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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 12,528 federal civil lawsuits in this index, most often as a defendant (12,123 of 12,528). 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, Patent Infringement, and Personal Injury.

12,528
Lawsuits
12,123
As Defendant
406
As Plaintiff
227
Open
12,301
Terminated
1990–2026
Span
19 mo
Median Duration
11,345 of these cases (91%) 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.
339 cases/yrPredominantly defendant · 97%Product Liability-heavy · 91%Activity declining

Cases by State

AL — 3,141 casesAZ — 21 casesAR — 96 casesCA — 0 casesCO — 124 casesCT — 56 casesDE — 234 casesDC — 15 casesFL — 202 casesGA — 95 casesID — 3 casesIL — 1,046 casesIN — 34 casesIA — 14 casesKS — 21 casesKY — 45 casesLA — 222 casesME — 13 casesMD — 40 casesMA — 255 casesMI — 33 casesMN — 444 casesMS — 96 casesMO — 224 casesMT — 3 casesNE — 5 casesNV — 5 casesNH — 2 casesNJ — 509 casesNM — 33 casesNY — 634 casesNC — 28 casesND — 2 casesOH — 152 casesOK — 35 casesOR — 23 casesPA — 860 casesRI — 0 casesSC — 3,255 casesSD — 3 casesTN — 56 casesTX — 263 casesUT — 5 casesVT — 4 casesVA — 32 casesWA — 24 casesWV — 95 casesWI — 12 casesWY — 1 cases
HI · 2PR · 12

Open Cases Over Time

1990peak 3,570 open2026

Case Types Over Time

19902026
Product LiabilityPatentCivil RightsContractAntitrust

Filings by Year

19902026

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Product Liability11,345
Patent275
Civil Rights150
Contract141
Antitrust120
Patent - ANDA96

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