September 09, 2025
Hundreds of out-of-state purchasers of the heartburn drug ranitidine, the generic form of Zantac, have signaled plans to appeal a Connecticut judge's dismissal of negligent design claims against Sanofi-Aventis U.S. LLC, challenging the conclusion that they had no right to sue the company in the Constitution State.
August 25, 2025
Sanofi-Aventis U.S. LLC has escaped negligent design claims filed in Connecticut by hundreds of buyers who did not purchase or consume the heartburn drug Zantac in the Constitution State and who never developed cancer or suffered related harms within its borders.
April 28, 2025
Sanofi-Aventis U.S. LLC on Monday sought to exit nine combined Connecticut lawsuits claiming the heartburn drug ranitidine degraded into a compound that causes cancer, saying it is beyond the state's long-arm statute and that due process guarantees prevent it from being sued in Connecticut.
January 27, 2025
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to review the Second Circuit's split decision that Connecticut state court is the right venue for consolidated claims brought against multiple pharmaceutical companies over alleged carcinogens in heartburn medication Zantac.