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Company

Ethicon Inc

Federal civil lawsuits naming Ethicon Inc.

In this index, 41,583 federal civil lawsuits name a party recorded as Ethicon Inc, most often as a defendant (41,562 of 41,583). These may be different parties who share the name; records here are grouped by name only. These cases are most often Product Liability and Civil Rights matters, filed between 1990 and 2026, most frequently in District Court, S.D. West Virginia. The most common causes of action are Product Liability, Personal Injury, and Patent Infringement.

Also recorded in dockets as: Ethicon LLC · Ethicon · Ethicon Incorporated.

Corporate Family Part of the Johnson & Johnson family — 132,728 cases across 16 affiliated entities.
41,583
Lawsuits
41,562
As Defendant
21
As Plaintiff
2,122
Open
39,461
Terminated
1990–2026
Span
4.1 yr
Median Duration
41,458 of these cases (100%) 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.
1124 cases/yrNamed as defendant in 100% of cases100% Product LiabilityRecent filings down

Cases by State

AL — 18 casesAZ — 11 casesAR — 9 casesCA — 96 casesCO — 10 casesCT — 7 casesDE — 4 casesDC — 1 casesFL — 81 casesGA — 2,623 casesID — 2 casesIL — 54 casesIN — 16 casesIA — 3 casesKS — 59 casesKY — 58 casesLA — 44 casesME — 20 casesMD — 35 casesMA — 16 casesMI — 19 casesMN — 88 casesMS — 5 casesMO — 139 casesMT — 1 casesNE — 1 casesNV — 2 casesNH — 5 casesNJ — 59 casesNM — 4 casesNY — 63 casesNC — 11 casesND — 0 casesOH — 43 casesOK — 11 casesOR — 18 casesPA — 487 casesRI — 5 casesSC — 15 casesSD — 4 casesTN — 69 casesTX — 131 casesUT — 13 casesVT — 2 casesVA — 11 casesWA — 9 casesWV — 37,182 casesWI — 11 casesWY — 1 cases
AK · 2PR · 5

Open Cases Over Time

1990peak 32,886 open2026

Case Types Over Time

19902026
Product LiabilityCivil RightsContractFederal Tax / Statutory ActionsReal Property

Filings by Year

19902026

Case Types filter →

Product Liability41,458
Civil Rights31
Contract25
Federal Tax / Statutory Actions18
Real Property17
Patent13

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Clustered litigation · MDL 41,458 Product Liability member cases 100% of the caseload is a wave of near-identical suits consolidated into multidistrict litigation — grouped here rather than listed one by one. Browse all 41,458 member cases →

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