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Company · Pharmaceuticals & Biotechnology

Pfizer Inc

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

Public CompanyPharmaceuticals & Biotechnology
Ticker
NYSE: PFE
Business
Pharmaceutical Preparations
Headquarters
New York, NY
Incorporated in
Delaware
SEC CIK
78003

Pfizer Inc is a public company in Pharmaceutical Preparations, based in New York, NY (traded on NYSE as PFE, incorporated in Delaware). It appears in 15,576 federal civil lawsuits in this index, most often as a defendant (15,153 of 15,576). These cases are most often Product Liability and Patent matters, filed between 1990 and 2026, most frequently in District Court, D. South Carolina. The most common causes of action are Product Liability, Personal Injury, and Patent Infringement.

Also recorded in dockets as: Pfizer · Pfizer Inc Parke-Davis · Pfizer Hospital Prod · Pfizer Hospital · Pfizer Hosp Prod Grp · Pfizer Pharmacia and Upjohn Company.

Corporate Family Part of the Pfizer family — 74,887 cases across 7 affiliated entities.
15,576
Lawsuits
15,153
As Defendant
423
As Plaintiff
327
Open
15,249
Terminated
1990–2026
Span
22 mo
Median Duration
14,266 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.
421 cases/yrNamed as defendant in 97% of cases92% Product LiabilityRecent filings down

Cases by State

AL — 3,148 casesAZ — 21 casesAR — 111 casesCA — 2,672 casesCO — 125 casesCT — 57 casesDE — 238 casesDC — 15 casesFL — 296 casesGA — 95 casesID — 3 casesIL — 1,123 casesIN — 34 casesIA — 14 casesKS — 21 casesKY — 47 casesLA — 223 casesME — 14 casesMD — 42 casesMA — 262 casesMI — 34 casesMN — 453 casesMS — 96 casesMO — 230 casesMT — 3 casesNE — 5 casesNV — 6 casesNH — 3 casesNJ — 514 casesNM — 33 casesNY — 693 casesNC — 31 casesND — 2 casesOH — 166 casesOK — 35 casesOR — 24 casesPA — 864 casesRI — 0 casesSC — 3,263 casesSD — 3 casesTN — 57 casesTX — 273 casesUT — 27 casesVT — 4 casesVA — 45 casesWA — 27 casesWV — 95 casesWI — 13 casesWY — 1 cases
HI · 2PR · 13

Open Cases Over Time

1990peak 4,022 open2026

Case Types Over Time

19902026
Product LiabilityPatentCivil RightsContractAntitrust

Filings by Year

19902026

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Product Liability14,266
Patent290
Civil Rights166
Contract154
Antitrust126
Federal Tax / Statutory Actions107

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Filtered Civil Rights Clear

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