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Abbott Laboratories

Federal civil lawsuits naming Abbott Laboratories, a Pharmaceuticals & Biotechnology company.

Public CompanyPharmaceuticals & Biotechnology
Ticker
NYSE: ABT
Business
Pharmaceutical Preparations
Headquarters
Abbott Park, IL
Incorporated in
Illinois
SEC CIK
1800

Abbott Laboratories is a public company in Pharmaceutical Preparations, based in Abbott Park, IL (traded on NYSE as ABT, incorporated in Illinois). It appears in 7,237 federal civil lawsuits in this index, most often as a defendant (7,011 of 7,237). These cases are most often Product Liability and Antitrust matters, filed between 1990 and 2026, most frequently in District Court, D. New Jersey. The most common causes of action are Product Liability, Personal Injury, and Patent Infringement.

Also recorded in dockets as: Abbott Labs · Abbott Lab · Abbott Labs Inc · Abbott Lab Inc · Abbott Laboraties · Abbott Laboratores · Abbott Laboratries · Abbott Laboratoriess.

7,237
Lawsuits
7,011
As Defendant
226
As Plaintiff
2,358
Open
4,879
Terminated
1990–2026
Span
10 mo
Median Duration
5,797 of these cases (80%) are Product Liability filings — large waves of near-identical suits consolidated into multidistrict litigation (MDL) proceedings. The totals and the year chart reflect that concentration, not typical caseload.
196 cases/yrNamed as defendant in 97% of cases80% Product LiabilityRecent filings down

Cases by State

AL — 15 casesAZ — 22 casesAR — 11 casesCA — 113 casesCO — 6 casesCT — 9 casesDE — 72 casesDC — 17 casesFL — 103 casesGA — 17 casesID — 5 casesIL — 1,011 casesIN — 22 casesIA — 9 casesKS — 13 casesKY — 20 casesLA — 54 casesME — 4 casesMD — 16 casesMA — 107 casesMI — 22 casesMN — 31 casesMS — 33 casesMO — 20 casesMT — 2 casesNE — 2 casesNV — 4 casesNH — 1 casesNJ — 4,515 casesNM — 5 casesNY — 411 casesNC — 15 casesND — 1 casesOH — 196 casesOK — 15 casesOR — 6 casesPA — 77 casesRI — 2 casesSC — 9 casesSD — 3 casesTN — 22 casesTX — 100 casesUT — 12 casesVT — 4 casesVA — 18 casesWA — 19 casesWV — 10 casesWI — 10 casesWY — 3 cases
AK · 2HI · 2PR · 19

Open Cases Over Time

1990peak 3,034 open2026

Case Types Over Time

19902026
Product LiabilityAntitrustPatentCivil RightsFederal Tax / Statutory Actions

Filings by Year

19902026

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Product Liability5,797
Antitrust516
Patent206
Civil Rights197
Federal Tax / Statutory Actions168
Contract153

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Corporate History

Related company names from the public corporate record. Cases are not transferred between these entities — each case remains filed against the company named on its docket, and the counts on each page reflect only that company.

  • Abbott Laboratories separated into AbbVie Inc in 2013
    public corporate record: 2013 separation of Abbott's research-based pharmaceuticals business
    Deliberately NOT predecessor_of. Abbott did not become AbbVie and continues to operate independently, so calling it a predecessor would assert something false.
Clustered litigation · MDL 5,797 Product Liability member cases 80% of the caseload is a wave of near-identical suits consolidated into multidistrict litigation — grouped here rather than listed one by one. Browse all 5,797 member cases →

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