claim actually needs is unglamorous. Proof this person used this product, records establishing when and for how long, a diagnosis matching the alleged mechanism, and a treating history that survives the alternative explanations the defence will offer for the same injury.
Doing that work at intake rather than deferring it produces fewer files, and fewer of them abandoned later by the person who signed them up.
03What consolidation changes, and what it does not
Consolidation is a case-management device, not a merger. Cases sharing common questions are transferred to one court for pretrial proceedings, common discovery is done once, a small number are tried as bellwethers to inform valuation, and the rest are remanded or resolved.
None of that removes the individual case. Specific causation, product identification and damages remain the claimant's to prove, and a file that cannot carry them is worth little in a global resolution however strong the general causation science may be.
It is also not a class action, and the difference matters to the person in it. A claimant keeps an individual claim, individual counsel and an individual decision about settlement.
04For referring attorneys
Referral relationships in this category are common and, more than anywhere else, badly documented. Fee division agreed late, no written record of the arrangement, and a referring lawyer with no visibility into a file that may sit for a long time before it moves.
All of that is worth settling at the outset in writing — role, division and reporting. It is the same discipline category fourteen describes, and the reason that category exists at all.
Listing a case category describes the matters this practice accepts. It is not a statement that the firm has obtained any particular result in that category, and no outcome should be inferred from it. Prior results do not guarantee or predict the outcome of any future matter. A trial firm licensed in Illinois and Florida, handling catastrophic injury and complex liability matters nationwide through a co-counsel network.
Frequently Asked Questions
No, and it should not be read that way. This describes the matters the firm accepts. No case results appear on this site outside the results page, and no outcome in any category should be inferred from that category being listed here.
No, and the difference matters. In a multidistrict or coordinated proceeding each claimant keeps an individual case with individual counsel; the cases are gathered for pretrial efficiency and are resolved or returned individually. A class action determines claims collectively through a representative. Being part of consolidated litigation does not hand anyone's case to someone else.
That this person used this product, when and for how long, that the injury is one the product is capable of causing, and that in this person it did — separated from the other explanations the defence will offer. The general causation science shared across the litigation establishes what a product can do. It does not establish what happened to any particular claimant.
Founder Adam Zayed is a Licensed Illinois and Florida Attorney, and partner Andrew Miller is a Licensed Illinois and Florida Attorney. A matter governed by another state's law is brought with local co-counsel admitted there, which is the ordinary way any firm reaches a case outside its own admissions.
The arrangement is settled first and in writing — whether you stay in as co-counsel with an active role or refer the matter outright, and how fees divide under the rules of the governing jurisdiction. That happens before the case moves, not afterwards.
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