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Company

Smithkline Beecham Corporation

Federal civil lawsuits naming Smithkline Beecham Corporation.

In this index, 6,921 federal civil lawsuits name a party recorded as Smithkline Beecham Corporation, most often as a defendant (6,910 of 6,921). These may be different parties who share the name; records here are grouped by name only. These cases are most often Product Liability and Contract matters, filed between 1998 and 2017, most frequently in District Court, E.D. Pennsylvania. The most common causes of action are Product Liability, Personal Injury, and Antitrust.

6,921
Lawsuits
6,910
As Defendant
11
As Plaintiff
0
Open
6,921
Terminated
1998–2017
Span
15 mo
Median Duration
6,801 of these cases (98%) 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.
346 cases/yrPredominantly defendant · 100%Product Liability-heavy · 98%No filings since 2017

Cases by State

AL — 25 casesAZ — 1 casesAR — 2 casesCA — 0 casesCO — 1 casesCT — 0 casesDE — 1 casesDC — 252 casesFL — 337 casesGA — 17 casesID — 0 casesIL — 17 casesIN — 18 casesIA — 1 casesKS — 3 casesKY — 9 casesLA — 42 casesME — 2 casesMD — 44 casesMA — 6 casesMI — 4 casesMN — 210 casesMS — 160 casesMO — 40 casesMT — 0 casesNE — 1 casesNV — 2 casesNH — 1 casesNJ — 85 casesNM — 3 casesNY — 275 casesNC — 7 casesND — 1 casesOH — 13 casesOK — 17 casesOR — 4 casesPA — 5,145 casesRI — 1 casesSC — 6 casesSD — 2 casesTN — 8 casesTX — 91 casesUT — 4 casesVT — 1 casesVA — 2 casesWA — 36 casesWV — 14 casesWI — 6 casesWY — 1 cases
AK · 1PR · 2

Open Cases Over Time

1998peak 3,412 open2017

Case Types Over Time

19982017
Product LiabilityContractReal PropertyCivil RightsAntitrust

Filings by Year

19982017

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Product Liability6,801
Contract32
Real Property24
Civil Rights17
Antitrust15
Federal Tax / Statutory Actions9

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Clustered litigation · MDL 6,801 Product Liability member cases 98% of the caseload is a wave of near-identical suits consolidated into multidistrict litigation — grouped here rather than listed one by one. Browse all 6,801 member cases →

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