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Company

SmithKline Beecham Corporation

Federal civil lawsuits naming SmithKline Beecham Corporation.

In this index, 8,618 federal civil lawsuits name a party recorded as SmithKline Beecham Corporation, most often as a defendant (8,543 of 8,618). 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 2017, most frequently in District Court, E.D. Pennsylvania. The most common causes of action are Product Liability, Personal Injury, and Antitrust.

Also recorded in dockets as: Smithkline Beecham Corp · Smithkline Beecham · Smithkline Beecham Corporatio · Smithkline Beecham Corporation Glaxosmithkline.

Corporate Family Part of the GlaxoSmithKline family — 12,332 cases across 8 affiliated entities.
8,618
Lawsuits
8,543
As Defendant
75
As Plaintiff
1
Open
8,617
Terminated
1990–2017
Span
16 mo
Median Duration
8,184 of these cases (95%) 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.
308 cases/yrNamed as defendant in 99% of cases95% Product LiabilityNo filings since 2017

Cases by State

AL — 32 casesAZ — 4 casesAR — 8 casesCA — 153 casesCO — 4 casesCT — 12 casesDE — 6 casesDC — 254 casesFL — 449 casesGA — 41 casesID — 1 casesIL — 35 casesIN — 22 casesIA — 2 casesKS — 4 casesKY — 12 casesLA — 67 casesME — 2 casesMD — 48 casesMA — 26 casesMI — 12 casesMN — 229 casesMS — 176 casesMO — 46 casesMT — 1 casesNE — 2 casesNV — 5 casesNH — 2 casesNJ — 107 casesNM — 4 casesNY — 303 casesNC — 28 casesND — 2 casesOH — 19 casesOK — 21 casesOR — 5 casesPA — 6,137 casesRI — 2 casesSC — 17 casesSD — 5 casesTN — 18 casesTX — 134 casesUT — 9 casesVT — 3 casesVA — 13 casesWA — 102 casesWV — 18 casesWI — 7 casesWY — 1 cases
AK · 2HI · 2PR · 4

Open Cases Over Time

1990peak 3,874 open2017

Case Types Over Time

19902017
Product LiabilityCivil RightsContractPatentAntitrust

Filings by Year

19902017

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Product Liability8,184
Civil Rights102
Contract69
Patent47
Antitrust43
Labor43

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Clustered litigation · MDL 8,184 Product Liability member cases 95% of the caseload is a wave of near-identical suits consolidated into multidistrict litigation — grouped here rather than listed one by one. Browse all 8,184 member cases →

434 Other Cases — Newest First

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