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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 12,903 federal civil lawsuits in this index, most often as a defendant (12,491 of 12,903). 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.

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 — 69,764 cases across 7 affiliated entities.
12,903
Lawsuits
12,491
As Defendant
412
As Plaintiff
319
Open
12,584
Terminated
1990–2026
Span
19 mo
Median Duration
11,688 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.
349 cases/yrNamed as defendant in 97% of cases91% Product LiabilityRecent filings down

Cases by State

AL — 3,148 casesAZ — 21 casesAR — 111 casesCA — 0 casesCO — 125 casesCT — 57 casesDE — 238 casesDC — 15 casesFL — 296 casesGA — 95 casesID — 3 casesIL — 1,122 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 3,616 open2026

Case Types Over Time

19902026
Product LiabilityPatentCivil RightsContractAntitrust

Filings by Year

19902026

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Product Liability11,688
Patent282
Civil Rights156
Contract144
Antitrust120
Patent - ANDA98

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Clustered litigation · MDL 11,688 Product Liability member cases 91% of the caseload is a wave of near-identical suits consolidated into multidistrict litigation — grouped here rather than listed one by one. Browse all 11,688 member cases →

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