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AbbVie Inc

Federal civil lawsuits naming AbbVie Inc, a Pharmaceuticals & Biotechnology company.

Public CompanyPharmaceuticals & Biotechnology
Ticker
NYSE: ABBV
Business
Pharmaceutical Preparations
Headquarters
North Chicago, IL
Incorporated in
Delaware
SEC CIK
1551152

AbbVie Inc is a public company in Pharmaceutical Preparations, based in North Chicago, IL (traded on NYSE as ABBV, incorporated in Delaware). It appears in 5,091 federal civil lawsuits in this index, most often as a defendant (4,984 of 5,091). These cases are most often Product Liability and Antitrust matters, filed between 2009 and 2026, most frequently in District Court, N.D. Illinois. The most common causes of action are Product Liability, Personal Injury, and Patent Infringement.

Also recorded in dockets as: Abbvie.

Corporate Family Part of the AbbVie family — 5,100 cases across 3 affiliated entities.
5,091
Lawsuits
4,984
As Defendant
107
As Plaintiff
70
Open
5,021
Terminated
2009–2026
Span
4.2 yr
Median Duration
4,846 of these cases (95%) 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.
283 cases/yrNamed as defendant in 98% of cases95% Product LiabilityRecent filings down

Cases by State

AL — 6 casesAZ — 0 casesAR — 1 casesCA — 21 casesCO — 2 casesCT — 0 casesDE — 52 casesDC — 5 casesFL — 11 casesGA — 4 casesID — 0 casesIL — 4,784 casesIN — 0 casesIA — 0 casesKS — 1 casesKY — 0 casesLA — 17 casesME — 1 casesMD — 3 casesMA — 1 casesMI — 0 casesMN — 4 casesMS — 5 casesMO — 7 casesMT — 0 casesNE — 2 casesNV — 0 casesNH — 1 casesNJ — 22 casesNM — 2 casesNY — 34 casesNC — 0 casesND — 1 casesOH — 8 casesOK — 1 casesOR — 2 casesPA — 67 casesRI — 2 casesSC — 0 casesSD — 1 casesTN — 1 casesTX — 1 casesUT — 9 casesVT — 1 casesVA — 5 casesWA — 2 casesWV — 0 casesWI — 1 casesWY — 0 cases
HI · 1PR · 2

Open Cases Over Time

2009peak 4,197 open2026

Case Types Over Time

20092026
Product LiabilityAntitrustPatentContractPatent - ANDA

Filings by Year

20092026

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Product Liability4,846
Antitrust51
Patent48
Contract39
Patent - ANDA28
Other Civil23

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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.

  • AbbVie Inc was separated from Abbott Laboratories 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 4,846 Product Liability member cases 95% of the caseload is a wave of near-identical suits consolidated into multidistrict litigation — grouped here rather than listed one by one. Browse all 4,846 member cases →

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