In Re: Denture Cream Products Liability Litigation

  1. July 31, 2012

    P&G Escapes Claims Of Zinc Poisoning From Denture Cream

    A Florida federal judge on Monday threw out one of the suits in toxic tort multidistrict litigation against Procter & Gamble Manufacturing Co., saying the plaintiffs couldn't prove that zinc found in a P&G denture cream product had caused health damage.

  2. February 07, 2012

    11th Circ. Won't Hear Venue Question In Denture MDL

    The survivors of a woman who allegedly died from zinc poisoning caused by Fixodent denture cream lost a bid Tuesday to have the Eleventh Circuit review whether a Missouri consumer protection law dictates that their wrongful death suit belongs in state court rather than Florida multidistrict litigation.

  3. August 16, 2011

    P&G Denture Cream Suits To Stay Put In MDL

    A Florida federal judge on Tuesday decided not to remand suits brought against Procter & Gamble Manufacturing Co. in multidistrict litigation over whether zinc in denture creams made by P&G and GlaxoSmithKline PLC caused neurological problems.

  4. February 18, 2010

    GSK Recalls Zinc Denture Cream Products Amid MDL

    GlaxoSmithKline PLC has decided to voluntarily pull its zinc-containing lines of Poligrip denture cream from the market and stop all advertising and manufacture of the creams, as suits pile up in the multidistrict litigation over neurological problems from excessive zinc levels caused by denture products.

  5. September 14, 2009

    Court Braces For More GSK, P&G Denture Cream Suits

    The U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation has transferred several more suits to the ever-expanding litigation in Florida federal court over whether zinc in denture creams made by GlaxoSmithKline PLC units and the Procter & Gamble Manufacturing Co. caused neurological diseases.

  6. June 15, 2009

    GSK, P&G Head For Fla. In Denture Cream MDL

    Twelve suits claiming that zinc in denture creams made by GlaxoSmithKline PLC units and the Procter & Gamble Manufacturing Co. caused the plaintiffs' neurological diseases have been consolidated in a Florida federal court.