Litigation intelligence
Defendants we track
A sourced register of corporate and institutional defendants, their case links, and material public-record events.
Named defendants
3M Company
Industrial conglomerate; resolved the largest mass tort in U.S. history by claim count (Combat Arms earplugs, ~$6B for ~260,000 claims) and faces decades of PFAS liability with a documented internal record dating to the 1970s.
MMM (NYSE)
Abbott Laboratories
Abbott Laboratories is a defendant in the preterm infant formula and NEC litigation. As of October 1, 2026, 844 actions were pending in federal MDL 3026. The count covers the MDL, not just claims against Abbott.
ABT (NYSE) · 1 cases
Bayer AG
German pharmaceutical and agriculture conglomerate; defendant in the Roundup (glyphosate) litigation it acquired with Monsanto in 2018. More than $60 billion in market value lost across the litigation arc; roughly $11 billion committed to settlements; a June 2026 Supreme Court preemption ruling went in its favor.
BAYN (Xetra) / BAYRY (OTC)
DuPont / Chemours
Chemical manufacturers at the origin of PFAS litigation: DuPont's internal C8 research documented health effects decades before disclosure, extracted into the public record by the litigation that inspired 'Dark Waters.'
DD / CC (NYSE) · 1 cases
Johnson & Johnson
Healthcare conglomerate; defendant in the largest active MDL in America — 68,435 talcum powder cases as of July 2026 — after three dismissed bankruptcy attempts and a documented decades-long internal asbestos record.
JNJ (NYSE)
L'Oréal USA
Cosmetics conglomerate; lead defendant (with other manufacturers) in the chemical hair relaxer litigation — the fourth-largest active MDL at 12,381 pending cases (Oct. 1, 2026).
OR (Euronext) / LRLCY (OTC) · 1 cases
Merck & Co.
Pharmaceutical major; current defendant in the Gardasil (MDL-3036) and Zostavax (MDL-2848) vaccine litigations, and the defendant in Vioxx — the settlement that shaped the modern mass-tort playbook.
MRK (NYSE)
Meta Platforms
Operator of Facebook and Instagram; defendant in the social media adolescent addiction MDL 3047 (3,824 pending actions as of Oct. 1, 2026, JPML) — and, uniquely, the platform that in April 2026 began removing plaintiff-recruitment ads for the litigation against itself.
META (Nasdaq)
Philips (Respironics)
Medical-device maker; defendant in the recalled CPAP/BiPAP litigation (MDL-3014), the docket that pioneered the modern census-registry model for holding unfiled claims.
PHG (NYSE) · 1 cases
Purdue Pharma
OxyContin maker; twice a federal felon — 2007 misbranding, 2020 fraud and kickback conspiracies — with a $5.5 billion criminal sentence imposed in 2026 within the opioid settlement architecture.
(private; in bankruptcy)
Uber Technologies
Rideshare platform; defendant in the passenger sexual assault MDL — 4,916 pending cases (October 1, 2026) before Judge Charles R. Breyer in the Northern District of California.
UBER (NYSE) · 1 cases