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Party · Pharmaceuticals & Biotechnology

Bristol-Myers Squibb

Federal civil lawsuits naming Bristol-Myers Squibb, a Pharmaceuticals & Biotechnology company.

Public CompanyPharmaceuticals & Biotechnology
Ticker
NYSE: BMY
Business
Pharmaceutical Preparations
Headquarters
Princeton, NJ
Incorporated in
Delaware
SEC CIK
14272

Bristol-Myers Squibb is a public company in Pharmaceutical Preparations, based in Princeton, NJ (traded on NYSE as BMY, incorporated in Delaware). It appears in 9,426 federal civil lawsuits in this index, most often as a defendant (9,289 of 9,426). These cases are most often Product Liability and Civil Rights matters, filed between 1990 and 2025, most frequently in District Court, N.D. Florida.

9,426
Lawsuits
9,289
As Defendant
137
As Plaintiff
96
Open
9,330
Terminated
1990–2025
Span
15 mo
Median Duration
8,662 of these cases (92%) 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.
262 cases/yrPredominantly defendant · 99%Product Liability-heavy · 92%Activity declining

Cases by State

AL — 1,504 casesAZ — 39 casesAR — 31 casesCA — 0 casesCO — 52 casesCT — 9 casesDE — 328 casesDC — 45 casesFL — 3,055 casesGA — 134 casesID — 5 casesIL — 62 casesIN — 57 casesIA — 4 casesKS — 25 casesKY — 282 casesLA — 118 casesME — 7 casesMD — 45 casesMA — 17 casesMI — 27 casesMN — 97 casesMS — 88 casesMO — 48 casesMT — 14 casesNE — 1 casesNV — 12 casesNH — 2 casesNJ — 408 casesNM — 25 casesNY — 572 casesNC — 63 casesND — 1 casesOH — 83 casesOK — 45 casesOR — 187 casesPA — 51 casesRI — 8 casesSC — 50 casesSD — 0 casesTN — 52 casesTX — 1,412 casesUT — 3 casesVT — 4 casesVA — 55 casesWA — 58 casesWV — 196 casesWI — 10 casesWY — 1 cases
HI · 3PR · 30

Open Cases Over Time

1990peak 2,527 open2025

Case Types Over Time

19902025
Product LiabilityCivil RightsContractPatentLabor

Filings by Year

19902025

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Product Liability8,662
Civil Rights201
Contract147
Patent109
Labor73
Antitrust62

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Clustered litigation · MDL 8,662 Product Liability member cases 92% of the caseload is a wave of near-identical suits consolidated into multidistrict litigation — grouped here rather than listed one by one. Browse all 8,662 member cases →

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